APA Digital Coast Needs Assessment Survey

Needs: Training

Great Lakes Region

TABLE 6g.

a. Not Applicable

Table 6g lists 12 web-based trainings on coastal and marine planning issues for which Great Lakes coastal region respondents were asked to rate their interest. The five trainings with the highest percentage of very high or high interest ratings from respondents are:

1. GIS Tools for Strategic Conservation Planning (51%);
2. GIS for Managers (38%);
3. CanVis (37%);
4. N-SPECT (37%); and
5. Habitat Priority Planner (36%).

The five trainings with the highest percentage of low or very low interest ratings from respondents are:

1. Coastal Inundation Mapping (39%);
2. Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk (31%);
3. Assessing GIS for Your Organization (30%);
4. CanVis (30%); and
5. Introduction to Coastal GIS (30%).

The trainings with the highest percentage of respondents rating the training as "Not Applicable" are:

1. Coastal Inundation Mapping (21%);
2. Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk (18%);
3. N-SPECT (17%);
4. Introduction to Coastal GIS (16%); and
5. Remote Sensing for Spatial Analysts (16%).