SCDRP Newsletter: May 30, 2025

Session 1 of SCDRP's new workshop series entitled Pathways to Resilience: Learning from Leaders, Connecting with Peers is launching today, May 30, at 3 pm!

This series, which is an extension of the SCDRP Mentorship Program, will provide students, early career professionals, and others who are new to the field of resilience with an opportunity to learn from experts in the field (mentors) in a virtual small group setting. Read mentor bios and access the full workshop schedule here.

We have a few spots left for today's session! Email us if you are interested in joining. Remaining spots will be distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis.

FEMA Review Council: Stay Updated and Submit Ideas

You can track the work of the FEMA review council at this link. You can watch a video of the first meeting, and submit ideas/suggestions to the council under the “Contact Us” link.

Read the April 2025 Sargassum bulletin from the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab to learn about the outlook of 2025 Sargassum blooms for the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

SCDRP is an incubator network housed under the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Association (SECOORA). SECOORA is one of eleven Regional Associations in NOAA's Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). Federal funding cuts recently proposed by the Executive Branch would eliminate next year's budget for IOOS. The work of SCDRP is financially sustained by SECOORA with federal funds through the IOOS Program; eliminating the IOOS program will disable SECOORA's ability to fund SCDRP.

Learn more about the proposed cuts and you can help here.

Do you have an announcement, 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!

Join us! Discover SCDRP Membership options and benefits by clicking below:

Just added: Ocean Exchange 2025 Collegiate Call for Solutions

If you're working on a breakthrough idea that supports ocean or coastal resilience, apply for a chance to pitch at Ocean Exchange’s event in Ft. Lauderdale, Oct 26–28, and win one of three $10,000 awards. Open to undergraduate, graduate, and recent grads from a recognized postsecondary educational institution in North America. Register here. 

Deadline: September 17, 2025

2025 IAEM Scholarship, International Association of Emergency Managers

Applications due May 30, 2025

Foreverglades Research Enhancement Grants - Everglades Foundation

Application Deadline: June 6, 2025 

2025 Aylesworth Scholarship Award, Florida Sea Grant 

Application Deadline: June 9, 2025  

Resilience Resources

New Homes for Federal Data: A non-exhaustive list of entities preserving access to this data is presented here, compiled by the American Planning Association.

Sea Level Rise Report Cards Dashboard

Want to know how sea level in your area is changing due to global warming and other factors? Our 'report cards' can help. Updated by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science each year as annual tide-gauge data become available, they display recent sea-level trends and project sea-level height to the year 2050 for 35 localities along the U.S. East, Gulf, West, and Alaskan coasts.

SECART Sargassum Resource: NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Team (SECART) is one of eight regional collaboration teams focused on coordinating and facilitating collaborations across NOAA’s line offices and partners to improve services provided to communities within the region. In 2023, reports of a Sargassum “blob” that was expected to wash up on beaches in U.S. states and territories made headlines. In response, SECART initiated a series of meetings to bring together NOAA personnel with expertise in Sargassum monitoring, response, and research. From this series of meetings came a number of actions including 1) creating an inventory of the NOAA offices, programs, and points-of-contact (POCs) that cover Sargassum, and 2) developing a series of products to further the coordination among the offices, programs, and POCs.

Florida's Climate Future

This platform utilizes public data from leading climate scientists to provide a comprehensive depiction of Florida's future climate challenges and economic impacts. Utilizing public data, this tool serves policymakers, researchers, and the public, actively contributing to fostering informed decision-making and proactive measures in the middle of Florida's evolving climate landscape.

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 Aquaculture Information Exchange (AIE) and the National Aquaculture Association (NAA) are teaming up to host a Virtual Job Fair scheduled for Wednesday, July 23 at 12 PM EST, and they are seeking employers to take part. Click here to fill our interest form by June 1st.

Scholars for Conservation Leadership Program - Land Trust Alliance

This professional development program offers a range of opportunities for rising college seniors to:

Learn about career tracks and career development directly from practitioners who represent a wide spectrum of professional roles and institutions in this sector.

Pair with mentors from the land conservation community who can offer advice and assistance to students as they navigate the Scholars Program and beyond.

Participate in Rally: The National Land Conservation Conference, the largest gathering of conservation practitioners in the country, including workshops, seminars, trainings and networking events. 

Build community with a cohort of other students from across the country interested in exploring a career in this sector. 

Qualify to apply for a paid, year-long fellowship (post-graduation) with a land conservation organization to gain on-the-job experience at a critical time in their academic and early career. 

Applications close June 6.

The Coastal Resources Division (CRD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking qualified applicants to serve on a committee that advises CRD’s Georgia Coastal Management Program (GCMP). Current vacancies include: 1 Local Government (county commission or city council, staff or designee, appointed by the local government it represents). The deadline to apply is 4:30 p.m. Friday, June 13, 2025. 

Applications now open for the The Continuum Ocean Enterprise Studio and Incubator (Seaworthy Collective) 

This program offers U.S.-based BlueTech startups tailored support to develop ocean data solutions, backed by NOAA scholarships. ​ 

This year, the Studio and Incubator will exclusively support US-based startups developing ocean data technologies and services, in alignment with the priorities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ocean Enterprise Initiative. 

This 3-month program activates our community to contribute to and grow scalable companies and impact. We build cohorts of two types of participants: 

• Current founders growing their existing early-stage startups
• Aspiring founders co-creating a new startup with Seaworthy. 

We aim to support 5 to 7 existing early-stage startups and co-create 1 new startup for each cohort.​ NOAA supported scholarships (a $25,000 value) enable NO COST or equity requirements for each participant.

Apply by June 26, 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.

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.

Thank you to our Supporting Group Members!

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