SCDRP Newsletter: April 10, 2025 | | We're bringing back the SCDRP Partner Picks Summer Speaker Series, where you, our members, choose the speakers for the June, July, and August Partnership Meetings! Fill out the survey linked below to nominate a summer speaker. | |
Resilience Roundup
Resilience & Disaster Recovery Headlines
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Preparing manufactured homes for extreme weather: 5 barriers | Smart Cities Dive
Article by Leslie Nemo
Notable quote: “Manufactured homes are often disproportionately hit by natural disasters. After Hurricane Helene, for example, a quarter of manufactured homes in North Carolina sat in counties that received a major disaster declaration, though the units only make up about 12% of housing in the state.”
Building a Climate-Resilient Manufactured Housing Stock | Urban Institute
Report by Andrew Rumbach, Esther Sullivan, Will Curran-Groome, Annie Rosenow, Oriya Cohen
Notable quote: “Manufactured housing units are disproportionately located in areas with the highest levels of exposure to tornadoes, wildfires, and multiple climate hazards. We also find that manufactured housing is disproportionately located in areas with less ability to prepare for and recover from climate hazards and disasters and that older manufactured homes, which are particularly vulnerable to climate hazards, are still prevalent in many states.”
Weekly disaster update, April 7 from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy
Article by Tanya Gulliver-Garcia
How Churches and Communities Are Teaming Up for Climate Resilience, Duke Research Blog
Article By Noor Nazir
Notable quote: “[Religious institutions] own land, buildings, communication tools–and they reach more people than any NGO. If we fail to activate them, we leave the door open for exploitation.” Reverend Leo Woodberry
Intersecting Risk: Heat and Substance Use in Rural Communities, The Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Journal Article by Devon Noonan, Sarah Grenon, Courtney Swinkels, Jordan Clark, Marta Zaniolo, Jesus Peralta, Derrick Glymph, Ashley Ward, and Marissa D. Abram
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2025 SECOORA Annual Meeting:
Using Data to Keep Coastal Communities Strong
May 14-15, 2025, Atlantic Beach, NC
Learn More Here!
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See Below for Job Opportunities, Upcoming Webinars/Events, Funding Opportunities, and Helpful Resources!
| | Job Opportunities, Internships, and Fellowships | | |
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator II/Lowcountry Healthcare Coalition Coordinator, South Carolina Department of Public Health (Closing 4/13)
Charleston County, SC
$50,000 - $56,000 per year
Watershed Coordinator, South Carolina Office of Resilience (Closing 4/15)
Richland County, SC
$46,655 - $86,321 per year
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT for Resilient Florida Program, State of Florida Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection (Closing 4/16)
Tallahassee, FL
$54,000 to $55,620 per year
Government Relations Policy Manager, The Nature Conservancy (Closing 5/9)
Job ID 56540
Columbia, SC or Greenville, SC
$60,000 – $65,000 per year
Hazard Mitigation Project Specialist, YA Group
Remote in the Southeast
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Public Affairs Manager, ClimateWorks Foundation
Remote
Tier 1: $110,000-$115,000 per year
Tier 2: $105,000-$110,000 per year
Coral Biologist and Aquaculture Technician
Humacao, PR
$65,000 per year
Coastal Environmental Specialist, Indian River County Natural Resources Department
Vero Beach, FL
$58,992.70 - $94,388.32 Annually
Internships, Fellowships, and Early Career:
Policy Associate, Run on Climate
Remote
$19/hr.
Opportunities at the Altieri Lab, University of Florida
PhD student in Coral Reef Resilience
Postdoc in Nature Based Solutions
Gainesville, FL
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2025 Indigenous Communities Fellowship | MIT Solve
MIT Solve seeks exceptional innovators supporting community-based solutions by and for Indigenous communities across the United States and Canada with a particular interest for 2025 in solutions that; 1. Strengthen sustainable energy sovereignty and support climate resilience initiatives ,2. Develop tools to promote Indigenous sovereignty, including the ethical use of AI and data technologies, culturally aligned digital infrastructure, or access to economic opportunity, 3. Drive positive outcomes for Indigenous learners of any age and context through culturally grounded educational opportunities. Each Solver team receives $10,000 in unrestricted funding from Solve and access to additional financing in the form of grants and investments, this includes access to a pool of +$1.5M in prize funding at selection and additional funding opportunities throughout the program and after.
Application Deadline: April 17, 2025
Metlife Community Impact Grant Program
The Community Impact Grant Program (CIGP) will award grants to programs that center on one of their focus areas, including: Environmental Sustainability: Solutions to address environmental challenges. Examples include programs that improve access to clean air and water, reduce waste through recycling and composting and/or disaster preparedness and mitigation. Focus areas include Cary & Durham, NC and Tampa, FL.
Application Deadline: May 2, 2025
Catalyst Fund - Network for Landscape Conservation
The Catalyst Fund strives to accelerate the pace and practice of collaborative landscape conservation and stewardship across the United States by investing in Landscape Partnerships. A portion of the Fund is reserved specifically to advance Tribal-led Partnerships. In this 2025 grant cycle, we are partnering with the Land Trust Alliance’s Land and Climate Grant Program to pilot an opportunity for qualifying Landscape Partnerships to request additional support to undertake climate-informed conservation planning.The planning may address a range of climate-related landscape issues, including but not limited to habitat resilience, carbon mitigation, renewable energy siting and community adaptation to impacts such as stronger storms, flooding, drought, fire or extreme heat.
Proposals are due on Friday, May 16, 2025.
2025: Workforce Development for the Energy Transition
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program (GRP) is seeking applications for sustainable, data-driven, industry-engaged projects that will provide education and training opportunities to students ages 16-25 and ready participants to become part of the future energy workforce. This funding opportunity is open to applicants from educational institutions, non-profit organizations, state and local governments, and tribal entities working in the U.S. Gulf States. Applicants must request between $100,000 and $750,000 for projects, commensurate with the scope of work, that are between 1 and 3 years in duration.
Application deadline: June 25, 2025
Community Disaster Resilience Fund (Spin Global)
The Community Disaster Resilience Fund exists to mobilize private capital towards public benefit projects that significantly reduce exposure to threats and hazards while increasing economic opportunities, especially for underserved and historically marginalized populations. We are working with private and public entities to make generational investments in community resilience measured by their social and economic impacts. The Community Disaster Resilience Fund is directing private equity and pension fund investments toward infrastructure projects with a minimum value of $100 million up to $50 Billion USD. Our initial areas of interest include energy, communications, transportation, and water projects.
Closing Soon:
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RCC National Environment Leadership Fellowship (NELF) - Rachel Carson Council
All RCC Fellows receive a $2,000 stipend distributed throughout the academic year.
Deadline to Apply is April 15, 2025.
Natural Disaster Relief Scholarship
Through the Natural Disaster Relief Scholarship, the OVC Scholarship Network provides a $1000 award each semester to a student who has been greatly impacted by natural disasters within the United States in the last 10 years.
Apply by April 23, 2025
2025 IAEM Scholarship, International Association of Emergency Managers
Undergraduate and graduate scholarships will be awarded, including a special $10,000 scholarship award for doctoral research students named to honor Dr. E.L. Quarantelli, a pioneering scholar in the field of disaster research and emergency management.
Applications due May 30, 2025
Foreverglades Research Enhancement Grants - Everglades Foundation
These grants provide graduate students up to $30,000 for research-related expenses in areas related to the Everglades ecosystem. Research topics on the Florida Bay ecosystem, climate change, habitat restoration, fisheries or wildlife ecology, and resource management are of special interest to several of our named awards. ForEverglades Research Enhancement Grants will also support research related to the physical, chemical or biological processes of freshwater or estuarine ecosystems of the Everglades, or research in resilience, climate change, economics, policy or social interactions as they relate to the greater Everglades ecosystem. Applicants need to have a Faculty Advisor that oversees the work and the grant budget.
Application Deadline: June 6, 2025
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Training Modules - CONVERGE | Natural Hazards Center
The CONVERGE Training Modules incorporate an all-hazards approach grounded in cutting edge research from the social sciences, public health, engineering, and other disciplines. Each training module features learning objectives, lesson plans, written content, and disaster-focused case study vignettes from the U.S. and across the globe. The modules also include a list of publications for further reading as well as access to related standardized scales and measures, online resources, data sets, and other information. Each module is followed by a short multiple choice quiz. Those who receive a score of 80% or higher will receive a CONVERGE Training Module Certificate of Completion and one contact hour of general management training through the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) certification program.
Check Sheets - CONVERGE | Natural Hazards Center
The short, graphical check sheets are meant to be used as researchers design their studies, prepare to enter the field, conduct research, and share their data and results. You can download the check sheets from this page and view a webinar that describes and showcases these publications for the research community.
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Tue, Apr 22, 2025 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
Join NOAA's Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team for the first webinar in their 2025 Hurricane Awareness Webinar Series. The series highlights the information and capabilities to help communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Each webinar will explore various topics that are regionally-relevant and will focus on the latest data, tools, and services from NOAA. The first webinar will cover lessons learned from the 2024 hurricane season and an outlook on the 2025 season ahead.
Featured Speaker:
Robbie Berg is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. As WCM, Berg provides Impact-Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) to emergency managers, media, and other partners, both domestically and internationally during tropical weather events. He plans and coordinates NHC’s outreach and training activities, and makes tropical cyclone forecasts during the hurricane season. In addition, Robbie leads NHC's efforts to infuse social science and risk communication concepts into hurricane forecasting, products and services, and outreach.
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Just Added :
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Why Indoor Chemistry Matters Workshop 5: Excessive Heat and the Indoor Environment
April 23, 2025, 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Virtual
Practitioners Meeting: The Mitigation Revolution: Practical Ways Communities are Reducing Risk, The National Hazard Mitigation Association (NHMA) and the Natural Hazards Center
July 17, 2025, Broomfield, Colorado
Upcoming events:
National Hurricane Conference
April 14-17, 2025, New Orleans, LA
Super South
April 15-17, 2025, Atlanta, GA
Georgia Aquaculture Conference - UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant
Athens, GA April 18, 2025
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National Academy of Medicine
Climate and Health Summit
April 22, 2025, 9:00 am-5:30 pm ET
American Planning Association
National Planning Conference
Online April 23-25
26th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture - Oceanography in the Age of Intelligent Robots and a Changing Climate
May 1, 2025, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Washington DC or Virtual
Alliance All Hands Meeting
May 5-8, 2025, Biloxi, MS
2025 Chatham County Hurricane Conference
Savannah, GA, May 8, 2025
SECOORA Annual Meeting
Atlantic Beach, NC, May 14-15, 2025
NOAA Digital Coast Training Calendar
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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.
Frontiers in Political Science is soliciting articles on the research topic Climate Extremes and Climate Action
Manuscript summary due April 13, 2025.
Manuscript due August 1, 2025.
The National Hazard Mitigation Association (NHMA) is inviting abstract submissions for their 2025 Practitioners Meeting taking place on July 17, 2025. The organizing committee is calling on practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders to submit ideas for sessions that address this year’s theme The Mitigation Revolution: Practical Ways Communities are Reducing Risk.
The submission deadline is May 16, 2025.
Join FEMA’s Youth Preparedness Council (YPC)
The intent of the Youth Preparedness Council is to bring together young leaders who have an interest in making a difference in their communities and in advancing disaster preparedness efforts on a national and local level. Youth Preparedness Council members complete disaster preparedness projects that help improve the disaster resiliency of the nation. The application cycle will be announced shortly.
The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) is seeking applicants and internship partners for the new Professional Science Master (PSM) degree as part of UVI’s Marine and Environmental Science program (MMES).
NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) is gathering input from users of tidal datums and coastal tools, like flood forecasting models and inundation maps, on the upcoming National Tidal Datum Epoch (NTDE) update. This quick, 3-minute survey will help NOAA understand how these changes may affect coastal practitioners and guide the creation of resources to better support communities facing coastal flooding and other challenges. Your feedback will be valuable in shaping tools to meet the needs of those working along our coasts.
The Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC) requests feedback on "Expanded Caribbean Section of Southeast Quarterly Impacts and Outlook Report"
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.
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