Regional Leaders

The South Florida Climate Collaborative serves informal educators, public library staff, park interpreters, nonprofit and youth development professionals, municipal sustainability staff, community science practitioners, and emerging climate communicators across South Florida. Topics of interest include climate-related impacts such as extreme heat, flooding, sea level rise, water quality decline, habitat loss, and harmful algal and sargassum blooms.

This team attended the Earth to Sky Academy in autumn 2026. Earth to Sky regional teams go through a competitive selection process and experience an intensive train-the-trainer on NASA Earth science, communication techniques, and Earth to Sky methodology. After completing the Academy, each team offers at least two Earth science communication courses in their region, while serving as a resource and focal point for their community of place based educators, organizations and students on an ongoing basis. 

Our region is already experiencing intensifying climate impacts—heat stress, flooding, sea level rise, and ecosystem change—yet there remains a gap between Earth science data and the educators and community leaders responsible for communicating it. Through ETS training, we aim to:

• Bring NASA data to the community: Learn to use NASA Earth observations (like satellite imagery, climate data, and visual tools) in community-based education to show real, localized impacts.
• Merge science with storytelling: Improve our facilitation skills by blending Earth systems science with audience-centered interpretive techniques that make data accessible and place-based.
• Build a scalable regional model: Gain the structural framework needed to plan, fund, and host two multi-day regional Earth to Sky courses within two years of graduating the Academy.

Stay tuned to hear more about our future plans!

Photo courtesy of Earth to Sky South Florida Climate Collaborative.