NOAA provides a plethora of information relating to oyster restoration, including case studies, ideal substrates, and the use of remote sensing. Also provided is information about sustainable aquaculture and oyster gardening.

This document outlines a 5-step process to effectively design, plan, and implement tidal wetland restoration in the region betwee Maine to Virginia. Developed during a NOAA Restoration Center workshop, it details how to: predict relative sea level rise, gather relevant information, conduct sea level rise impact analysis, incorporate said analysis into project design, and implement maintenance and monitoring on the tidal wetland restoration projects.

Summarizes common coastal hazard reduction NBS and includes a key quantifying expected and possible benefits of each intervention

This document is designed to give users a better understanding for how HMA grants are a viable funding source for nature-based solutions to hazard mitigation. This includes an overview of selecting appropriate NBS for a given hazard and location, FEMA HMA requirments, and how to maximize benefits for a given project. 

This page explains NOAA's appraoch to techncial support for habitat restoration projects.

This document outlines the uses of the Habitat Priority Planner (HPP), which is a spatial decision support tool esigned to assist users in the prioritization of important areas in the landscape or seascape for conservation or reservation action. In addition to summarizing the development of the tool, this guide discusses the major uses of the tool, core functions, and set up instructions. It also includes a handy workbook-style exercise to walk through using the tool. 

This resource library houses online tools and resources like project examples, webinar clips, GIS tools, and federal research and reports.

This report recommends areas for prioritized Federal research to support the integration of coastal green infrastructure into risk reduction, resilience planning, nd decision making. The report also serves as a useful reference for planners and decision makers by providing an introduction to major categories of coastal green infrastructure nd associated ecosystem services, s well as factors that should be taken into account hen consideringif, when, and how to incorporate oastal green infrastructre into a given setting. 

These maps show areas for potential restoration and conservation through NBS applications across the conterminous United States under 5 scenarios: urban greening, restoring historic forest that had been converted to grassland, conserving pristine grasslands, rewetting peatlands, and conserving tidal wetlands.

The interactive Restoration Atlas is a map platform that helps users identify existing NOAA Restoration Center projects. The Restoration Atlas is an interactive way to explore NOAA habitat restoration projects around the country—from wetlands and salt marsh projects to oyster and coral reef projects. Use the map filters and query tool to search over 3,600 projects by habitat type, location, congressional district, and more. You can also show or hide columns in the table below to view additional details about each project.

Following the course of one specific project, the authors illustrate techniques that can be used for oyster restoration. The book delves into bathymetric surveys, community engagement, and larval recruitment.

This report combines engineering, ecologic, geospatial, social, and economic data and tools to provide a rigorous valuation of where potential coral reef restoration could decrease the hazard faced by Florida and Puerto Rico’s reef-fronted coastal communities.

This webpage outlines FEMA's Risk MAP strategy, links to FEMA's flood risk products (maps, reports, and a databasw), and overview cards (technical and non-technical) explaining the features, benefits and uses of these products. 

This guidance manual includes technica assistance, tools, and steps recommended to develop and implement science-backed coastal restoration monitoring efforts. It describes the stages of restoration and monitoring plans, key considerations for monitoring plans, and walks users through creating a unique monitoring plan for several coastal habitats.

This guidance manual, the second in a two part series (part one linkes above) offers detailed descriptions of the habitats identified in volume 1, inventories coastal restoration monitoring programs, reviewes monitoring techniques manuals and quality control documents, provides a brief overview of pertinent governmental acts, offers a cost analysis of expected expenses, a term flossary, and an in-depth discussion of socioeconomic issues that may arise in the coastal habitat restoration context.

Part of NOAA’s Digital Coast toolbox, SLAMM helps predict where marshes will migrate to under threat from rising seas. The model contains helpful inputs including dike locations, accretion rates, and erosion rates. An explainer document is available.

To plan for future sea level rise, this tool allows viewers to visualize coastal flooding for up to 10 ft of sea level rise. The model also contains photo simulations of landmarks under certain sea level rise scenarios, projected marsh migration and socioeconomic vulnerability.

This storymap provides a brief overview of sea level change and sea level change data and rpovides an interactive roadmap users can use to navigate sea level change visual data. 

Discussing the trade-offs between living and hard shorelines is the primary focus of this resource. The website contains best management practices, fact sheets, and a story map illustrating successful projects in the Great Lakes region.

The authors describe the value of beach nourishment projects as well as the engineering considerations that go into them. Additional topics covered include the environmental implications of beach nourishment and how projects respond to storms.