Not all areas of South Florida will see increased flooding as a result of sea level rise. Some of Miami-Dade County’s poorest neighborhoods, including Liberty City, Little Haiti and Overtown, are at much higher elevation compared to the rest of the county. This fact has not escaped notice from real estate developers, who are starting[…]
Students in professor Robert Gutsche, Jr.’s Visual Storytelling course at FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication are working on curating and digitizing research, journalism, art, and community storytelling about sea level rise and environmental change for the university’s digital library. The students’ additions to the library’s collections related to sea level rise will allow[…]
The E Miami Condos website has published a map based on the eyesontherise.org Sea Level Rise Toolkit application that depicts “Miami Condos Most At Risk of Sea Level Rise.” Click the infographic below for their report.
Three master’s students from the University of Amsterdam who spent several weeks in Florida to meet with scientists, public officials, and residents interested in issues of rising seas in South Florida have released a new report about “understanding the ramifications of sea level rise for urban Miami.” Lars Ankum, Wessel Brocken, and Tiemen Koch spoke[…]
SJMC faculty members Susan Jacobson, Juliet Pinto, Kate MacMillin, and Ted Gutsche presented the work of their students, FIU faculty, and local community members to a group of the university’s leading sea level rise researchers and communicators. The “All Hands” meeting was hosted by FIU’s Sea Level Solutions Center. Pinto (at top) presented on the overall[…]
Students in Ted Gutsche’s Visual Storytelling course in FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication are curating and archiving work related to sea level rise produced at FIU as a way to learn about the digitization of museums and libraries, while contributing to the university’s Digital Collection. Already, the library’s collections hold information about rising seas,[…]
Susan Jacobson will present “It takes a village to build a sea level rise app: Informing citizens about climate change in Miami,” at the International Communication Association‘s annual conference in Fukuoaka, Japan. She is presenting this paper, co-authored with the eyesontherise.org team, on a panel sponsored by the International Environmental Communication Association titled “New/Emerging Information and Communication[…]
Eyesontherise.org team member, Robert (Ted) Gutsche, Jr., has been invited to speak about the project’s engagement at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa in March. He will attend a conference focused on encouaraging more faculty and graduate students to collaborate outside of classrooms, such as what has occurred with eyesontherise.org.