University of Miami Special Report: Climate Change

University of Miami Special Report: Climate Change

  • The Complex Climate
    • Solving the Climate Puzzle
    • — Hurricanes on Demand
    • — Corals Struggle to Survive
    • — Eyes on the Arctic
    • — Predicting the Future Through the Past
    • — Hovering Over Environmental Research
    • — Crunching Data at CCS
    • — Climate’s Impact Through the Ages
    • — At the 26.5 Parallel
    • — Flooding Events Increase on Beaches
    • — Remote Sensing the World’s Oceans
  • Built Environment
    • A Resilient and Innovative Future
    • — Building a Sustainable U
    • — Mapping Forgotten Places
    • — Zoning in on Evacuation Plans
    • — Miami Beach Reimagined
    • — The ‘Brush’ to Save Water
    • — ‘Living In Different Times’
    • — Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon
    • — Anatomy of a Smart City
  • Renewable Energy
    • The Power Struggle
    • — UM Student Launches USolar Project
    • — Beyond the Battery
    • — Methane as a Fuel Source
    • — Taking Electrons for a Spin
  • Impact on Health
    • Planet and People in Peril
    • — Battling Vector-Borne Diseases
    • — Climate Change’s Unexpected Impact
    • — Healthy Buildings Help People
    • — Every Breath We Take
    • — Turning Down the Heat
    • — Nurses at the Ready
    • — Dangerous Migration
    • — One Water
  • Politics of (Climate) Change
    • The Spin Cycle of Climate Change Policy
    • — DiCaprio Visits Rosenstiel
    • — IPCC: Global Perspective Through a Local Lens
    • — The City Beautiful Confronts Climate Change
    • — The Art of Climate Change
    • — Visualizing Sea-Level Rise
    • — Communicating the Climate
    • — Inside the Abess Center
    • — Investigating Glacier Health
    • — Collaborating with Teachers
    • — Exploring the Invisible
    • — Sea Secrets Tell All
Sea Secrets
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In the annual lecture series Sea Secrets, experts in a number of fields discuss topics from climate change and extreme weather to sharks and paleoclimate.

An integral part of the University of Miami’s mission is to communicate the latest scientific research to the broader community.

Each year, the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and The Ocean Research and Education Foundation host Sea Secrets, a lecture series that provides insight and information about our planet to a non-scientific audience.

Marcia McNutt
Marcia McNutt
In 2016, Sea Secrets invited the South Florida community to meet distinguished scientists including Marcia McNutt, editor-in-chief of the journal Science and president-elect of the National Academy of Sciences, to learn about the impact climate change is having on our oceans. The oceans on Earth are absorbing large amounts of atmospheric CO2 and heat from climate warming. The resulting acidification and warming of the oceans are changing the chemistry, water circulations and ecosystems in ways that impact the services that oceans provide to humans. McNutt also addressed the complexity of choices society has to respond to climate change, including mitigation, adaptation, and intervention.

Rosenstiel School Ph.D. candidate Arash Sharifi also gave a Sea Secrets talk to the community about how scientists reconstruct climate conditions of the past, and the results from his recently published study that revealed that some of the earliest civilizations in the Middle East and the Fertile Crescent may have been affected by abrupt climate change.

The 2016 Sea Secrets lecture series kicked off with a talk by Bryan Norcross, senior hurricane specialist at The Weather Channel, who discussed advances made in tracking hurricanes over the years and whether the proliferation of social media and 24-hour news cycles help in communicating a hurricane event, or hinder it.

These talks and others provide the larger South Florida community with the latest science on climate and the oceans to help better prepare as a society for the future as the climate changes.

- Rosenstiel School

About the Photo

The Rosenstiel School sponsors an annual underwater photography contest. This is the 2016 winner by Beth Watson. Click on the image above to see the full photo.

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