Our partners for October 2014’s King Tide Day on Miami Beach have found potential problems related to massive pumps Miami Beach city officials have installed to keep city streets dry during high tides.
Hundreds of high school and college students spent two days on Miami Beach this month, testing flood waters as part of the eyesontherise.org project that’s designed to “hack” journalism curriculum. The events were part of the Florida International University School of Journalism and Mass Communication‘s way to develop community journalism about important environmental issues such as sea[…]
Students from MAST @ FIU BBC, a public high school that’s part of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools and housed at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus, with the support of FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, spent Wednesday morning building coqui sensors that they will use for their upcoming King Tide Day events on Alton Road[…]
In Fall 2014, university and high school students at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus launched an effort to measure possible flooding on King Tide Day (Oct. 9) on Miami Beach, beginning with a sea level rise rally at 9 a.m. on Sept. 29, 2014 — events hosted by eyesontherise.org, a collaboration of four journalism professors at[…]