SCDRP Newsletter: February 20, 2025

Session 2: Entities and Institutions Partnering with Community-Based Organizations, explored how institutions can create meaningful, mutual, and lasting partnerships with community-based organizations built on trust and intentional and active listening to community members.

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NOAA is seeking partner organizations interested in bringing a new workshop, “Let’s Talk About Trust,” to their community. This goal of this workshop is to strengthen relationships between coastal managers and marginalized communities.  By hosting this course, partners provide a space for participants to explore trust- and relationship-building resources, discuss key concepts among peers, and collaboratively identify successful strategies to overcome challenges. All experience levels are welcome, and the six-hour workshop can be customized to fit the group’s needs.

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Resources

Climate Program Portal Library of Resources: Climate resources and data sets.

Drought Impact Reporting Processes for the Agricultural Sector: An Assessment of Different Approaches, Barriers, and Opportunities in the Southeastern United States

The USDA Southeast Climate Hub and NIDIS have put together an Assessment of different approaches, barriers, and opportunities in the Southeastern United States. 

Procedures for the Inclusion and Application of Indigenous Knowledge in the Actions of the Department: Document by the Department of the Interior

Changing Hazards, Exposure, and Vulnerability in the Conterminous United States, 2020–2070: Resources for the Future

Workshops, Trainings, and Events

Calls for Information, Comments, Surveys, Applications:

SASMI Project Identification Survey This questionnaire is a tool to identify and gather information about potential Salt Marsh conservation, protection, and restoration projects along the Georgia Coast.

The American Society for Floodplain Managers requests your input to improve our floodplain management future training, tools and products. The questionnaire will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. The questions focus on types of training (in-person workshops, webinars, asynchronous courses), training activities, and how that training is delivered. The deadline to participate is the end of the day February 21, 2025.

The Natural Hazards Center is inviting researchers from all disciplines to submit abstracts focused on any topic related to hazards and disasters for the 2025 Researchers Meeting, which will be held July 16-17, 2025 in Broomfield, CO. Researchers may present research or lead a roundtable discussion. Deadline to submit abstracts is February 28, 2025.

The Ocean Innovator Award recognizes and promotes innovative ocean-related research and applied solutions. This award is open to early career individuals (loosely defined as up to 3 years into your career) in ocean, coastal, or estuarine fields, including current students, with a particular interest in projects that create unique solutions to salient ocean and coastal topics, such as renewable energy, conservation, and beyond. Top winners will be selected based on the quality and originality of their research. Winners will receive a cash prize up to $2,000 and be featured on an Ocean Innovators Webinar to elevate their work across the nation. Applications are due March 2, 2025.

Sentinel Landscapes Partnership: Accepting applications 

The Sentinel Landscapes Partnership is a coalition of federal agencies, state and local governments, and non-governmental organizations that work with willing landowners and land managers to advance sustainable land use practices around military installations and ranges.The partnership aligns the objectives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Federal Emergency Management Agency to strengthen military readiness, conserve natural resources, bolster agricultural and forestry economies, increase public access to outdoor recreation, and enhance resilience to future environmental conditions.  Sentinel landscape designation provides a myriad of benefits for local partnerships, including support to hire a sentinel landscape coordinator and offering priority consideration for certain federal funding opportunities. 

Apply by April 9, 2025

RCC National Environment Leadership Fellowship (NELF) - Rachel Carson Council

All RCC Fellows receive a $2,000 stipend distributed throughout the academic year.

Deadline to Apply is April 15, 2025.

Join FEMA’s Youth Preparedness Council (YPC)

The intent of the Youth Preparedness Council is to bring together young leaders who have an interest in making a difference in their communities and in advancing disaster preparedness efforts on a national and local level. Youth Preparedness Council members complete disaster preparedness projects that help improve the disaster resiliency of the nation. The application cycle will be announced shortly.

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) is seeking applicants and internship partners for the new Professional Science Master (PSM) degree as part of UVI’s Marine and Environmental Science program (MMES).

NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) is gathering input from users of tidal datums and coastal tools, like flood forecasting models and inundation maps, on the upcoming National Tidal Datum Epoch (NTDE) update. This quick, 3-minute survey will help NOAA understand how these changes may affect coastal practitioners and guide the creation of resources to better support communities facing coastal flooding and other challenges. Your feedback will be valuable in shaping tools to meet the needs of those working along our coasts.

The Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC) requests feedback on "Expanded Caribbean Section of Southeast Quarterly Impacts and Outlook Report"

The American Society of Adaptation Professionals invites its members and organizations with experience in environmental justice and community advocacy to sign-up to provide technical assistance for communities impacted the most via the EPA Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (“TCTAC”) Program.

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