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Deltas and Humans: A Long Relationship

“Deltas and Humans: A Long Relationship now Threatened by Global Change” by Professor Thomas S. Bianchi, holder of the Jon and Beverly Thompson Endowed Chair of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida, will be published in October by Oxford University Press. In this book, Bianchi discusses how the interaction of humans with the water […]

Sea-level Rise: Reality Strikes in East Coast Communities

Recent research at the Lignumvitae Key in South Florida conducted by the Department of Geological Sciences’ Paleoclimate research group was featured in a New York Times article entitled, “Flooding of the Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun.” This research is part of an international effort, led by Dr. Andrea Dutton, Assistant Professor in the Department […]