Home and High Water FAU Center for Environmental Studies

What if plants could offer a natural solution to Florida’s climate change challenges? This week, we dive into what you need to know about Low Impact Development and its potential to transform Florida’s climate response with Interim Director and Associate Professor of FAU’s School of Architecture Jeff Huber.        
Additional Resources:       
Read an interview with Jeff Huber in the Invading Sea about the role of architecture and design in Florida’s response to a changing climate Watch a 14 min CES video on Stormwater Treatment Areas, the largest constructed wetlands in the world, to explore how plants are used to filter out pollutants in Florida.  Learn about Living Shorelines, a highly specialized variety of green infrastructure used in Florida and other coastal states.A Story Map of green infrastructure projects completed in Florida.With the release of this episode, we are thrilled to share a new addition to our podcast series: Home and High Water: Resilience In Focus. These “bite-sized” episodes (around 10 minutes each) will give you a brief dive into a particular resilience topic, helping you to stay up to date in our latest coastal and climate resilience research. 

How do we value an environment?  This is a question scientists and economists have been studying for decades through what's known as ecosystem services, a term researchers use to describe what ecosystems provide to humans. 
But, what about the things that aren’t quite as tangible? What if there are ecosystem services that the market doesn’t put a price tag on? What if those services are so fundamental to our daily lives and to our culture, we don’t even have the words to articulate their value? It might be more of a feeling: our mind and body feel healthier when we are in that space, it’s our home, it’s a part of our identity.     
What is the cost of not having a complete picture of ecosystem services? And, how can we create space for these missing pieces?    
Additional Resources:  
Read Alyssa Jones-Wood’s Masters Thesis: “Valuing the Invaluable: Piquant Georgia Low Country Marsh Ecosystem Services”Watch this short student spotlight video featuring the Coastal SEES research teamWatch this video created by Coastal SEES researchers while in the fieldSign up here for Home and Highwater updates and be the first to know when a new episode is released.
We are pleased to announce a collaboration with FAU Assistant Professor of Music Matt Baltrucki and music majors Zachary Binder, Brendan Lyons, and Matt Bielasiak who created the music and sound design for the episode.  
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Episode transcripts will be available on our website. 

To better understand and document the resilience of a particular community, we need more complex and individualized information at the local level. In Part 2, we focus on what our research team discovered about the local landscape when they began to collect information about community resilience at the neighborhood scale.            
Additional Resources:
Read Bridget Huston’s Master's Thesis: “Understanding Climate Resilience to Environmental Hazards: How A Broward County Community Assessment Helps To Complete The Picture”Documentary Photo Story created by residents at the Estates of Fort Lauderdale during a workshop facilitated by CESWatch a short video introducing CES’s Neighborhood Resilience Research ProjectLearn more about coastal resilience research at FAU’s CES  Sign up here for Home and Highwater updates and be the first to know when a new episode is released.
For more information about FAU's Center for Environmental Studies, visit http://www.ces.fau.edu/ To learn about CES's research, community engagement, and recent news, subscribe to our newsletter. 
Episode transcripts will be available on our website.

In a rapidly changing climate, being able to map and quantify the vulnerability and resilience of a community is critical because it is often the first picture decision-makers have of an area, shaping vital policy decisions from hazard preparation to response. 
This week, we launch Part 1 of a 2-part series exploring the resilience assessment that enables us to understand a community’s capacity to respond to hazards in one South Florida neighborhood. In Part 1, we learn about the resilience assessments that provide a crucial foundation to our understanding of community vulnerability and resilience.
Additional Resources:
Read Bridget Huston’s Master's Thesis: “Understanding Climate Resilience to Environmental Hazards: How A Broward County Community Assessment Helps To Complete The Picture”Documentary Photo Story created by residents at the Estates of Fort Lauderdale during a workshop facilitated by CES  Watch a short video introducing CES's Neighborhood Resilience Research Project Learn more about coastal resilience research at FAU’s CESSign up here for Home and Highwater updates and be the first to know when a new episode is released. 
For more information about FAU's Center for Environmental Studies, visit http://www.ces.fau.edu/ To learn about CES's research, community engagement, and recent news, subscribe to our newsletter.
Episode transcripts will be available on our website.

CES is launching a new science podcast in March 2021!  Subscribe to Home and High Water, a podcast by Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Environmental Studies about our research that uncovers how we live, adapt and thrive in a changing climate. 
As researchers, our job is to witness and study the impact of human development and a changing climate. What are the stories behind the research papers?           
Each episode, go behind the scenes with our diverse team of social scientists, geographers, architects, engineers, economists, and environmental scientists as we dive into the science of coastal resilience. Join us as we explore stories that will take you from a flooded neighborhood street in urban South Florida to Georgia's salt marshes.             
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For more information about FAU's Center for Environmental Studies, visit http://www.ces.fau.edu/ To learn about CES's research, community engagement, and recent news, subscribe to our newsletter.

Episode transcripts will be available on our website.