HyLo Receives Seed Funding Through University of Miami’s U-LINK Program

On January 14, 2019, the University of Miami’s U-LINK (University Laboratory for INtegrated Knowledge) announced funding for select interdisciplinary teams that proposed projects to address pressing and complex challenges facing modern society. The U-LINK award supports the HyLo team’s work for up to two years. Launched in 2018, the U-LINK program is a key initiative of the University of Miami’s Roadmap to Our New Century.

The HyLo team’s work focuses on neighborhood-level rather than regional climate adaptation and resilience planning. The team’s approach relies on partnerships with local organizations to identify communities that stand to benefit from the HyLo approach. Because Miami has a broadly diverse geography and demographic profile, the region is an ideal location to develop a framework for hyper-local approaches, which team members believe neighborhoods across the nation and world could use to tailor effective climate action plans for their own unique circumstances.

Team members include Joanna Lombard, professor in the School of Architecture and Department of Public Health Sciences; Tyler Harrison, professor in the School of Communication; Sam Purkis, professor and chair in the Department of Marine Geosciences; Gina Maranto, director in the Abess Center for  Ecosystem Science and Policy; Amy Clement, professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences; Angela Clark-Hughes, head of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library; Abraham Parrish, GIS Librarian at the Otto G. Richter Library; and Marcus Reamer, a doctoral student with the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. The team represents expertise across seven academic disciplines.

To read the full announcement and learn about all of U-LINK’s supported projects, click here.