Innovation Park September 2019 Newsletter

Innovation Park of Tallahassee is pleased to announce that its new technology incubator, North Florida Innovation Labs will be open and ready to accept members on October 1, 2019. This will be the first incubator facility in Tallahassee to have wet lab space, in addition to an array of business support services that accelerate the development of technology companies to assist them to be financially viable and self-sufficient.

Danfoss named Arctic Chiller Group the winner of their 10^th annual Envisioneer of the Year award competition. Arctic Chiller Group is using Danfoss Turbocor© oil-free magnetic bearing centrifugal compressors in the development of its air and water cooled chillers with new arctic boost option to dramatically reduce first costs of equipment as well as energy consumption.

As we move through peak hurricane season, it’s interesting to see how local research organizations are studying these storms. The Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) in the Park is one of the leading weather research institutions based on grant funding from NSF. COAPS not only focuses on the science of severe weather, but also relationships severe weather has with health and agriculture.

Researchers at the MagLab have finally been able to confirm the reason why the Lau/Kozlowskii extinction took place over 420 million year ago. The extinction wiped out 23 percent of all marine animals from the face of the planet due to rapid and widespread depletion of oxygen in the global oceans.

This is just a reminder that Innovation Park has food trucks serving lunch every weekday from 11am-2pm in front of the Shaw Building. We’ve recently had a few changes so the current lineup is here:

• FSU-FAMU Team Up to Promote Women in STEM program 
• FSU nursing professor appointed to National Advisory Council
• The untold story: Smokies seeks to showcase history of African-Americans in the park