SCDRP Newsletter: September 27, 2024

SCDRP News and Notes

We have 10 scholarships available to cover 9th Annual Meeting registration fees. Scholarship applications will be reviewed by SCDRP staff and Advisory Board members, and award recipients will be selected based on need and essay responses. Scholarship recipients may be requested to volunteer up to 2 hours during the Annual Meeting.

Check the Annual Meeting Webpage, linked below, for more information on 9th Annual Meeting registration, logistics, and FAQs.

Missed the Monthly Partnership Meeting? The September Monthly Partnership Meeting, co-hosted with the Coastal Empire Resilience Network (CERN), is now available on the SCDRP Youtube Channel. You can view Dr. Asli Aslan and Luke Roberson from the Institute for Water and Health at Georgia Southern University discuss their work engaging community members in water monitoring projects in their presentation entitled "Safe Water Together: Science Serving Communities" now!

Do you have a question or a request for information, resources, or connections that you’d like to send out to SCDRP’s wide network of disaster resiliency and climate professionals? Email us at scdrp@secoora.org with your request and contact information, and it may be featured in our next newsletter!

To become an official SCDRP member,

visit scdrp.secoora.org/membership to join today!

Resources

Workshops, Trainings, and Events

Upcoming and newly added events are listed below. More events can be found on the Calendar Page of our website.

Calls for Information, Comments, Surveys, Applications:

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – Coastal GeoTools 

You are invited to submit one or more abstract(s) of 300 words or less for the Coastal GeoTools Conference 2025 being held in Wilmington, NC January 27-30, 2025. All abstracts must be submitted via the online submission form by September 30.

Connections to Sustain Science in Latin America Symposium 2025

The Connections to Sustain Science in Latin America Symposium 2025 will be held in partnership with the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) on March 11 – 13, 2025 in Lima, Peru. The Connections to Sustain Science in Latin America program brings together outstanding early/mid-career scientists, engineers, and medical professionals (within 15 years of PhD graduation) from across Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the US and Canada, to explore exciting advances and opportunities in their fields. This symposium will be conducted in English with the goal to catalyze convergence research, innovation, and cross-pollination of ideas. Applications to attend due September 30.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineer, & Medicine 

Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change: Call for Experts 

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is seeking suggestions for experts to participate in the upcoming Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change. The Roundtable will explore both how AI might be applied to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as well as how AI and its infrastructure might impact the climate. Submit suggestions by October 1. 

Southeast Climate Adaptation Center 

Integrative Approaches to Investigate Invasive Species and Landscapes Winter Institute: Vines 

December 7-14, 2024 | University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

The goals of the Winter Institute are to: Integrate remote sensing (RS) and species distribution models (SDMs), develop and include social research into invasive species studies, and engage graduate students and faculty in a regional research program on proliferating species while fostering regional interactions and collaborations around shared histories and a shared problem.Participants of the Winter Institute are expected to contribute to a regional research project through the integration of the work into databases and papers. At least one publication is expected and students will be included as authors. 

Open to graduate students (M.Sc. and Ph.D.). Exceptional fourth year undergraduate students may be considered. 

Must be currently enrolled at SE CASC consortium organization.

Applications due October 1

Association of State Floodplain Managers: Call for Abstracts 

The Call for Abstracts seeks professionals to submit for 30-minute concurrent sessions and/or 2-4 hour workshops that address the broad range of floodplain management issues, such as communicating flood risk, flood loss reduction, flood modeling and mapping, NFIP and flood insurance, policy, environmental justice and equity, tribal communities and sovereignty, arid regions considerations, success stories, stormwater management, climate change, and natural and beneficial floodplain functions.

Abstracts are due by: Oct. 31, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Central

Journal for Emergency Management Call for Papers: Higher Education in Emergency Management Pathways to Professional Excellence in the 21st Century (Manuscripts due Dec 15)

HBCU Climate Change Conference Student Abstract Submission The HBCU Climate Change Conference is accepting student abstract submissions. Due by Dec 15.

The Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC) requests feedback on "Expanded Caribbean Section of Southeast Quarterly Impacts and Outlook Report": Google form to provide feedback on quarterly reports 

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. The goal of the TCTAC Program is to remove institutional barriers and to improve accessibility to federal funding for disinvested communities impacted by decades of structural environmental injustice and are already doing essential environmental and energy justice work.

Thank you to our Group Members!

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