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April 3, 2025
SECOORA Webinar on the Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Ian: Warm Subsurface Water on the Wide Continental Shelf
Join us Thursday, April 24th at 12 PM ET for the April installment of the SECOORA Coastal Observing in Your Community Webinar Series! This month, we will hear from Dr. Yonggang Liu from the University of South Florida. He will discuss his research on the rapid intensification of Hurricane Ian in relation to anomalously warm subsurface water on the wide...
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February 10, 2025
Webinar: SECOORA Data Portal Demo
Join us on Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM ET to learn more about the SECOORA Data Portal and how to navigate it. Axiom Data Science will be providing an overview of the portal, including how to search the Catalog and make a custom data view.
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February 5, 2025
Meet the Winners of the Surface Elevation Table (SET) Call for Proposals
SECOORA hosted a request for proposals for the installation of new Surface Elevation Table (SET) stations or the reactivation of historic SET stations within the Southeast region. This opportunity covers the cost of materials and supplies for the stations. Meet the winners here!
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January 28, 2025
Meet the Winners of the 2024 Vembu Subramanian Ocean Scholars Award
Four winners were selected for the Vembu Subramanian Ocean Scholars Award, which is an annual funding opportunity to support students and early career professionals to present their research at a conference or meeting.
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January 22, 2025
SECOORA Welcomes New Events Specialist, Claire McGrath
SECOORA welcomes Claire McGrath, our new Events Specialist! Claire will help us plan and prepare for the SECOORA Annual Meetings in addition to other in-person meetings and workshops.
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January 16, 2025
Meet the Winners of the 2024 SECOORA Data Challenge
The SECOORA Data Challenge is an annual competition for students to propose a project that combines multiple Southeast datasets with the goal of addressing an issue faced by coastal communities. Meet the 2024 winners, Matthew Hatami (University of South Carolina) and the team of Prasun Banerjee and Ananya Shetty (Georgia Institute of Technology).
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January 10, 2025
Webinar: Implementing Vulnerability into Historic Hurricane Normalizations
The Southeast & Caribbean Disaster Resilience Partnership (SCDRP) and SECOORA are joining forces to kick off 2025 with a co-hosted webinar on January 23rd at 10 am. Our speaker is Kaylee Mooney, a graduate student at Florida Gulf Coast University. Kaylee won the 2023 SECOORA Data Challenge, and will be presenting on her winning project -- Implementing Vulnerability into Historic...
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December 20, 2024
Happy Holidays from SECOORA!
Thank you for being part of the SECOORA network! We wish you a happy holiday season, and look forward to working with you to expand our impact in 2025.
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December 18, 2024
Student Opportunity: Marine Heat Wave Position
SECOORA is seeking a graduate student or post-doc to examine ocean temperature regimes in the Southeast. This project will support a student to extract surface and subsurface temperature data from the SECOORA data portal, identify any data gaps, and conduct preliminary analysis. Proposals are due February 7th.
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November 1, 2024
SECOORA Hosts the First National WebCOOS Technical Workshop
The WebCOOS Technical Workshop brought together the WebCOOS science team and contractors, representatives from multiple IOOS Regional Associations, federal partners, and local community partners on October 9th – 11th, 2024, in Charleston, South Carolina.
