Center for Inland Bays to host summit on coastal resilience May 1

As part of its two-year Southern Delaware Coastal Resilience Plan, the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays will host Coast Forward, a one-day summit, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, May 1, to interact and share resources with the community.

The agenda includes a partners’ meeting from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a series of roundtable conversations to discuss short- and long-term solutions to severe weather events. After a break for informal networking, the open house portion of the summit will be from 5 to 7 p.m.; it is free and open to the public, with no registration required.

“Coastal resilience is not just for someone with a waterfront view,” said event co-organizer Meghan Noe Fellows, CIB director of estuary science and restoration. “Every person who lives, works or visits the Inland Bays is impacted by how the watershed functions.”

An online questionnaire is also available for people to contribute their thoughts before the summit; go to bit.ly/4jFA1Kw. 

To register for the partners summit, visit forms.gle/MtEVrPCA43dPvsym7. For more information, visit inlandbays.org.