It's the 1st forest hurricane wind damage study at its scale, and for the 1st time @ufl.edu students and faculty conducted experiments with living organisms in the NHERI Wind Research Facility at the ESSIE Powell Family Structures and Materials Laboratory.
blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/ffgs/2026/06...
You can’t drive out to the forest, snag several large trees and put them in a wind tunnel to run experiments, but you can get a lot done with saplings. A new, ongoing study involves experiments doing...