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Climate Information Survey
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Research spotline: Future sea level along the Florida coastline: How will ice sheets respond to global warming?
By Dr. Andrea Dutton, FCI Member and UF Assistant Professor
 My research focuses on the past-not the future-to understand how ice sheets and sea level respond to changes in climate. The earth's history is a rich tableaux of information from which we can learn; and we are learning more about how to tap that archive to extract critical knowledge about how sea level has responded in the past to changes in climate in Florida and elsewhere. This arms us with invaluable empirical data that will be used to underpin and evaluate sea level projections that play a critical role in our preparations for future changes in climate and sea level. My colleague, Dr. Ben Horton from the University of Pennsylvania, will join us this week at UF to share his work looking at sea level changes on millennial timescales. His research has given us tremendous insight into the relation between climate change and sea level on the U.S. Atlantic coastline, and drives home the reminder that even if the past is different from the future, it is an invaluable archive that teaches us about our dynamic climate system. |
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FCI Events
April 5, 2012 │FCI Distinguished Scholar Seminar │3:30pm - 4:30pm
Dr. Benjamin Horton - Associate Professor, Pennsylvania University Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Title: Millennial Scale Sea-Level Changes
Location: UF, Smathers Library 1A
The seminar will be streamed and will be projected at FSU COAPS, in room 220
April 19, 2012 │FCI Distinguished Scholar Seminar │3:30pm - 4:30pm
 Dr. Kenny Broad - Director of the Leonard and Jane Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy and Professor in the Division of Marine Affairs and Policy at University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Title: Cultural and Cognitive Challenges to Using Climate Information
Location: UF, Smathers Library
The seminar will be streamed and will be projected at FSU COAPS, in room 220
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FCI Recent Presentations
FCI Brown Bag Seminar - March 14, 2012 - Tallahassee, FL: Dr. Paul Ruscher - The Crisis in Climate Change Education - Florida and US Issues.
FCI Brown Bag Seminar - March 14, 2012 - Tallahassee, FL: Dr. Vasu Misra - Understanding climate change in the southeast US from (recent) past, present and future.
FCI Distinguished Scholar Seminar - March 29, 2012 - Gainesville, FL: Dr. Gerald Nelson - Should I be Worried about Climate Change?
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Publications
Misra, V., Pantina, P., Chan, S. C., & DiNapoli, S. (2012). |
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Other Events
April 16-22, 2012 | 6th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change | Vietnam
April 22-26, 2012 | NatureServe's Annual Biodiversity without Boundaries Conference | Portland, OR
May 7-16, 2012 | Teaching Climate Complexity | Online Workshop May 17-20, 2012 | Environmental Pollution and Public Health | Shanghai, China May 23-25, 2012 | Programs that bring together Geoscience and Sustainability | Palo Alto, CA May 27 - June 1, 2012 | 21st Century Watershed Technology Conference and Workshops | Bari, Italy June 2 - 6, 2012 | Teaching Environmental Geology Workshop | Bozeman, MT June 21-22, 2012│Risk and Response: Seal Level Rise Summit, the Future of Florida and the Coasts│Boca Raton, FL More upcoming events here. |
Employment Opportunity
Global Climate Change Specialist | Rural Development and Natural Resources Branch (RDNR) of the Development Resources and Disaster Assistance Division (DRDA), Office of Capacity Building and Development (OCBD), Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (FAS/OCBD/DRDA/RDNR) | Washington, DC
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