BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f5165d4872873561b943786a2af1dbc4 CATEGORIES:Polar Conferences, Meetings and Events CREATED:20200414T134004 SUMMARY:Webinar: Coastal Resilience in Alaska DESCRIPTION:Webinar Announcement\n Coastal Resilience in Alaska: Programs and Policies Helping Communities Adapt in the Nation’s Fastest-Warming State\n\n 21 Apri l 2020\n 2:00-3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time\nThe Environmental and Energy Study Institute announces their webinar titled Coastal Resilience in Alask a: Programs and Policies Helping Communities Adapt in the Nation’s Fastest- Warming State. This webinar will be held 21 April 2020, 2:00-3:30 p.m. East ern Daylight Time.\nThis webinar will include a briefing on scientific deve lopments and policy initiatives that are helping protect Alaskan ecosystems and communities from erosion, sea level rise, and other coastal hazards.\n Webinar Description:\nAlaska coastal communities are experiencing extreme c hallenges as shore-fast ice—a coastal buffer to storm water—disappears and houses built on thawing permafrost buckle and become uninhabitable. Stakeho lder engagement combined with up-to-date scientific analyses on environment al risk are necessary to create adaptation plans that make economic sense w hile assisting vulnerable communities.\nCoastal Alaska is facing rapid warm ing and corresponding environmental changes. This briefing aims to provide an overview of the area’s environmental challenges; give specific examples of projects that protect homes, ecosystems, and economies; and showcase the legislation, regulations, and programs that help (or hinder) those project s’ success.\nThe panelists will describe the collaborative process between federal, state, local, and tribal stakeholders in collecting, sharing, and acting on scientific data to inform policy decisions around adaptation and help communities define and achieve their resilience goals. These projects can serve as a model for other regions experiencing similar issues in high- latitude or coastal areas.\nPanelists include:\n\n - Jeremy Littell (Resear ch Ecologist (Climate Impacts), Department of Interior Alaska Climate Adapt ation Science Center) - Littell will discuss the changing Alaskan coastline , as well as topographic and other mapping data necessary to understand cur rent risks and vulnerabilities along Alaska’s coast.\n - Aaron Poe (Coordin ator, Aleutian Bering Sea Initiative) - Poe will discuss his work engaging agencies, tribes, researchers, industries, and communities to plan for adap tation at the regional scale through the Landscape Conservation Cooperative s (LCCs) that were originally established by the Department of the Interior but now operate as public-private partnerships.\n - Raymond Paddock III: ( Environmental Planner, Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tr ibes of Alaska) - Paddock will describe the process of collecting base-leve l data and carrying out adaptation planning within tribal communities in So utheast Alaska. He will further highlight the damage warming waters are hav ing on traditional food sources and ways of life.For more information and t o join the webinar, go to:\n \nFor questions, contact:\n Amber Todoroff\n E mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to vi ew it. document.getElementById('cloak7f99e358bf58c5d1e36c5b40d960c91f') .innerHTML = ''; var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; va r path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; var addy7f99e358bf58c5d1e36c5b40d960c91f = 'atodoroff' + '@'; addy7f99e358bf58c5d1e36c5b40d 960c91f = addy7f99e358bf58c5d1e36c5b40d960c91f + 'eesi' + '& #46;' + 'org'; var addy_text7f99e358bf58c5d1e36c5b40d960c91f = '&# 97;todoroff' + '@' + 'eesi' + '.' + ' org';document.getElementById('cloak7f99e358bf58c5d1e36c5b40d960c91f'). innerHTML += ''+addy_text7f99e358bf58c5d1e36c5b40d960c91f+''; \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Webinar Announcement
Coastal Resilience in Alaska: Pro grams and Policies Helping Communities Adapt in the Nation’s Fastest-Warmin g State

21 April 2020
2:00-3:30 p.m. Easte rn Daylight Time

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute a nnounces their webinar titled Coastal Resilience in Alaska: Programs an d Policies Helping Communities Adapt in the Nation’s Fastest-Warming State< /em>. This webinar will be held 21 April 2020, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Eastern Dayli ght Time.

This webinar will include a briefing on scientific developm ents and policy initiatives that are helping protect Alaskan ecosystems and communities from erosion, sea level rise, and other coastal hazards.

Webinar Description:

Alaska coastal communities are experiencing extreme challenges as shore-fast ice—a coastal buffer to stor m water—disappears and houses built on thawing permafrost buckle and become uninhabitable. Stakeholder engagement combined with up-to-date scientific analyses on environmental risk are necessary to create adaptation plans tha t make economic sense while assisting vulnerable communities.

Coastal Alaska is facing rapid warming and corresponding environmental changes. Th is briefing aims to provide an overview of the area’s environmental challen ges; give specific examples of projects that protect homes, ecosystems, and economies; and showcase the legislation, regulations, and programs that he lp (or hinder) those projects’ success.

The panelists will describe t he collaborative process between federal, state, local, and tribal stakehol ders in collecting, sharing, and acting on scientific data to inform policy decisions around adaptation and help communities define and achieve their resilience goals. These projects can serve as a model for other regions exp eriencing similar issues in high-latitude or coastal areas.

P anelists include:

Jeremy Littell (Research Ecologist (C limate Impacts), Department of Interior Alaska Climate Adaptation Science C enter) - Littell will discuss the changing Alaskan coastline, as well as to pographic and other mapping data necessary to understand current risks and vulnerabilities along Alaska’s coast.
Aaron Poe (Coordinator, Aleut ian Bering Sea Initiative) - Poe will discuss his work engaging agencies, t ribes, researchers, industries, and communities to plan for adaptation at t he regional scale through the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) th at were originally established by the Department of the Interior but now op erate as public-private partnerships.
Raymond Paddock III: (Environ mental Planner, Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska) - Paddock will describe the process of collecting base-level data and carrying out adaptation planning within tribal communities in Southeast Alaska. He will further highlight the damage warming waters are having on traditional food sources and ways of life.

For more information and to join the webinar, go to:
Webinar homepage

For questions, contact:
Amber Todoroff
Email: This email addr ess is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view i t.

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