A new University of Central Florida study will examine how rising sea level could harm estuaries and coastal communities along the Florida Panhandle and Alabama and Mississippi coasts. The study may also help project impacts of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill.
The team, led by Scott C. Hagen, (associate professor of Civil Engineering), also includes biologists and ecologists, and promises to work closely with coastal managers. NOAA has already contributed $725,000 of an anticipated $3 million total cost over the project’s 5-year schedule. Their goal, according to a press release, is “to use data collected in the field and via remote sensors, along with simulation models, to provide policy makers needed information to plan for a changing coastline.”
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University of Central Florida press release here.
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