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Penn State is a lead academic partner with Project Drawdown, an effort to assemble peer-reviewed science to evaluate solutions that reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases and address climate change. More than 100 Penn State faculty have volunteered to help with the analysis. Penn State will host the first Drawdown International Scientific Conference on Sept. 16-18, 2019. Mark your calendar for this event.
The Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance will host the inaugural ULI Resilience Summit – an exclusive one-day event focused on preparing professionals from the real estate and land use sectors for the impacts of climate change.Resilience Summit will mark the 5-year anniversary of the establishment of ULI’s Urban Resilience Program and its first convening on the topic, the Building the Resilient City conference, held in San Francisco in 2014. This year’s event will bring together private and public sector leaders and subject matter experts who will reflect on the progress and successes within the field over the past 5 years. The event will take place during the first day of ULI’s Fall Meeting on Wednesday, September 18th at District Winery near Yards Park in Washington, DC and engage over 100 participants. The event will include panels, interactive workshops, keynote speakers and tours, as well as an inside look at DC’s recent waterfront development. For more information and registration.
Registration is open for the Southeast CASC Regional Science Symposium: Sharing Science to Support Climate Adaptation. This event is intended for: Researchers and managers working in the southeastern U.S., including the U.S. Caribbean, on climate impacts and adaptation for fish, wildlife, habitat, cultural resources; and Decision makers and practitioners from state fish and wildlife agencies, federal organizations, Tribal Nations and Tribal organizations, NGOs.
Session topics will include:
- Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy
- Terrestrial habitat and species impacts in forest and grassland landscapes
- Prescribed fire, wildfire, and land management
- Sea level rise drivers of habitat transformation
- Ecosystem services
- Inland and freshwater species
- Coastal resilience: Perspectives from the social sciences
- Cultural treatment of natural resources: A holistic integrative approach to conservation
- Ecological role of winter temperature extremes in the Southeast
- Impacts to coastal & estuarine species' habitats
Please join us for a free monthly webinar series beginning in November that will explore current research and applications on drought impacts. Understanding impacts helps planners, decision makers and resource managers reduce vulnerability to future droughts. The webinars, which start Nov. 6, 2013, are on Wednesdays, beginning at 1 p.m. Central time. Each will include:
- a focus on a specific effort to document drought impacts and the use of this information in decision-making
- discussion of NIDIS’ role in the emerging Impacts Community of Practice
- a chance to ask questions via chat
- other interactive elements.
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Very often projects involving sea-level rise start out with the same question - how much sea-level rise and by when? Often the processes of determining which scenarios takes a great deal of time. Additionally, different projects settle on different scenarios making it difficult to compare results between projects. The Cooperative partners have identified addressing this issue as a priority goal for 2016.
The Cooperative would like to invite experts in SLR and those who frequently work on SLR projects in the Gulf to come to collaborate in identifying recommended scenarios. The goal is a suite of recommended scenarios for use across a variety of projects as well as a brief user guide to encourage its use on the Gulf Coast.
This process will take time and instead of dealing with such a large issue with such a large group in one meeting, we are planning a series of webinars and workshops. The first webinar will happen on Feb. 11 at 10 a.m. CST, and it will be a background/kick-off webinar addressing the series goals and outlining national, regional and local scenarios.
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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.