From national outlets like Fusion and weather.com to popular Spanish-language Dario LasAméricas, the Sea Level Rise Toolbox is beginning to serve its purpose — educating the public about the potential impacts of rising seas in South Florida.
Read more about what the app does — and why and click the image at the right to try it out for yourself.
Below, see what these outlets say about the app. […]
eyesontherise.org has been named the winner of the 2015 Innovative Outreach to Scholastic Journalism from the Scholastic Journalism Division award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The award will be presented in August at the conference in San Francisco. The selection committee stated that “[t]his kind of collaboration isn’t the[…]
eyesontherise.org’s Sea Level Rise Toolbox, which allows users to search South Florida addresses to view possible effects of rising seas, was part of a presentation made to White House official over the past week in advance of President Barack Obama’s visit to the Everglades today.
According to FIU News: […]
Great lecture on marine biology by Captain Dan! #marineechoes @mastfiubbc pic.twitter.com/T3WImpEgsc — Marine Echoes (@MarineEchoes) April 21, 2015 Captain Dan Kipnis, a well known climate activist from Miami Beach spoke in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University on Tuesday about what’s to come as the seas rise. Kipnis was also[…]
Documentary will air in prime-time on Miami’s WPBT2 public television station Florida International University’s journalism professor Kate MacMillin discusses the documentary about sea level rise in South Florida below. The documentary is a product of eyesontherise.org, FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and WPBT2. Also: See what sea level rise might look like with our new Sea[…]
Today, eyesontherise.org, a project of four Florida International University School of Journalism and Mass Communication professors and their students, takes a proactive step in helping South Florida citizens understand the sea level issues affecting their areas.
Through funding from the Online News Association, the project’s Sea Level Rise App — also know as the Sea Level Rise Toolbox – is now available at http://eyesontherise.org/app.
The app is free and was officially launched at BarCamp Miami at the Miami Ad School in Wynwood. It is also being featured in reporting on the Miami Beach Centennial celebration by the media company Fusion.
Dr. Juliet Pinto joined other faculty members from Florida International University on March 27 to present research and journalism on sea level rise that’s become a major initiative of the university. Pinto represented the eyesontherise.org project and other efforts from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at FIU that are related to reporting and researching issues[…]