Multi-Institutional Collaboration Contributes to Hurricane Ian Recovery
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Hurricane Ian left behind a staggering trail of damage to communities and the environment in southwest Florida. A steady stream of response and recovery efforts, from emergency rescues to rebuilding of critical infrastructure, has been underway since the storm brought record breaking winds and rainfall. Alongside these efforts, the UF Center for Coastal Solutions has embarked upon a collaborative effort to understand how the hurricane affected water quality and ecosystems in the region.
These data are important for estimating the amount and types of pollutants that entered the estuary during the storm and understanding their impacts on human and ecological health. Beyond directly sampling and analyzing water quality, the CCS launched a post-Ian water quality working group involving over 15 organizations including local, state, and national agencies, and environmental organizations.
This valuable work to assess water safety is funded in part by the US Army Corps of Engineers and will continue until April 2023.
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Florida Sea Grant creates innovative policies adopted by east-central Florida local governments
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Florida Sea Grant (FSG) is leading the way in developing holistic legal and planning examples for small- to medium-sized local governments attempting to balance local government fiscal constraints and the realities of sea-level rise through adaptations grounded in long-term visions informing short-, medium-, and long-term actions designed to maximize the quality of life, economic outlook, and safety of coastal governments on our changing coastline. Local governments are responding by adopting FSG-drafted/inspired language into their comprehensive planning for resilience and into ordinances.
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The following recordings from the Resilient Nation Partnership Network (RNPN)'s 7th annual virtual forum series on Alliances for Inclusive Resilience are now available:
- Social Cohesion: Making Access, Inclusion, and Equity Priorities in Resilience
- Making Resilience Priorities Complementary
- Inclusive Design: Building a Sense of Resilient Belonging
- Voices of Inclusive Resilience
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 will be the formal kickoff of the Stories of Resilience initiative. Save the date to learn more about Stories of Resilience and why storytelling is a critical tool for building community resilience.
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FCI's Dr. Brett Scheffers (University of Florida), Dr. Deah Lieurance (University of Florida), and Dr. Wesley Daniel (USGS) will detail the creation of the Southeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC), highlight some results from their managers’ and researchers’ surveys, and discuss their integration with the other RISCC networks.
The webinar will take place on December 13, 2022 at 10:00 am EST.
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Funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator, the Convergence Research (CORE) Institute is designed to catalyze an impact network of researchers, practitioners, and industry and public policy professionals committed to collaboratively engaging in convergence research that is driven by a specific and compelling societal problem and requires deep integration across disciplines and sectors. The theme for the 2023 CORE Fellows is “Tackling Climate-Induced Challenges with AI”.
Learn about the intensive training program and application process during the informational webinar on December 16, 2022.
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Abstract submission deadline is January 20, 2023
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If you have any climate-related research, news items, or events that you would like to submit for consideration in the next newsletter, please email them to info@floridaclimateinstitute.org
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Other Upcoming Events & Webinars
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Job, Internship, and Fellowship Opportunities
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National, International, and Remote
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Abiy, A. Z., Wiederholt, R. P., Lagerwall, G. L., Melesse, A. M., & Davis, S. E. (2022). Multilayer Feedforward Artificial Neural Network Model to Forecast Florida Bay Salinity with Climate Change. Water, 14(21).
Balaguru, K., Foltz, G. R., Leung, L. R., Xu, W., Kim, D., Lopez, H., et al. (2022). Increasing Hurricane Intensification Rate Near the US Atlantic Coast. Geophysical Research Letters.
Carlson, K. M., Mora, C., Xu, J., Setter, R. O., Harangody, M., Franklin, E. C., et al. (2022). Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates. Global Environmental Change, 77.
Kheir, A. M. S., Hoogenboom, G., Ammar, K. A., Ahmed, M., Feike, T., Elnashar, A., et al. (2022). Minimizing trade-offs between wheat yield and resource-use efficiency in the Nile Delta A multi-model analysis. Field Crops Research, 287.
Lowe, B. S., Jacobson, S. K., Israel, G. D., Kotcher, J. E., Rosenthal, S. A., Maibach, E. W., et al. (2022). The generational divide over climate change among American evangelicals. Environ. Res. Lett., 17(11).
Osborne, E., Hu, X., Hall, E. R., Yates, K., Vreeland-Dawson, J., Shamberger, K., et al. Ocean acidification in the Gulf of Mexico: Drivers, impacts, and unknowns. Progress in Oceanography, 209.
Wu, A., Yan, X., Kuligowski, E., Lovreglio, R., Nilsson, D., Cova, T. J., et al. (2022). Wildfire evacuation decision modeling using GPS data. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 83.
Xiong, L., Lagomasino, D., Charles, S. P., Castañeda-Moya, E., Cook, B. D., Redwine, J., et al. (2022). Quantifying mangrove canopy regrowth and recovery after Hurricane Irma with large-scale repeat airborne lidar in the Florida Everglades. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 114.
Yu, Z., Montalto, F., Jacobson, S., Lall, U., Bader, D., & Horton, R. (2022). Stochastic Downscaling of Hourly Precipitation Series From Climate Change Projections. Water Resources Research.
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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.
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