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OSU Sea Grant specialist offers Depoe Bay outreach tools for hotels, visitors and non-English speakers
Summary
Oregon Sea Grant/OSU extension staff described outreach tools—address-search evacuation routing, hotel room evacuation maps, a student-built virtual-reality education app and targeted outreach for non-English-speaking communities—to help Depoe Bay improve visitor-focused tsunami readiness.
A coastal hazards outreach specialist working with Oregon Sea Grant and Oregon State University told the Depoe Bay Resilience Committee about tools and outreach programs to raise preparedness among visitors, hospitality businesses and non-English-speaking residents.
The specialist (introduced in the meeting as a Sea Grant/OSU extension coastal hazards liaison) described several initiatives: custom evacuation maps designed for hotel rooms and vacation rentals, an online address-based routing tool that returns turn-by-turn walking directions to high ground, a student-created virtual-reality app for teaching evacuation planning in…
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