App Used in Area Schools

Miami’s public radio station WLRN covered how one local middle school teacher teaches the complicated and sometimes scary changes to our environment. One of her tools? The eyesontherise.org Sea Level Rise Toolbox, developed by faculty and students at FIU, with the help of some of our community partners.

Visualizing Sea Level Rise

Starting in Summer 2016, eyesontherise.org member Ted Gutsche will lead a team of four FIU faculty members — including Eyes member Juliet Pinto — in efforts to visualize sea level rise in South Florida via virtual reality. The Mobile Virtual Reality Lab is a nearly $20,000 project funded by the School of Communication and Journalism. Beginning in[…]

Curating SLR Humanities & Science

In Spring 2016, undergraduates in Ted Gutsche’s Visual Storytelling course contributed to FIU’s Digital Commons by curating research, storytelling, art, and communication related to work on sea level rise conducted by FIU faculty, students, and staff. Their project is titled, “Submerging the Sunshine: Explore Sea Level Rise in South Florida.” Some of the media captured, digitized, and[…]