ACES 2010 Conference: ACES: A Community on Ecosystem Services, will be hosting its second international conference December 6-9, 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. For more details visit ACES conference website.

SECC Program Review: The 2010 SECC Program Review will be held May 24-26 in Raleigh, NC. Additional details will be posted here soon.

Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop: The National Weather Service's Climate Services Division, in conjunction with the National Integrated Drought Information System and the California Department of Water Resources will host the 8th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW) at the Hilton San Diego Airport/Harbor Island hotel in San Diego, CA, on March 2-4, 2010. For more information and to register, please visit https://www.regonline.com/cpasw.

Southeast Climate Change Adaptation Planning Workshop: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water, Office of Air and Radiation, and EPA Region 4 will host the Southeast Adaptation Planning Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 2nd and 3rd, 2010. The goal of the workshop is to explore how stakeholders from across the Southeast can work together to adapt to climate change now and into the future. http://www.epa.gov/Region4/clean_energy/conferences.html

WMO Drought Workshop: The Inter-Regional Workshop on Indices and Early Warning Systems for Drought was held in Lincoln, Nebraska, on 8-11 December 2009. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), along with the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and a number of other co-sponsors are organizing this workshop. For more information, please visit http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/agm/meetings/wies09/index_en.html.

NIDIS Workshop: A workshop to identify stakeholders for the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) was held 2-3 December 2009 in Lake Blackshear, GA. SECC representatives shared information about the drought indices and tools being developed by the SECC for use in the Southeast U.S. More information about NIDIS is available at http://drought.gov.

SECC Planning Meeting: The SECC held its annual planning meeting in Gainesville, FL, on 16-18 November 2009. More than 60 people attended from the 8 SECC member institutions. Presentations, posters, and reports from the breakout sessions are posted under the Presentations section on this website (listed on the left menu bar).

Grant: Jones JW (PI). Integration of NASA models and missions into agricultural decision support. NASA-ROSES. 2009-2012. $926,437

Grant: Jones JW (Co-PI). Iconic agricultural crops: climate change impacts on peanut, cotton, and corn in Georgia and Florida. Bipartisan Policy Center National Commission on Energy Policy. 2009-2010. $60,000

In the Press: Alabama farmers get irrigation grants. Southeast Farm Press. 30 Oct 2009. Research conducted by SECC members leads to government subsidies for producers that will expand irrigation capacity and increase agricultural efficiency.

Grant: Wilkerson GG, Martinez CJ, Hatch UL, Boyles R, Jones JW, Heitman, JL, Peacock CH. Using climate information to predict and reduce residential irrigation Demands. NOAA-SARP. 2009-2011. $299,862

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