September 2024 Newsletter

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FEMA Releases National Resilience Guidance: A Collaborative Approach to Building Resilience

The United States faces an increasingly complex set of challenges from shocks and stressors to our systems. By understanding these challenges and applying a unified, whole community approach to addressing them, we can strengthen our collective security and resilience so that we can overcome these ever-evolving challenges and thrive as a nation.

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New Paper on How Alternative Ways of Offering/Pricing Buyouts Could Avoid the Checkerboard Problem and Reduce Costs

Check out these innovative ideas for managed retreat by A.R Siders et. al.

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PLEASE TAKE THIS BRIEF SURVEY!

Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit that advocates for coastal and flood resilience, is seeking input to position Florida as a leader in nature-based solutions (NBS), including natural areas and artificial structures that harness nature.



Professionals working in Florida on any aspect of implementing NBS, from planning and constructing to monitoring and maintenance, are encouraged to complete a brief survey identifying recommendations that reduce barriers to and incentivize these vital solutions.

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Documents, Whistleblowers, and Public Comments Are Clear: Oil Companies Know Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution

This spring, Democrats wrapped up a nearly three-year investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in climate disinformation, and asked the Department of Justice to pick up where they left off.


In House and Senate Democrats’ final report and hearing, investigators concluded that major oil companies had not only misled the public on climate change for decades, but also were continuing to misinform them about the industry’s preferred climate “solutions”— particularly biofuels and carbon capture.

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Energy Ignorance is Costing Floridians a Bundle

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House of Cards: Florida and Property Insurance in the Age of Climate Change

In episode 210 of America Adapts, Dr. Carolyn Kousky, Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at the Environmental Defense Fund, returns to discuss the climate challenges in Florida's property insurance market. She outlines how Florida faces significant economic risks due to hurricanes and other disasters..


The episode delves into the complexities of the state's insurance system, focusing on three key programs: Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, and the Florida Insurance Guarantee Association.

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September 28, 2024 | Speaker Event & Reception with Jeff Goodell & Jane Gilbert

Jeff Goodell, New York Times Bestselling Author of "The Heat Will Kill You First" and Jane Gilbert, Miami-Dade County's Chief Heat Officer, will be speaking about rising temperatures due to climate change, and how heat affects the environment and human health.


3:00 - 5:00 pm EST

Alachua County Library Headquarters (410 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL)


Reception to follow

5:00 - 7:00 pm EST

GFAA Gallery, (1314 S Main St, Gainesville, FL)

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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.

Upcoming Events & Webinars

Our Gulf Our Future | September 10, 2024 | Gainesville, FL

SECASC New Project Lightning Talks | September 17, 2024 | virtual

Building Resilient Food Systems | September 20, 2024 | virtual

Flooding Adaptation Symposium | October 28 - 31, 2024 | Kissimmee, FL

Job, Internship, and Fellowship Opportunities

Florida

Research Technician II, FIU's Coastal Infrastructure Monitoring Study | Miami

Resilience Program Manager, Broward County | Ft. Lauderdale

National, International, and Remote

Post Doctoral Research Scholar, The Long View: Developing a 500-Year Climate Adaptation Plan with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, NC State University | Raleigh, NC

Natural Climate Solutions Data Analyst, Wildlife Conservation Society | flexible

Senior Manager, Negotiations & Natural Climate Solutions, Conservation International | flexible

Publications
 

Andrew, S. C., Simonsen, A. K., Coppin, C. W., Arnold, P. A., Briceño, V. F., & et al. (2024). Expression-environment associations in transcriptomic heat stress responses for a global plant lineage. Molecular Ecology 33(16).


Behzadi F, Javadi, S., Yousefi, H., et al. (2024). Projections of meteorological drought severity-duration variations based on CMIP6. Sci Rep, 14(1).


Bograd, S. J., Anderson, L. C., Canonico, G., Chiba, S., Lorenzo, E. D., Enterline, C., et al. (2024). Advancing the climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. ICES Journal of Marine Science.


Carlson, A. K., & Gaffey, B. M. (2024). Cold blood in warming waters: Effects of air temperature, precipitation, and groundwater on Gulf Sturgeon thermal habitats in a changing climate. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.


Dangendorf, S., Sun, Q., Wahl, T., Thompson, P., Mitrovica, J. X., & Hamlington, B. (2024). Probabilistic reconstruction of sea-level changes and their causes since 1900. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16(7).


de Fouw, J., Madden, C. J., Furman, B. T., Hall, M. O., Verstijnen, Y., Holthuijsen, S., et al. (2024). Reduced seagrass resilience due to environmental and anthropogenic effects may lead to future die-off events in Florida Bay. Front. Mar. Sci., 11.


de Luzinais, V. G., de Luzinais VG, Gascuel, D., Gascuel D, Reygondeau, G., Reygondeau G, et al. (2024). Large potential impacts of marine heatwaves on ecosystem functioning. Glob Chang Biol, 30(7), e17437.


Duffy, C., Henn, D., Styles, D., Toth, G. G., Prudhomme, R., Iannetta, P. P. M., et al. (2024). GeoGOBLIN: A catchment-scale land balance model for assessment of climate mitigation pathways considering environmental trade-offs for multiple impact categories. Environmental Modelling & Software, 180.


Fletcher RJ Jr, Beatty MA, Elmquist L, et al. (2024). An invasive prey and changing climate interact to shape the breeding phenology of an endangered predator. Glob Chang Biol, 30(8), e17478.


Fraisse, C. W., Guindin-Garcia, N., Karrei, M. Z., Cerbaro, V. A., & Lazzaretti, A. T. (2024). CIFA: A roadmap for services to monitor weather extremes affecting agriculture under a changing climate. Climate Services, 35.


Hall, G., Loy, L., Brulle, R. J., Schell-Smith, K., Hu, M. - M., & Trollback, S. (2024). Where ideology meets private interest: the three-part composition of climate obstruction in the United States. Environ. Res. Commun., 6(8).


Huang TK, Feng X, Derbridge JJ, et al. (2024). Potential for spatial coexistence of a transboundary migratory species and wind energy development. Sci Rep, 14(1).


Huffaker, R., Muñoz-Carpena, R., & Migliaccio, K. W. (2024). Sensor records can be used to forecast complex soil moisture dynamics with symbiosis of empirical nonlinear dynamics and echo state neural network AI. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 222.


Iresh, A. D. S., Obeysekera, J., Athapattu, B. C. L., & Fernando,. (2024). Rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves Using Cluster and Regional Frequency Analyses. J. Hydrol. Eng., 29(5).


Jamal Y, Usmani M, , Brumfield KD, et al. (2024). Quantification of Climate Footprints of Vibrio vulnificus in Coastal Human Communities of the United States Gulf Coast. Geohealth, 8(8), e2023GH001005.


Jing, Q., Boote, K. J., Liu, K., Hoogenboom, G., White, J. W. S., W, & et al. (2024). Simulating the development and growth of lentil using the CSM-CROPGRO model. Agronomy Journal.


Julian II, P., Fourqurean, J. W., Davis, S. E., Surratt, D., Gaiser, E. E., Kominoski, J. S., et al. (2024). Long-term patterns and trends in water column biogeochemistry in a changing environment. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 306.


L'Heureux, M. L., Harnos, D. S., Brettschneider, B., Chen, M. Y., Johnson, N. C., Kumar, A., et al. (2024). How Well Do Seasonal Climate Anomalies Match Expected El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Impacts? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105.


Mehdipour, H., Prokosch, M., Williams, D., Thomas, A. - H., Seymour, B., Conley, J., et al. (2024). The importance of belonging: reflections on a participatory action research project in Jacksonville, Florida. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal.


Meik JM, Watson, JA, Schield DR, et al. (2024). Climatic temperature and precipitation jointly influence body size in species of western rattlesnakes. R Soc Open Sci, 11(8).


Montalvo, M. S., Grande, E., Braswell, A. E., Visser, A., Arora, B., & et al. (2024). A Fresh Take: Seasonal Changes in Terrestrial Freshwater Inputs Impact Salt Marsh Hydrology and Vegetation Dynamics. Estuaries and Coasts.


Pluckhahn, T. J., Jackson, K., Rogers, J. A., Thompson, V. D., Schwadron, M., & Burchfield, C. O. (2024). Firefly synchronicity and platform mound building by indigenous peoples of the Florida Peninsula, USA. World Archaeology.


Rahimi, L., Hoque, M., Ahmadisharaf, E., Alamdari, N., Misra, V., Maran, A. C., et al. (2024). Future Climate Projections for South Florida: Improving the Accuracy of Air Temperature and Precipitation Extremes With a Hybrid Statistical Bias Correction Technique. Earth's Future, 12(8).


Rasheed, Z., Aravamudan, A., Zhang, X., Anagnostopoulos, G. C., & Nikolopoulos, E. I. (2024). Combining global precipitation data and machine learning to predict flood peaks in ungauged areas with similar climate. Advances in Water Resources, 192.


Regalado Fernandez OR, Parsi-Pour P, Nyakatura JA, et al. (2024). Correlations between local geoclimatic variables and hatchling body size in the sea turtles Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas. BMC Ecol Evol, 24(1).


Sweet, W. V., Genz, A. S., Menendez, M., Marra, J. J., & Obeysekera, J. (2024). Implications of Variability and Trends in Coastal Extreme Water Levels. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(14).


Tippett, M. K., & Becker, E. J. (2024). Trends, Skill, and Sources of Skill in Initialized Climate Forecasts of Global Mean Temperature. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(16).


Unsworth, R. K. F., Jones, B. L. H., Bertelli, C. M., Coals, L., & et al. (2024). Ten golden rules for restoration to secure resilient and just seagrass social-ecological systems. PlantsPeoplePlanet.


Walker, B. K., Becker, D. F., Williams, G. J., Kilfoyle, A. K., Smith, S. G., & Kozachuk, A. (2024). Regional reef fish assemblage maps provide baseline biogeography for tropicalization monitoring. Scientific Reports, 14.


Walker NS, Isma L, Garcia N, et al. (2024). The Young and the Resilient: Investigating coral thermal resilience in early life stages. Integr Comp Biol.


Zhao F, Miao F, Wu Y, et al. (2024). Landslide dynamic susceptibility mapping in urban expansion area considering spatiotemporal land use and land cover change. Sci Total Environ, 949.

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