Three years of hydrophone recordings from the Juno Ledge restoration tract show that transplanted staghorn colonies develop a measurable acoustic signature within 14 months — long before visual surveys register recovery. The method turns a $40 sensor into a reef-health monitor.
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Twenty years of chloride sampling across 118 monitoring wells, reconciled against pumping records. The inland front moved faster than every published projection west of the turnpike.
A 1-metre-resolution hydraulic model of the island's 214 km of roadway, run against eleven historical storms. Evacuation timing fails on drainage, not on wind.
Why evaporative cooling underperforms in subtropical data centres, and what a two-stage liquid loop recovers. Measured on a live 4 MW facility through two summers.
Satellite multispectral mapping paired with 400 diver quadrats. Recovery tracks stormwater outfall closures with a 19-month lag — a usable lever for county planners.
A cost-allocation review of nine municipal shoreline projects. Parcels behind protected frontage capture most of the benefit and almost none of the bill.
A network trained on 9,000 hydraulic runs reproduces peak inundation to within 11 cm in 200 ms. Six-hour forecasts become 400-member ensembles — and evacuation windows stop being a single guess.
Self-supervised pretraining on 3 TB of unlabelled hydrophone tape, fine-tuned on what two divers could annotate in a week. Snapping shrimp are easy; parrotfish grazing is where it still fails.
Triaging 11,000 county permit applications against code. The model sorts routine filings well and misreads precedent-heavy ones badly — an argument for review queues, not decisions.
Beach transect counts from Jupiter to Boynton, logged daily since February. The 2026 landfall curve begins earlier and flattens later than any year on record here.
Covers what it costs to keep the county running — cooling loads, seawall assessments, and the permit queue that decides which projects ever get built.
Works on storm surge, evacuation timing, and the machine-learning surrogates now standing in for models that used to take six hours to run.
Reports from the water: reef acoustics, seagrass mapping, and two decades of aquifer chloride records nobody else had read end to end.
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