Eban Bean – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:48:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png Eban Bean – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 Scientists Will Use a $1M Grant To Build a Support System Addressing Sea Level Rise and Flooding in South Florida https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/addressing-sea-level-rise-in-south-florida/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://scaddev1.com/addressing-sea-level-rise-in-south-florida/ A team of University of Florida scientists has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to tackle one of South Florida’s most urgent environmental threats: groundwater flooding and saltwater intrusion caused by sea level rise.

During the three-year project, scientists on a multidisciplinary team at UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), will develop a decision-support system to help local leaders make science-based, cost-effective choices about land use, infrastructure, climate adaptation and flooding mitigation.

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