Webinar On-Demand: The Climate Café Series, 'A Bright Lit Place'

Part 1

Video courtesy of the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, 2024.

Pulitzer Center grantee Jenny Staletovich guides the audience through the science that informed the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, the largest water restoration project in U.S. history.

Part 2

Video courtesy of the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, 2024.

Staletovich and a panel of experts breakdown what was promised and is still being delivered in the plan, discussing the question: How has climate change and sea level rise impacted the plan’s timeline and factored into the overall goal for sustainable restoration of the Everglades and South Florida?

Panelists:

• Jenny Staletovich, Environment reporter, WLRN, NPR Miami
• Ben Kirtman, Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, William R. Middelthon III, Chair of Earth Sciences. Director Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
• Colonel Terrence "Rock" Salt, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Ret.)
• Evelyn Gaiser, Ph.D., Endowed George Barley Eminent Scholars Chair; Distinguished University Professor Biological Sciences; Institute of Environment; FCE-LTER, Florida International University
• Daniella Levine Cava, Mayor, Miami-Dade County