Contact Us
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Eric P. Chassignet
Directors
Carolyn Cox
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Muriel Hannion
CoordinatorsEMAIL
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Dear FCI Members & Friends,
The FCI Steering Committee and staff wish you a Happy New Year 2011. We hope you enjoy the first issue of our monthly news email. We will use this document to keep you updated on upcoming FCI-related events, projects, publications, and opportunities. If you have any suggestions or submissions, please send them to info@floridaclimateinstitute.org. We are all looking forward to another productive year. Thank you for your continued support and participation! James Jones and Eric Chassignet, Directors. |
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FCI Events
Additional seminars are being planned for the Spring and will be emailed as they are confirmed.
January 13, 2011, 1-2pm - FCI Seminar
Location: FSU-COAPS, Rm 220
Note: The seminar will be broadcast live via Polycom to UF's Frazier Rogers Hall, Rm 122.
 1:00 pm
Speaker: James Elsner, FSU - Department of Geography
Title: "On the Incresing Intensity of the Strongest Hurricanes"
 1:20 pm
Speaker: J.B. Ruhl, FSU - College of Law
Title: "Climate Change Mitigation and (or versus?) Adaptation"
 1:40 pm
Speaker: James O'Brien, FSU - Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
Title: "Optimum Big Rain Indicator of Extremes for SE USA"
January 25, 2011, 3-4:30pm - FCI Seminar
 Location: UF J. Wayne Reitz Union, Rm 282
Speaker: Lynn Scarlett, Former Deputy Secretary of the Interior
Title: "Climate Adaptation: Science, Collaboration and Communities"
Note: The seminar will be webcast.
May 24-27, 2011 - Climate Information for Managing Risks Symposium  Location: Orlando, FL Note: CIMR (pronounced "simmer") will emphasize the challenges of applying climate information and predictions at local and regional levels, for regions and locations from around the world. |
Project Updates
Clyde Fraisse was awarded a 5-year grant (starting in February 2011), by USDA-NIFA, for a project titled "Climate Variability to Climate Change: Extension Challenges and Opportunities in the Southeast USA".
The Florida Atlantic University, the University of Florida and the Florida State University were awarded a Clustering Grant for a project titled "SUS Climate Change Task Force: Science Addressing the Needs of Florida Agencies, Industry, and Citizenry". This is a 1-year grant, starting in January 2011.
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Recent Publications & Presentations
Baigorria, G., and J.W. Jones, 2010: GiST: A stochastic model for generating spatially and temporally correlated daily rainfall data. Journal of Climate, 23, 5990-6008, doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3537.1.
Bourassa, M., S. Gille, D. L. Jackson, B. J. Roberts, and G. A. Wick, 2010: Ocean winds and turbulent air-sea fluxes inferred from remote sensing. Oceanography, 23, 36-51
Lim, Y.-K., L. B. Stefanova, S. C. Chan, S. D. Schubert, and J. J. O'Brien, 2010: High-resolution subtropical summer precipitation derived from dynamical downscaling of the NCEP/DOE reanalysis: how much small-scale information is added by a regional model? Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0891-2.
Morris, J. G. Ciguatera and climate change: don't eat the barracuda. FCI Seminar Series, November 29, 2010, Gainesville, Florida.
Southworth, J., 2010: Changing climate variability and its impacts on African savanna ecosystems. FCI Seminar Series, November 29, 2010, Gainesville, Florida.
Vargas-Moreno, J.C. Participatory Scenario Planning for Climate Change in Southern Florida's Greater Everglades Landscape. (Abstract) UF Water Institute Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series, co-hosted by FCI, December 2, 2010, Gainsville, Florida.
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Funding Opportunities
Florida Sea Grant: Gulf of Mexico Regional Research RFPs. Pre-proposal Deadline: February 25, 2011
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Other News
 Please welcome Muriel Hannion, the new FCI Coordinator for FSU! Muriel is a geologist from France and has prior experience with GIS and program coordination. mhannion@coaps.fsu.edu, (850) 645-7457.
 Photos from the FCI Kickoff are now online. Special thanks to event photographer Tyler Jones of UF/IFAS.
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