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Congratulations to the Winners of FCI 2-Minute Student Video Competition!
The 1st place award ($500) goes to FIU students Carlos Tamayo, Noura Alsawari, and Mohamed Zaghloul for their
video on climate challenges and solutions in Miami. The 2nd place award ($250) goes to FAMU students Lesley-Ann Jackson, Dejour Monroe, and Briyana Stewart for their
hip hop video advocating for climate change awareness and action.
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Coming Soon! A New Book from the FCI:
Florida's Climate: Changes, Variations, & Impacts
Over 50 scientists at universities across Florida have collaborated to address important topics such as sea level rise, water resources, and how climate affects various sectors, including energy, agriculture, forestry, tourism, and insurance.
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Call for Public Comment: Southeast Florida Regional Climate Action Plan
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Finding Keys to Coral Survival
Andrew C. Baker (UM) is big on the study of the ecology and conservation of coral reefs, with particular attention to the impact of climate change on these fragile environments. Corals in Cuba, considered to be some of most pristine in the Caribbean, may help determine how these ecosystems can survive climate change.
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Nanomaterial Can Extract Hydrogen Fuel from Seawater
UCF researcher
Yang Yang has come up with a new hybrid nanomaterial that harnesses solar energy and uses it to generate hydrogen from seawater more cheaply and efficiently than current materials.
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Smallest Marine Species May Better Weather Climate Change Effects
FSU scientist
Jeroen Ingels and a team of researchers found that communities of microscopic organisms called meiofauna don't change much when faced with both rising carbon dioxide levels and higher temperatures.
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Honors / Awards / Projects
Daniel Solis (FAMU) was awarded a $20K grant from NOAA SWFSC to study
Fish Resource Allocation under Alternative Access Arrangements in the US Goulf of Mexico.
Richard C. Feiock (FSU) was awarded $310K as Co-PI on a NSF Smart and Connected Cities grant for
Connecting the Smart-City Paradigm with a Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Systems Framework to advance Equity in Communities.
Steve Morey (FSU) is PI on a new projected titled
Modeling Climate Impacts on Fish Larvae Mortality in the Gulf of Mexico. This project, funded by NOAA-AOML through NGI, will fund research investigating the impacts of climate variability on prey availability and starvation of fish larvae in the Gulf of Mexico using coupled biophysical modeling.
Steve Morey and
Nico Wienders (FSU) have been award funding from NASA for a new project titled
NASA Rapid Response -- Ultra-Thin Surface Drifter Observations for SPURS-2. They will develop and produce a set of surface drifters with temperature sensors to be deployed as part of the SPURS-2 Field Campaign in the tropical Pacific. This project will collect observations of the evolution of low-salinity pools on the ocean surface following high rainfall events.
Project Update: A new drifter study was conducted in the Gulf Stream. On July 19-20, FSU COAPS techs Caleb Hudson and John Easton deployed 32 surface drifters developed as part of the NOAA/CIMAS-funded study
Development of New Drifter Technology for Observing Currents at the Ocean Surface (PI
Steve Morey, Co-PIs
Mark Bourassa,
Dmitry Dukhovskoy, and
Nico Wienders, all from FSU) from the F.G. Walton Smith in conjunction with NOAA-AOML and CIMAS. The purpose of this experiment is to assess the performance of a new surface drifter design and to investigate vertical shear in the upper ocean in a region of strong currents.
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Job Opportunities
Lead Scientist South Florida Water Management District | West Palm Beach, FL | Open until Filled
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Publications
FCI affiliates and/or authors from FCI member universities are in bold.
Boucek, R. E., Heithaus, M. R., Santos, R., Stevens, P., & Rehage, J. S. (2017). Can animal habitat use patterns influence their vulnerability to extreme climate events? An estuarine sportfish case study. Glob Change Biol, 23(10), 4045-4057.
de Araujo, H. F. P., Vieira, A. H., Barbosa, M. R. D., Diniz, J. A. F., & da Silva, J. M. C. (2017). Passerine phenology in the largest tropical dry forest of South America: effects of climate and resource availability. Emu - Austral Ornithology, 117(1), 78-91.
Drury, A. J., Westerhold, T., Frederichs, T., Tian, J., Wilkens, R., Channell, J. E. T., et al. (2017). Late Miocene climate and time scale reconciliation: Accurate orbital calibration from a deep-sea perspective. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 475, 254-266.
Guo, L., Yang, Z., Marcus, K., Li, Z., Luo, B., Zhou, L., ... & Yang, Y. (2017). MoS2/TiO2 heterostructures as nonmetal plasmonic photocatalysts for highly efficient hydrogen evolution. Energy Environ. Sci., .
Ingels, J., dos Santos, G., Hicks, N., Vazquez, Y. V., Neres, P. F., Pontes, L. P., et al. (2017). Short-term CO 2 exposure and temperature rise effects on metazoan meiofauna and free-living nematodes in sandy and muddy sediments: Results from a flume experiment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, .
Lee, C. C., Sheridan, S. C., Barnes, B. B., Hu, C., Pirhalla, D. E., Ransibrahmanakul, V., et al. (2017). The development of a non-linear autoregressive model with exogenous input (NARX) to model climate-water clarity relationships: reconstructing a historical water clarity index for the coastal waters of the southeastern USA. Theor Appl Climatol, 130(1-2), 557-569.
Li, C., Yan, F., Kang, S., Chen, P., ... & Sillanpaa, M. (2017). Re-evaluating black carbon in the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau: concentrations and deposition. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17(19), 11899-11912.
Listopad, C. M. C. S., Köbel, M., Príncipe, A., Gonçalves, P., & Branquinho, C. (2018). The effect of grazing exclusion over time on structure, biodiversity, and regeneration of high nature value farmland ecosystems in Europe. Science of The Total Environment, 610-611, 926-936.
Mainwaring, M. C., Barber, I., Deeming, D. C., Pike, D. A., Roznik, E. A., & Hartley, I. R. (2017). Climate change and nesting behaviour in vertebrates: a review of the ecological threats and potential for adaptive responses. Biol Rev, 92(4), 1991-2002.
Martínez-Colón, M., Hallock, P., Green-Ruiz, C., & Smoak J. (2017). Benthic foraminifera as bioindicators of potential toxic element (PTE) pollution: Torrecillas Lagoon (San Juan Bay Estuary), Puerto Rico. Ecological Indicators Journal, , accepted.
Mathez-Stiefel, S. - L., Peralvo, M., Báez, S., ... Fadrique, B., Feeley, K. J., et al. (2017). Research Priorities for the Conservation and Sustainable Governance of Andean Forest Landscapes. Mountain Research and Development, 37(3), 323-339.
Osland, M. J., Griffith, K. T., Larriviere, J. C., ... Breithaupt, J. L., et al. (2017). Assessing coastal wetland vulnerability to sea-level rise along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast: Gaps and opportunities for developing a coordinated regional sampling network. PLoS ONE, 12(9), e0183431.
Pereira, F. F., Farinosi, F., Arias, M. E., Lee, E., Briscoe, J., & Moorcroft, P. R. (2017). Technical note: A hydrological routing scheme for the Ecosystem Demography model (ED2+R) tested in the Tapajos River basin in the Brazilian Amazon. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21(9), 4629-4648.
Ryan, S. F., Fontaine, M. C., Scriber, J. M., Pfrender, M. E., O'Neil, S. T., & Hellmann, J. J. (2017). Patterns of divergence across the geographic and genomic landscape of a butterfly hybrid zone associated with a climatic gradient. Mol Ecol, 26(18), 4725-4742.
Sánchez Goñi, M. F., Desprat, S., Daniau, A. - L., ... Valencia, B. G., et al. (2017). The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9(2), 679-695.
Shinoda, T., Han, W., Zamudio, L., Lien, R. - C., & Katsumata, M. (2017). Remote Ocean Response to the Madden-Julian Oscillation during the DYNAMO Field Campaign: Impact on Somali Current System and the Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge. Atmosphere, 8(9), 171.
Spaak, J. W., Baert, J. M., Baird, D. J., ... Rohr, J. R., et al. (2017). Shifts of community composition and population density substantially affect ecosystem function despite invariant richness. Ecol Lett, 20(10), 1315-1324.
Stukel, M. R., Song, H., Goericke, R., & Miller, A. J. (2017). The role of subduction and gravitational sinking in particle export, carbon sequestration, and the remineralization length scale in the California Current Ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography, .
Titcomb, G., Allan, B. F., Ainsworth, T., ... Palmer, T. M., et al. (2017). Interacting effects of wildlife loss and climate on ticks and tick-borne disease. Proc. R. Soc. B, 284(1862), 20170475.
van Bruggen, A. H. C., He, M., Zelenev, V. V., Semenov, V. M., Semenov, A. M., Semenova, E. V., et al. (2017). Relationships between greenhouse gas emissions and cultivable bacterial populations in conventional, organic and long-term grass plots as affected by environmental variables and disturbances. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 114, 145-159.
Wilcox, K. R., Shi, Z., Gherardi, L. A., Lemoine, N. P., Koerner, S. E., Hoover, D. L., et al. (2017). Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments. Glob Change Biol, 23(10), 4376-4385.
Zhang, L., Rechtman, T., Karnauskas, K. B., Li, L., Donnelly, J. P., & Kossin, J. P. (2017). Longwave emission trends over Africa and implications for Atlantic hurricanes. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44(17), 9075-9083.
Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Shu, Q., Zhao, C., Wang, G., Wu, Z., et al. (2018). Spatiotemporal evolution of the chlorophyll a trend in the North Atlantic Ocean. Science of The Total Environment, 612, 1141-1148.
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About Us
The Florida Climate Institute (FCI) is a multi-disciplinary network of national and international research and public organizations, scientists, and individuals concerned with achieving a better understanding of climate variability and change.
Email: info@floridaclimateinstitute.org
Website: floridaclimateinstitute.org
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