Florida Water & Climate Alliance Workshop
Workshop 18
The Florida Water and Climate Alliance (FloridaWCA) is a stakeholder-scientist partnership committed to increasing the relevance of climate science data and tools to support decision making in water resource management, planning and supply operations in Florida. The FWCA brings together interested stakeholders (public water supply utilities, local governments, water management districts and academic institutions) to increase the relevance and usability of climate change and variability data and tools to the specific needs of public water supply utilities and resource managers and planners. Initiated in 2010 by the UF Water Institute, the FWCA partnership includes the UF Water Institute, Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC), the Florida Climate Institute (FCI), and UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education, six major public water supply utilities, representatives of local governments, and three water management districts.
The 18th workshop since the FloridaWCA began was hosted by Center for Ocean Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) at The Florida State University (FSU), and was attended by 19 participants.
Workshop Goal: Provide an environment for stakeholder-scientist exchange of current research and tools to address climate variability and change issues with a focus on increasing local relevancy to utilities and water resource managers. Explore topics that that may help inform scientists’ research that would result in an actionable science of use to practitioners.
Workshop Objectives
- Research – Share relevant research regarding Seasonal Scale Forecasts and Long term Climate Projections and how they might be useful to local planning and operations.
- Collaboration – Explore research interests and potential synergies for proposals including the nexus of food, energy and water and Earth science applications for water resources.
- Community – Consider ways to continue to address FloridaWCA participants’ interests based on shared strengths and resources of the represented institutions?
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The workshop featured the following presentations and speakers:
- Florida Water & Climate Alliance Introduction to Workshop #18: Lisette Staal, Water Institute, University of Florida.
- How what we know about climate projections translates into hydrology projections and water resource decisions for Tampa Bay Water: Seungwoo Jason Chang & Wendy Graham, Water Institute, University of Florida.
- Understanding INFEWS Solicitation from NSF: Wendy Graham, Water Institute, University of Florida.
- Seasonal scale forecasts for water management: What has been accomplished and what still needs to be done?: Chris Martinez, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida.
- Impact of Urbanization and air-sea interactions on long-term changes to Florida’s climate: Vasu Misra & Amit Bhardwaj, Florida State University/COAPS.
- Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS): Vasu Misra, Associate Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University/COAPS.
- Climate and Weather Roundup: David Zierden, State Climatologist and Associate in Research, COAPS.
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