Sarasota Magazine “Noisemakers”

David and Jennifer Shafer were featured “Noisemakers” in Sarasota Magazine for their work on the Rising Seas initiative aimed at getting Southwest Florida thinking and talking about sea level rise.  Acknowledging the difficulty of tackling such a...

Shafer Consulting Kicks-off Rising Seas Initiative

Shafer Consulting kicked off the Rising Seas Initiative with a successful lecture series by two Nobel Laureate Climate Scientists. Pier Vellinga and Henry Pollack spoke on the science of sea level rise, adaptation strategies and implications for Southwest Florida to...

Hazard Vulnerability Analysis for Sumter County

Shafer Consulting worked with Calvin Giordano and Associates on the Post Disaster Redevelopment Plan for Sumter County, providing GIS-based Hazard Vulnerability Analysis. The analysis modeled the risk of basin flood events, hurricane winds, wildfire and sink holes on...