VirtualEYES
See how virtual reality can make rising seas more meaningful
Documentaries
View multiple works produced about South Florida’s rising seas
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[…]
Recognized for Sea Level Rise Community Work
FIU’s Associate Professor Juliet Pinto, and an eyesontherise.org team member, received the “Forward Thinking Award” from the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce this month for her work — and the work of others she has helped lead — related to sea level rise communication and science in South Florida.
Seed Grant Helps Fund Future Initiatives
A $3,800 seed grant from the College of Architecture + the Arts, of which FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication is joining, has been awarded to an 11-person faculty team to create a proposal for large, national external funding. The team members across five departments will use the seed grant to amplify and sustain current projects, including the[…]