NOAA – February 6, 2013
NOAA Coastal Services Center presents a Digital Coast Webinar Series on CanVis: A Tool for Visualizing Coastal Changes and Potential Adaptation Strategies to be held on Wednesday, February 6, 2013 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Presenter: Adam Bode, NOAA Coastal Services Center. "A picture is worth a thousand words.” That popular phrase sums up why a photo-realistic image showing coastal change leaves a much bigger impact on an audience than simple graphs and charts. If you want to show coastal changes, not just talk about them, CanVis can help. This easy-to-use image-editing software allows users with minimal computer skills to create photo-realistic images of changes such as coastal development, sea level rise, shoreline erosion, offshore wind turbines, and many other conditions. People create CanVis simulations by using digital photographs along with CanVis’ extensive library to add buildings, infrastructure (marinas, roads, etc.), natural elements (trees, water, etc.), and many other features. For more information, click here.
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Security and Sustainability Forum – January 31, 2013
Security and Sustainability Forum to host a free webinar: Governing Climate Change: Shifting Priorities in Urban Decision Making on January 31, 2013 from 1:15-2:45 p.m. EST. Rapid urbanization is happening across the world and many key urban issues are not fully explored. The Security and Sustainability Forum's Urbanization in a Growing World series has been looking at challenges and opportunities cities are facing. Policy choices made now will determine whether the unprecedented rise in urban population in the coming decades results in sustainable development or business as usual. The ramifications of climate disruptions and shifting population dynamics are felt at the municipal level, making cities catalysts for change. Urban planning is being rethought and re-engineered to include risk assessment and resiliency measures with respect to climate change implications and increasingly diverse populations. This upcoming session on urban governance will explore international challenges to conventional climate adaptation methods, national accomplishments, and innovations in state and local planning, and community collaborative decision making. It will explore trends of shifting priorities in decision making and community engagement that are emerging in light of challenges posed by climate change and urbanization. For more information and to register, click here. |
EPA – January 28, 2013
EPA's State & Local Climate and Energy program will host a webinar on the newly released Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2012 report from 2:00-3:30 pm ET on Monday, January 28th. Available on EPA’s climate change website, the report brings together data from multiple public datasets to show observed changes over time in 26 indicators of climate change, including measures of high and low temperatures, rainfall, snowfall, pollen season and sea level rise. EPA staff will discuss how the report was developed, highlighting key points of the report and how information was gathered and synthesized. A brief demonstration of the climate indicators website and a question-and-answer session will follow. To register for the webinar, click here.
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Sustain Our Great Lakes – January 22, 2013
On January 22, 2013, Sustain Our Great Lakes will host a webinar to explore aspects of stream restoration in the Great Lakes basin, including in-stream structures, natural channel design, project monitoring and evaluation, and associated funding opportunities. Drawing from stream restoration case studies, experts will share their experiences and lessons learned. The webinar is intended to be informative for restoration practitioners, potential grant applicants, other funders, and anyone with an interest in stream restoration. The webinar will begin at 10 a.m. Eastern Time/9 a.m. Central Time and last for approximately 2 hours. For more information, click here. |
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BNA Bloomberg – February 6, 2013
BNA Bloomberg and U.S. Water Alliance to host a webinar on Water Adaptation: A Climate of Opportunity on February 6, 2013 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. EST. Water is increasingly recognized as a central player on the climate change stage and not just because of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Governmental and nongovernmental policymakers, scientists, lawyers, and activists are developing and, in some cases, implementing greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation strategies and coping mechanisms that involve water. Perhaps the most important area for water managers is adaptation. This can range from monitoring and research to funding and non-regulatory incentives as well as standards and permitting and other risk mitigation strategies. It is about finding more sustainable approaches to drought, flooding, aquifer depletion, water pollution, infrastructure integrity, coastal resiliency, and linkages to food and energy. This webinar will provide the latest information from federal and nonfederal government officials, experts in the private and NGO sector, coastal and inland, eastern and western, from the Atlantic coast to the Colorado River. Learn about the Obama administration's National Action Plan for managing freshwater resources in a changing climate and what progress is being made through the federal/nonfederal Climate Change Adaptation Workgroup, as part of the Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information; what EPA is doing under its Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, and ocean/coastal law authorities; and how our cities and communities are coping with sea level rise and coastal storms, water scarcity, and aging infrastructure. For more information, click here. |
NOAA – January 29, 2013
OneNOAA Science seminar/webcast on Is Sea Level Rise Accelerating? Somewhere a Hockey Stick will be held on January 29, 2013 from 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Speaker will be Dr. John Boon, Virginia Institute of Marine Science. For more information, click here. Remote access is limited to 50 connections on a first-come-first served basis. |
CEC – January 28, 2013
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is launching an interactive webcast series featuring discussions with environmental leaders from across North America. The first webinar of the series will be held Monday, January 28th at 2:00 pm ET and focus on challenges and solutions related to designing and managing North America’s marine protected areas in a changing climate. Featured guest Maria Brown (Superintendent, Gulf of the Fallarones National Marine Sanctuary) and moderator Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post national environmental reporter and author of Demon Fish) will discuss Brown’s experiences witnessing the effects of climate change and applying the CEC’s forthcoming “how-to” Guide for Planners and Managers to Design Resilient Marine Protected Area Networks in a Changing Climate. Participants will be invited to ask questions and share in the discussion, which will be broadcast live via internet in English, French and Spanish. For more information and to register, click here.
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USFWS & NWF – January 16, 2013
On January 16th from 1:00-2:30pm ET, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Wildlife Federation will host “Downscaling Climate Change Models to Local Site Conditions: Effects of Sea-Level Rise and Extreme Events on Coastal Habitats and Their Wildlife” as part of the Safeguarding Wildlife from Climate Change Web Conference Series. Dr. John Y. Takekawa (Research Wildlife Biologist, USGS Western Ecological Research Center) will provide an overview of the project, which examines the potential climate change effects on transitional coastal habitats with high-quality local habitat data, downscaled climate models, and projected storm effects, and links habitat responses to wildlife using vulnerability assessments. Register online here. If you cannot attend, a recording will be posted approximately 1-2 weeks after the presentation, here. |
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