Florida Climate Institute News

June 2022 Newsletter

Species on the Move is back for May 2023!

This 3^rd iteration of the international conference series will be hosted by UF Wildlife and the Florida Climate Institute and be held in SW Florida to explore the Everglades.

The conference brings together scientists and natural resource managers working in the disciplines of global change, biogeography and evolution, and relevant in contexts of natural resource management, biodiversity management and conservation, and theoretical ecology

More details, a list of conference themes, and instructions on how to sign up for notifications for the call for abstracts are available here.

Exhibit opens with 25 UF students who studied coastal resiliency in Rhode Island

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was impressed by UF students from Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Journalism who participated in a 6-university challenge to reimagine Narragansett Bay coastal communities during this past semester. All teams traveled to the sites, interacted with local residents and experts, participated in a 10-week lecture series, and created inspiring visions for the future of the Bay.

Professor Jeff Carney led his second group of Architecture students in the Envision Resilience Challenge this year after a huge success in Nantucket last year. Linda Stevenson led the Historic Preservation students and Cynthia Barnett the Journalism students.

This program, coordinated by Carolyn Cox, offers students the chance to work across disciplines, across universities, and within real communities to make an impact while gaining professional experience. This year’s teams hail from UF, Northeastern, Syracuse, Roger Williams, University of Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Student work will be on exhibit at the Waterfire Arts Center in Providence, RI through June 26.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse joins students in Providence, Rhode Island for the Envision Resilience exhibit opening.

Call for public comment

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), in collaboration with the Office of Science and Technology Policy, requests comment from the public on its draft Decadal Strategic Plan.

USGCRP seeks feedback on program priorities and accompanying narrative in the strategic pillar sections.

If you wish to participate in the public review of the draft 2022–2031 USGCRP Strategic Plan, you must register via the USGCRP Review and Comment System to access the draft.

Links to the Federal Register Notice and the comment system are available here.

The deadline to submit comments is 11:59 pm EST on July 15, 2022.

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

14th Annual SE Florida Climate Leadership Summit | December 8 & 9, 2022 | Fort Lauderdale, FL

Job, Internship, and Fellowship Opportunities

Florida

Climate Resiliency Specialist, Weston & Sampson | Fort Myers, 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

National, International, and Remote

Director, UW Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington | Seattle, WA

Senior Director, US Climate Policy Action, World Wildlife Fund | Washington, DC

Senior Program Officer, Climate, DEI, & Environmental Justice, World Wildlife Fund | Washington, DC

Applied Researcher, Natural Climate Solutions, Conservation International | negotiable

Vice President, Climate Change, Conservation International | Arlington, VA or remote

Director of Energy & Climate Solutions, The Nature Conservancy | Cheyenne, WY

Vice President, Global Climate Cooperation, Environmental Defense Fund | remote

Senior Climate Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund | remote

Executive Assistant, Economics & Global Climate, Environmental Defense Fund | New York

Managing Director, Coastal States Organization | remote

Grants Administrator, Coastal States Organization | remote

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

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

Awards & Achievements

Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) was awarded a $362,598 grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for a scalable predictive tool to identify coastal areas across the Panhandle vulnerable to harmful algal blooms.

Publications

Acharya, S., Kaplan, D. A., McLaughlin, D. L., & Cohen, M. J. (2022). In-Situ Quantification and Prediction of Water Yield From Southern US Pine Forests. Water Resources Research, 58(5).

Alamdari, N., Claggett, P., Sample, D. J., Easton, Z. M., & Nayeb Yazdi, M. (2022). Evaluating the joint effects of climate and land use change on runoff and pollutant loading in a rapidly developing watershed. Journal of Cleaner Production, 330.

Ault, J. S., Smith, S. G., Johnson, M. W., Grove, L. J. W., Bohnsack, J. A., DiNardo, G. T., et al. (2022). Length-based risk analysis of management options for the southern Florida USA multispecies coral reef fish fishery. Fisheries Research, 249.

Balderas Guzman, C., Wang, R., Muellerklein, O., et al. (2022). Comparing stormwater quality and watershed typologies across the United States: A machine learning approach. Water Res.

Bhandari, S., Adhikari, B., Baral, K. et al. (2022). Climate change threatens striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) distribution in Nepal. Mamm Res.

Boyd, P. W., Bach, L. T., Hurd, C. L., et al. (2022). Potential negative effects of ocean afforestation on offshore ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Braulio Juarez, Stockton, S., Serafin, K. A., & Valle-Levinson, A. (2022). Compound flooding in a subtropical estuary caused by Hurricane Irma in 2017. Earth and Space Science.

Carlson, C. J., Colwell, R., Hossain MS, et al. (2022). Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries. Nature Communications.

Charmain D. Hamilton, C. L., Jon Aars, Mario Acquarone, Todd Atwood, et al. (2022). Marine mammal hotspots across the circumpolar Arctic. Diversity and Distributions.

D'Agostino, Parker; Epifani, Crawley & Lawrie,. (2022). How will future climate impact the design and performance of nearly zero energy buildings (NZEBs)? Energy, 240.

Díaz Villa,,Bruzzone, Goldstein, & Cristiano,. (2022). Climatic determinants of photosynthetic activity in humid subtropical forests under different forestry activities. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 26.

Elshall, A. S., Ye, M., Kranz, S. A., Harrington, J., Yang, X., Wan, Y., et al. (2022). Earth system models for regional environmental management of red tide: Prospects and limitations of current generation models and next generation development. Environ Earth Sci, 81(256).

Fan Li, Angelini, C., Byers, J., Craft, C., & Pennings, S. C. (2022). Responses of a tidal freshwater marsh plant community to chronic and pulsed saline intrusion. Journal of Ecology.

Felkner, J. S., Lee, H., Shaikh, S., Kolata, A., & Binford, M. (2022). The interrelated impacts of credit access, market access and forest proximity on livelihood strategies in Cambodia. World Development, 155.

Field, J. L., Zhang, Y., Marx, E., Boote, K. J., Easter, M., George, S., et al. (2022). Modeling Yield, Biogenic Emissions, and Carbon Sequestration in Southeastern Cropping Systems With Winter Carinata. Front. Energy Res.

Flanery, A., Mbatu, R., Johns, R., & Stewart, D. (2022). Rural Community Agency in Cameroon: Interactions with Forest Policies and the REDD+ Climate Change Regime. Forests, 13(4).

Garcia-Carreras, B., Yang, B., Grabowski, M. K., et al. (2022). Periodic synchronisation of dengue epidemics in Thailand over the last 5 decades driven by temperature and immunity. PLOS Biology.

Hao, H., & Wang, Y. (2022). Disentangling relations between urban form and urban accessibility for resilience to extreme weather and climate events. Landscape and Urban Planning, 220.

Homayounfar, M., Muneepeerakul, R., & Anderies, J. M. (2022). Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society, 27(1).

Hou, H., Su, H., Liu, K., et al. (2022). Driving forces of UHI changes in China's major cities from the perspective of land surface energy balance. Sci Total Environ.

Huang, J., Yang, J. Z., & Chu, H. (2022). Framing Climate Change Impacts as Moral Violations: The Pathway of Perceived Message Credibility. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(9).

Hurd, C. L., Law, C. S., Bach, L. T., et al. (2022). Forensic carbon accounting: Assessing the role of seaweeds for carbon sequestration. J Phycol.

Jorgensen, Micheli, White, Van Houtan, Alfaro-Shigueto, Andrzejaczek,, et al. (2022). Emergent research and priorities for shark and ray conservation. Endang. Species. Res., 47, 171–203.

Kollegger, LorenzoTrueb,, Fernandes, Singh, & Abeyta,. (2022). Upstream Propagation of SeaLevel Signals in FluvioDeltaic Environments: TimeLags and the Dynamics of the Fluvial Surface. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(8).

Kothari, K., Battisti, R., Boote, K. J., Archontoulis, S. V., Confalone, A., Constantin, J., et al. (2022). Are soybean models ready for climate change food impact assessments? European Journal of Agronomy, 135.

Lau, Y. - Y., Yip, T. - L., Dulebenets, M. A., et al. (2022). A Review of Historical Changes of Tropical and Extra-Tropical Cyclones: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, Europe, and Asia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (19).

Li, C., Jiang, Y., Wang, Z., Hogan, J. A., Luo, W., Xu, H., et al. (2022). Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions. J Vegetation Science, 33(2).

Luis E Santiago, Forero-Montana, J., Melendez-Ackerman, E. J., Gould, W. A., & Zimmerman, J. K. (2022). Social Acceptability of a Sustainable Forestry Industry in Puerto Rico: Views of Private, Public, and Non-Profit Sectors. Forests 13(4).

Lynch, M. J., & Long, M. A. (2022). Green Criminology: Capitalism, Green Crime and Justice, and Environmental Destruction. Annu. Rev. Criminol., 5, 255–276.

Malone, S. L., Oh, Y., Arndt, K. A., Burba, G., Commane, R., Contosta, A. R., et al. (2022). Gaps in network infrastructure limit our understanding of biogenic methane emissions for the United States. Biogeosciences, 19, 2507–2522.

Misra, V., Bhardwaj, A. (2022). The impact of air-sea coupling on the simulation of the hydroclimatic change over Peninsular Florida. Clim Dyn.

Muller, C., Yang, D., Craig, G., Cronin, T., Fildier, B., Haerter, J. O., et al. Spontaneous Aggregation of Convective Storms. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 54, 133–157.

Nehemiah, S., Chagaris, D., LowerreBarbieri, S., & Allen, M. (2022). Environmental Factors and Stock Abundance Influence YearClass Strength of Spotted Seatrout at Cedar Key, Florida. Mar Coast Fish, 14(2).

Njoh, A. J., Ayuk-Etang, E. N. M., Ngyah-Etchutambe, I. B., & Ananga, E. O. (2022). The sustainability of freshwater supply as a function of temperature change and forest size in Africa. Sustain. Water Resour. Manag., 8(80).

Osman, A. I., Fawzy, S., Farghali, M., et al. (2022). Biochar for agronomy, animal farming, anaerobic digestion, composting, water treatment, soil remediation, construction, energy storage, and carbon sequestration: a review. Environmental Chemistry Letters.

Pappo, E., Wilson, C., & Flory, S. L. (2022). Enhancing Climate Change Education through Links to Agriculture. The American Biology Teacher, 84(4), 207–212.

Paudel, A., Coppoletta, M., Merriam, K., & Markwith, S. H. (2022). Persistent composition legacy and rapid structural change following successive fires in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 509.

Rasheed, Z., Aravamudan, A., Gorji Sefidmazgi, A., Anagnostopoulos, G. C., & Nikolopoulos, E. I. (). Advancing flood warning procedures in ungauged basins with machine learning. Journal of Hydrology, 609.

Suarez, G. & Muneepeerakul, R. (2022). Modeling human migration driven by changing mindset, agglomeration, social ties, and the environment. PLOS One.

Valipour, M., Guzmán, S.M. (2022). Identification of the Meteorological Variables Influencing Evapotranspiration Variability Over Florida. Environmental Modeling & Assessment.

van Woesik, R., Shlesinger, T., Grottoli, A. G., et al. (2022). Coral-bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales. Glob Chang Biol.

Wang, T., Fan, Z. - W., Ji, Y., et al. (2022). Mapping the Distributions of Mosquitoes and Mosquito-Borne Arboviruses in China. Viruses (14).

Ye, Z., Yuan, J., Damgaard, J., et al. (2022). Climate Warming Since the Holocene Accelerates West-East Communication for the Eurasian Temperate Water Strider Species Aquarius paludum. Mol Biol Evol, 39(5).

Zimmer, S. N., Reeves, M.C., St. Peter, J.R. et al. (2022). Earlier green-up and senescence of temperate United States rangelands under future climate. Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

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