UCF Researchers Help Lead New, $2 Million NSF Project to Make Coastal Sciences More Inclusive The new collaboration includes 15 faculty members and leaders from minority-serving institutions from across the country.
UCF is Designing Self-repairing Oyster Reefs to Protect Florida’s Coastlines The work is sponsored by a $12.6 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant that seeks to create self-repairing, biological and human-engineered reef-mimicking structures.
UCF Uses 6-Foot ‘Test Tubes’ to Study Red Tide This study is the first successful test of any red tide mitigation technology in open water using large water column containers called limnocorrals.
New Study Identifies Hotspots Where Climate Change Could Impact Internet How the Earth’s changing climate could impact the vast undersea network of seafloor cables has been relatively understudied until now.
Offshore and Coastal Risk Analyses May Misrepresent Wave Storms from Extreme Weather Like Bomb Cyclones A new study shows that models used across the globe to estimate the height of coastal storm waves — critical information when building ports, reinforcing infrastructure and estimating flooding — can differ by several feet.
UCF Researchers Collect Critical High-water Mark Data Following Hurricane Ian Emergency management professionals are already reaping the benefits of the team’s labor, as their data will become part of the official USGS database for immediate access by anyone interested in undertaking flooding, hydrology or storm surge modeling.
New NASA-funded Study Hopes to Put Risks of Space Junk on People’s Radar Space debris can endanger spacecraft and damage satellites that are critical to everything from communication to GPS, air traffic control, surveillance and national security.
UCF Forms Multidisciplinary Team to Create Undergraduate Program to Address Gulf Coast Challenges The UCF Gulf Scholars Program will begin accepting applications from UCF undergraduate students in Spring 2023, and interested students are encouraged to join the program’s inaugural forum this month.
UCF Hospitality Researchers’ Expertise Is Tapped for Global Sustainable Tourism Report The work is being presented this week at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, which world leaders are attending.
Another Record Year for UCF — 8 NSF CAREER Award Winners The recipients are engineers who work with interdisciplinary teams to solve tech and health problems.
Orlando Tech Workers Earn Over 100% More Than Other Industries in the Region Orlando Business Journal
Groups Hope to Create Culture Change in Coastal, Marine Sciences Through $2M NSF Award Coastal News Today