SUSTAIN (Surge-Structure-Atmosphere Interaction) is a University of Miami wind-wave tank that is capable of producing Category-5 hurricane conditions.
The Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. SUSTAIN Laboratory, located at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, is a state-of-the-art facility devoted to the study of air-sea interaction physics. The sampling region of the wind-wave tank is 6x2x18 meters, enclosed by acrylic and ribbed by steel. The fan system is capable of producing wind speeds of over 65 m/s at 50 cm ab
03/13/2024
En las playas de Miami, científicos apuestan a los arrecifes de coral híbridos para proteger la costa. Así funcionan Miami Beach, una isla-ciudad que recibe anualmente a millones de turistas atraidos por sus kilómetros y kilómetros de playas, se ha convertido en un laboratorio in situ, y a la vista de todos, donde científicos trabajan en un proyecto pionero para proteger los ecosistemas costeros de un grave pro...
02/23/2024
Defending the Shore Their inventors compare them to air bags or speed bumps in the sea. And they just might be the future of fighting coastal flooding in Florida. They're called Seahives, and they're a new kind of artificial reef being developed and field-tested by researchers at the University of Miami. They're 18-foo...
02/02/2024
We love to give a tour about our research ! Today CNN Español came and interviewed and .m.edina about their research and our facility . The whole interview was done in Spanish, so if you want to learn español and get sciency at the same time, make sure to tune in to ! 😎
11/16/2023
from . What a wonderful weekend to show the Girl Scouts around our campus and inspire the future generation scientists!
09/12/2023
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It was our pleasure to welcome the Honorable Meredith Berger, Assistant Secretary of the Navy - Energy, Installations and Environment for a tour of our Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Reefense project. X-REEFS is a multi-agency, interdisciplinary project to develop hybrid biological and engineered reef-mimicking structures to mitigate wave and storm damage that threaten sustainability, and Department of Defense personnel and infrastructure, and provide economic and environmental stability.
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09/11/2023
First in-person lab meeting since Covid! Being a key research facility in , our goal is conduct the state-of-the-art science in multiple disciplines such as oceanography, engineering, and meteorology with passion and dedication!
06/05/2023
Yesterday at World Ocean Day, we partnered with for community outreach at Frost Museum of Science and proudly presented our research about corals and their importance in coastal protection! 😎
04/24/2023
Repost from . It was such a pleasure to host Vice President of the United States last Friday on our campus! It’s time to work and tackle climate change!
03/21/2023
This week in Pensacola on board R/V Neil Armstrong, our team completed our last round of ASIS buoy collection in the Gulf of Mexico. Just like last year in California, we deployed a total of 8 ASIS buoys in the ocean, and gathered co-located data of wind, wave, and current, etc. A great time at sea was accompanied by some little buddies found on the buoys: baby crabs, octopuses, and shellfish! Sponsored by Office of Naval Research , CLASI (Coastal Land Air-Sea Interaction) aims to study the near shore air-sea interaction in contrast to deep ocean, and eventually provides guidance for the next generation coastal air-sea interaction models! 😎
03/14/2023
Scientists in the lab are at sea aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong off Destin, Florida to retrieve Air-Sea Interaction Spar buoys. The buoys collect critical information on near-shore wind and wave conditions. All part of the Coastal Land-Air-Sea Interaction experiment (CLASI) which is funded by the Office of Naval Research.
01/17/2023
Cruise alert 🚢! On our second phase of Coastal Land Air Sea Interaction project, some members of our facility embarked another journey to the blue: this time in the Gulf of Mexico from Pensacola! Their mission is to deploy the buoys we have used earlier in California to the Gulf, and grasp information about the air sea interaction in the area. People in the picture (left to right): Katrina Simi (1st year PhD student), Gabrielle Ricche (1st year PhD student), Samantha Furtney (5th year PhD candidate), Madeleine Dawson (3rd year PhD student). 😎
12/19/2022
Last week, our current lab students and alumni presented their research in American Geophysical Union annual meeting in Chicago. Peisen is a third year PhD student studying air-sea interaction and he presented his research on Drag Coefficient variability under hurricane forcing. Samantha is a post-doctoral researcher and she presented her research about Integration of Synthetic Aperture Radar and Large Eddy Simulation. Raymond obtained his B. S. from University of Miami in 2020 and worked in SUSTAIN as an undergraduate researcher. Now a PhD student from UC San Diego, he presented his research on sea spray aerosol production from SOARS, the wind-wave facility in UCSD. Katie was an undergraduate researcher in SUSTAIN and obtained her B. S. in 2022. Now working for US Army Corps of Engineer, she presented her research on near-shore bathymetry prediction from water color derived from satellites and in-situ measurements. Great work on all the researches! Keep on the passion, and Let Science Leads the Future.
