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USF Team Selected by NOAA for Award to Support Marine Sanctuaries
The three-year project, “Climate Change Indicators Across the National Marine Sanctuaries System,” is one of seven competitively selected projects addressing marine sanctuary management totaling $3.7 million.
October 26, 2022News, Resiliency News
Keeping our eyes on hurricanes
Hurricane season is ramping up. From submersible “pickup trucks” to “flying research labs,” hurricane monitoring programs help modelers predict the strength and path of tropical systems.
September 13, 2022Resiliency News
What climate change has in store for Florida | Our Changing Climate: Earth Day
Projections show different parts of Florida could see a sea-level rise of 1-11 feet over the next 100 years.
April 21, 2022Resiliency News
Faces of Resiliency
The Faces of Resiliency video series highlights how communities are increasing their resilience to sea level rise, storm surge and flooding.
March 23, 2022Resiliency News
Smart City Showcase highlights innovative problem-solving in St. Pete
Under the St. Petersburg Innovation District’s leadership, members of academia, local government, nonprofit organizations and the private sector are now utilizing new technology to help solve the city’s challenges.
March 23, 2022Resiliency News
Seawalls alone won’t save coastal cities, major UN report says
Adapting to climate change will require more ‘transformative changes’
February 28, 2022Resiliency News
How a dramatic win in plastic waste case may curb ocean pollution
A major citizen suit against a giant plastics company resulted in a huge payout and a commitment to do better. The case has set off ripples of change across an industry that often pollutes with impunity.
February 22, 2022Resiliency News
BIPOC Youth Learn Map-Making to Build Disaster Resilience
Because natural disasters disproportionately affect underserved communities, middle school students in Savannah, Ga., are learning to use mapping tools to design infrastructure changes that could protect their neighborhoods.
February 14, 2022Resiliency News
How to teach children about climate change, inspire hope and take action to change the future
Children and youth know that climate change is altering lives, environmental patterns and futures.
January 27, 2022Resiliency News
‘Living Shoreline’ being built on St. Pete waterfront to protect area from continued erosion
Volunteers are working to build a “living shoreline” along an area of Lassing Park in St. Pete to help protect and restore the waterfront.
December 15, 2021Resiliency News
When New York floods, this ‘living street’ stays dry
A new model for street design in the age of post-climate-change storms manages the water instead of trying—and failing—to keep it away.
November 10, 2021Resiliency News
Pew Applauds Belizes Ambitious Commitment to Protect Coastal Wetlands
Plan signals growing global interest in nature-based solutions to climate change.
September 2, 2021Resiliency News