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University of Miami school whose ocean sciences and atmospheric sciences departments developed and tested the Sargassum drifters, and whose Air-Sea Interaction Saltwater Tank was used for wave and wind simulation.
University of Miami researchers found the National Cattlemen's Association knew by 1989 that cattle methane contributed to global warming. Its records, analysed in PLOS Climate, show a response built on public relations to keep consumers buying beef.
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University of Miami researchers mapped Guam's Tumon Bay from the air and measured a 59% decline in massive coral cover after Typhoon Mawar. Maps that cover a whole bay at the scale of single colonies could guide where restoration money goes, if the classifier holds up on reef it was never trained on.
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A University of Miami team compared cyclones that later came into vertical alignment with ones that stayed tilted across 1,510 Hurricane Hunter radar analyses from 1997 through 2024, and the aligning storms already looked different a day out.
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Jerald Ault and Jiangang Luo spent about three years rebuilding a 1960s federal tagging experiment and put Atlantic menhaden natural mortality at 0.50 a year, well below the 1.17 that entered the SEDAR 69 benchmark assessment.
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University of Miami tests put GPS floats inside Biscayne Bay weed mats using webbing bought online. The next phase asks for weeks of entanglement, not hours.
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