Press Coverage

  • Florida Matters: The Sinkhole State

    August 22, 2017 - WUSF News

    Lori Collins, USF lead researcher, is involved in a special partnership between a team of USF scientists and Pasco County to study the Pasco sinkhole and create 3-D models of it to learn from in the future.

  • Experts study massive Pasco sinkhole for clues to avoid the next one

    August 11, 2017 - Tampa Bay Times

    USF researchers are mapping sinkhole formations located around the Land O' Lakes community as Land O' Lakes residents look for answers about what happened on Lake Saxon.

  • 7 Pasco Homes Now Condemned Due To Sinkhole

    August 7, 2017 - WUSF News

    Researchers from the University of South Florida Library's Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections and School of Geosciences returned to the scene on Friday. Collections co-director Lori Collins said they performed new 3-D scans of the entire sinkhole area to help Pasco officials understand the developments.

  • 2 More Homes Condemned as Huge Pasco Sinkhole Grows

    August 5, 2017 - WUSF News

    USF Libraries Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections provides a photo of the Pasco County sinkhole.

  • Studying Pasco Sinkhole Has Personal, Professional Meaning For USF Researcher

    August 1, 2017 - WUSF News

    Dr. Lori Collins, Co-Director of the University of South Florida Library's Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections, conducts 3D scans of a sinkhole that opened in the Lake Padgett Estates subdivision in Land O' Lakes in July, swallowing two homes.