WLOX.com aired a story about the Oil Spill Community Forum that the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium hosted yesterday in Biloxi. Sounds like it was a success.
"Coast residents learn more about the giant oil spill",, »read moreTags: events, funding & assistance, oil spill, training & outreach, video
This press release just in:
Planning for Coastal Resilience Using Green Infrastructure
Sponsored by Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi Coastal Plains RC&D Council,
Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, »read moreTags: Building, events, infrastructure, regulations
The Alabama Association of Floodplain Managers has opened registration for its Spring Conference. The event will be held on April 29th in Montgomery, and will provide training on the recent FEMA updates to the Residential Substantial Damage Estimator and the Elevation Certificate. Conference attendees will be eligible for six hours of Continuing Education, »read moreTags: events
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This in from John Lambert, over in the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs:
The ADECA Office of Water Resources (OWR) has completed mapping all of the counties in the state of Alabama with Digital Floodplain Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMS) on updated base maps. OWR will be hosting Digital Tools Training workshops to familiarize the, »read moreTags: events
To help inform and engage coastal communities on coastal climate preparedness, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA will be hosting a monthly webinar series focused on all issues surrounding coastal climate adaptation in the Southeast U.S.
This month’s webinar will be on February 25th from 12 – 1 , »read moreTags: events
One last event for this week's news:
"Please join us for the Impact of Climate Issues on America’s Energy Coast hearing taking place at 9:00 am – 11:30 am on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at the Battle House in Mobile, AL. For more information or to register to attend this free event, please email Lisa Noble at lnoble@americaswetland.com.
The hearing, »read moreTags: events
This just across our desks:
"The challenge of living with water is one shared by cities and communities around the world. Nowhere is this more true than in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region, where people live with a daily awareness of the threat, and opportunity, of water. Please join us at the Building Resilience Workshop, to be held February, »read moreTags: events
Just announced: the 2010 Coastal Resilience Symposium will be held at Rice University (Houston) on May 26th. From the event's new webpage:
"Hurricane Ike was not the "Big One" for the Houston area, but it gave us a much clearer picture of what we might expect should a large hurricane make landfall to our southwest.
How well would we be able to recover?, »read moreTags: events
A friend just passed this announcement our way:
The DHS Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives would like to connect you to some of our colleagues in FEMA and share information on specific grant programs to strengthen your resilience against hazards. The call will provide an overview of four programs:
Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI), »read moreTags: events, funding & assistance
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