Developing an Integrated Coral Disturbance Response Plan – Guam, 2026
RRN hosted a workshop to pilot a new Integrated Coral Disturbance Response Planning Framework
Introduction to Climate-Smart Management Planning – Bahamas, 2025
This two-day workshop focused on helping partners in The Bahamas understand climate change threats and impacts, and introducing them to the climate-smart management planning process. The workshop provided participants with an understanding of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Reef Resilience Network’s (RRN) climate-smart planning guide, practical methods for integrating climate considerations into management strategies, and hands-on experience with climate-smart planning tools.
Coral Reef Management
Explore the ecology of coral reef ecosystems, threats to reefs, management strategies, and guidance for monitoring
Climate-Smart Management Planning Moriah Harbour Cay & Lucayan National Parks – Bahamas, 2024
In October 2024, 17 marine managers, planners, and administrators from the Bahamas National Trust participated in the Climate Smart Management Planning Moriah Harbour Cay National Park and Lucayan National Park Workshop to focus on completing climate-smart updates to the park management plans. Participants identified key climate change and non-climate threats and impacts that affect priority conservation features in these parks.
Climate-Smart Management Planning Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park – Bahamas, 2024
10 marine managers, planners, and administrators from the Bahamas National Trust participated in the Climate-Smart Management Planning Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park Workshop in Nassau, Bahamas. This 3-day workshop focused on completing climate-smart updates to the Park’s management plan.
Climate-Smart Management Planning – Bahamas, 2024
RRN provided support to 12 marine managers, planners, and conservation practitioners from the Bahamas National Trust to begin incorporating climate-smart and resilience principles into national park management plans.
Global Mangrove Watch Mentored Course – Virtual, 2022
Confidently Navigate The Global Mangrove Watch Platform And Learn How To Utilize Its Data And Tools
Global Mangrove Watch
Confidently navigate the Global Mangrove Watch platform and learn how to utilize its various maps and tools in support of mangrove protection and restoration efforts at both a regional and international scale.
Wastewater Pollution
Understand how wastewater pollution threatens ocean and human health and what strategies and solutions are available to mitigate wastewater pollution in the ocean.
Remote Sensing and Mapping Mentored Online Course – Virtual, 2021
In March 2021, the Reef Resilience Network hosted a four-week mentored online course on Remote Sensing and Mapping for Coral Reef Conservation.
Now Available in Four Languages: Remote Sensing & Mapping for Coral Reef Conservation Online Course
The course is designed to help marine managers, conservation practitioners, scientists, decision makers, and GIS professionals
New Resource: Finfish Aquaculture Toolkit
New resource available on the Reef Resilience Network website! The Reef Resilience Network Finfish Aquaculture Toolkit is designed for marine managers and practitioners who are working in a reef system that contains nearshore fish aquaculture cages or are considering...New Guide for Reef Managers Webinar
A Manager’s Guide to Coral Reef Restoration Planning and Design Webinar
RRI Webinar Series: Reef Resilience and Management of CNMI Reefs
Lessons learned from resilience assessments conducted in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands in 2012 and 2019
Resilience-Based Management Workshop – Australia, 2019
Seventy managers, scientists, and policy makers participated in a Resilience-Based Management (RBM) workshop in Townsville, Australia in conjunction with the 2019 International Coral Reef Initiative general meeting.
New Case Studies
Two new two case studies on emergency and rapid response efforts after major storms that occurred in 2017
Marine Protected Area Managers Training – Seychelles, 2019
Thirty-one Marine Protected Area (MPA) professionals from Seychelles, Kenya, and Tanzania participated in a week-long training in August at the Seychelles Maritime Academy to develop skills in areas critical to MPA management
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Learning Exchange – Florida, 2019
The Reef Resilience Network and The Nature Conservancy Latin American, Mexico, & North Central America Program sponsored manager Adrian Andrés Morales of the Centro Regional de Investigación Acuícola y Pesquera
Strategic Communication & Visual Design Mentored Online Courses – 2018-2019
With the support of the NOAA Coral Conservation Program, 15 coral reef managers from American Samoa, Florida, Guam, and CNMI received individual communication planning support tailored to their needs.
Coral Reef Resilience – Puerto Rico, 2015
Caribbean managers participated in the 5-day in person workshop focused on using the latest science to improve MPAs as a management tool for fisheries in a changing climate.
