Florida Climate Institute News

April 2022 Newsletter

IPCC Releases Landmark Report Focused on Mitigating Climate Change

On Monday, April 4, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark scientific report focused on mitigating climate change.

The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals.

The IPCC has published summaries in addition to the full report - links available on the FCI website.

USF's iCAR Develops Web-Based Interactive Tool

CRIS (Community Resiliency Information Systems) is designed to identify unique resiliency needs by combining biophysical vulnerability to sea level rise, flooding and storm surge as well as socio-economic vulnerabilities at the neighborhood level, so solutions (including access to resources and information) can be customized by neighborhood to ensure equitable resiliency. This unique and interactive resiliency tool combines physical data (including, storm surge, sea-level rise and flooding), environmental hazards (including various environmental justice (EJ) indices) and socio-economic data from the census, with live survey data to map and reveal patterns of risks and highlight specific resiliency issues associated with natural hazards.

More information, links to CRIS, and a short video are available here.

Todd-Brown Receives NSF Career Award

Kathe Todd-Brown, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CAREER award to improve the predictive understanding of soil carbon dynamics by connecting different theories with diverse measurements.

Read more here.

The Coastal & Heartland National Estuary Partnership is hosting a public event to share knowledge, showcase climate action, engage leadership across sectors, and mobilize collaboration throughout the Central & Southwest Florida region. It will feature innovative thinkers to exchange dialogue and ideas on expanding the region’s capacity to respond to climate challenges, and towards building increased community resiliency.

The 2022 Southwest Florida Climate Summit will be held as a two-day hybrid event on April 7th & 8th from 9am to 4:30 pm. Register online.

Co-hosted with the UF Department of Geography Colloquium Series

April 14, 2022; 3:00-4:00 PM via Zoom. Register here.

Dr. Farhana Sultana is a Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and the Environment at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She also serves as Research Director of the Environmental Conflict and Collaboration Program and is a Senior Research Associate of the South Asia Center. Dr. Sultana is internationally recognized for her interdisciplinary research on political ecology, water governance, climate justice, development, sustainability, citizenship, human rights, transnational feminism and decolonization.

UF's 2021-22 FCI Student Climate Fellows to present their work on Thursday, April 21, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm in

Room G310 at the Reitz Union.

Come check out their projects and see call for 2022-23 fellows due May 15!

If you have any climate-related research, news items, or events that you would like to submit for consideration in the next newsletter, please email them to info@floridaclimateinstitute.org

Other Upcoming Events & Webinars

Sea Secrets with Ved Chirayath - Revealing the Ocean Deep | April 5, 2022 | Miami, FL

Sea Secrets with Cynthia Barnett - The Sound of the Sea | April 19, 2022 | Miami, FL

Gulf of Mexico Conference 2022 | April 25 - 28, 2022 | Baton Rouge, LA

DSSAT International Training Program | May 16 - 21, 2022 | Griffin, GA

Job, Internship, and Fellowship Opportunities

Florida

Climate Action Program Associate, VoLo Foundation | Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Senior GIS Analyst, Broward County | Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Resilience & Vulnerability Assessment Specialist, Pasco County | New Port Richey, FL

Sustainability & Resiliency Officer, City of Hallandale Beach | Hallandale Beach, FL

Associate/Professor in Climate and Health, Department of Public Health Science, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami | Miami, FL

Assistant Chief Resilience Officer, Broward County | Ft. Lauderdale

Environmental Program Supervisor - Climate Resilience Unit, Broward County | Ft. Lauderdale, FL

National, International, and Remote

Program Officer, National Academy of Medicine Climate Grand Challenge | Washington, DC

Program Assistant, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate | Washington, DC

Climate Resiliency Fellowship, Pennsylvania Sea Grant | remote & Erie, PA

Science Communications Fellowship, Pennsylvania Sea Grant | remote & Erie, PA

Climate Data Programmer, Midwestern Regional Climate Center | West Lafayette, IN

Director for Public Policy, Forests & Climate Change, Wildlife Conservation Society | remote

Director for Science, Forests, & Climate Change, Wildlife Conservation Society | remote

Publications

Bush, M. B., Rozas-Davila, A., Raczka, M., et al. (2022). A palaeoecological perspective on the transformation of the tropical Andes by early human activity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Button, S. T., Greenberg, C. H., & Austin, J. D. (2022). Recruitment Patterns and Potential Climate Change Impacts on Three Florida Hylids with Different Life Histories. Diversity, 14(2).

Chapman, C. A., Loiselle, B., Sukumar, R., & Razafindratsima, O. (2022). How can academics contribute to biodiversity science? Biotropica.

Cheng, J., & Wang, P. (2022). Factors Controlling Storm-Induced Morphology Changes at an Erosional Hot Spot on a Nourished Beach, Sand Key Barrier Island, West-Central Florida. Journal of Coastal Research.

Griffin, Brownscombe, Adams,, Holder, Filous, Casselberry, et al. (2022). Seasonal variation in the phenology of Atlantic tarpon in the Florida Keys: migration, occupancy, repeatability, and management implications. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

Hogan, J. A.; Castaneda-Moya, E., CLamb-Wotton, L., et al. (2021). Water levels primarily drive variation in photosynthesis and nutrient use of scrub Red Mangroves in the southeastern Florida Everglades. Tree Physiol.

Holt, R. D., Barfield, M. & Peniston J.H. (2022). Temporal variation may have diverse impacts on range limits. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci.

Horton, R., Kiker, G. A., Trump, B. D., & Linkov, I. (2022). International airports as agents of resilience. Journal of Contigencies and Crisis Management.

Huang, C. - S., & Berry, F. (2022). Intergovernmental Influence, Managerial Turnover, and City Energy Policy Adoption. Publius: The Journal of Federalism.

Kersalé, M., Volkov, D. L., Pujiana, K., & Zhang, H. (2022). Interannual variability of sea level in the southern Indian Ocean: local vs. remote forcing mechanisms. Ocean Sci., 18, 193–212.

Koch, A. E., Bohn, J., Corvin, J. A., et al. (2022). Maturing Into High-Functioning Health-Care Coalitions: A Qualitative Nationwide Study of Emergency Preparedness and Response Leadership. Disaster Med Public Health Prep.

Kozik, N. P., Gill, B. C., Owens, J. D., Lyons, T. W., & Young, S. A. (2022). Geochemical Records Reveal Protracted and Differential Marine Redox Change Associated With Late Ordovician Climate and Mass Extinctions. AGU Advances.

L'Heureux, M. L., Tippett, M. K., & Becker, E. J. (2021). Sources of Subseasonal Skill and Predictability in Wintertime California Precipitation Forecasts. Weather and Forecasting, 1815–1826.

Lane, C. R., Creed, I.F., Golden, H.E. et al. (2022). Vulnerable Waters are Essential to Watershed Resilience. Ecosystems.

Lashley, M. A., Chitwood, M. C., Dykes, J. L., DePerno, C. S., & Moorman, C. E. (2022). Humanmediated trophic mismatch between fire, plants and herbivores. Ecography.

Lembrechts, J. J., van den Hoogen, J., Aalto, J., et al. (2022). Global maps of soil temperature. Glob Chang Biol.

Mayfield, A. B. (2022). Machine-Learning-Based Proteomic Predictive Modeling with Thermally-Challenged Caribbean Reef Corals. Diversity, 14(1).

Moore, F. C., Lacasse, K., Mach, K. J., et al. (2022). Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate-social system. Nature, 603, 103–111.

Mossa, J. and C., Y.H. (2022). Geomorphic response to historic and ongoing human impacts in a large lowland river. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Mullen, C. and W., P. (2022). Dissonance between framing & acting for climate justice. Local Environment.

Nascimento, M. N., Heijink, B. M., Bush, M. B., et al. (2022). Early to mid-Holocene human activity exerted gradual influences on Amazonian forest vegetation. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci.

Needham, J. F., Johnson, D. J., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., et al. (2022). Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests. Glob Chang Biol.

Newell, F. L., Ausprey, I. J., & Robinson, S. K. (2022). Spatiotemporal climate variability in the Andes of northern Peru: Evaluation of gridded datasets to describe cloud forest microclimate and local rainfall. International Journal of Climatology.

Nigatu, Z. M., Fan, D., You, W., et al. (2022). Crop production response to soil moisture and groundwater depletion in the Nile Basin based on multi-source data. Sci Total Environ.

Osland, M. J., Hughes, A. R., Armitage, A. R., et al. (2022). The impacts of mangrove range expansion on wetland ecosystem services in the southeastern United States: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and emerging research needs. Global Change Biology.

Patrick, C. J., Kominoski, J. S., McDowell, W. H., et al. (2022). A general pattern of trade-offs between ecosystem resistance and resilience to tropical cyclones. Sci Adv.

Perondi, D., Boote, K., de Souza Nóia, R., Mulvaney, M., & et al. (2022). Assessment of soybean yield variability in the southeastern U.S. with the calibration of genetic coefficients from variety trials using CROPGRO-Soybean. Agronomy Journal.

Peter Sheng, Y., Paramygin, V. A., Rivera-Nieves, A. A., et al. (2022). Coastal marshes provide valuable protection for coastal communities from storm-induced wave, flood, and structural loss in a changing climate. Scientific Reports.

Peter Sheng, Y., Paramygin, V. A., Yang, K., et al. (2022). A sensitivity study of rising compound coastal inundation over large flood plains in a changing climate. Sci Rep.

Pisor, A. C., Basurto, X., Douglass, K. G., Mach, K. J., Ready, E., Tylianakis, J. M., et al. (2022). Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy. Nat. Clim. Chang., 12(3), 213–215.

Rehage, J. S., Boucek, R.E., Santos, R.O. et al. (2022). Untangling Flow-Ecology Relationships: Effects of Seasonal Stage Variation on Common Snook Aggregation and Movement Rates in the Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts.

Ruhl, H., Brown, J., Harper, A., Hazen, E., deWitt, L., Daniel, P., et al. (2021). Integrating Biodiversity and Environmental Observations in Support of National Marine Sanctuary and Large Marine Ecosystem Assessments. Oceanog.

Sales, R. K., McMichael, C. N. H., Flantua, S. G. A., et al. (2022). Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci.

Schneider, J. M., Ardren, T., Bertelli, B., Jorissen, P., & & Purkis, S. J. (2022). The Spanish wells: Freshwater lenses and the Florida Keys. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology.

Scott, B. L., Montoya, M., Farzan, A., et al. (2022). Barriers and Opportunities for the MCH Workforce to Support Hurricane Preparedness, Response, and Recovery in Florida. Matern Child Health J.

Singh, M., & Sharston, R. (2022). Quantifying the dualistic nature of urban heat Island effect (UHI) on building energy consumption. Energy and Buildings, 255.

Stukel, M. R., Gerard, T., Kelly, T. B., Knapp, A. N., Laiz-Carrión, R., Lamkin, J. T., et al. (2021). Plankton food webs in the oligotrophic Gulf of Mexico spawning grounds of Atlantic bluefin tuna. Journal of Plankton Research.

Thomas, K. N., Gower, D. J., Streicher, J. W., Bell, R. C., & et al. (2022). Ecology drives patterns of spectral transmission in the ocular lenses of frogs and salamanders. Functional Ecology, 36(4).

Towle, E. K., Donovan, E. C., Kelsey, H., Allen, M. E., Barkley, H., Blondeau, J., et al. (2022). A National Status Report on United States Coral Reefs Based on 20122018 Data From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations National Coral Reef Monitoring Program. Front. Mar. Sci.

Vazquez, K., & Muneepeerakul, R. (2022). Resilience of a Complex Watershed under Water Variability: A Modeling Study. Sustainability, 14(4).

Verbeke, B. A., Lamit, L. J., Lilleskov, E. A., Hodgkins, S. B., Basiliko, N., Kane, E. S., et al. (2022). Latitude, Elevation, and Mean Annual Temperature Predict Peat Organic Matter Chemistry at a Global Scale. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Wang, A., Melton, A. E., Soltis, D. E., et al. (2022). Potential distributional shifts in North America of allelopathic invasive plant species under climate change models. Plant Divers.

Wilson, K. M., McCool, W. C., Brewer, S. C., et al. (2022). Climate and demography drive 7000 years of dietary change in the Central Andes. Scientific Reports.

Winters, Z. S., Crisman, T. L., & Dumke, D. T. (2022). Sustainability of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Caribbean Small Island Developing States. Water, 14(3).

Xu, Z., Johnson, D. J., Zhu, K., et al. (2022). Interannual climate variability has predominant effects on seedling survival in a temperate forest. Ecology.

Yang, M., Zou, L., Cai, H., Qiang, Y., Lin, B., Zhou, B., et al. (2022). SpatialTemporal Land Loss Modeling and Simulation in a Vulnerable Coast: A Case Study in Coastal Louisiana. Remote Sensing, 14(4).

Zajac, R. N., Gurr, S. J., Bassett, C. C., Kleiman, L., Kelly, J. T., & Simon, Z. (2022). Habitat expansion in response to sea-level rise by the fiddler crab Minuca pugnax (Smith, 1870) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) in southern New England salt marshes. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 42(1).

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