Educational Resource Hub
This crowd-sourced database of educational resources is meant to encompass any tools relevant to people working at the intersection of health and extreme weather. This might include submissions by the content authors themselves, or simply recommendations from community members for resources they have found helpful. This collection includes only links directing users to existing resources - it is not meant to house or archive content.
Keep in mind, this is a crowd-sourced database. CAFE does not verify the quality nor endorse the use of any materials included in this database. Make sure to follow the terms of use and attribution requirements specific to each resource. If you have created or used sources that would be relevant to the community of practice, please add it to the database by entering it in the submission form below.
This webinar provides examples and guidance for writing a strong specific aims page as part of the NIH grant writing process.
Calculate road length sums by type for each county/municipality for a country of choice, as well as calculate number of road intersections.
This concise U.S. Census Bureau documentation aims to consolidate frequently used information, offering a quick kick-start for your Census journey.
This documentation specifically focuses on the following commonly used products:
The American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau)
ACS 1-Year Estimate
sACS 5-Year Estimates
The Decennial Census
Using the R ecmwfr package, ERA5 hourly temperature measures are downloaded from the Copernicus Climate Data Store. Using temperature and dewpoint temperature, heat index and humidex metrics are derived. Daily mean, maximum, and minimum measures are assessed across administrative boundaries. Kenya is used as a demonstration area.
Using the gridded meteorological dataset PRISM as an example, this tutorial demonstrates how to aggregate raster data to administrative units (e.g., counties) with population weights.
This concise U.S. Census Bureau documentation aims to consolidate frequently used information, offering a quick kick-start for your Census journey.
This documentation specifically focuses on the following commonly used products:
The American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau)
ACS 1-Year Estimates
ACS 5-Year Estimates
The Decennial Census
Mountain snowpacks serve as a vital seasonal water reservoir for many downstream ecosystems and human populations. Despite its importance, characterizing the amount of water stored in snowpacks and how it varies over space and time has largely eluded hydrologists. In this talk, Professor Steve Margulis of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will cover a survey of work in his group aimed at characterizing mountain snow. A unifying theme is the use of data assimilation to tie together remote sensing observations and hydrologic models. The talk will highlight some ideas using existing spaceborne measurement techniques and those expected to be available in the future.
Growth in satellite observations and modeling capabilities has transformed drought monitoring by enabling near real-time situational awareness. Yet many operational efforts still emphasize hazards rather than impacts, and they often miss the compound and cascading risks that frequently accompany drought, including heatwaves, wildfires, floods, and debris flows. This presentation summarizes outcomes of the PEER2PEER International Convergence Research Networks in Transboundary Water Security (funded by NSF and managed by the United States National Academies) and, in that context, highlights pathways for advancing drought intelligence from monitoring to decision-relevant vulnerability assessment.We first introduce a real-time drought monitoring and seasonal prediction system that integrates diverse data streams with AI-based algorithms for drought forecasting (https://drought.eng.uci.edu/). We then describe how drought information can be expanded beyond hazard metrics by incorporating impact and vulnerability data to support impact-based assessment of extremes and decision-relevant risk insights (https://water.eng.uci.edu/). Using several examples, we argue for an impact-centered drought monitoring paradigm that links hydroclimate conditions to physical and societal outcomes, such as crop yield losses, food insecurity, energy production disruptions, and labor impacts. We also highlight key challenges that must be addressed to make this approach operational, including inconsistent and incomplete drought impact records, limited information about local water management and human interventions (e.g., demand, intra- and inter-basin transfers, pumping, and withdrawals), and persistent gaps between impact models and existing drought monitoring workflows. Finally, we discuss anthropogenic drought as a framing concept and show how impact-based drought analysis can be strengthened by representing drought as a coupled climate–human phenomenon rather than a purely climatic hazard.
Crowd-Sourced Environment and Health Educational Resources Collection Submission Form
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