The Links is a monthly roundup of articles from the Center, good reading and job links that have been posted on our website and social media in the last month.
Website news:
- Work across multiple states focuses on health of levee systems (Feb. 24, 2017)
CRC in the news:
- Smith leads state resiliency initiative by FEMA Intergovernmental Weekly Update (2.21.17)
- Meanwhile, outside the Beltway… by William Hooke // Living on the Real World (2.2.17)
Good reading:
- Topsail beach’s request for sand site stalled by Coastal Review Online (2.21.17)
- Is Louisiana’s coastal loss a ‘national emergency’? Declaring it might speed federal money by The Advocate (2.20.17)
- Mexico City, parched and sinking, faces a water crisis by The New York Times (2.17.17)
- Oroville brings flood of insurance interest by Ventura County Star (2.15.17)
- What is happening with the Oroville Dam spillway? by Popular Science (2.15.17)
- Congress wants to stop coastal erosion – with mud by Climate Central/Scientific American (2.14.17)
- Obstacles and support continue as Princeville rebuilds by WUNC (2.13.17)
- How did the Oroville Dam crisis get so dire? by The Atlantic (2.13.17)
- Defining resilience: If I were FEMA Administrator by Emergency Management (2.7.17)
- Officials taking flood map concerns to Raleigh by The (Jacksonville) Daily News (2.7.17)
- ‘500-year’ flood and perhaps stronger: New evidence shows massive scope of Louisiana’s August disaster by The Advocate (2.6.17)
- Researchers check impact by Carteret County News-Times (2.1.17)
- A vulnerable community braces for the impacts of sea level rise by Yale Environment 360 (1.30.17)
- Whitehouse raises alarms and climate and sea levels by The Newport Daily News (1.28.17)
- How a design competition changed the U.S. approach to disaster response by 100 Resilient Cities (1.27.17)
Job, event and funding postings:
- Maryland Sea Grant Coastal Climate Specialist
- National Consortium for Data Science – Data Fellows
- National Fish and Wildlife Program Resilient Communities Fellowship
- Kravis Post-Doctoral Science Fellow In Landscape Ecology, Environmental Defense Fund
- Assistant Professor (Water Resources Engineering or Coastal and Ocean Engineering), Oregon State University
- 3-year PhD Assistantship in Coastal Planning at University of Rhode Island
- NOAA 2017 Coastal Resilience Grants
- Summer undergraduate Research Fellowship at University of Rhode Island
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