Upcoming Events
March 12-13, 2025
VoLo Foundation’s 2025 Climate Correction Conference
The Celeste Hotel, Orlando, FL
Registration required
More information can be found here.
February 20-21, 2025
2025 Public Interest Environmental Conference
The University of Florida Levin College of Law will again host the 31st annual Public Interest Environmental Conference on its campus in Gainesville, Florida. This year's conference theme--Preserve Today, Protect Tomorrow--reflects the focus the conference organizing committee has set for this year's conference: conservation.
FCI Sponsored Keynote address:
Stay The Course: Progress in Energy, Finance, and Innovation
by Chris Castro
Tue, Feb 25 2025, 3 - 4pm
Speaker(s): Nicole Grinnan, Anita Grove, Mike Thomin, and Bria Brooks
Location: Webinar
Nestled along Florida’s northern Gulf Coast, the Apalachicola River and Bay system is a landscape rich in both natural and cultural heritage. For over 12,000 years, this region has supported diverse ecosystems and communities. The area now faces mounting challenges, including the impacts of climate and the subsequent loss of archaeological sites that threaten the preservation of these communities’ stories. Ranking as one of Florida’s most under-resourced areas, there is an urgent need to document and preserve the region’s heritage while fostering connections with its current residents.
This webinar will spotlight the "People of the Apalachicola System" project, which combines archaeological research, digital modeling, and innovative community engagement to understand and protect the area’s cultural landscape within the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve. Participants will learn about the project’s approach, including methods for engaging local voices through workshops and surveys, as well as how these efforts address threats to heritage resources. The webinar will also share preliminary findings, highlight effective strategies for fostering collaboration, and explore how these lessons can guide future preservation and education initiatives in similar at-risk areas.
In partnership with the California Central Valley Flood Control Association, the National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies (NAFSMA) will convene a cross-discipline mentoring session on flood evacuation and advance in real time forecasting is scheduled for February 26 and 27, 2025 at the Doubletree in Sacramento.
The organizations will bring together flood managers, city and county officials, emergency service professionals from the State and county level, as well as first responders, to learn from the lessons of others and gain insight into how to prepare and manage flood evacuations. The second day will focus on success stories of real time forecasting and discussing where public agencies need to go with this technology to reduce risk for our communities.
GeoHab (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) is an international association of marine scientists studying and mapping geophysical, biophysical and geomorphic indicators of benthic communities, species diversity and distribution.
GeoHab’s 2025 annual conference will be held for the first time in the Southeastern United States, in unique Key West, from Monday May 12 to Friday May 16.
Important dates:
- Abstract submission deadline: January 17, 2025
- Ron McDowell Award application deadline: January 17, 2025
- Abstract acceptance notification: February 17, 2025
- Early-bird registration closes: March 31, 2025
- Registration ends: April 30, 2025
The Climate Leader is an online training in systems thinking to help fuel the global response to climate change. These materials will help you to be more effective at addressing climate change by enabling you to see the interconnections and big picture in your work. Behind the Climate Leader are decades of experience from the team at Climate Interactive and powerful ideas developed at MIT.
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In this webinar series, practitioners will share information, results and lessons learned through recent work by FHWA/US DOT and State and MPO partners to make the transportation system more resilient to climate change and extreme weather events. The first track focuses on the processes used in the Gulf Coast Study, Phase 2 (Mobile) and transferable methods developed for other agencies to assess the vulnerability of transportation infrastructure. The second track focuses on FHWA's recently completed Climate Resilience Pilot program, which supported 19 pilot projects around the country to assess vulnerabilities and develop strategies to make transportation infrastructure and operations more resilient to climate change and extreme weather events.
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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.