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SUMMARY:Science Seminar: Partnering with Fire – Learning from Tribal Nations and Indigenous Practices
DESCRIPTION:Join the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center\, the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center\, and the U.S. Forest Service for our upcoming virtual workshop “Partnering with Fire: Learning from Tribal Nations and Indigenous Practices.” \n\n\n\nThis virtual webinar is open to natural and cultural resource managers\, especially from Tribal Nations in the southern United States\, and others who want to learn more about the how Tribes work with fire to adapt to a changing climate. Registration is required. \n\n\n\nTopics and speakers include:\n\n\n\n\nMark Morales\, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Steven Parrish\, USDA Forest Service: Choctaw Nation agreements with USDA Forest Service.\n\n\n\nGesse Bullock\, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas: Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas fire crew and partnerships.\n\n\n\nMary Huffman\, The Nature Conservancy: Indigenous Peoples Burning Network IPBN.
URL:https://secasc.ncsu.edu/event/scisem-partnering-with-fire/
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CATEGORIES:Climate Solutions Collaborative
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SUMMARY:Science Seminar: New Project Lightning Talks
DESCRIPTION:Introducing three newly funded science projects for FY24! Join us for three lightning talks from the researchers and partners conducting the work\, creating science that is useful and used.\n\n \n\nRegister here: go.ncsu.edu/f24scisem-lightningtalks\n\nThe new projects are:\n\n \nGhuts\, Grit\, and Gills: Synthesis of Hydrologic\, Water Quality\, and Ecosystem Data for Climate Adaptation Planning\n \n\nThe US Virgin Islands are vulnerable to climate change\, especially sea level rise\, intense storms\, and unpredictable rainfall. These changes influence the health of freshwater streams (or ghuts) that affect marine ecosystems important for Indigenous peoples’ heritage\, local fishermen\, the tourist industry\, and unique biological communities. The proposed work brings together stakeholders to assess available data and identify critical knowledge gaps needed to inform science-based decisions. A Virgin Islands Water and Climate Needs Assessment will be drafted to outline actionable steps to address data needs\, identify funding sources\, recommend responsible parties\, and set timelines to document progress.\n\n \n\nRead more: https://secasc.ncsu.edu/science/ghuts-grit-and-gills/\n\n \nImproving Land Change Models for Climate Adaptation\, Urban Development\, and Conservation Action Across the US Caribbean\n \n\nPuerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are experiencing high levels of out-migration caused by economic and climate stress\, yet new homes continue to be built\, often near areas of conservation concern. As climate change increases the risk of intense coastal storms\, flooding\, and extreme heat across the region\, decisions about housing development and natural area protection will have large impacts on future human wellbeing. Computer models can make predictions of land and population change and test possible outcomes of different decisions and policies. However\, land change models need constant updates to account for changing circumstances\, and current models struggle to accurately predict futures where development continues despite people leaving in large numbers.\n\n \n\nThis project team will partner with policy makers and resource managers who are involved in managing protected areas\, climate adaptation\, and land-use planning in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Together\, they will co-produce a new land change model that will support decision-making in the understudied region that is experiencing both new residential development and emigration.\n\n \n\nRead more: https://secasc.ncsu.edu/science/caribbean-land-change/\n\n \nUrban Tree Health in Socially Vulnerable Neighborhoods in the Southeast: An Ecological and Economic Assessment\n \n\nUrban forests provide valuable ecosystem services such as mitigating air pollution\, moderating temperature\, and sequestering carbon. As climate change creates warmer conditions across the southeastern US\, maintaining these valuable services will require keeping urban tree canopies healthy. However\, urban forest managers in the region lack essential information for making decisions about tree plantings\, selecting species\, and tree maintenance. The project will provide baseline information about the dominant species of urban forest canopies and will identify critical information gaps for future management at the state and municipal levels. Resulting information about which tree species should be proactively planted to maximize climate adaptations can be used by urban forest managers across the region.\n\n \n\nRead more: https://secasc.ncsu.edu/science/urban-trees/
URL:https://secasc.ncsu.edu/event/scisem-new-project-lightning-talks/
LOCATION:https://go.ncsu.edu/f24scisem-lightningtalks
CATEGORIES:Climate Solutions Collaborative
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ORGANIZER;CN="Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center":MAILTO:southeastcasc@ncsu.edu
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SUMMARY:Science Seminar: The Pet Trade and A Comprehensive Approach to Assessing Invasive Species Risk with Brett Scheffers
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The rapid\, global redistribution of species due to climate change and the exotic pet trade poses significant invasion risks. Brett Scheffers will present results from a nationwide survey of pet stores in the USA – the largest market for exotic pets – and discuss the invasion potential for 1\,178 terrestrial vertebrates species found for sale. In the second part of his seminar\, Scheffers will outline a comprehensive approach to invasive species risk assessment. Focusing on a subset of these species in the trade\, they gathered a diverse group of experts ranging from academics to practitioners to rank the impacts of invasive species in the Southeastern US. Scheffers and his team designed a user-friendly web application for data elicitation\, input\, and analysis during this workshop. This method not only provided detailed data for modeling invasion dynamics but also enabled real-time feedback and adjustments. By integrating expert opinions\, physiological suitability data\, and citizen science insights\, they evaluated how vertebrate species at various stages of the invasion curve might pose future invasion threats. \nLearn about upcoming science seminars and watch recordings from previous seminars here.
URL:https://secasc.ncsu.edu/event/secasc-seminar-scheffers-invasive-species/
LOCATION:Zoom – Registration Required
CATEGORIES:Climate Solutions Collaborative
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SUMMARY:Alt-Academic Science Career Panel
DESCRIPTION:The Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center with the Climate Solutions Collaborative at NC State invites you to a career panel with scientists who took an alternative path to academia for their careers. \nTuesday\, April 23 with refreshments starting at 3PM. \nSpeakers Include\n\nHolly Sarvis Weyers – USGS Southeast Regional Director\nShannon McGovern – Wildfire Resilience Impact Fellow\nDominic Libera – Hydrologist with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service\nJeffrey Herrick – Ecologist with the EPA\nCindy Simpson –  Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission\nAnna Overby – Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service\nSee below for full bios!\n\nRSVP Required\nThis event is in person only at NC State University in Witherspoon 201. This event will have light catering and refreshments\, so please only RSVP if you plan to attend. RSVP here. \nLearn more about NC State’s Climate Solutions Collaborative here. \nSpeaker Biographies\nHolly Sarvis Weyers is the USGS Regional Director of the Southeast Region which includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands\, the Mississippi Basin\, and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-Gulf. Holly’s history with the USGS dates back to 2001 when she joined the Maryland-Delaware-DC Water Science Center as the lead study unit biologist for the National Water-Quality Assessment Potomac-Delmarva Study unit. She went on to become office chief for the USGS Delaware office\, associate director for Hydrologic Networks and Information\, and director for the North Carolina Water Science Center. She also served as acting deputy associate director for the Office of Human Capital in 2013. Following that\, she served as the USGS Emergency Management Coordinator\, the lead for the Hurricane Sandy Supplemental\, and science liaison for the Southeast Regional Director\, with responsibility for coordinating the region’s scientific activities and programs. She has a B.A. in Marine Biology from Auburn University\, and an M.S. in Aquatic Ecology from the University of Alabama. \nJeffrey Herrick is an Ecologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Research Triangle Park\, NC. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Plant Biology from West Virginia University and conducted his dissertation research on the effects of elevated carbon dioxide on forests. Since joining the EPA\, Herrick has primarily worked on scientific support and policy-making for the ecological aspects of the U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). His work focuses on the effect of air pollutants on vegetation and ecosystems\, with an emphasis on direct effects of gaseous pollutants such as ozone\, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Herrick’s work also includes characterizing the effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition and acidifying deposition and climate change on terrestrial ecosystems. He is an EPA resource for the translation of science into informed policy-making. \nDominic Libera grew up in Elon\, NC with a family that enjoyed being outdoors\, backpacking\, fishing\, and rock climbing.  As an avid backpacker in my youth\, he grew passionate about preserving and caring for the environment and its’ natural water systems. He pursued a B.S. in Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University\, awarded in 2011\, and a masters (’13) and PhD (’18). He participated in competitive research programs like the SE CASC Global Change Research Fellowship and teaching programs like the Preparing the Professoriate Program.  He held a postdoc in Florida researching groundwater dominated systems and the food-energy-water nexus to improve the water supply infrastructures and ultimately human health. In 2022\, he joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service to work as a Hydrologist within the National Wildlife Refuge System. \nAnna Overby is a Research Forester in Forest Economics and Policy at the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station in RTP\, NC. Anna received a PhD from Clemson University (2023) in the interdisciplinary Planning\, Design and the Built Environment Program. Her research there explored various aspects related to the impacts of conservation easements and growth management controls on urban sprawl prevention in the US. Before that\, Anna received her BS in Environmental and Natural Resources from Clemson (2008) and MS in Forestry from North Carolina State University (2011). Professionally\, Anna previously worked for the North Carolina Forest Service as the coordinator of the Longleaf Program\, which included outreach with family forest landowners and the development of decision-support tools for longleaf pine ecosystem restoration. \nCindy Simpson has been the Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator in the Habitat Conservation Division of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission since 2010. In addition to her experience at the Commission\, she also has 20+ years experience working for engineering consulting firms as a field biologist where she conducted environmental assessments\, developed Clean Water Act Section 404 and 401 permits for roadway\, commercial\, and industrial developments\, and was coordinator for a national hazardous waste operations program. She has been certified as a Professional Wetland Scientist (Society of Wetland Scientists) and has completed OSHA’s Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response 40-Hour Training with Self-Contained Breathing Apparatuses (SCBA) training.  Cindy graduated from NC State University in 2000 with a B.S. in Natural Resources and in 2010 with a M.R. in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences. \nShannon McGovern is currently serving as the Wildfire Resilience Impact Fellow in the Department of the Interior\, Office of Wildland Fire. She is also a PhD Candidate at NC State University in the School of Public and International Affairs\, where she earned her Master of Public Administration in 2021. She is a former Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center Global Change Research Fellow (2022). Shannon is a natural hazards researcher who focuses on translating research to operations through federal policy. Through her current fellowship\, she supports the work of the Congressional Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission. The Commission was given 12 months to develop two reports containing 167 federal policy recommendations for the future of wildland fire in the United States. The Commission’s work is the most sweeping review of our national wildland fire system to date\, and has laid the foundation for decades of interagency and intergovernmental collaboration. Shannon is on track to graduate from NCSU in December 2024\, and will continue her work with the Department of the Interior. 
URL:https://secasc.ncsu.edu/event/alt-academic-science-career-panel/
LOCATION:Witherspoon Student Center\, 2810 Cates Avenue\, Raleigh\, NC\, US\, 27606
CATEGORIES:Climate Solutions Collaborative
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SUMMARY:Becoming Better Climate Educators – An Interactive Research & Arts Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 9th at 1pm-3pmat The Corner (corner of Main Campus Dr. & Research Dr.)Register now: https://live.arts.ncsu.edu/small-island-big-song/Join NC State LIVE on April 12 at 1pm-3pm for an interactive conversation and workshop held at The Corner. Come early to purchase lunch from the food trucks\, then join the artists of Small Island Big Song in conversation with Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center’s Global Change Research Fellows. Following the discussion\, workshop participants will have the opportunity to explore their own research through different hands-on art techniques.  \nBring a research question or project you’ve been working on and leave with an artful way to communicate your questions\, findings\, or process!  \nMORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP \nIn 2021 UNESCO issued a 188 page report—Reimagining our Futures Together:  A New Social Contract for Education—calling for a complete reimagination of education from the ground up and  curricula that “embrace(s) an ecological understanding of humanity that rebalances the way we relate to Earth.” \nIn the fall of 2022\, in response to the report\, Small Island Big Song began hosting a series of conversations on education and climate curriculum framed around the traditional Pacific dialogue process of *Talanoa. In bringing together leading scholars\, traditional knowledge keepers\, and artists from the Global South\, they aimed to transform the concept of knowledge itself into a verb—from something you have or don’t have into something you do\, a relational activity that brings out the interconnectivity between one another\, nature\, and ourselves. The process has inspired the development of a multidisciplinary model for the co-creation of knowledge around climate curriculum. \n * “Talanoa” is a traditional word used in Fiji and across the Pacific to reflect a process of inclusive\, participatory and transparent dialogue. The purpose of Talanoa is to share stories\, build empathy and to make wise decisions for the collective good. The process of Talanoa involves the sharing of ideas\, skills and experience through storytelling. During the process\, participants build trust and advance knowledge through empathy and understanding. Blaming others and making critical observations are inconsistent with building mutual trust and respect\, and therefore inconsistent with the Talanoa concept. Talanoa fosters stability and inclusiveness in dialogue\, by creating a safe space that embraces mutual respect for a platform for decision making for a greater good.” (2018 Talanoa Dialogue Platform\, UNFCCC\, 2018)
URL:https://secasc.ncsu.edu/event/sibs-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Climate Solutions Collaborative
ORGANIZER;CN="Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center":MAILTO:southeastcasc@ncsu.edu
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