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The project aims to create climate-resilient decision-making frameworks to equitably support coastal communities.

The new information will help fill in gaps in historical data to improve scientists’ ability to perform storm surge flood risk assessments.

Steady progress comes from increase in research activity in health, engineering and more.

UCF came in No. 2 in the world for hospitality and tourism management and No. 33 in the world for transportation science and technology, according to this year’s global ShanghaiRanking list.

Predicting periods of relatively higher flood risk would allow officials to prepare and deploy resources more in advance.

ShanghaiRankings placed the engineering programs at UCF above Georgia Tech, Purdue, Arizona State, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Florida.

The researchers hope that, with further development, their work may one day be used to help predict when and where extreme sea level changes will occur.

Students and everyday citizens will have the chance conduct hands-on research, which will help protect against some of the threats facing coastlines around the world.

The university’s entry uses big data to predict — and hopefully prevent — traffic accidents before they happen.