SCDRP Newsletter: October 18, 2024

Join us at our next Partnership Meeting on October 24th, where we'll have the opportunity to hear from four of our amazing partners working to build resilience in the Southeast and Caribbean. Each partner will share about a resilience-building project they are involved in.

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Our 30-member SCDRP 9th Annual Meeting Steering Committee is hard at work planning sessions and field trips for the Annual Meeting in Wilmington, North Carolina. Learn more about the great minds shaping the Annual Meeting in the "Meet the Steering Committee" section of the 9th Annual Meeting webpage, linked below!

We are awarding 10 scholarships to cover Annual Meeting registration fees! Click below to learn more and apply. Scholarship applications are due on December 18.

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!

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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:

Registry of Climate Adaptation and Resilience Professionals is now accepting applications

The Registry is an online database that connects communities to qualified practitioners. If your organization provides adaptation or resilience services, you’re encouraged to apply to join!

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 

Standing Committee on Offshore Wind Energy and Fisheries: Call for Experts

Nomination Deadline: October 21

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

Registration and abstract submissions are now open for the Drought and Aquatic Ecosystems in the Southeast: Informing drought response and ecological resilience to future low-flow events workshop being held on January 7-9, 2025, in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Abstracts due November 22) 

Natural Hazards Center: Disability and Disasters Award

The Disability and Disasters Award supports people with disabilities working in disasters, as well as those who care for, study, or advocate on behalf of those with disabilities. Award funds will allow the recipient to attend the annual Natural Hazards Workshop and the Researchers or Practitioners Meetings that follow. Recipients of this award will be recognized at the Workshop and will be asked to present a poster or to serve as panelists, where they can highlight their research and/or practical experiences with disability and disasters. (Applications due December 2)

Natural Hazards Center: Mary Fran Myers Scholarship

The Mary Fran Myers Scholarship recognizes outstanding individuals who share Myers' commitment to disaster research and practice and have the potential to make a lasting contribution to reducing disaster vulnerability. At least one scholarship recipient each year will receive financial support allowing them to attend the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Scholarships can cover part or all of transportation, meals, lodging, and Workshop registration costs.Recipients are recognized at the Workshop and will be asked to present a poster or to serve as panelists, where they can highlight their research or practical experiences with hazards and disasters. (Applications due December 2)

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.

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