University of Florida (UF) researchers are working with communities across Florida to enhance their resilience to a range of challenges, from hurricanes and extreme heat to poor air quality and limited access to healthcare.
According to a report by Eric Hamilton at UF, the work of the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER), a research institute within UF’s College of Design, Construction, and Planning, is playing a key role in these efforts.
When Hurricane Idalia struck Florida’s Big Bend region in 2023, researchers led by Jeff Carney, a UF professor of architecture and FIBER director, were able to apply their prior work in Cedar Key. Carney’s team had collaborated with the vulnerable Gulf island community to model potential flooding from major storms…