As rising seas and South Florida’s growing environmental concerns dominate conversations of local scientists, officials, business owners and journalists, 10 students from MAST@FIU BBC embarked on a summer pilot program this week to help foster change. […]

Miami’s Biscayne Times presents a critical look at the value of property and the region’s future at a time of rising seas. Writes the author: Rising seas are an unavoidable destiny for Florida and the world at large. Since the Industrial Revolution, mankind has been steadily spewing gases into the atmosphere. As a result, our air has[…]

The eyesontherise.org team is preparing for a summer full of research presentations related to teaching and doing journalism about sea level rise in South Florida.

Communicating Science

The team starts the summer next month at the 2015 Conference on Communication and Environment in Boulder (Colorado), which is part of the International Environmental Communication Association.

Kate MacMillin and Susan Jacobson will present “Eyes on the rise: Informing citizens about sea level rise in Miami,” while Ted Gutsche and Juliet Pinto will discuss “Blending technologies, classrooms & communities to communicate local concerns of sea level rise.”

Both presentations are part on the panel “Communicating to Diverse Audiences Vulnerable to Impacts of Climate Change: Scholarly and Professional Journalism Bridging the ‘Climate Gap.’” […]

Eyes team member Kate MacMillin has been named one of Florida International University’s Top Scholars due, in part, to her teaching and journalism related to sea level rise. MacMillin, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is producer of “South Florida’s Rising Seas,” which aired on Miami’s public television station WPBT2[…]