Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Conference
2024-09-18 - 2024-09-19
Texas Sea Grant has been working on programmatic development for the inclusion of advanced technologies as intervening solutions for coastal resilience and adaptation. Working through 2023 Sea Grant coastal adaptation and resilience institutional funding, Texas Sea Grant aims to increase awareness in engineering and technology that helps decision-making around coastal energy transition, natural and nature-based solutions, and early warning systems for coastal hazards.
Towards this end, we have planned the Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Conference scheduled for September 18-19, 2024, to inform coastal communities including decision-makers, elected officials, city and county staff, natural resource managers, academics, the private sector, etc. of technology and engineering solutions that address the three thematic topic areas below:
1. Coastal Energy Transition
2. Natural and Nature-based Solutions
3. Early Warning Systems for Coastal Hazards

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Partnering with Fire: Learning from Tribal Nations and Indigenous Practices
2024-09-26 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago)
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.”
This 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 how Tribes work with fire to adapt to a changing climate. Registration is required.
Topics and speakers include:

Mark Morales, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and Steven Parrish, USDA Forest Service: Choctaw Nation agreements with USDA Forest Service.
Gesse Bullock, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas: Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas fire crew and partnerships
Mary Huffman, The Nature Conservancy: Indigenous Peoples Burning Network IPBN.

Thursday, September 26th | 9-11am CT (10am-12pm ET)

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Transformers: Age of Adaptation (In-Person, New Mexico)
2024-10-02 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Denver)
Intermountain West Transformation Network – Wildfire & Watershed Symposium
Laura-McCarthy-Keynote

National Weather Festival
2024-10-26 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us as we host a booth for the 2024 National Weather Festival on the University of Oklahoma Research Campus.
October 26, 2024, from 10 am – 2 pm at the National Weather Center

Climate Vulnerability Workshop
2024-10-30 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Join the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center for a one-day Climate Vulnerability Assessment Workshop on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, in Shawnee, OK.
TRAVEL ASSISTANCE is AVAILABLE
Learn more and register today!
A vulnerability assessment is one of the first steps in developing a climate adaptation plan. We will cover basics on how to start a vulnerability assessment; types of vulnerability assessments, various sectors (i.e., natural resources, culturally significant animals or plants, or infrastructure) and approaches that can be used to develop a vulnerability assessment. There will be a presentation on where to find tools that can help a Tribe or community to gather data and options to find projections for your Tribal region. We will use that information to qualitatively measure Exposure, Sensitivity, and Adaptive Capacity.

Citizen Potawatomi South Hall
1702 Gordon Cooper Dr.
Shawnee, OK 74801

FY 2024 Projects Lightning Talks: An Introduction to select South Central CASC-Funded Projects
2024-11-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
The South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (SC CASC) recently chose eight new research projects. These projects will contribute to climate adaptation efforts in the south-central region of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana. The initiatives will support efforts such as Tribal climate adaptation goals, addressing wetland adaptation management, controlling invasive plants, and assessing the impacts on water resources.
Hear from three of our PIs to learn more about their funded projects.
Hamed Gholizadeh from Oklahoma State University, the agroecosystems project, “Optimizing Invasive Plant Management in Grasslands,” focuses on the invasive plant Lespedeza cuneata. By integrating remote sensing and climate sciences, this project will deliver actionable information for effective management of this invasive species in grassland ecosystems, helping to preserve native biodiversity and ecosystem health.
Jeremy Ross from the University of Oklahoma leads one of the two cultural projects titled, “Empowering Tribal Nations to Plan for Extreme Climate Change Threats.” This initiative will collaborate with Indigenous horticulturalists and Tribal nations to create an Extreme Climate Action Plan for Culturally Important Agroecosystems (ECAPCIA). By leveraging Indigenous knowledge and values, the project aims to strengthen water resilience and preserve culturally important agroecosystems.
Kathryn Powlen from the USGS – OK/TX Water Science Center is leading the other cultural project, “Identifying Opportunities to Strengthen Climate Resilience in Flood-Prone Underserved Communities.” Focusing on Harris County, Texas, this project will develop a flood vulnerability assessment and examine distributive equity in flood mitigation efforts. By modeling flood exposure and analyzing mitigation investments, the project will prioritize vulnerable areas for future mitigation projects, ensuring equitable and effective flood risk reduction.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Nov 4, 2024 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvc-qspj4pGNSC2uniNiRdeBM8H4a6EIxR
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

This is Place Harvest Event 2024
2024-11-16 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
Location: Little Axe Community Center east of Lake Thunderbird in Norman, OK
Featured guest speakers:
Ted Talk speaker Lyla June,
Native Farming Solutions owner Travis Andrews,
Tribal Alliance for Pollinators founder Jane Breciknridge,
Floribundas Farms owners and brothers Jessie and Justin Rosenfelt
& panel discussion with garden featured artists.
Oklahoma environmentalist organizations:
Okies for Monarchs,
Oklahoma Conservation District,
Native Plants Society,
Native Plants Network,
and MORE!
Also featuring amazing local food producers, native plant and plant medicine producers, artists, and artisans.

Oklahoma Governor's Water Conference & Research Symposium
2024-11-19 - 2024-11-20
The Oklahoma Governor’s Water Conference and Research Symposium is held annually to bring together experts in Oklahoma water policy and science from federal, state, and local agencies and organizations, as well as state and federal officials, industry leaders, and students.
Join us!
November 19-20, 2024
Embassy Suites, Norman
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Nature-based Solutions Webinar Series - Building Coastal Adaptive Capacity through Nature-based Solutions
2024-11-26 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
This five-part webinar series features projects funded by the Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI) Division’s Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) and Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) programs focused on the research and application of nature-based solutions (NbS), which are actions to protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural or modified ecosystems to address societal challenges, simultaneously providing benefits for people and the environment. Increasing communities’ capacity to adapt to climate change can take many forms–this webinar features two presentations that relate to increasing coastal adaptive capacity. The first, funded by AdSci, will provide an overview of how a community is working to increase their coastal adaptive capacity and community resilience to sea level rise through workshops and vulnerability assessments that identify potential adaptation pathways, funding opportunities, and data needs. The second project featured will be from the West CAP team, the California-Nevada Climate Adaptation Program, highlighting their approach to providing technical assistance and integrating regional data and projections for sea level rise, coastal storm flooding, and beach erosion. This work aims to assist with developing adaptation pathways and strategies, including dunes as NbS, and co-produces and integrates climate, social science research, and Indigenous stewardship to support the advancement of effective and equitable sea-level rise adaptation planning with several collaborators across Southern California.
Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/779614658690072411

78th Annual SEAFWA Conference
2024-12-09 - 2024-12-13
The Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA) is a forum for the exchange of ideas and critical information regarding the management and protection of fish and wildlife resources primarily in the Southeast. The conference attracts over 500 representatives from state and federal agencies, citizens’ organizations, universities, private wildlife research groups, fisheries and wildlife scientists, agency enforcement personnel, and other natural resource-related organizations.
The 78th Annual Conference will be hosted by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Make plans now to join us December 9-13, 2024 at the Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center in Augusta, Georgia.
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Nature-based Solutions Webinar 4 - Utilizing Nature-Based Solutions for the Advancement of Multiple Objectives, Co-Benefits, and Health
2024-12-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
This five-part webinar series features projects funded by the Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI) Division’s Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) and Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) programs focused on the research and application of nature-based solutions (NbS), which are actions to protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural or modified ecosystems to address societal challenges, simultaneously providing benefits for people and the environment. Adapting to climate change requires cities to leverage their efforts to meet multiple objectives and do so through an equity lens that counteracts existing patterns of vulnerability. This webinar episode will feature three projects that consider co-benefits of NbS: – (CAP / MARISA) Equity-informed, Multi-Objective Analysis and Planning for Green Infrastructure – (CAP/ CLIMAS) Health Core, Initial Project Scoping – (CAP / GLISA) Calumet Connect: Modernizing the Calumet River Industrial Corridor
Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4728794343847605085

Gulf Tree Training Workshop
2025-01-22 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Gulf Tree is a climate tool selection guide for Gulf of Mexico stakeholders.

Access and learn about the latest climate tools
Reduce uncertainty in selecting a climate tool
Save time in searching for a new climate tool

January 22, 2025 from 9 am – 3 pm at Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve
Lunch is included!

Nature-Based Solutions Webinar Series 5 - Challenges and Opportunities of Scaling Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation
2025-01-23 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
This five-part webinar series features projects funded by the Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI) Division’s Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) and Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) programs focused on the research and application of nature-based solutions (NbS), which are actions to protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural or modified ecosystems to address societal challenges, simultaneously providing benefits for people and the environment.
Nature-based solutions including green infrastructure (NbS/GI) have been implemented for some time as a multifunctional, decentralized strategy for stormwater management. Locally, the benefits and co-benefits of these systems are well quantified. However, to address regional climate risks, NbS/GI need to be upscaled in non-trivial ways across urbanized landscapes. This upscaling poses several formidable physical, economic, and collaboration-related challenges. Addressing these challenges represents one of the front lines in advancing comprehensive resilience and sustainability planning. This webinar episode will feature how Franco Montalto, CAP’s Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN), has leveraged funding from CAP and AdSci to advance science to support local action and adaptation at a broader scale.
Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3145418435073976928

BUDM Webinar Series "Lessons Learned from Marsh Creation Monitoring in Coastal Louisiana"
2025-02-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Please join us for the Beneficial Use of Dredged Materials: Insights Across Coasts webinar series. The series aims to highlight lessons learned from restoration practitioners and facilitate discussion on BUDM science needs. This series presents lessons learned in BUDM practice and showcases a variety of perspectives, with speakers coming from numerous backgrounds, organizations, and geographic areas.
February 25, 2025 – Register here – Bernard Wood (Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority) – “Lessons Learned from Marsh Creation Monitoring in Coastal Louisiana”

2nd Annual New Mexico Tribal Forest & Fire Summit
2025-03-04 - 2025-03-06
2nd Annual New Mexico Tribal Forest & Fire Summit
Roots For The Future: Strengthening Indigenous-Led Conservation
March 4th – 6th, 2025
Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino
Mescalero, NM
287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero, NM 88340
Please visit the event website for more information!

What is Climate Adaptation and Resilience webinar
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Join the South Central and Southwest CASCs for a webinar series for Tribal Environmental and Natural Resource Professionals
Held on the first Tuesday of each month, at 1 pm Central/11 am Pacific, through August. https://bit.ly/TribalWebinars
March’s Tribal Climate Resilience Webinar asks What is Climate Adaptation and Resilience? They’ll discuss the basics of climate adaptation and resilience and real-world applications of these concepts.

2025 Land and Water Summit
2025-03-05 - 2025-03-07
Registration and the call for posters are now open
Learn more at the link below

Southwest Agroforestry Action Network meeting (SWAAN Con)
2025-03-11 - 2025-03-13
Check out the wonderful line-up of speakers for the upcoming Southwest Agroforestry Action Network meeting in Santa Fe (March 11-13). This will be a great opportunity to network with and learn from agroforestry, permaculture, ecological restoration, and sustainable farming professionals and practitioners. Registration includes lunch, coffee, snacks, and the second-day farm tours. Continuing education credits are available from the International Society of Arboriculture for partial or full registration.
The draft agenda is available here: SWAAN AGENDA 2025. To Register: bit.ly/SWAAN2025 (registration is hosted by our fiscal sponsor Arizona Community Tree Council). More information about SWAAN https://swaan-site.org

Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2025
2025-03-25 - 2025-03-27
Advancing Solutions for Ocean-Climate Restoration

Join us for the Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2025! The Summit will be an exceptional opportunity to advance the sharing of knowledge and solutions to critical challenges at the ocean-climate nexus. During this action-oriented event, global and local scientists, policymakers, innovators, funders, and others will converge to explore solutions and strengthen partnerships that can help restore our ocean and stabilize the climate.

Learn more and register at https://oceanvisions.org/events/summit-2025/

BUDM Webinar Series "Where did our mud go? Monitoring shallow water placement of dredged material to nourish marshes in South San Francisco Bay"
2025-03-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Please join us for the Beneficial Use of Dredged Materials: Insights Across Coasts webinar series. The series aims to highlight lessons learned from restoration practitioners and facilitate discussion on BUDM science needs. This series presents lessons learned in BUDM practice and showcases a variety of perspectives, with speakers coming from numerous backgrounds, organizations, and geographic areas.
March 25, 2025 – Register here – Jessie Lacy (U.S. Geological Survey) – “Where did our mud go? Monitoring shallow water placement of dredged material to nourish marshes in South San Francisco Bay”

Webinar: The Status of Tribes and Climate Change, Volume 2
2025-03-26 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) is excited to invite you to the webinar for the official release of the Status of Tribes and Climate Change, Volume 2 on Wednesday, March 26th from 7:00 – 8:30 am (HST), 9:00 – 10:30 am (AKDT), 10:00 – 11:30 am (PDT), 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central), 1:00 – 2:30 pm (Eastern)

The Status of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) is a series of reports that elevates the voices and efforts of Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and communities and provides a space within published literature to share our own stories about the climate change impacts we are experiencing and the solutions we are implementing. The reports are acts of resilience and self-determination intended to uplift Indigenous experiences and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in local, national, and global conversations.

This initial webinar will include knowledge holders that convened the report who will discuss how and why the report was created. In addition, you will hear about the report’s key messages and recommendations. Lastly, the report’s new website will be launched during the webinar, along with the digital version of STACC, Volume 2.

We look forward to celebrating this milestone and the combined efforts of everyone who contributed to bringing this report together.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/staccrelease

Stakeholders and Rightsholders Webinar
2025-03-26 13:00 - 14:15 (America/Chicago)
This informational webinar leads up to the Transportation & Extreme Weather Symposium (held April 1) will help ‘set the stage’ for the ideation sessions that will be held then. There is still time to register for the Symposium!
This webinar will feature Saxon Metzger, President of Eighth Generation Consulting, and Martin Shukert, Principal of RDG Planning & Design
Wednesday, March 26th, 1:00 – 2:15 pm Central

Transportation & Extreme Weather Symposium
2025-04-01
The Southern Plains Transportation Center and the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center are hosting a Transportation and Extreme Weather Symposium on April 1st at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK. The symposium will feature speakers and panels in the morning and ideation sessions in the afternoon to connect researchers across our various consortium and partner institutions.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN: https://forms.gle/UourJFmn4pi8DAHU9
By registering, you agree to attend the in-person, full-day program.

This event is open to anyone interested, including all researchers at SPTC and South Central CASC host and consortium institutions, potential stakeholders, rightsholders, or other interested parties with a focus in the south-central US region (our organizations encapsulate AR, LA, NM, OK, and TX, but anyone is welcome to attend). Registration is free and breakfast and lunch will be provided.
The ideation sessions are designed to present information on upcoming funding opportunities and facilitate the creation of multidisciplinary teams to catalyze innovative projects.
Breakout sessions will focus on the intersection of transportation and extreme weather, with specific sessions on: Short-term and Long-term Planning for Weather Extremes, Workforce Preparedness in the Face of Weather Extremes, and Safety.
There will be two optional informational webinars leading up to the symposium to ‘set the stage’ for the ideation session, both occurring on Zoom (recordings will be made available):

Collaborative Projects, Monday, March 3rd from 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Stakeholders and Rightsholders, March 26th from 1:00 – 2:15 pm

After registration, you will receive more information about the two webinars and the day-of event and calendar invites for all three.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Olivia Dailey (olivia.dailey@ou.edu) and cc Derek Rosendahl (drose@ou.edu).

How To - Scoping Climate Adaptation Efforts
2025-04-01 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Join the South Central and Southwest CASCs for a webinar series for Tribal Environmental and Natural Resource Professionals
Held on the first Tuesday of each month, at 1 pm Central/11 am Pacific, through August. https://bit.ly/TribalWebinars
April’s Tribal Climate Resilience Webinar will discuss where to start and what to consider when scoping climate adaptation efforts.

Managing for Climate Extremes: A Brief Introduction To The Science
2025-04-07 - 2025-05-02
Registration is now open for our online course series!
This is one of the many online courses offered by the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, providing an introduction and deeper dive behind climate extremes, adapting to its impacts, and an overview of climate modeling.
In A Brief Introduction to the Science, expect to learn the basics of climate extremes, including an overview of natural and human-driven climate fluctuation, climate modeling, and climate projections.
Registration closes April 11th
Course dates: April 7th-May 2nd, 2025
Questions? Email cega@ou.edu for more information

Changes in Precipitation in the Southwestern United States
2025-04-18 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us for three presentations about changes in precipitation fluctuations and the ecological responses on April 18th, from 12-1pm Arizona time (2-3pm central).
The Diverse Seasonalities of Precipitation within the Southwest – Rachel Clemesha, PhD. Project Scientists, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California – San Diego
Intensification of sub-daily precipitation in the southwest – David Goodrich, PhD. Research Hydrologist, Southwest Watershed Research Center – USDA Agricultural Research Service
RainManSR: An experimental facility to assess how changing rainfall amount and timing affect desert grasslands – Joel Biederman, PhD. Research Hydrologist, Southwest Watershed Research Center – USDA Agricultural Research Service
Click the link below to register.
The Southwest Climate Hub, Southwest and South Central Climate Adaptation Science Centers, and Climate Assessment for the Southwest are co-hosting periodic webinars designed to share and discuss climate solutions. For more information, please contact: Lauren White at laurenmwhite@arizona.edu

BUDM Webinar Series "Elevating Wetland Restoration: State of Practice on Consolidation"
2025-04-22 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Please join us for the Beneficial Use of Dredged Materials: Insights Across Coasts webinar series. The series aims to highlight lessons learned from restoration practitioners and facilitate discussion on BUDM science needs. This series presents lessons learned in BUDM practice and showcases a variety of perspectives, with speakers coming from numerous backgrounds, organizations, and geographic areas.
April 22, 2025 – Register here – Brian Harris (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) – “Elevating Wetland Restoration: State of Practice on Consolidation”

How To - Creating Vulnerability Assessments
2025-05-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Join the South Central and Southwest CASCs for a webinar series for Tribal Environmental and Natural Resource Professionals
Held on the first Tuesday of each month, at 1 pm Central/11 am Pacific, through August. https://bit.ly/TribalWebinars
May’s Tribal Climate Resilience Webinar will discuss creating vulnerability assessments by identifying what is vulnerable to climate impacts and incorporating Indigenous & Western science.

GeoHab 2025
2025-05-12 - 2025-05-16
GeoHab (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) is an annual forum bringing together scientists from around the world who are developing new methods and procedures to link remotely sensed data with seafloor geology and marine biology within a geospatial environment.
This year the meeting will be held in Key West, Florida, May 12-16, 2025.
Abstracts and student applications are due on January 17th, 2025.
For more information visit https://geohab.org/keywest2025/

Southwest Drought Briefing
2025-05-12 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Denver)
Join the Southwest Climate Hub and the Southwest Drought Learning Network for this 30 min update on drought conditions and resources over the southwestern US.
This month Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, will discuss Drought Conditions and Outlook,
and Tonya Haigh, research assistant professor and social science coordinator with the National Drought Mitigation Center, will discuss Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch
Monday, May 12th, 2025, from 12-12:30 pm MT.
Click on the link below to register.
