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A Celebration of Caribbean Women Leading Climate Action

A networking fête and panel

When: March 29th, 3:00 - 4:15pm ET

Where: https://tinyurl.com/CaribForClim 

What: networking and Q&A

In honor of Women's History Month, join us on Friday, March 29 at 3pm ET for an informal & casual event led by women leading efforts related to climate issues in the Caribbean! 

We'll have some music playing, get into breakout rooms to get to know each other, and host a Q&A with accomplished women in different fields representing all parts of the Caribbean. It's a weekend, so feel free to bring your drinks or whatever else to the Zoom call - this is a safe space welcome to everyone!

Caribbean Night at AMS 2024 in Baltimore!

Friends and Family! Our friends from the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology is hosting Caribbean Night at the 2024 AMS Meeting in Baltimore. It will be on Tuesday night at 7 pm local time. All are welcome, it will be a great time with excellleeennnttt vibes! You know how them Bajans do it...

🔊 Caribbeans For Climate received our 501c3 non-profit status! 🌴

Now we can start applying for grants and accepting donations! Thank you to the many people along the way that have helped facilitate this process. If anyone has any funding opportunities that would be a good fit for us to go after, please pass them along!

A reiteration of some of our goals:

-Cultivate a warm and vibrant community for Caribbean people local and abroad who are interested in and seeking action for Climate related issues, especially as it pertains to the Caribbean region. This community includes all races, religions, languages, ethnicities, nationality, sexual orientations, genders, and all aspects of identity represented in the region. 

-Serve as a network for Caribbean people to connect into academic and career pathways in climate science, policy, mitigation, and impacts.

-Hold events such as seminars, networking events, parties, classes, outreach for members of our community and the public

-Provide academic, professional, and economic resources to Caribbean communities. 

Academic and Career Pathways in Climate Science
A panel hosted by Caribbeans for Climate

We're excited to announce Caribbean for Climate's first panel, titled Academic and Career Pathways in Climate Science! This virtual panel will be composed of a variety of climate stakeholders with backgrounds in the Caribbean (see below for list). Panelists will discuss topics ranging from their journeys to their current positions, how their culture influences their identity and shapes their work, and their perspectives on issues related to climate change in the Caribbean.

When: Tuesday, November 21, 3-4 pm Eastern time
Where: virtual, https://princeton.zoom.us/j/7997513143 

Panelists include:

Congrats, Jahnelle!

Big shoutout to Jahnelle Howe on receiving NOAA's José E. Serrano Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions (EPP/MSI) Graduate Fellowship! Jahnelle Is a Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center working on carbon sequestration in marine ecosystems, and will perform research at a NOAA facility as part of the fellowship.

Read the full press release on Jahnelle's accomplishment on NOAA's website.

Girl Talk!Learn about ocean mapping from leading women in the field.

Caribbeans For Climate Advisory Board Member, Sheila Cáceres, is part of a great team developing opportunities for women interested in learning about ocean mapping. 

Are you curious about ocean mapping? Would you like to learn about a growing field? Do you identify as female? Then the Girl Talk program is for you! Apply now before applications close on Sunday October 22, 2023 by scanning the QR Code in this communication or going to this link: https://forms.gle/MHPzFFLUmF4YVjgS9 


Congrats Shanna and Allan for Completing the UCAR SOARS Internship

Big Big shoutout to community members Shanna C. and Allan C. for successfully completing the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science internship at UCAR!

Shanna's project was entitled Evaluating Lightning Forecasts in the HRRR Model: Comparing Lightning Diagnostics to Remotely Sensed Observations and Allan's was Effects of Atlantic Niño on Tropical Cyclone Genesis Potential. Well done Shanna and Allan!



Congrats Valeria for completing the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship

Huge shoutout to Caribbeans For Climate Advisory Board Member Valeria Pérez Rivera for completing the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship. Her very interesting project was entitled, The Effects of Storm Events on Soil Temperature in Salt Marshes. Amazing work Valeria!

Congratulations to Dr. Ari!

Big big shoutout to the newly minted Dr. Arianna Varuolo Clarke, pictured here in the middle, for successfully defending her Ph.D. entitled, "The mystery behind multidecadal precipitation trends in Southeastern South America". Dr. Clarke will now take on a postdoctoral researcher role at CU Boulder as a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow.

Read all about Ari and her work here: https://amvaruolo-clarke.github.io/


Congratulations to Keneshia!

Congratulations to Ph.D. Student Keneshia Hibbert for publishing her work entitled, "Changes to Sea Surface Temperatures and Vertical Wind Shear and Their Influence on Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Caribbean and the Main Developing Region". 

Read all about this very interesting research here: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14060999