SCDRP Newsletter: August 7, 2024 | |
SCDRP 9th Annual Meeting: February 2025 | |
Hey SCDRP Members! We need your help to make the 9th Annual Meeting SCDRP's best gathering yet. We are looking for Steering Committee Members to help us plan the 9th Annual Meeting. If you are interested or want to learn more, email us at scdrp@secoora.org! | |
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New SCDRP Webpage
We added a new feature to our website: our Calendar page includes a schedule of webinars, conferences, workshops, and trainings relevant to disaster resiliency and other climate-related topics.
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Hurricane Prep Guide Feedback | |
Farah & Farah Law Offices is seeking feedback on their new Hurricane Prep Guide. If you have comments, suggestions, or other feedback on the guide, please email us at scdrp@secoora.org. |
Thank you to Caroline Briones, MSW, FAEM | Deputy Chief, Readiness with Lee County Emergency Management for providing the following feedback:
"The content looks great – nice work! The only thing I may advise adding…. When “Preparing Your Home”, it may be helpful to take annual pictures of your house to note any upgrades, etc. This way when it comes to “Assessing Damage & Clean Up” and “Homeowner’s Insurance and Hurricanes”, you can visually compare the damage post-storm to the status of the house pre-storm."
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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! | |
Become a Member of SCDRP! | |
SCDRP has adopted a new Tiered Membership Model. All membership fees support SCDRP's capacity to serve as a trusted regional network to facilitate knowledge-exchange and advance equitable climate adaptation approaches in the Southeast and Caribbean. Visit our Membership page for updated member dues structure. | |
Things we're excited about.... | |
The Natural Hazards Center has added a new collection of publications to their Public Health Disaster Research Award Series. Publications in this collection focus on public health and equity, especially in connection to disaster preparedness and response.
Here are a few publications in the collection that caught our eye...
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The White House releases Phase 2 of the Environmental Justice Scorecard
The Environmental Justice Scorecard measures the federal government's progress on advancing environmental justice. Specifically, the Scorecard looks at the federal government's progress on following initiatives:
- "Advance environmental justice as part of each agency’s individual and unique mission, work, and scope;"
- "Revitalize agencies’ commitment to environmental justice, including through strategic planning;"
- "Make a difference on the ground with and for communities, including delivering benefits through the Justice40 Initiative;"
- "Promote meaningful engagement with communities with environmental justice concerns and expand access to information for the public, including about the outcomes of agencies’ activities; and"
- "Enhance collaboration across the federal government and with other governments, including through consultation with Tribal Nations."
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Did you know that every August, FEMA celebrates National Resilience Month? Check it out below! | |
See Below for Job Opportunities, Upcoming Webinars/Events, Funding Opportunities, and Helpful Resources!
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Job Opportunities, Internships, and Fellowships:
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
Program Coordinator (Closing August 12)
$72,553 - $181,216 per year
FEMA
Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Mitigation) (Closing August 12)
$163,964 - $191,900 per year
American Flood Coalition
Senior or Associate Strategy Associate
Senior Associate base salary range: $70,000-$80,000 per year
Associate base salary range: $60,000-$70,000 per year
State Government Relations Director
$115,000-130,000 per year
Associate Director of Strategy
$85,000-$100,000 per year
Operations Director
$105,000-$120,000 per year
Student and Early Career Professionals
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program (Applications due September 9)
Closing Soon....
EPA
Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR)
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Management (Closing TODAY August 7)
$191,901 - $221,900 per year
Chatham County Emergency Management Agency
Emergency Management Specialist (closing TODAY August 7)
$54,068 Annually
National Climate Adaptation Science Center
CASC National Tribal Coordinator (Application review begins August 1, applications open until position is filled)
Salary is based on a GS-14 pay scale.
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Call for Proposals: Climate Change AI Innovation Grants 2024
Climate Change AI is accepting proposals for projects at the intersection of AI/machine learning and climate change.
Proposals Due September 15, 2024
2024 Resilience Project Funding Guide
The Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Resilience Project Funding Guide serves as a one-stop shop for installations and partners to learn about more than 25 federal and non-federal resilience and conservation programs that can support existing or new REPI installation resilience projects.
Closing soon....
Call 6: Tornado Ready Research and Data Publication: The Natural Hazards Center is now accepting proposals for Tornado Ready Research and Data Publication in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. This call will prioritize proposals for tornado research focused on settings that serve or house socially marginalized populations.
Proposals due August 9, 2024
BoatUS Foundation
Special Funding Opportunity: Abandoned and Derelict Vessel Removal Grant Program
With funding from the NOAA Marine Debris Program provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the BoatUS Foundation will award up to $7.5 million in grants to remove abandoned and derelict vessels across coastal and marine areas of the United States.
(LOI due August 12, 2024)
National Estuarine Research Reserve System Habitat Protection and Restoration Grant (NOAA)
Letter of Intent due August 15, 2024
Full Proposal Due January 9, 2025
Coastal Zone Management Habitat Protection and Restoration Competition (NOAA)
Letter of Intent due August 15, 2024
Full Proposal Due January 9, 2025
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NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Needs Assessment Guide
This guide supports assessments of training, education, tools, and data needs, as well as needs for successfully addressing coastal management issues.
Historical Hurricane Tracks
Quickly and easily search over 13,000 storm tracks covering seven ocean basins and dating back 180 years.
University of Georgia’s (UGA) Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant
Resident's Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards in Georgia
Resilience Policy Resource Guide and Retrofitting Program Playbook
This paper by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Center for Insurance Policy and Research (NAIC-CIPR) and nonprofit Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) details three key strategies many regulators leverage as climate risk and accelerating disasters impact state insurance markets.
NASA Applied Sciences has a variety of Disasters Practitioner Resources available, including the Disasters Mapping Portal.
The NASA Disasters Mapping Portal is a powerful Esri-based online interface for viewing, analyzing, and downloading the latest near real-time and disaster specific products in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format. Products are available as REST and open-source compatible WMS endpoints. They are freely available for anyone to use.
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NOAA Office for Coastal Management:
This interactive webinar introduces participants to seven best practices, numerous techniques, and examples for communicating about coastal hazards. Whether beginning a new effort or trying to keep people motivated to better prepare for future hazards, applying risk communication principles will lead to more effective results.
CE Credits:
American Institute of Certified Planners – one-and-a-half hours
Association of Floodplain Managers – one hour
August 13, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm EST
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Workshops, Trainings, and Events | |
Upcoming and newly added events are listed below. More events can be found on the Calendar Page of our website. | |
Just added:
The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation
2024 Innovation Summit for Preparedness & Resilience (InSPIRE)
October 2-3, Indianapolis, IN
Other upcoming events:
EPA EJScreen (the Agency's environmental justice screening and mapping tool):
Office Hours & Training: August 21, Virtual
Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (CCAN)
Regional Climate Adaptation Workshops (August 16, 30)
Transportation Research Board
Transportation Symposium on Environment, Energy, and Livable Economies: Aug 25-28, Denver, CO
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Native American Fish and Wildlife Society
2024 Southeast and Northeast Joint Regional Conference: September 10-11, Warsaw, VA
Florida Resilience Conference
September 11-13, Bonita Springs, FL
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine:
Macroeconomic Implications of Decarbonization Policies and Actions Workshop: Sep 12-13, DC or Virtual
NC State University
Fall Symposium 2024 | KIETS Climate Leaders Program: September 19-20, Raleigh, NC
America the Beautiful for All Coalition
New Era, New Leaders: America the Beautiful for All Conference: October 1-3, San Juan, PR
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Calls for Information, Comments, Surveys, Applications:
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.
2024 Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards Nomination Form
(Nominations due TODAY August 7)
Creating Resilient Water Utilities (CRWU) | US EPA
Request no-cost climate change risk assessment technical assistance for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities. Requesting communities will receive one-on-one no-cost climate change risk assessment support using EPA’s Resilient Strategies Guide, Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool, and Climate and Weather Data Maps. To apply, email Aliza Furneaux (Furneaux.aliza@epa.gov) by August 15th.
IOPscience is seeking articles for their Focus on Environmental Health and Disasters collection. In this Focus Collection, they will bring together research articles, reviews, and perspectives that evaluate the direct and indirect impacts of environmental disasters on human health from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including epidemiology, public health, sociology, economics, environmental engineering, psychology, environmental hazards and disaster research, and other relevant fields. Submissions due Due August 16.
Social Sciences (an open access journal) is calling for manuscript submissions on Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice. (Deadline September 1)
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.
Journal for Emergency Management Call for Papers: Higher Education in Emergency Management Pathways to Professional Excellence in the 21st Century (Manuscripts due Dec 15)
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