Event Calendar

he 2024 Climate and Resilience Community of Practice annual meeting will be held April 23-25, 2024, in Moss Point, Mississippi at the Pelican Landing Event and Conference Center.

Registration
Registration Link (NOW OPEN!)
If you are a local government employee, your registration fee will be covered. Please contact Tracie Sempier at for more information.

Poster Session– Call for Abstracts (opening soon)
Deadline: TBD

Meeting Agenda
Participant Agenda (draft coming soon)

Additional Training Opportunity
Religious and Cultural Competancy and Literacy in Disaster Management Training
Led by the Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) 1890 Advisory Group
When: Thursday, April 25, 2024 from 1:00-4:00 pm (immediately following the CoP meeting)
Location: Pelican Landing Event and Conference Center (same location as the CoP meeting)
Cost: TBD
Topics to be covered:

• Explain why we engage religious and cultural communities
• Define the meaning of religious and cultural literacy and competency in disaster management
• Describe how religious and cultural language differ from government culture and language
• Identify the skills needed to competently engage religious and cultural leaders/groups

Registration coming soon!

Registration for the GCOOS Spring Members Meeting will close at the end of the day on April 8. Please register now to ensure you have a spot at the meeting and to receive the block room rate.

• What: GCOOS Spring Meeting
• When: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 9 and 8:30 a.m. to noon May 10
• Where: Texas A&M University Galveston’s Waterfront Pavilion, Galveston
• Hotel: Tremont Hotel, 2300 Ship’s Mechanic Row, Galveston, Texas, 77550. The room block rate is $179 (or $95 federal) but in order to receive that rate, you must register via our online form.

Click here to register now

Texas Sea Grant has been working on programmatic development for the inclusion of advanced technologies as intervening solutions for coastal resilience and adaptation. Working through 2023 Sea Grant coastal adaptation and resilience institutional funding, Texas Sea Grant aims to increase awareness in engineering and technology that helps decision-making around coastal energy transition, marine debris and sustainable consumption, natural and nature-based solutions, and early warning systems for coastal hazards.

Towards this end, we have planned the Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Conference scheduled for September 18-19, 2024, to inform coastal communities including decision-makers, elected officials, city and county staff, natural resource managers, academics, the private sector, etc. of technology and engineering solutions that address the four thematic topic areas below:

1.     Coastal Energy Transition

2.     Marine Debris and Circular Economy

3.     Natural and Nature-based Solutions

4.     Early Warning Systems for Coastal Hazards