Events
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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.…
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The Climate Learning Network is presenting a webinar on stories from farmers on adapting to a changing climate. Laura Lengnick is the author of “Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate.” She will present real success stories of Agricultural Adaptation. Laura worked with many farmers while researching her book and has taken away…
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I rely on reports from extension agents around the Southeast to help me understand how climate is impacting agricultural conditions “on the ground”. One of the blogs that I find most useful is the Seminole Crop E News by Rome Ethredge down in the southwest part of Georgia. Rome is approaching retirement, and Allison Floyd…