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June 1, 2021 at 9:00am
The 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season begins today, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts an above-average season, estimating 13 to 20 named storms with possibly half of those being hurricanes. Out of those storms, NOAA predicts between three and five may become major hurricanes.
FIU experts are available to discuss various issues surrounding hurricanes and their aftermath. The full list of experts will be continuously updated.
Meteorology and Hurricane Intensification
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Earth and Environment Hugh Willoughby studies tropical cyclone structure, intensity, and impacts. He has flown more than 400 missions into the eyes of hurricanes and typhoons as a meteorologist for the federal government. Willoughby was a Research Meteorologist at the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, where he
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NBC 6 Investigators reviewed data and found nearly 197,000 homes in South Florida are in jeopardy when the sea level rises two feet
The city of Miami Beach spent $40.9 million elevating the island’s roads and putting in drains and pumps to prevent flooding in the lower areas
The director of FIU s Sea Level Solutions Center described what could happen in South Florida as a “triple whammy” - the sea will rise, a higher water table and stronger rains will cause more flooding
Sitting in the middle of Biscayne Bay, sea level rise threatens the small community of Palm Island.
A report from the Miami Beach Office of the Inspector General found the project, at times, didn’t have the proper permits, went over budget, and took longer than originally planned.
The city’s official response called portions of the report an attempt to “sensationalize” but noted there were “lessons learned.”
Some neighbors told NBC 6 elevating the roads now causes some yards to flood when they didn’t before. The city is working to fix the issue.
Melissa Berthier, a spokesperson for the city, wrote in a statement the project “will be completed within 7% of the anticipated construction cost in the next few months.” She went on to say, “The project functions as intended, and we have already avoided double digit flooding days as a result of the work performed. The schedule could have been better as a result of working through the details of a first mover project of this kind and challenges regarding changes of ownership and leadership of the contracted desig
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January 26, 2021 at 11:51am
Francisco Febronio Peña is about to earn two doctoral degrees in roughly the amount of time it would normally take to earn a single Ph.D.
The FIU Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Environment is the first student to take part in an innovative, new dual-degree program between FIU and another international university.
For two years, Peña worked toward a civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. at the University of Florence in Italy. He investigated a method to develop low-resolution flood models that estimated water surface elevation and flood extent as effectively as higher resolution but much more quickly. The paper on Peña’s model is one of the top three cited articles in the academic hydrology journal