SCDRP Newsletter: August 21, 2025

Become a Mentor

We are seeking more Mentors to join the GROW Mentorship Program. Mentors should have:

• 5+ years of experience in resilience, mitigation, sustainability, emergency management, environmental justice, or disaster preparedness, response, & recovery
• Enthusiasm for providing professional guidance to students or early-career professionals
• Ability to commit to 4 mentorship sessions between October 2025 and March 2026
• Capacity to listen with empathy, provide encouragement, and create a supportive environment
• Willingness to suggest resources/opportunities, provide professional connections when appropriate, and support your mentee in making progress on their professional goals

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Join the Annual Meeting Steering Committee

We are recruiting 15-18 SCDRP Members to Serve on the Annual Meeting Steering Committee. The theme of the 10th Anniversary Annual Meeting is “Navigating Extreme Events: Doing More with Less, Together.” The SCDRP 10th Anniversary Annual Meeting will highlight proactive, collaborative strategies for navigating disasters in a future where the responsibility for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery is shifting toward state and local entities. The Meeting will convene practitioners and stakeholders from across sectors and fields to identify and share innovative approaches that enhance state, territorial, tribal and local emergency management capacity with potentially limited resources.

Learn more here.

Save the Date to see SCDRP at Florida Climate Week!

2026 - 2031 SECOORA IOOS Funding Opportunity

The Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) will prepare and submit a single coordinated regional proposal in response to the anticipated FY 2026 Implementation of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) funding opportunity. 

SECOORA is soliciting Letters of Intent (LOIs) to be reviewed and considered for inclusion in SECOORA’s full proposal submission to NOAA. Additionally, SECOORA is soliciting Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for water level station installers and/or operators. 

Respondents are encouraged to work together across the region (i.e., through establishment of multi-­sector and multi-­component teams where appropriate) and submit ideas for regional activities for inclusion in this proposal.

LOIs and RFQs due September 9, 2025

Planning for Extreme Heat Cohort Program | NC DEQ

To help local leaders protect health and safety, the State Resilience Office and the State Climate Office of North Carolina offer the NC Planning for Extreme Heat Cohort annually. There is no cost to participate in this program. Applications will close August 29, 2025.  

Policy Toolkit - Nonstructural Options for Coastal Community Climate Adaptation and Resilience - S.C. Sea Grant Consortium: This toolkit is meant to be used as a resource for coastal communities, including government leaders, consultants, planners, and community members who are interested in understanding their coastal resilience policy and planning options according to which environmental issues they face.

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Bow Seat’s True Blue Fellowship

The True Blue Fellowship offers peer-mentorship, capacity building, and funding of up to $2,500 USD to youth who are developing projects that address ocean, waterways, and/or climate issues through a creative arts lens. The Fellowship is free to enter and open to youth ages 13 - 24 worldwide, whether as individuals, classes, groups, clubs, or organizations. 

Applications due September 1, 2025

Ocean Exchange 2025 Collegiate Call for Solutions

Deadline: September 17, 2025

Vista Award - VoLo Foundation

Applications due: October 31, 2025

Resilience Resources

SEAP Language Reframing Guide (Southern Economic Advancement Project): This guide offers tips on adjusting proposals under the new rules. If your organization is considering applying for federal dollars to keep serving your community, we encourage you to take a look.

Workshops, Trainings, and Events

Calls for Information, Comments, Surveys, Applications:

SASMI Project Identification Survey This questionnaire is a tool to identify and gather information about potential Salt Marsh conservation, protection, and restoration projects along the Georgia Coast.

The Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA) Conservation Access, Relevancy, and Engagement (C.A.R.E.) Committee invites college students and recent graduates pursuing careers in natural resources or conservation-related fields (including but not limited to marine biology, biology, wildlife conservation, game management, community engagement, conservation law enforcement, etc.) to apply for the C.A.R.E. Scholarship.

Scholarship recipients will receive full funding to attend the 2025 SEAFWA Annual Conference, held October 26–29, 2025, in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Winners will participate in a special C.A.R.E. Fellow Workshop featuring:

- Networking and elevator pitch development

- Resume writing tips

- A "Careers in Conservation" panel

- An agency roundtable with representatives from SEAFWA’s 15 member states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and federal agencies

Application Deadline: August 29, 2025

Call for Papers - Co-production and Coastal Resilience Collection in Estuaries and Coasts - NOAA RESTORE Science Program

The NOAA RESTORE Science Program has partnered with researchers from Florida State University and the RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana to propose a special collection on co-production and coastal resilience in the journal Estuaries and Coasts. The submission window for the collection is now open through August 31, 2025.

Call for Applications: New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Recognizing that emerging leaders possess the energy, insights, and communication skills needed to advance the dialogue on our most pressing challenges, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) established the New Voices program in 2018 to bring fresh perspectives from mid-career professionals to important dialogues around how science, engineering, and medicine are shaping the global future. Each interdisciplinary cohort serves a two-year term before transitioning to active alumni status and is supported by a staff office at the National Academies and an Advisory Committee made up of senior leaders dedicated to the New Voices mission. Current cohort members meet monthly via Zoom and also convene in person twice a year for a two-day meeting. They also work on producing webinars and other public events as part of their service.

Application Deadline: September 3, 2025 

National Adaptation Forum Call for Proposals: Submit a proposal to share your work at the National Adaptation Forum, held May 12-14, 2026, in Pittsburgh, PA. 

Deadline to Submit: October 1, 2025

The Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC) requests feedback on "Expanded Caribbean Section of Southeast Quarterly Impacts and Outlook Report"

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