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Title: Florida Everglades Still Reeling Months After Hurricane Irma, NASA Says
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URL Source: https://weather.com/science/nature/ ... ees-hurricane-irma-nasa-damage
Published: Apr 19, 2018
Author: Ada Carr
Post Date: 2018-04-21 05:52:53 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: None
Views: 194
Comments: 1

Florida Everglades Still Reeling Months After Hurricane Irma, NASA Says

By Ada Carr

2 days ago weather.com

18-year-old Replants Mangroves Post Hurricane Irma

18-year-old Theo Quenee of Miami, Florida had an idea while he was cleaning up after Hurricane Irma.

At a Glance

An aerial survey of the Florida Everglades shows the forests have yet to recover.

Sixty percent of the forests studied sustained damage.

The Florida Everglades still have yet to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Irma, which NASA researchers confirmed during an aerial survey. Sixty percent of the forests studied sustained heavy or severe damage, according to a release from the space agency. Gaps in the trees' canopy caused by uprooted trees and broken branches spread over 40 percent of the area.

“It’s staggering how much was lost. The question is, which areas will regrow and which areas won’t,” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center remote sensing scientist Lola Fatoyinbo said in the release. “This is an opportunity – with all these data, we can really make a difference in understanding how hurricanes impact Florida’s mangrove ecosystems.”

"The only areas where there were less damages in the post-hurricane environment were the forests that were submerged along the margin of the water as the sea-level surge came in from the hurricane and actually protected those mangrove trees," fellow Goddard researcher Douglas Morton said in a statement obtained by Live Science.

The scientists made their discoveries with Goddard's Lidar, Hyperspectral and Thermal Imager (G-LiHT), which allowed them to see from the tops of the tallest trees to the grass. They also had a team on the ground taking scanner images.

Vegetation in the Everglades was stripped bare by the storm's powerful winds. (NASA)

Morton told Live Science that the Ten Thousand Islands area could be at risk. "The coastline will change, as mangrove trees stabilize sediment that helps create islands," he said, adding that tides could flow differently without the islands, and storms could have more of an impact inland, in addition to the way the area handles rising sea levels.

The researchers say the next step in their studies is to compare data from before and after Irma to see if any of the areas were stressed by factors like city development prior to the blow.

“There’s so much data, and we’re trying to see now what could give us important information about the landscape before we head into the next hurricane season,” Goddard remote sensing scientist David Lagomasino said in the release. “There’s a lot to do.”

Hurricane Irma made two landfalls as a Category 4 when it hit Florida, packing winds as high as 130 mph. The storm killed nearly 80 from parts of the Caribbean to the southeastern United States.


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Video at source. This kid is sharp and on the ball. Kudos go out to him for his hard work. I wonder where he is getting the cash to operate?

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Whoa, that is extreme! Nature is beastly to itself.

Are any parts of FL not immune to serious hurricane damage?

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