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High tides combined with super saturated ground and rising seas resulted in substantial flooding in South Florida last week, just in time to greet Al Gore and the Climate Reality Conference in Miami. Parking lots flooded and roads turned into rivers while top scientists and stakeholders met to address the very near term effects of climate change. One team of researchers at the conference from Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication is working to educate tomorrow’s communicators how best to bring climate change and South Florida’s rising seas into global conversations.

From Nin Brudermann, innovative artist and adventurer. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Austria, and at the Global Climate Conference in Geneva.

The “Climate Predictability and Inter-Regional Linkages” and “Mountains as Sentinels of Change” calls for pre-proposals will close on June 1, 2015 at 11:59 pm UTC.

This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability.

This call aims to foster research on climate, environmental, and related societal change in mountain regions, considering new measurements, recovery of existing data, and the development and use of integrated modelling strategies by adopting a strong trans- and inter-disciplinary approach.

The successful projects and research teams include participants and support from Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the US. Research teams include a breadth of stakeholders, including indigenous communities, local governments, industry, and NGOs.

This call for proposals aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability.

The position will be open from December 19th, 2014 to January 31th, 2015 noon UTC.

The grants in the scope of this call promote establishing new international and interdisciplinary networks. The objective is to stimulate networking and capacity building for innovative research across social and natural science disciplines and to enable the scientists to implement innovative research to underpin needed improvements in biodiversity scenario development.

Future Earth has today published the Strategic Research Agenda 2014, the outcome of a year-long global consultation on the priorities for global change research.