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New Flood Risk Identified By FIU Researcher
South Florida raises groundwater levels to fight salt water intrusion, the threat of flooding from within will only increase, according to FIU research. Current groundwater levels in South Florida are a major contributor to inland flood damages, especially during the wet season or extreme rain events. Traditional flood models account for drainage systems, rivers, streams and canals but do not account for the groundwater beneath our feet. FIU hydrologist
Michael Sukop has released a model that focuses on South Florida's groundwater as a cause of flooding.
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Natural Climate Patterns Create Hot Spots of Rapid Sea Level Rise
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson and
Andrea Dutton (UF) have published an article in
The Conversation describing an "x-factor" in coast flooding: natural climate patterns that create hot spots of rapid sea level rise. In a
study they co-authored with colleague
Jon Martin (UF), they showed that two converging natural climate processes created a "hot spot" from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to Miami where sea levels rose six times faster than the global average between 2011 and 2015. They also showed that such hot spots have occurred at other points along the Eastern Seaboard over the past century. Now they see indications that one is developing in Texas and Louisiana, where it likely amplified flooding during Harvey - and could make future coastal storms more damaging.
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Award-Winning Journalist Cynthia Barnett Joins UF's Bob Graham Center
Cynthia Barnett is an environmental journalist who has covered water and climate stories worldwide, from the decline in Florida's signature springs, to epic drought in California and Australia, to the rainiest place on Earth in Cherrapunji, India. Barnett's appointment at UF is shared with UF's College of Journalism and Communications, where she is Environmental Journalist in Residence and oversees student environmental reporting projects such as award-winning
Blue Ether and the recent series
Energy Burden.
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FSU Researcher Receives National Geographic Grant
Stephanie Pau (FSU) has been awarded a National Geographic grant for her research on tropical forest phenology and climate change by the organization's Committee for Research and Exploration. Phenology, often referred to as "nature's calendar," is the study of periodic plant and animal life cycle events, such as the timing of plant bud bursts or bird migrations, and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations in climate, as well as habitat factors, such as elevation.
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Available Now! A New Book from the FCI:
Florida's Climate: Changes, Variations, & Impacts
A new book published by the Florida Climate Institute focuses on Florida's climate, changing sea levels, the impacts of these changes, and how our societal and natural systems may adapt to anticipated changes.
Florida's Climate: Changes, Variations, & Impacts provides a thorough review of the current state of research on Florida's climate, including physical climate benchmarks; climate prediction, projection, and attribution; and the impacts of climate and climate change on the people and natural resources in the state.
The book is available for purchase in paperback and Kindle format at
Amazon.com. Individual chapters may be accessed on the
FCI website.
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Honors / Awards / Projects
Ryan Moyer (FWC) is PI on a new project titled "Assessment of Plant Biomass and Ecosystem Service Loss in Southwest Florida Coastal Wetlands Affected by Hurricane Irma." He received a $75,000 grant for the project from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
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Additional News
Infographic: Extreme Weather (
NASEM - Jan 2018)
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article190076179.html#storylink=cpy
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Publications
FCI affiliates and/or authors from FCI member universities are in bold.
Abbas, G., Ahmad, S., Ahmad, A., ... Boote, K. J., & Hoogenboom, G. (2017). Quantification the impacts of climate change and crop management on phenology of maize-based cropping system in Punjab, Pakistan. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 247, 42-55.
Fares, A., Bayabil, H. K., Zekri, M., Mattos-Jr, D., & Awal, R. (2017). Potential climate change impacts on citrus water requirement across major producing areas in the world. J Water Climate Change, 8(4), 576-592.
Hinson, A. L., Feagin, R. A., Eriksson, M., Najjar, R. G., Herrmann, M., Bianchi, T. S., ... Hutchings, J. A., et al. (2017). The spatial distribution of soil organic carbon in tidal wetland soils of the continental United States. Glob Change Biol, 23(12), 5468-5480.
Kamenkovich, I., Haza, A., Gray, A. R., Dufour, C. O., & Garraffo, Z. (2017). Observing System Simulation Experiments for an array of autonomous biogeochemical profiling floats in the Southern Ocean. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122(9), 7595-7611.
Liu, B., Asseng, S., Wang, A., Wang, S., Tang, L., Cao, W., et al. (2017). Modelling the effects of post-heading heat stress on biomass growth of winter wheat. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 247, 476-490.
Ma, S., Jiang, J., Huang, Y., Shi, Z., Wilson, R. M., Ricciuto, D., et al. (2017). Data-Constrained Projections of Methane Fluxes in a Northern Minnesota Peatland in Response to Elevated CO2 and Warming. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 122(11), 2841-2861.
Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Braconnot, P., Harrison, S. P., ... Dutton, A., et al. (2017). The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 - Part 2: Two interglacials, scientific objective and experimental design for Holocene and Last Interglacial simulations. Geosci. Model Dev., 10(11), 3979-4003.
Qu, B., Aho, K. S., Li, C., Kang, S., Sillanpää, M., Yan, F., et al. (2017). Greenhouse gases emissions in rivers of the Tibetan Plateau. Sci Rep, 7(1).
Radabaugh, K. R., Moyer, R. P., Chappel, A. R., Powell, C. E., Bociu, I., Clark, B. C., & Smoak, J. M. (2017). Coastal blue carbon assessment of mangroves, salt marshes, and salt barrens in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. Estuaries and Coast, , 1-15.
Reina Ortiz, M., Le, N. K., Sharma, V., Hoare, I., ... Naik, E., ... & Izurieta, R. (2017). Post-earthquake Zika virus surge: Disaster and public health threat amid climatic conduciveness. Sci Rep, 7(1).
Sukop, M. C., Rogers, M., Guannel, G., Infanti, J. M., & Hagemann, K. (2018). High temporal resolution modeling of the impact of rain, tides, and sea level rise on water table flooding in the Arch Creek basin, Miami-Dade County Florida USA. Science of The Total Environment, 616-617, 1668-1688.
Tompkins, A. M., Ortiz De Zárate, M. I., Saurral, R. I., ... Kirtman, B., et al. (2017). The Climate-System Historical Forecast Project: Providing Open Access to Seasonal Forecast Ensembles from Centers around the Globe. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98(11), 2293-2301.
Wall, C. B., Mason, R. A. B., Ellis, W. R., Cunning, R., & Gates, R. D. (2017). Elevated pCO(2) affects tissue biomass composition, but not calcification, in a reef coral under two light regimes. R. Soc. Open Sci., 4(11), 170683.
Wang, R., Fu, Y., Xian, T., Chen, F., Yuan, R., Li, R., & Liu, G. (2017). Evaluation of Atmospheric Precipitable Water Characteristics and Trends in Mainland China from 1995 to 2012. J. Climate, 30(21), 8673-8688.
Williams, D. E., Miller, M. W., Bright, A. J., Pausch, R. E., & Valdivia, A. (2017). Thermal stress exposure, bleaching response, and mortality in the threatened coral Acropora palmata. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 124(1), 189-197.
Zhang, M., Chen, X., Kumar, M., Marani, M., & Goralczyk, M. (2017). Hurricanes and tropical storms: A necessary evil to ensure water supply? Hydrological Processes, 31(24), 4414-4428.
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