January 2017 Newsletter
SE CSC NEWS:
Learn more about our newest funded science projects, FY2016: Read more.
The SE CSC Held a Workshop on Ecological Drought in the Southeast. Read more.
A Fellowship for Global Change. An interview with two of our Global Change Fellows in College of Natural Resources. Read more.
SE CSC PI, Jen Costanza quoted in recent 538 piece on recent southeastern wildfires. Read more.
Read SE CSC Faculty Affiliate, Ryan Emanuel’s Blog: NC Native Environment, provides information and resources about environmental issues relevant to American Indian communities in North Carolina and elsewhere. Read more.
New SE CSC Affiiliated Publications:
- Clint Moore et al, Achieving full connectivity of sites in the multiperiod reserve network design problem: Read more.
- Frank, Youngsteadt, Dunn, Responses of arthropod populations to warming depend on latitude: evidence from urban heat islands. Read more.
- Terando, Collazo, et al, Climate Change Implications for Tropical Islands: Interpolating and Interpreting Statistically Downscaled GCM Projections for Management and Planning. Read more.
- Grodsky, Moorman, Fritts, et al, Winter bird use of harvest residues in clearcuts and the implications of forest bioenergy harvest in the southeastern United States. Read more.
- Grodsky, Moorman, Fritts, et al, Breeding, early-successional bird response to forest harvests for bioenergy. Read more.
- Osland et al, Barriers to and opportunities for landward migration of coastal wetlands with sea-level rise. Read more.
- Putman, Direct evidence of swimming behavior demonstrates active dispersal in the sea turtle ‘lost years’. Read more.
We have these climate projections – now how do we use them? Read Deputy Director, Ryan Boyle’s Blog on the Early Career Climate Forum. Read more.
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Find your state by state assessment of climate change. Created by NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI) and North Carolina State University’s Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites–North Carolina (CICS-NC), along with many cooperating partners in every state. Find your state report.
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC) has produced a 2016 Annual Climate Report for the southeast region. This report includes an overview of mean temperatures, precipitation levels, severe weather reports, and drought for 2016. Also noted are the top 10 weather and climate extremes that occurred across the region. Read the report.
Ten Signs of a Warming World, NOAA. Read the signs, download a poster.
Research Ethics: A Source Guide to Conducting Research with Indigenous Peoples. This free, online resource attempts to keep abreast of scholarship, protocols, and other documents relating to the conduct of research in Indigenous settings. Read the Guide.
The U.S. EPA has published a new report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2016 (Fourth Edition). The Earth’s climate is changing. Temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall patterns are shifting, and more extreme climate events – like heavy rainstorms and record high temperatures – are already happening. Many of these observed changes are linked to the rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, caused by human activities. Read the report.
A water use data visualization that highlights data from 1950 to 2010, is now availble by the USGS Water Availability and Use Science Program. The visualization will help people see how much and where we use water across the Nation. The application has embedded thumbnail graphics so sharing the URL on social media is easy. View the tool. An accompanying press release can be found here.
The National Park Service’s Marcy Rockman on developing a Framework for Addressing Climate Change with Cultural Resources Read more.
A New Interactive Education Module on Climate Change Responses. The Climate Change Resource Center has released a new interactive online education module on climate change adaptation responses. The module, “Responses to Climate Change: What You Need to Know”, provides a brief overview of adaptation options for resistance, resilience, and transition, and how to incorporate these ideas into natural resource planning and activities. Access the module.
Test your climate knowledge with these interactive quizzes from NASA. Read more.
NASA releases eye-popping 3-D view of carbon dioxide. A new NASA supercomputer project provides one of the most realistic views yet of how carbon dioxide moves through the atmosphere. Read more.
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Cities are the new laboratories of evolution. Cities are driving rapid evolutionary changes to plant and animal species, according to a study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read the publication
A new map of Earth’s ecology-scrambling climate patterns. Mapping climatic mechanisms likely to favour the emergence of novel communities. Nature Climate Change, 2016. Read the publication.
Reinventing conservation – again, an Editorial by Stephen Jackson, USGS Director of the Southwest CSC. Read more.
What satellites can tell us about how animals will fare in a changing climate. Read more.
Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective. This Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society special report presents assessments of how climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events. Read the report.
New Report, Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades, a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for a re-examination of the program’s original restoration goals and recommends a forward-looking, systemwide analysis of Everglades restoration outcomes across a range of scenarios. Read the report.
—— SEMINARS AT NC STATE: ———————————————–
Jan 19 3:30 pm-4:30 pm EST
Seminar: The Ecological Benefits and Economic Costs of Protected Areas
Jan 31 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Book Talk: Citizen Science, How Ordinary People Are Changing the Face of Discovery. Location: Teaching and Visualization Lab at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, NC State University
Feb 2 3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Seminar: Bird Life, Elevated. Location: Room 101 David Clark Labs, NC State
Feb 16 3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Seminar: The Destruction and Reconstruction of African Savannas: Large Mammals as Ecological Linchpins. Location: Room 101 David Clark Labs, NC State
Mar 2 3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Seminar: Understanding Plant Community Responses to Global Change Impacts Using Functional Traits. Location: Room 101 David Clark Labs, NC State
Apr 20 3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Seminar: Food and Water: The Inseparables. Location: Room 101 David Clark Labs, NC State
Apr 26 10:00 am-11:00 am
The South Carolina Stream Conservation Planning Tool
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All webinar registration information is located on our calendar.
Jan 17 3:00 pm-4:00 pm EST
Webinar: Mapping Ecosystem Services for the Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks Region 1
Jan 25 10:00 am-11:00 am
Webinar: The Southeast Aquatic Conservation Strategy
Feb 15 10:00 am-11:00 am
Webinar: Where has the grass gone? Factors impacting submerged aquatic vegetation bring together partners at Mattamuskeet NWR
Feb 16 10:00 am-11:00 am
Webinar: Establishing Explicit Biological Objectives to Guide Strategic Habitat Conservation for the Gulf Coast
Feb 23 3:30 pm-5:00 pm
Webinar: An Accounting Approach to Ecosystem Services for Public and Private Sector Decision Making in the U.S.
Mar 15 10:00 am-11:00 am
Webinar: Using full life cycle habitat requirements of sturgeon and mussels to develop and apply metrics for assessing flow changes in a regulated river
Mar 29 10:00 am-11:00 am
Webinar: How a long-term collaborative effort with multiple partners helped restore and protect the integrity of a bottomland hardwood system on a dam regulated river
Apr 12 10:00 am-11:00 am
Webinar: Everglades: The Next Increment of Hydrologic Restoration and Its Value in Climate Change.
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The 5th annual workshop of Rising Voices: Collaborative Science with Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Solutions will be held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado from 13-15 April, 2017. This year, the workshop will be convened in partnership with Cultural Survival (https://www.culturalsurvival.org/) and the International Indian Treaty Council. The full announcement is attached, including full registration details. To attend Rising Voices 5 please register by January 31, 2017.
Indigenous Phenology runs a monthly Networking Call. The goal of this group is to bring stories, data, and communities together to achieve a more complete understanding of phenology and its relationship to climate. The group uses a standing monthly call as a platform to: share information, facilitate discussions about phenology, and build relationships among a wide group of interested people. Find out more.
BIA / BIE K-12 Tribal Student Climate Change Photo Contest. Using a classroom or cell phone camera, take a picture of something you value in your tribal community that climate change might affect. Include a caption describing the climate impact (and what might be done about it). Categories: K-5, 6-8, & 9-12. Submit all captioned photos or questions by e-mail to: bia_climate_photo_contest@bia.gov. Spring entries are due April 28, 2017.
—— LCC NEWS: ————————————————————
Appalachian:
• Final EPA/USGS Technical Report: Protecting Aquatic Life from Effects of Hydrologic Alteration Learn more
• Scientists: Strong evidence that human-caused climate change intensified 2015 heat waves Learn more
More News from Appalachian LCC
Caribbean:
• Puerto Rico’s Protected Areas Map and Inventory Updated Learn more
• Two Pilot Areas Selected in Puerto Rico and Process Begins in US Virgin Islands Learn more
More News from Caribbean LCC
Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozark:
• Curve Balls and the Long Arc of U.S. Conservation History Learn more
• More New Data Galleries on the Conservation Planning Atlas Learn more
More News from Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozark LCC
Peninsular Florida:
• Oyster Habitat Restoration Project Underway Learn more
• New Beginnings on Flyin D Ranch Learn more
More News from Peninsular Florida LCC
South Atlantic:
• Know about seabirds? Want to help with a new seabird indicator? Learn more
• Save the date for a Spring 2017 Blueprint workshop! Learn more
More News from South Atlantic LCC
—— UPCOMING EVENTS: ———————————————–
Coastal GeoTools
February 6-9, 2017, North Charleston, SC
NC Water Resources Research Institute Annual Conference
March 15-16, 2017
Raleigh, NC
State of the Gulf of Mexico One Gulf Summit 2017
March 26-30, 2017
Houston, TX
ASB 2017 Association of Southeastern Biologists
March 29 – April 1, 2017
Montgomery, AL
NC Coastal Conference
April 4-5, 2017
Raleigh, NC
National Adaptation Forum
May 9-11, 2017
St. Paul, MN
Save the Date
The Southeast & Caribbean Climate Community of Practice will host its next in-person meeting in April 2017. Details to come in the new year.
—— OPPORTUNITIES: —————————————————–
MSU Post-doctoral Research Associate sought for bird monitoring. Read more.
Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) for the Drought Response Program. Deadline for Applications: February 14, 2017. Eligible applicants to leverage their resources by cost sharing Drought Contingency Planning with Reclamation to build resilience to drought in advance of a crisis. Applicants under this FOA may request funding to develop a new drought plan or to update an existing drought plan. Applicants may also request technical assistance from Reclamation for the development of elements of the Drought Contingency Plan. Applicants may request up to $200K in Federal funds. There is a cost-share waiver available under exceptional/limited circumstances (see C.2. in the FOA).
• Planning Funding
• Project Funding
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