Earth Systems – IDSC Magazine

Earth Systems, Fall 2025

September 28, 2025

It was the year Southern Europe seared, as a vicious heat wave pushed temperatures well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in several countries across the region. It was the year heavy rains spawned massive floods and landslides throughout southern China, killing scores of people, and the year thousands perished in Bangladesh when powerful Cyclone Sidr battered […]

Earth Systems, Fall 2025

September 28, 2025

When Gabriel Reygondeau joined the University of Miami in a joint appointment at the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) and the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, he set out to illuminate how warming ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, and other stressors are reshaping marine ecosystems, so those who depend on them […]

Earth Systems, Fall 2025

September 28, 2025

In a world increasingly shaped by unpredictable forces of nature, few scientists are as dedicated to uncovering the hidden patterns within the chaos as Marybeth Arcodia. In a world increasingly shaped by unpredictable forces of nature, few scientists are as dedicated to uncovering the hidden patterns within the chaos as Marybeth Arcodia. She joins the […]

Earth Systems, Fall 2025

September 28, 2025

IDSC is pleased to welcome Michael S. Fischer, IDSC Core Faculty Member and Earth Systems Science Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Rosenstiel School of Marine Atmospheric, and Earth Science. Michael Fischer was too young to remember Hurricane Andrew tearing apart his family’s home south of Miami in 1992, but he remembers the destruction […]

Earth Systems, Fall 2025

September 28, 2025

When Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez was a kid, his family moved from Mexico City to a new housing development on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Far enough from the spring breakers in Cancun and long before the coastline was bulldozed to create miles of all-inclusive resorts, Villaseñor-Derbez soaked up every bit of the wilderness that surrounded […]

Earth Systems, Spring 2024

January 28, 2024

We are excited to announce the opening of the “AquaX Laboratory” a cutting-edge ensemble modeling framework that encompasses the next generation of AquaMaps (aquamaps.org), along with several other species distribution models, and a brand-new website coming in early 2024.

Earth Systems, Spring 2024

January 28, 2024

As an undergraduate student in Serbia’s capital city of Belgrade, Milan Curcic was excelling in his classes but was mostly focused on his side job as a tattoo artist. It was the early 2000s and his country had been flooded by punk rock and movies glorifying American surfer culture.

Earth Systems, Spring 2023

January 18, 2023

Growing up in North Carolina, Sam Goldberg was constantly outdoors on family hikes, summer camping trips, and canoe rides through winding rivers. As he paddled through deep valleys or fidgeted with his camping gear, Goldberg always found himself asking the same question: how was this made?

Earth Systems, Fall 2022

August 30, 2022

For forty years, climate scientists have been trying to develop a computational model that accurately predicts the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. But that work has stagnated in recent years with only minor, gradual improvements to their predictions.

Earth Systems, Spring 2022

January 29, 2022

A new study has identified connections between oscillations in the Gulf Stream and long-term rainfall expectations in the Southeastern U.S.—a finding made possible by the supercomputing resources at the University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC).

Ben Kirtman Named Dean of the Rosenstiel School

Gabriel Reygondeau is Redrawing the Map of Marine Life

Marybeth Arcodia Applies XAI to Extreme Weather Systems

Michael S. Fischer Tackles Predicting Rapid Intensification in Hurricanes

Bridging Quantitative Data About Environmental Change and Human Behavior

AquaX Laboratory Opens With the Next Generation of AquaMaps.org

The ‘Fluid Dynamics’ That
Charted Milan Curcic’s Career

Geologist Combines AI, Big Data, Computing Power, and Curiosity

Applying a Diverse Lens to the Atmospheric Phenomena Affecting El Niño and La Niña

Computing Resources Drive Ground-Breaking Rainfall Study