The Wall of Wind turns storm fury into science, marking two decades of breakthroughs that strengthen buildings and protect communities. The roar builds as wind and rain lash against the walls of a low-rise South Florida home. Loose objects — chairs, a bicycle, a bird...
The 2,175-mile system of interconnected, man-made canals crisscrossing Florida, from Orlando to the Keys, has a particularly important role when a hurricane happens to be pinwheeling toward the peninsula: Flood control. Before a storm is set to make landfall, water...
When a small battalion of 100-pound robots appeared in the lake behind FIU’s Green Library, onlookers had no idea they were witnessing the future of marine environmental monitoring. To casual observers, it seemed like autonomous vessels moving at random and...
When you’re on a camping trip, you might have to pack your own food and maybe something to filter or treat water that you find. But imagine your campsite is in space, where there’s no water, and packing jugs of water would take up room when every inch of cargo space...
FIU scientists are using the power of marine robotics to monitor the bay’s health. In the summer of 2020, Biscayne Bay went into respiratory distress. High water temperatures coupled with lots of phosphorus nearly killed our bay. Hundreds of fish and marine life...
Artificial intelligence is becoming an asset in hurricane forecasting. In 2024, an AI-based model created by Google correctly predicted Hurricane Beryl would make landfall in Texas while a top traditional model called for landfall in Mexico. Two months later, another...
