Tag: environment

Dr. Yan Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to fund the project, “RAPID: Assessing Urgent Time Use Dynamics Among Time-Poor Populations in Preparation for Hurricane Helene and Milton.” After a destructive 2024 Hurricane Season with hurricanes Helene and Milton impacting the Southeast, […]

Dr. Zhe Jiang, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science and Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to fund the project, “Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Learning AI Surrogate of Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Simulations for Coastal Circulation.” This project aims to train a novel AI surrogate cyberinfrastructure to generate large-scale simulations […]

As land managers and policy-makers around the state of Florida look for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change, it is becoming increasingly clear that ecosystem services—benefits provided by agricultural and natural systems—have a critical part to play. Researchers in UF’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, along with collaborators from UF/IFAS, are developing AI […]