SCIPP investigators Dr. Vincent Brown, Derek Thompson, Anna Sitzman, and Dr. Barry Keim recently published an article titled “Rainfall analysis of the May 2021 southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana flood” in Physical Geography. The paper discusses the synoptic setting of the historic rainfall event, which produced 15-19.8 inches of rain across eastern Texas and southern […]
On August 13-14, SCIPP participated in the Oklahoma City Extreme Heat Tabletop Exercise led by NOAA, the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), and the City of Oklahoma City. The exercise brought together several city, county, and state departments/entities, academia, local community organizations and non-profits, healthcare representatives, and utility companies with a stake/role in
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SCIPP’s 2023-2024 Annual Report is now available! SCIPP strives to produce research, tools, and knowledge that aid organizations and communities in the South-Central United States in making decisions that increase resiliency and reduce impacts in the face of a changing climate. The Annual Report details some of SCIPP’s work throughout the past year, providing updates
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SCIPP researchers, Olivia VanBuskirk and Lauren Mullenbach, recently published an article entitled “A scoping review of equitable climate adaptation research in U.S. cities” in Environmental Research Letters. The paper analyzes and synthesizes previous research on climate adaptation plans, with an emphasis on equity and justice initiatives. Results from the review can be categorized into those
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SCIPP investigator, Darrian Bertrand, recently attended the 49th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Broomfield, CO. Held annually since 1975, the workshop brings together natural hazards researchers, non-profit organizations, the private sector, and local, state, and federal governmental agencies (including FEMA). In following this year’s theme, “The Stories We Tell: Creative Strategies for
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During winter 2023/2024, SCIPP worked alongside the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) to draft a report titled, “Heat-Related Emergency Department Visits in Louisiana: Review of Syndromic Surveillance Data for April through October 2023.” The report details the historic heat of 2023 and provides important information for heat safety. Additionally, SCIPP’s Vincent Brown and Charles Simson
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Drs. Dolly Na-Yemeh, Mark Shafer, and Cassandra Shivers-Williams recently published their article, “U.S. military installations and extreme weather: an Oklahoma case study on preparation,” in Environmental Hazards. The paper explores how military installations prepare for extreme weather. Participants in the case study, which was conducted via interviews and a focus group with emergency managers from
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The Simple Planning Tool for Climate Hazards v2.0 is now available here! What is the SPT? As a reminder, the Simple Planning Tool for Climate Hazards (SPT) is a compilation of relatively easy-to-use online interactive tools, maps, and graphs to assist planners, emergency managers, and other decision makers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas who
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How can community dialogue inform natural disaster mitigation planning? To answer this question, researchers at the University of Oklahoma and the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program used stakeholder analysis to explore public engagement related to flooding in three U.S. cities (Tulsa, OK; Fayetteville, AR; and Waco, TX). Our results identified different kinds of stakeholders and
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Dr. Barry Keim and Dr. Vincent Brown, researchers with the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, recently published a study in One Earth exploring how threats posed by climate change could impact the Mississippi River Delta (MRD). Over the past century, > 25% of the MRD’s wetlands have been lost due to flood control levees, pervasive alteration
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