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 […]
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 […]
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.
When Yelena Yesha, PhD, was hired at the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) three years ago, part of her charge was to take the groundbreaking research being done at the University of Miami and translate it into private, income-generating companies.
When Ben Kirtman started researching the meteorological phenomenon known as “El Niño” in 1993, few knew what it was and even fewer foresaw what that research could lead to. Now, 30 years later, Kirtman and an ever-growing team of collaborators have not only helped make El Niño a household name, but they’re starting to use […]
