A community informed about coastal resilience issues will be better prepared while having an increased ability to rebound quickly from weather and climate-related events, including adapting to sea level rise. The ability to rebound more quickly can reduce negative human health, environmental, and economic impacts.

Results Conclusions

Template and Instructions for Resilience PostersJeanne Pavy 1), Don Wright 2), C. Reid Nichols 2)*, and Robin Ersing3)

 1) Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 2) Southeastern Universities Research Association, Washington, DC

3) University of South Florida, Tampa, FL*Corresponding author: resilience@uno.edu

Summarize the major result (e.g., Coastal Resilience requires the integration of engineering, environmental, and community resilience. Resilience assessments require data, tools, and guidance from physical and social scientists.”) and briefly state the extent to which your hypothesis was supported. State the relevance of your findings to other published work and future directions. [approximately 200 words]

Introduction

Please consider using a photograph or illustration that communicates some aspect of your resilience research and findings. [approximately 200 words]

Figure 1. Hurricane Sandy debris removal at Jacob Riis Park in Far Rockaway in Queens, N.Y. for shipping to landfills on December 5, 2012. (Credit U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

MethodsBriefly describe any data collection techniques and analysis procedures. Please use figures and flow charts to illustrate experimental design. If possible include photographs or schematics and mention statistical analyses that were used to prove or disprove your hypothesis. Be sure to cite figures and tables in order of appearance [approximately 200 words].

Figure 2. Concepts of Coastal Resilience (Credit U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

PrepareAnticipate

Recover Bounce Back

AdaptEvolve

Resist Withstand

Disturbance

Describe your findings (e.g., “This study finds that resilience enables coastal zone managers to evaluate their exposure to specific shocks and stresses, to develop a proactive and integrated plan to address those challenges, and to respond to them more effectively. “); in same paragraph, briefly describe qualitative and quantitative results (e.g., “Resilience allows coastal zone managers to evaluate exposures to specific shocks and stresses, to develop a proactive and integrated plan to address those challenges, and to respond to them more effectively.”). In a second paragraph, begin presentation of data analysis or model results that more specifically addresses your hypothesis; refer to supporting charts or images; provide engaging figure captions that could stand on their own; and descriptive tables with captions. Remember the adage "A picture is worth a thousand words." Help the reader to absorb large amounts of data quickly. This should be the largest section [approximately 200 words, not counting figure captions].

Figure 3. Concepts of coastal resilience, August 26, 2014. (Credit: Julie Dean Rosati, PhD, PE, D.CE).

Table 1. Key resilience definitions that have been developed through collaborative efforts.

National Academy of Sciences

“Resilience is the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events.”

Stockholm Resilience Centre

“Resilience is the capacity of a system, be it an individual, a forest, a city or an economy, to deal with change and continue to develop.”

To the extent possible, try to show where your work connects to SURA’s overarching goal in this workshop series which is: to integrate social and natural sciences to assist planning and risk assessment of coastal communities threatened by both long-term and event-driven (e.g., by severe storms) inundation, land loss, water quality degradation and resulting risks to human health and safety as well as declines in industries such as tourism, fisheries, agriculture and shipping. The immediate workshop goals are to identify the most critical issues in assessing future risks, vulnerabilities and resilience of complex coastal systems that involve interdependent social, legal, biogeophysical and biogeochemical factors. Aspects of your work that may stimulate a deeper appreciation of interdependence or involve new ways of modeling the mutual connections among diverse factors should be highlighted. However, such aspects are not a requirement. References

Haidvogel, D. B., E. Turner, E. N. Curchister, and E. E. Hoffmann. 2013. Looking Forward: Transdisciplinary Environmental Forecasting and Management. Oceanography. 26(4), pp.128-135. National Academies. 2012. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative. Washington, D.C., The National Academies Press.National Research Council, 2014b. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC, The National Academies Press Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, “What is resilience?” Available online. URL: http://www.stockholmresilience.org/. Accessed on February 9, 2015.

AcknowledgmentsThere are also numerous other online templates to consider (e.g., http://colinpurrington.com/tips/poster-design, http://gradschool.unc.edu/academics/resources/postertips.html, or http://www.makesigns.com/SciPosters_Templates.aspx). In addition to thanking funders and close colleagues, consider highlighting the trans-disciplinary nature of your work.

Further informationSURA is involved with the planning and execution of annual coastal resilience workshops to showcase innovation and to support transition of research results to operations (See http://www3.sura.org/~suraorg/).