Florida Water & Climate Alliance Workshop
Workshop 15
The Florida Water and Climate Alliance (FloridaWCA) 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, in partnership with the Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC), Florida Climate Institute and the UF IFAS Center for Public Issues Education , six major public water supply utilities and three water management districts, the group continues to expand. Detailed information on the FloridaWCA is available the FloridaWCA website.
The 15th workshop since the FloridaWCA was initiated, it was hosted by Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority at the Peace River Facility, Arcadia, FL, and attended by 20 participants.
Specific Workshop Objectives:
- Stakeholder-scientist exchange on current research, tools and issues of relevance to water resource management and supply operations
- Consider demographic, social and economic vulnerabilities in a changing environment and relevance to water supply planning.
- Explore critical issues that may impact the built environment & water supply that we should be thinking about, understand the types of questions, assumptions and concerns and inform the type of research that may contribute to addressing those issues.
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The workshop featured the following presentations and speakers:
- Cooperative Planning for Sea Level Rise; Policy and Programs: Alicia Betancourt, Monroe County Extension Director, University of Florida.
- Adaptation in a Sea of Uncertainty: Jason Evans, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Studies, Stetson University.
- Making Change in a Changing Climate: Water supply, demand and resiliency: Tracy Irani, Professor and Department Chair, Family Youth and Community Science, University of Florida.
- Urban water supply and demand in a changing demography: Associate Professor of Meteorology, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies(COAPS), Florida State University.
- Water Supply Planning in the Context of a Changing Environment: Kevin Morris, Science and Technology Officer, Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority.
- Peace River Decision Tool Experience: Kevin Morris, Science and Technology Officer, Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority.
- Sea Level Rise and Climate change: Water Modeling Advances and Capital Resilience Planning: Virginia Walsh, Senior Professional Geologist, Chief Hydrogeology Section, Miami Dade Water and Sewer Department.
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