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Available Now! A New Book from the FCI:
Florida's Climate: Changes, Variations, & Impacts
Much of the attention placed on climate change is at the global or national level, but in Florida, where climate has been and continues to be one of its most important assets, an in-depth look at the state-level effects of a changing and varying climate is long overdue. A new book published by the Florida Climate Institute focuses on Florida's climate, changing sea levels, the impacts of these changes, and how our societal and natural systems may adapt to anticipated changes.
Florida's Climate: Changes, Variations, & Impacts provides a thorough review of the current state of research on Florida's climate, including physical climate benchmarks; climate prediction, projection, and attribution; and the impacts of climate and climate change on the people and natural resources in the state.
"As we observe climate around the world changing, questions arise about whether or not Florida's climate is changing, how rapidly these changes might occur, and how Florida might adapt to anticipated changes," said
Eric Chassignet (FSU). "And that leads to questions about how Floridians might support efforts to reduce the rates of change." Chassignet, along with fellow scientists
James Jones (UF),
Vasubandhu Misra (FSU), and
Jayantha Obeysekera (SFWMD), are the book editors. More than 90 researchers at universities across the state and beyond contributed to the 632-page volume, summarizing important topics such as sea level rise, water resources, and how climate affects various sectors, including energy, agriculture, forestry, tourism, and insurance.
The book is available for purchase at
Amazon.com. Individual chapters may be accessed on the
FCI website.
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Andrea Dutton (UF) Named One of Rolling Stone's 25 People Shaping the Future
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Citizen Scientists Bolster Sea Level Research on King Tide
FIU deployed more than 100 citizen scientists to investigate whether flooding from the most recent King Tide in October was bringing saltwater or freshwater inland to urban areas. The findings could provide critical clues as to why such unusual flooding is occurring in South Florida, what areas are most at-risk and whether the frequency of these floods could be increasing.
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Climate Science Graduate Breaks Records
For once in our field, breaking records was a good thing. At least that is the case for one soon to be graduate student. After eight semesters of the maximum course-load, the effort has afforded
Russell Anderson the highest number of graduate certificates obtained at both the University and State University System of Florida levels.
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Honors / Awards / Projects
Young Gu Her (UF) has received the 2017 Ordway-Swisher Biological Station (OSBS) Research Jumpstart Award for his research project titled, "
Quantifying Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystem Service Dynamics in Hydrologically Connected Forest Wetland and Lake Systems." The project is expected to begin from Jan or Feb 2018 for 1 year under the budget of $58,767. Co-PIs from UF include
Jiangxiao Qiu and
Jorge Barrera.
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Publications
FCI affiliates and/or authors from FCI member universities are in bold.
Bjorndal, K. A., Bolten, A. B., Chaloupka, M., ... Scarpino, R., McMichael, E., ... Campbell, C. L., Lagueux, C. J., et al. (2017). Ecological regime shift drives declining growth rates of sea turtles throughout the West Atlantic. Glob Change Biol, 23(11), 4556-4568.
Boucek, R., Barrientos, C., Bush, M. R., Gandy, D. A., Wilson, K. L., & Young, J. M. (2017). Trophic state indicators are a better predictor of Florida bass condition compared to temperature in Florida's freshwater bodies. Environ Biol Fish, 100(10), 1181-1192.
Cao, G., Wang, B., Xavier, H. - C., Yang, D., & Southworth, J. (2017). A new difference image creation method based on deep neural networks for change detection in remote-sensing images. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38(23), 7161-7175.
Danielson, T. M., Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Castañeda-Moya, E., Briceño, H., Travieso, R., Marx, B. D., , Gaiser, E., et al. (2017). Assessment of Everglades mangrove forest resilience: Implications for above-ground net primary productivity and carbon dynamics. Forest Ecology and Management, 404, 115-125.
Denlinger, D. L., Hahn, D. A., Merlin, C., Holzapfel, C. M., & Bradshaw, W. E. (2017). Keeping time without a spine: what can the insect clock teach us about seasonal adaptation? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 372(1734), 20160257.
Donnelly, M., Shaffer, M., Connor, S., Sacks, P., & Walters, L. (2017). Using mangroves to stabilize coastal historic sites: deployment success versus natural recruitment. Hydrobiologia, 803(1), 389-401.
Dubeux Junior, J. C. B., Muir, J. P., Apolinário, V. X. de O., Nair, P. K. R., Lira, M. de A., & Sollenberger, L. E. (2017). Tree legumes: an underexploited resource in warm-climate silvopastures. R. Bras. Zootec., 46(8), 689-703.
Feng, W., Liang, J., Hale, L. E., ... Bracho, R., et al. (2017). Enhanced decomposition of stable soil organic carbon and microbial catabolic potentials by long-term field warming. Glob Change Biol, 23(11), 4765-4776.
Gottlieb, I. G. W., Fletcher Jr, R. J., Nuñez-Regueiro, M. M., Ober, H., Smith, L., & Brosi, B. J. (2017). Alternative biomass strategies for bioenergy: implications for bird communities across the southeastern United States. GCB Bioenergy, 9(11), 1606-1617.
Griscom, B. W., Adams, J., Ellis, P. W., ... Putz, F. E., et al. (2017). Natural climate solutions. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 114(44), 11645-11650.
Huang, Y., Yue, D., Yang, D., & et al. (2017). Simulation of heat island based on data assimilation and CA model in Baotou City. Resources Science, 39(11).
Huthnance, J., Weisse, R., Wahl, T., Thomas, H., Pietrzak, J., Souza, A. J., et al. Recent Change-North Sea. In C. F. Quante M. (Ed.), North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment (pp. 85-136). Springer.
Loison, R., Audebert, A., Debaeke, P., Hoogenboom, G., Leroux, L., Oumarou, P., et al. (2017). Designing cotton ideotypes for the future: Reducing risk of crop failure for low input rainfed conditions in Northern Cameroon. European Journal of Agronomy, 90, 162-173.
Meeder, J. F., Parkinson, R. W., Ruiz, P. L., & Ross, M. S. (2017). Saltwater encroachment and prediction of future ecosystem response to the Anthropocene Marine Transgression, Southeast Saline Everglades, Florida. Hydrobiologia, 803(1), 29-48.
Miller, A. J., Collins, M., Gualdi, S., Jensen, T. G., Misra, V., Pezzi, L. P., et al. (2017). Coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling and predictions. J Mar Res, 75(3), 361-402.
Mumby, P. J., Sanchirico, J. N., Broad, K., Beck, M. W., Tyedmers, P., Morikawa, M., et al. (2017). Avoiding a crisis of motivation for ocean management under global environmental change. Glob Change Biol, 23(11), 4483-4496.
Oeurng, C., Cochrane, T. A., Arias, M. E., Shrestha, B., & Piman, T. (2016). Assessment of changes in riverine nitrate in the Sesan, Srepok and Sekong tributaries of the Lower Mekong River Basin. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 8, 95-111.
Parkinson, R. W., Craft, C., DeLaune, R. D., Donoghue, J. F., Kearney, M., Meeder, J. F., et al. (2017). Marsh vulnerability to sea-level rise. Nature Climate change, 7(11), 756.
Peach, K. E., Koch, M. S., Blackwelder, P. L., Guerrero-Given, D., & Kamasawa, N. (2017). Primary utricle structure of six Halimeda species and potential relevance for ocean acidification tolerance. Botanica Marina, 60(1), 1-11.
Randall, D., DeMott, C., Stan, C., Khairoutdinov, M., Benedict, J., McCrary, R., et al. (2016). Simulations of the Tropical General Circulation with a Multiscale Global Model. Meteorological Monographs, 56, 15.1-15.15.
Riegl, B., Cavalcante, G., Bauman, A. G., Feary, D. A., Steiner, S., & Purkis, S. (2017). Demographic Mechanisms of Reef Coral Species Winnowing from Communities under Increased Environmental Stress. Front. Mar. Sci., 4.
Semenza, J. C., Trinanes, J., Lohr, W., Sudre, B., Löfdahl, M., Martinez-Urtaza, J., et al. (2017). Environmental Suitability of Vibrio Infections in a Warming Climate: An Early Warning System. Environmental Health Perspectives, 125(10).
Shields, M. R., Bianchi, T. S., Mohrig, D., Hutchings, J. A., Kenney, W. F., Kolker, A. S., & Curtis, J. H. (2017). Carbon storage in the Mississippi River delta enhanced by environmental engineering. Nature Geosci, 10(11), 846-851.
Talele, S., Traylor, C., Arpan, L., Chen, C., Day, J., Feiock, R., et al. (2018). Energy Modeling and Data Structure framework for Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems (SHBE) - A Review. Frontiers in Energy, forthcoming.
Wang, B., Liu, D. L., Asseng, S., Macadam, I., & Yu, Q. (2017). Modelling wheat yield change under CO 2 increase, heat and water stress in relation to plant available water capacity in eastern Australia. European Journal of Agronomy, 90, 152-161.
Yu, Q., Jiang, Q. 'ou, Yang, D., Yue, D., Ma, H., Huang, Y., et al. (2017). Incorporating Temporal and Spatial Variations of Groundwater into the Construction of a Water-Based Ecological Network: A Case Study in Denko County. Water, 9(11), 864.
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About Us
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.
Email: info@floridaclimateinstitute.org
Website: floridaclimateinstitute.org
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