The Invading Sea is developing a series of “bite-sized videos” that provide short explanations of environmental terms that people regularly hear in the news.
Robin Taber, a web graphic designer and content creator, is making the videos. Each of the videos describes a commonly misunderstood scientific concept related to climate change in about a minute with the help of digital animation.
“The mission is to explain concepts in climate change that many people wonder about but are too afraid to ask,” said Colin Polsky, a professor of geosciences at Florida Atlantic University who is associate vice president of FAU’s Broward Campuses.
Polsky is the former director of the FAU Center for Environmental Studies, which manages The Invading Sea. The videos made so far are embedded below, with more being added as they are created.
Bite-sized video: How are sea levels measured?
Bite-sized video: What is beach nourishment?
Bite-sized video: Why do floods happen?
Bite-sized video: What is the Florida Wildlife Corridor?
Bite-sized video: What is a carbon footprint?
Bite-sized video: What is gray-green Infrastructure?
Bite-sized video: How do carbon offsets work?
Bite-sized video: What is the blue economy?
Bite-sized video: What is climate resilience?
Bite-sized video: Can ocean currents generate electricity?
Bite-sized video: What causes sea-level rise?
Bite-sized video: What are greenhouse gases?
Bite-sized video: What is carbon capture and sequestration?
Bite-sized video: What is polar amplification?
Bite-sized video: What is a storm surge?
Bite-sized video: What is coral bleaching?
Bite-sized video: What is the urban heat island effect?
Bite-sized video: How do rising sea levels affect Florida’s drinking water?
Bite-sized video: What is a flood zone?
Bite-sized video: What is the heat index?
Bite-sized video: What is a king tide?
Bite-sized video: What is a harmful algal bloom?
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