Science Up Close: Predicting South Florida Flood Risk from Days to Decades at Coral Gables Museum

Photography by Desiree Prieto on June 7th, 2016 in Lifestyle

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Miami, FL – June 8, 2016 – In honor of the global World Oceans Day, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science presented Science Up Close: Predicting South Florida Flood Risk from Days to Decades, which featured local scientist and University of Miami Professor, Ben Kirtman. Held in partnership with Coral Gables Museum, the event featured a dynamic presentation by Kirtman, followed by group discussions led by Tiffany G. Troxler, Ph.D., Director of FIU’s Sea Level Solutions Center, and Juliet Pinto, Ph.D., writer and Associate Professor & Interim Executive Director at the Florida International University School of Journalism & Mass Communication. The presentation reviewed the weather and climate processes that affect flood risk in South Florida, and described the current ability of scientists to predict that risk. Prior to the presentation, guests had the opportunity view Coal Gables Museum’s current exhibition, This Land is Yout Land: A Second Century for America’s National Parks, which celebrates 100 years of America’s National Park Service.

The Science Up Close event series, presented by Frost Science around Miami-Dade County and supported by the Leibowitz & Greenway Family Foundation, are a celebrated, regular series of casual science conversations designed to make current science understandable and relatable to the public.

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