Events
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If you have been getting questions about the Paris climate meetings and don’t know how to answer them, you might find the fact sheet from the World Bank listed on the website below helpful. It organizes the agreements from the meeting in a simple, easy-to-understand fashion. You can check it out at https://www.securenutritionplatform.org/Pages/DisplayResources.aspx?RID=388.
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Even though it’s been nice and warm in much of the Southeast so far this fall, colder weather is on the way. The National Weather Service is holding Winter Weather Preparedness Week on November 30-December 4 to help residents prepare for the winter storms that may come later this cold season. You can visit https://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/?n=wwpw2015 to…
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I’ve been getting a few questions about the Paris climate meeting that is starting on Monday. You may be as well. Here is a blog post from Dr. Marshall Shepherd providing the history of these big climate meetings in the past and what they hope to accomplish in this meeting. You can read it at https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2015/11/25/so-what-is-this-paris-climate-meeting-anyway-the-basics-of-cop21/. …
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VORTEX is the acronym for a set of scientific field observation programs focusing on the life cycles of tornadoes. In the past, the VORTEX programs have focused on tornadoes in the central US in what is considered the traditional “Tornado Alley”. Now, the next VORTEX program is coming to the Southeast, where tornadoes also occur…
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-carrying cargo ship that went down in eastern Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 in a very strong mid-latitude cyclone with extremely high waves. Twenty-nine sailors went down with the ship that night. The cause of the wreck is still not completely…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub has recently mailed out a couple of newsletters that may be of some interest. Their latest newsletter describes some upcoming workshops on agriculture, forestry and climate-smart decision making. You can read it here. They also released a drought alert for November indicating the likelihood that drought in the Southeast will…
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The Climate Learning Network posted a newsletter this morning describing a number of opportunities for workshops and webinars on forestry and agriculture. You can view these at the CLN blog here. One of the most useful for us in the Southeast is a webinar on Resilient Pine Management on November 19 at 1 pm EST.…