Newsletter July/August 2014

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InTeGrate: Teaching about Risk and Resilience At the latest in a series of workshops known as InTeGrate: Teaching about Risk and Resilience, educators and managers gathered at FAU to learn about transferring actionable knowledge on climate change and disaster preparedness to relevant sectors, including policy-makers and the general public. More >	FAQs About Climate Change, Climate Variability, and Florida The FCI Working Groups have developed a new webpage of Frequently Asked Questions related to climate and Florida. Topics include sea level rise, beaches and coastal resilience, and ports and navigational channels. To submit a question, please email us.	Hunting Hurricanes and Data to Improve Offshore Wind Turbines Drs. Mark Powell (NOAA/FSU) and Steve Cocke (FSU) are part of a new collaboration between NOAA and the Dept. of Energy to collect data that could lead to improved offshore wind turbine designs. Powell's efforts will involve boundary layer research, and Cocke will work on hurricane risk modelling. More >


Corene Matyas Named UF Colonel Allan R. & Margaret G. Crow Term Professor Dr. Matyas, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida, was awarded this 2014-2015 term professorship by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in recognition of her scholarship and teaching.	New Funding for Agricultural Research Drs. Michael Thomas and Daniel Solis of Florida A&M University have been awarded a grant from the USDA-APHIS to "Estimate the Potential Economic Benefits of Biological Control as a Mitigation Measure in Controlling the Damage Resulting from the Asian Citrus Psyllid (Diaphorina citri Kuwayama) in Florida".	We the Geeks: Submerged Watch this archived video of scientists discussing the interconnectivity of the ocean and climate (hosted by the White House and the Weather Channel). Dr. Laura Petes, formerly of FSU and now a White House senior policy advisor, is one of the featured speakers.

Events

Jul 18, Online - STAR Webinar: Where Health & Sustainability Meet

Jul 28-Aug 1, New Orleans, LA - Conference on Ecological and Ecosystem Restoration

Jul 29-30, Perkinston, MS - NOAA Coastal Inundation Mapping Course

Aug 10-30, Oxford, UK - Oxford Adaptation Academy

Sep 8-10, Asheville, NC - Water Education Summit

Sep 24-26, New York, NY - Rising Seas Summit

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Funding

EPA National Priorities: Systems-Based Strategies to Improve The Nation's Ability to Plan And Respond to Water Scarcity and Drought Due to Climate Change (Due Aug 5, 2014)

NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) (Due Aug 27, 2014)

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Jobs

FSU Warm Season Climate Modeling Postdoctoral Fellow (Due Jul 24, 2014)

Nat'l Research Council Research Assoc. Programs (Due Aug 1, 2014)

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Publications

FCI authors are in bold.

Barrett, P. M., Resing, J. A., Buck, N. J., Feely, R. A., Bullister, J. L., Buck, C. S., Landing, W. M. (2014). Calcium carbonate dissolution in the upper 1000 m of the eastern North Atlantic: Atlantic Ocean CaCO3 dissolution. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 28(4), 386-397.

Bloetscher, F., Berry, L., Rodriguez-Seda, J., Hammer, N. H., Romah, T., Jolovic, D., Heimlich, B., Cahill, M. A. (2014). Identifying FDOT's Physical Transportation Infrastructure Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise. J. Infrastruct. Syst., 20(2), 04013015.

Chen, X., & Zou, X. (2014). Postlaunch calibration and bias characterization of AMSU-A upper air sounding channels using GPS RO Data. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119(7), 3924-3941.

Doel, R. E., Friedman, R. M., Lajus, J., S�rlin, S., & Wr�kberg, U. (2014). Strategic Arctic science: national interests in building natural knowledge - interwar era through the Cold War. Journal of Historical Geography, 44, 60-80.

Doel, R. E., Wr�kberg, U., & Zeller, S. (2014). Science, Environment, and the New Arctic. Journal of Historical Geography, 44, 2-14.

Feng, J., Wu, Z., & Liu, G. (2014). Fast Multidimensional Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition Using a Data Compression Technique. J. Climate, 27(10), 3492-3504.

Lichstein, J. W., Golaz, N. - Z., Malyshev, S., Shevliakova, E., Zhang, T., Sheffield, J., et al. (2014). Confronting terrestrial biosphere models with forest inventory data. Ecological Applications, 24(4), 699-715.

Murphy, P. D. (2014). Pessimism, Optimism, Human Inertia, and Anthropogenic Climate Change. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 21(1), 149-163.

Nicholson, S. E. (2014). The Predictability of Rainfall over the Greater Horn of Africa. Part I: Prediction of Seasonal Rainfall. J. Hydrometeor, 15(3), 1011-1027.

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