Florida Climate Institute News

June 2023 Newsletter

Teen activist plants mangroves to combat climate change

Will Charouhis was inspired to create a youth-led group to combat climate change by flooding in Miami from Hurricane Irma in 2017. At just 13 years old, Charouhis founded the nonprofit We Are Forces of Nature. Now 17, his continuing work on climate issues includes a project aimed at helping 1 million mangroves thrive.

Full article + video

Coastal ecosystems help store greenhouse gases

New research, published in Nature Climate Change, shows more detailed role of salt marshes, fjords

Coastal ecosystems globally lock away more carbon dioxide than they release, but emissions of two other greenhouse gases – methane and nitrous oxide – counteract that to a degree, according to international researchers led by Australia’s Southern Cross University that include a University of Florida biogeochemist.

Full news story + article

The Envision Resilience Challenge kicks off third year with UF architecture team again participating

The 2023 Envision Resilience New Bedford and Fairhaven Challenge participating universities are the Rhode Island School of Design, Northeastern University, the University of Florida, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the University of Virginia.

The Envision Resilience Challenge, a semester-long design studio and community engagement initiative, connects interdisciplinary teams from leading universities with coastal communities to imagine resilient pathways in the face of climate change through adaptive design. Since its inception three years ago, the program has worked with more than 200 students from nine universities to serve the six coastal communities of Nantucket, Wickford, Warren, Providence, Aquidneck Island and Barrington.

Carolyn Cox of the FCI helps with the academic coordination of this initiative to give UF students the opportunity to work across universities, disciplines, and geographies.

June 6, 2023 | Climate Trends & Variability - Applications to Agriculture in the Southeast | virtual

11:00 am EST

Climate trends and variability play an important role in agriculture and the risks faced by producers.

Climate predictions and agricultural forecasting provide a critical support structure for the agricultural industry so producers can make informed decisions related to climate variability.

Hear from David Zierden as he shares about weather and climate threats as they apply to Southeast U.S. agricultural production.

Details + registration

Awards & Achievements

Daniel Solis (FAMU) (pictured 3rd from left) was recently awarded the 2023 FAMU Research Excellence Award.

CONGRATULATIONS!

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

Other Upcoming Events & Webinars

Alachua County Climate Conference | June 2, 2023 | Gainesville, FL

At What Point Managed?: Habitability & Mobility in an Era of Climate Change | June 20 - 23, 2023 | New York, NY

DEP Resilient Florida Grants Webinar Series | various dates | virtual

Job, Internship, and Fellowship Opportunities

Florida

Director - Sustainability, ESG, & Climate Data, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP | Orlando

Post Doctoral Associate - Climate Change Disinformation & Propaganda, University of Miami | Miami

Sustainability & Resiliency Officer, City of Hallandale Beach | Hallandale Beach

Program Manager, Resilience & Climate Adaptation, Tetra Tech | Miami

Climate Justice Campaigner, Florida Rising | various

Water Resources Manager, Resilient Environment Department, Broward County | Fort Lauderdale

National, International, and Remote

PostDoc in modelling and analysis of coupled human-water systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology | Switzerland

Lead Advisor, Program Management, United Nations Environment Programme | remote

Resilience Project Coordinator, Thurston County | Lacey, WA

Regional Climate Services Specialist, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration | MD

Director, Coastal Resilience, Audubon | Greenwich, CT

Senior Communications Director, Natural Climate Solutions, Environmental Defense Fund | remote

Senior Analyst, Global Climate Corporation, Environmental Defense Fund | remote

Director for Innovative Finance, Forests, & Climate Change, Wildlife Conservation Society | flexible

Director for Public Policy, Forests, & Climate Change, Wildlife Conservation Society | flexible

Publications

Behnke, Fellman, DAmore,,& Spencer,. (2023). Trees in the Stream: Determining Patterns of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter Contributions to the Northeast Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest. JGR Biogeosciences, 128(4).

Bigelow, S. W., Rollosson, A., Vogel, J., Whelan, A. W., & Rother, M. (2023). Hardwoods influence effect of climate and intraspecific competition on growth of woodland longleaf pine trees. Ecosphere, 14(4).

Boote, Hoogenboom, G., Ale, S., Adams, C., Shrestha, R., Mvuyekure, R. F., et al. (2023). Adapting the CROPGRO model to simulate growth and yield of guar, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L, an industrial legume crop. Industrial Crops and Products, 197.

Cardillo, M., Skeels, A., & Dinnage R. (2023). Priorities for conserving the world's terrestrial mammals based on over-the-horizon extinction risk. Curr Biol, 33(7), 1381–1388.e6.

Catron, S., Roth, S., Zumpano, F., Bintz, J., Fordyce, J. A., Lenhart, S., et al. (2023). Modeling the impacts of temperature during nesting seasons on Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Sea Turtle populations in South Florida. Ecological Modelling, 481.

Chandrasekara, S. S. K., Pathmarajah, S., Obeysekera, J., & Vithanage, M. (2023). Water Scarcity - A Concealed Phenomenon in Sri Lanka: A Mini Review. ACS EST Water.

Cui, X., Mucci, A., Bianchi, T. S., et al. (2022). Global fjords as transitory reservoirs of labile organic carbon modulated by organo-mineral interactions. Sci Adv, 8(46), eadd0610.

DeLiberto, A. N., DeLiberto AN, Drown, M. K., Drown MK, Ehrlich, M. A., Ehrlich MA, et al. (2022). Feeling the heat: variation in thermal sensitivity within and among populations. Journal of Experimental Biology, 225(21).

Dong, X., Martin, J. B., Cohen, M. J., & Tu, T. (2023). Bedrock mediates responses of ecosystem productivity to climate variability. Commun Earth Environ, 4(1).

Emery Boeck, M. A., Gaiser, E. E., Swain, H. M., Brenner, M., Curtis, J. H., & Kenney, W. F. (2023). Cyclical browning in a subtropical lake inferred from diatom records. Front. Ecol. Evol., 11.

Garwood, J. A., Allen, K., Lamb, M. S., Lewis, K. A., Harper, J., & Edmiston, L. (2023). Using long-term ecological monitoring to evaluate how climate and human-induced disturbances impact nekton communities in a Northern Gulf of Mexico estuary. Hydrobiologia.

Gao, S. & Wang, Y. (2022) Explainable Deep Learning Powered Building Risk Assessment Model for Proactive Hurricane Response. Risk Analysis.

Gharechaee, H., Samani, A. N., Sigaroodi, S. K., Baloochiyan, A., Moosavi, M. S., Hubbart, J. A., et al. (2023). Land Subsidence Susceptibility Mapping Using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Machine Learning Models in a Semiarid Region of Iran. Land, 12(4).

Hahn, P. G., & Cammarano, J. H. (2023). Environmental context and herbivore traits mediate the strength of associational effects in a metaanalysis of crop diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60(5).

Hao, H., & Wang, Y. (2023). Modeling Dynamics of Community Resilience to Extreme Events with Explainable Deep Learning. Nat. Hazards Rev.

Hao, H., Wang, Y., & Kang, S. (2022). Examining "digital" vulnerability to flooding among subsidized housing residents in Florida. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 82.

Hao, H. & Wang, Y. (2022). Disentangling Relations Between Urban Form and Urban Accessibility for Resilience to Extreme Weather and Climate Events. Landscape and Urban Planning, 220.

Hou, H., Su, H., Yao, C., & Wang, Z. - H. (2023). Spatiotemporal patterns of the impact of surface roughness and morphology on urban heat island. Sustainable Cities and Society, 92.

Jayasankar,, Misra, V., & Karmakar, N. (2023). A Comparative Study Between Regional Atmospheric Model Simulations Coupled and Uncoupled to a Regional Ocean Model of the Indian Summer Monsoon. Earth and Space Science, 10(4).

Kolaík, M., & Hulcr, J. (2023). Geosmithia-widespread and abundant but long ignored bark beetle symbionts. Mycol Progress, 22(4).

Krupar, S., Naranjo, A. A., Godden, G., & Cellinese, N. (2023). The Fate of Guzmania monostachia in Florida Rests with Humans. Diversity, 15(4).

Lenhardt, E. D., Gao, L., Redemann, J., Xu, F., Burton, S. P., Cairns, B., et al. (2023). Use of lidar aerosol extinction and backscatter coefficients to estimate cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations in the southeast Atlantic. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16(7), 2037–2054.

Li, Wahl; Fang, Liu, & Jiang. (2023). High Tide Flooding Along the China Coastline: Past and Future. Earth's Future, 11(4).

Lippi, C. A., Canfield, S., Espada, C., Gaff, H. D., & Ryan, S. J. (2023). Estimating the distribution of Oryzomys palustris, a potential key host in expanding rickettsial tickborne disease risk. Ecosphere, 14(3).

Lucash, M. S., Marshall, A. M., Weiss, S. A., McNabb, J. W., Nicolsky, D. J., Flerchinger, G. N., et al. (2023). Burning trees in frozen soil: Simulating fire, vegetation, soil, and hydrology in the boreal forests of Alaska. Ecological Modelling, 481.

MacLeod,, Koch, Johnson,, & Madden. (2023). Resilience of recruiting seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) to porewater H2S in Florida Bay. Aquatic Botany, 187.

Maleki, M., Asadi, M., Naghadehi, S. Z., Khosravi, A., Wang, J., Stewart, I. D., et al. (2023). Detecting local climate zone change and its effects on PM10 distribution using fuzzy machine learning in Tehran, Iran. Urban Climate, 49.

Manthena, V., Jarquin, D., & Howard R. (2023). Integrating and optimizing genomic, weather, and secondary trait data for multiclass classification. Front Genet, 13.

Mengistu, A. G., AG, Woldesenbet, T. A., Dile, Y. T., et al. (2023). Modeling impacts of projected land use and climate changes on the water balance in the Baro basin, Ethiopia. Heliyon, 9(3), e13965.

Modys, A. B., Toth, L. T., Mortlock, R. A., Oleinik, A. E., & Precht, W. F. (2023). Discovery of a rare pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) death assemblage off southeast Florida reveals multi-century persistence during the late Holocene. Coral Reefs.

Morales-Giner, P., & Gedik, T. E. (2023). The Role of Place: An Analysis of Climate Change Perception in the European Union. Social Currents, 10(2).

Neta, G., , Pan, W., , Ebi, K., et al. (2022). Advancing climate change health adaptation through implementation science. Lancet Planetary Health, 6(11).

Santini, L., Tobias, J. A., Callaghan, C., Gallego-Zamorano, J., & Benitez-Lopez, A. (2023). Global patterns and predictors of avian population density. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Sella, K. A. N., Ware, M., Ceriani, S. A., Desjardin, N., Eastman, S., Addison, D., et al. (2023). Urban pocket beaches as nesting habitat for marine turtles: Their importance and risk from inundation. Global Ecology and Conservation, 41, e02366.

Silvers, L. G., Reed, K. A., & Wing, A. A. (2023). The Response of the Large Scale Tropical Circulation to Warming. J Adv Model Earth Syst, 15(3).

Thurman, P. E., & Crisman, T. L. (2023). Response of tree species in cypress (Taxodium spp.) domes of central Florida to a hydrologic gradient. Forest Ecology and Management, 537.

Vijayan, L., Huang, W., Ma, M., Ozguven, E., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Yang, J., et al. (2023). Improving the accuracy of hurricane wave modeling in Gulf of Mexico with dynamically-coupled SWAN and ADCIRC. Ocean Engineering, 274.

Wood, R. A., Crucifix, M., Lenton, T. M., Mach, K. J., Moore, C., New, M., et al. (2023). A Climate Science Toolkit for High Impact-Low Likelihood Climate Risks. Earth's Future, 11(4).

Yan, H., Sun, M., Zhang, Z., et al. (2023). Pangenomic analysis identifies structural variation associated with heat tolerance in pearl millet. Nature Genetics.

Zang, Ji, Hart, Jin, Chen, Liu, et al. (2023). Effects of warming and fishing on Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) size structure in the Mid-Atlantic rotationally closed areas. CES Journal of Marine Science.

Zhao, B., Yao, P., Bianchi, T. S., Wang, X., & Yu, Z. (2023). Contrasting controls of particulate organic carbon composition and age from riverine to coastal sediments of Eastern China Marginal Seas. Chemical Geology, 624.

Zobeidi, T., Yazdanpanah, M., Warner, L. A., et al. (2023). Personal and Professional Mitigation Behavioral Intentions of Agricultural Experts to Address Climate Change. Environ Manage.

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