FORT LAUDERDALE MAGAZINE, JULY 2018
When the Big One Hits. Getting ready for hurricane season never quite stops. In many ways, Floridians have been bracing for the next Big One ever since Hurricane Andrew crushed Homestead and nearby areas in 1992 and redefined storm risk.
GREEN BIZ, JUNE 2018
4 tech startups that are fighting for coastal climate resilience — and winning
PALM BEACH POST, JUNE 2018
Company hopes to cash in on mapping sea level rise for Florida buyers
THE MANILA TIMES, MAY 2018
“Predicting climate change - Climate insights from ‘most influential scientific mind"
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, MAY 2018
“Will your property flood next year? These tech startups have answers."
MIAMI HERALD, MARCH 2018
“Is your land at risk for sea rise? More firms want to sell South Florida the answer"
ROLLING STONE, FEBRUARY 2018
“Albert Slap, president and co-founder of Coastal Risk Consulting, a Fort Lauderdale-based firm that advises property owners on flood risks, has found a similar trend..."
THE REAL DEAL, DECEMBER 2017
“The year in hurricane damage: Is climate change catching up with South Florida RE? If rising sea levels don't get you, increased taxes for infrastructural retrofitting will"
Bloomberg, December 2017
“Albert Slap would rather not be profiting from other people’s misfortunes. But his business, determining the flood risk facing specific homes around South Florida, has never been better..."
INMAN, DECEMBER 2017
“Firms like Coastal Risk Consulting are trying to give homeowners in vulnerable areas more information and more options around what will be the most important and valuable purchase they are likely to make in their lifetimes.”
Palm Beach Daily News, December 2017
“The timing is right. The waterfront Flagler Museum was given as an example of the projected effects of sea-level rise. If a Category 5 hurricane struck now, “the maximum inundation on the property would be 6.2 feet of water,” said a representative from Coastal Risk Consulting."
VOX, SEPTEMBER 2017
“Albert Slap of Coastal Risk Consulting calls the potential collapse of real estate values “the next black swan,” but that’s not quite right. Black swans are, by definition, unexpected. We know this is coming!"
INSURANCE BUSINESS MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 2017
“Daunting” Hurricane Irma sends harsh insurance message
WASHINGTON POST, SEPTEMBER 2017
"Many communities simply don’t have the financial means to combat the effects of climate change", says Albert Slap, president and co-founder of Coastal Risk Consulting, a firm that provides flood-risk analysis.
THE GUARDIAN, AUGUST 2017
“Hurricane Harvey was only the latest natural disaster to expose flaws in the National Flood Insurance Program," says Coastal Risk president, Albert Slap
INSURANCE BUSINESS MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2017
“How can tech make people safer from flooding in their homes?"
THE SOCIABLE, AUGUST 2017
“Tech teams-up with Nobel laureate to measure potential flooding, issue warnings"
GOV TECH, AUGUST 2017
“Florida Startup Helps Homes, Businesses Prepare for Sea-Rise Risks"
MIAMI HERALD, AUGUST 2017
“How sea-rise ready is your home or business? Startup offers the lowdown"
THE NEW TROPIC, JULY 2017
“These are the companies who will get rich helping Miami adapt to rising seas"
YAHOO FINANCE, JULY 2017
“Coastal Risk & Yep Insurance have announced a partnership today that presents a new-found hope for the challenging issues surrounding the complicated risks of flooding..."
YAHOO FINANCE, JULY 2017
“vHomeInsurance & Coastal Risk have announced a new partnership where customers of vHomeInsurance can now also access specific flood risk reports for their homes prepared by Coastal Risk..."
THE ECONOMIST, JUNE 2017
“Properties worth more than $250,000 need private insurance, too, which is spurring owners to defend them better. Coastal Risk Consulting, set up in 2014, offers detailed reports for less than $500 showing how and when houses might flood in the future."
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, MAY 2017
"High Ground Is Becoming Hot Property as Sea Level Rises: Climate change may now be a part of the gentrification story in Miami real estate"
BLOOMBERG, APRIL 2017
“The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners: Demand and financing could collapse before the sea consumes a single house."
RISK & INSURANCE, APRIL 2017
“As seas rise, so does the risk that buyers will become leery of taking on mortgages along our coasts."
THE PALM BEACH POST, APRIL 2017
“'We know a lot more and we’re a lot more scared,' Dr. Len Berry said. 'King tides have convinced us the problem is not in the future, it’s now.' Berry added that additional data gathered during the past five years have shown that flooding and other impacts of climate change are worsening."
CLIMATEWIRE, APRIL 2017
"Florida makes case for climate research at Mar-a-Lago's doorstep"
CBS MIAMI, APRIL 2017
Watch how Coastal Risk is helping this South Florida community prepare for sea level rise.
NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 2016
"Real estate agents looking to sell coastal properties usually focus on one thing: how close the home is to the water’s edge. But buyers are increasingly asking instead how far back it is from the waterline. How many feet above sea level? Is it fortified against storm surges? Does it have emergency power and sump pumps?"
PR NEWSWIRE, NOVEMBER 2016
"With Hurricane Matthew's damage this year and King Tide Flooding in major cities such as Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Charleston, Annapolis, Atlantic City and Boston, more than ever property owners need fast, accurate and affordable information on their flood risk..."
NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 2016
"For decades, as the global warming created by human emissions caused land ice to melt and ocean water to expand, scientists warned that the accelerating rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline. Now, those warnings are no longer theoretical: The inundation of the coast has begun. The sea has crept up to the point that a high tide and a brisk wind are all it takes to send water pouring into streets and homes."
ARCH DAILY, AUGUST 2016
"Florida is a state in denial. Miami is in the midst of one of the largest building booms in the region's history. Dense crane canopies pepper the city's skyline as they soar over forthcoming white, gold, and aqua clad "high end" residential and hotel towers. This massive stream of investment dollars is downright paradoxical considering the impending calamity that surrounds Southern Florida: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that the sea level could likely increase almost 35 inches (0.89 meters) by mid-century."
SUN SENTINEL, AUGUST 2016
"Rising sea levels. Coastal flooding. Hurricane storm surge. It's one thing to hear about the possibility of catastrophe. It's another when you learn exactly how these might affect you and your home."
SOUTH FLORIDA BUSINESS JOURNAL, AUGUST 2016
"One in eight Florida homes could be underwater by 2100 due to sea level rise, according to a study by Zillow, one of the most widely used real estate valuation sites. Of the 1.87 million homes nationwide that would be underwater by 2100, there would be 934,411 in Florida. Those Florida homes would be worth a combined $416.6 billion, with a median value of $262,626, according to Zillow."
BROWARD PALM BEACH NEW TIMES, AUGUST 2016
"For years, experts have speculated that rising waters will instigate another housing crisis. Of course, the shock of a sea-level-induced market crash will be felt the worst in Florida, where one in eight houses is at risk of being at least partially underwater if sea levels rise six feet by 2100. There has been some discussion about brokers considering the effects of sea level rise before issuing 30-year mortgages and realtors disclosing flood risk to potential buyers."
NEWSWISE, JULY 2016
"Spring and autumn king tides and storm surges are putting coastal highways under salt water in Florida and it’s impossible to ignore this trend and the resulting devastation to properties and homes."
BAGUE GROUP, JULY 2016
"Together, CRC and Bagué Group are committed to helping individuals, communities and local governments get climate ready and storm safe by providing the tools needed for informed flood-risk and adaptation decision-making."
THE GUARDIAN, JULY 2016
"Bolter’s modelling suggests Trump’s Hollywood condos could be turned into islands for up to 140 days a year by 2045, cut off from the low-lying A1A coastal road because of tidal flooding and storm surges. Under a category two storm, a storm surge could wash right up to the front gate. Further south, the Trump Grande in Sunny Isles also faces a soggy future, according to the projections."<?p>
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, JUNE 2016
"Residents say the only way people will want to continue living, working, raising families and retiring in Florida is if they have some reassurance that their investments will be safe—or that there will even be a place to call home in the future."
IBM, JUNE 2016
"[Flood maps] are far from perfect, and it is possible to identify a number of improvements that could be made with some of the Internet of Things and Big Data technologies now available. Flood maps would clearly be more useful if they were more dynamic – if the timescale for their updating was compressed."
REVITALIZATION NEWS, MAY 2016
"Most Americans whose homes are in FEMA-designated flood plains—about 80%—don’t have flood insurance. And many Americans who reside outside the FEMA 100-year flood plains still often suffer from devastating floods."
SIRIUS XM WHARTON BUSINESS RADIO, MAY 2016
Mr. Albert Slap, President of Coastal Risk, discusses sea level rise and impacts of climate change on coastal communities.
NY TIMES, MAY 2016
"This is not a future problem It's a current problem," Leonard Berry, director of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies at FAU, told PBS."
SUN SENTINEL, MAY 2016
Coastal Risk Consulting, a Plantation-based company that projects how sea level rise will affect individual properties, won a silver award in the category Startup of the Year, Business Services Industries and a bronze in the Tech Start-Up of the Year category.
BROWARD PALM BEACH NEW TIMES, MAY 2016
“Until now, banks have ignored climate change completely and issue mortgages anywhere,” he says. “With sea level rise and climate impact, people’s mortgages will not just be figuratively underwater, but literally."
INSIGHT AND ANALYSIS, MAY 2016
FEMA flood maps do not include projections of sea level rise. As a result, they are not guaranteed to provide homeowners with actionable data regarding inundation from storm surges likely to impact their properties on high tides in future years.
PR NEWSWIRE, MAY 2016
Florida Start-Up, Coastal Risk, Wins Two Stevie® Awards in Best Tech Start-Up of the Year and Business Services Start-Up Categories in National Awards Competition.
BROWARD PALM BEACH NEW TIMES, APRIL 2016
"So, earlier this month, city officials introduced a new ordinance that would require every seawall in the city to be raised at least eight inches — but no more than 12 inches. This has some sea-level-rise experts scratching their heads, because raising the walls just inches will not protect properties for long."
GREATER MIAMI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, APRIL 2016
Mr. Albert Slap, President of CRC, speaks about climate change adaptation in South Florida. Watch the video below.
MIAMI NEW TIMES, APRIL 2016
"Some 100 people, from across all sectors and industries, took part in Wednesday’s meeting at the W Hotel in South Beach. Present were representatives of some of South Florida’s top businesses."
BROWARD PALM BEACH NEW TIMES, APRIL 2016
"This is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced," geospatial analyst Keren Prize Bolter recently told an audience in Miami Beach. "In South Florida, the water is coming in not just at the sides. It comes up from underground. Not even seawalls will stop the flow of water. This is bigger than the government."
TC PALM, APRIL 2016
"Because the same regional conditions apply to the Treasure Coast as to counties south of here, these projections could be applied to the Treasure Coast, too, said Leonard Berry, a contributor to the report and a Florida Atlantic University professor emeritus of geoscience."
BROWARD PALM BEACH NEW TIMES, MARCH 2016
"This Plantation-based startup has delved elbow-deep into the doom and gloom of climate change by offering realistic predictions regarding a property's vulnerability to rising seas. The company compiles data into a program so that individual South Florida homeowners can go online and search their property's risk of sea-level rise. And it doesn't cost a fortune."
83 DEGREES, MARCH 2016
"At least one Florida start-up is adapting same risk modeling approaches that the global reinsurance industry uses to price cat bonds to give consumers a deeper insight into how sea level rise might impact their individual property. Based in Plantation, Coastal Risk Consulting is marketing a new series of sea level rise screening tools for property owners in Florida and beyond, who can use them to “gauge their relative risk,” says Dr. Keren Bolter, the firm’s Science Director."
THE GUARDIAN, MARCH 2016
“We’re not going to just abandon trillions of dollars of coastal assets. The doom-and-gloom people who say we should run for the hills – that’s not going to happen either,” says Slap. “So we need to adapt. But to do that we need better information and that’s what technology can bring us.”
BROWARD PALM NEW TIMES, MARCH 2016
Sara Denka, a staff scientist at Coastal Risk Consulting, a Plantation-based firm that helps businesses and homeowners adapt to sea-level rise, set out to determine the neighborhoods that are most vulnerable to sea-level rise. She studied each ZIP code in Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.
POLITICO FLORIDA, MARCH 2016
"We have to protect the least among us with adaptation measures and give them tools from the bottom-up to participate in the dialogue [on climate change]," said Slap. "If we don't do that, we're going to be Nashville," referencing floods that inundated Middle Tennessee earlier in the year.
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS, MARCH 2016
But as the coastal city's skyline climbs upward, Fort Lauderdale—nicknamed the Venice of America for its 165 miles of canals—is slowly becoming an edifice of risk as climate change lays siege to its shores. Already, water regularly creeps over sea walls, lapping against foundations every few weeks.
US ARCTIC COUNCIL, FEBRUARY 2016
In addition to the science, we must also explore the current and future risks of Arctic-influenced sea level rise...and find ways to combine mitigation efforts with those of adaptation.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, JANUARY 2016
Rising sea levels won't doom U.S. coastal cities. America’s coastal cities are going to adapt, get ahead of climate change, and be just fine.
BROWARD PALM BEACH NEW TIMES, JANUARY 2016
South Florida company uses data to predict if your house will be underwater in 30 years.
BROWARD PALM BEACH NEW TIMES, JANUARY 2016
Expert in sea-level rise says South Broward is at greater risk than downtown Miami. Scientists concerned about global warming and sea-level rise often describe Miami as ground zero — the next Atlantis, even.
SOUTH FLORIDA PBS, JANUARY 2016
Miami is considered "ground zero" for sea-level rise, but what about counties to the north, that also have low-lying areas prone to flooding? These residents could be underestimating their vulnerability.
ROARING FOLK LIFESTYLE, DECEMBER 2015
When Hurricane Sandy hit in October, 2012, Robert Hubbell was directing worldwide marketing for the investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners in New York City.
SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY FORUM, DECEMBER 2015
The panel addresses tidal and storm flood issues, as well as sea-level rise and the use of innovative data tools to predict and prepare for extreme weather events in coastal communities. Panelists included Heidi Stiller with NOAA, Keren Bolter with Coastal Risk Consulting and Peter Williams with IBM.
PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, OCTOBER 2015
Since reliable record keeping began in 1880, global sea level has risen by roughly eight inches. It’s projected to rise between one and four more feet by the end of this century.
SOUTH FLORIDA BUSINESS JOURNAL, MAY 2015
A Plantation tech firm is helping companies prepare for climate change. , Miami Beach City Hall will likely only see flooding for two days in the next five years, according to an assessment by Plantation-based Coastal Risk Consulting.
PHILLYDEALS, APRIL 2015
Albert Slap and Bob Hubbell, long-ago Penn grads, have started a service in Florida they hope buyers and lenders will consult before signing off on 30 years of payments in these times of rising waters.
FLORIDA KEYS NEWS, DECEMBER 2015
Potential buyers who want a dream house in paradise but who don’t want to later discover a pesky flooding problem may have a solution in a product provided by Coastal Risk Consulting.
CLIMATE CHANGE BUSINESS JOURNAL, DECEMBER 2015
In highly vulnerable Florida, environmental attorney and law professor Albert J. Slap and a team of climate scientists including Keren Bolter have teamed up to create Coastal Risk Rapid Assessment, an flood risk assessment tool for coastal properties.
WILL YOU BE READY FOR THE NEXT COASTAL FLOOD?
Whether called “Nuisance Flooding” or “Sunny-Day Flooding”, chronic tidal flooding in U.S. coastal areas is more than a mere nuisance. Tidal surges threaten the health and safety of residents and communities and their quality of life.
FLASH, SEPTEMBER 2015
CRC’s Alaurah Moss will be awarded the FLASH partner scholarship for her innovative research on disaster resilience. She will be presenting her research on which type of information is most useful to augment local adaptation partners’ ability to set climate mitigation and adaptation priorities at the Next Generation of Resilience conference, January 27-29, 2016.
COASTAL ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER 21, 22, 2016
CRC’s Dr. Keren Bolter spoke at the Coastal Adaptation and Resilience Conference last week in Tampa Bay on implementing adaptation strategies.
CLIMATE WEEK NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 2015
CRC’s Dr. Brian Soden Spoke at the Climate Data Summit last week on Climate Risk Modeling. Read more about NY Climate Week 2015.
WARWICK GROUP CONSULTANTS, JULY 2015
Democratizing Flood Risk Management: Coastal Risk Consulting
MIAMI HERALD, JULY 2015
Is Your Property at Risk of Flooding? South Florida Startup Offers Score, Reports
REUTERS, JULY 2015
Coastal Risk Consulting and InterNACHI, the Leading International Home Inspection Association, Announce Strategic Marketing Partnership
MARKETWATCH FROM DOW JONES, JULY 2015
Coastal Risk Consulting Launches On-Line Flood Forecast Service
SUN-SENTINEL, MAY 2015
Plantation, FL-based startup offers long-range flood analysis to help communities, businesses and governments get climate ready and storm safe
SOUTH FLORIDA BUSINESS JOURNAL, MAY 2015
How a Plantation, FL tech firm is helping companies get climate ready and storm safe
PR NEWSWIRE, MAY 2015
Coastal Risk Consulting Names Dr. Brian Soden to Lead Science and Technology Initiatives
MIAMI HERALD, APRIL 2015
Winners of Business Plan Challenge think big, present strategy for success
DEPARTURES, SEPTEMBER 2014
Can Miami survive rising sea levels? According to some experts, the city might find its streets submerged as soon as 50 years from now.