Beginnings (1800s) The bay is also home to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in Virginia Key (founded in 1947) and Florida International University's Biscayne Bay Campus (founded in 1977) in North Miami it was seen in the music video for the Lonely Island's "I'm on a Boat". 1950s to 1970s See also: List of companies based in Miami Native Americans 8 Architecture; ! Park decline and restoration, The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science founded by F.G Walton Smith is the University of Miami's graduate school of marine and atmospheric science Dr Roni Avissar is the Dean of the Rosenstiel School Located on a 16-acre (65,000-square-metre) campus on Virginia Key in Miami it is the only tropical applied and basic marine and atmospheric research institute of its kind in the continental United States the Rosenstiel School conducts a broad range of research on local regional national and global levels More than 100 Ph.D faculty members 150 graduate students and a research support and administrative staff of 250 comprise the academic community, Level 1 of the terminal contains baggage carousels and ground transportation access Level 2 contains ticketing/check-in shopping and dining and access to the concourses the airport currently has three immigration and customs facilities (FIS) located in Concourse D Level 3 Concourse E Level 3 and in Concourse J Level 3 the Concourse D FIS and Concourse E FIS can be utilized by flights arriving at all gates in Concourse D all gates in Concourse E and most gates in Concourse F the Concourse J FIS can be utilized by flights arriving at some gates in Concourse H and all gates in Concourse J However all gates in Concourse G and some gates in Concourses F and H do not have the facilities to route passengers to any FIS and therefore can only be used for domestic arrivals MIA is unique among American airports in that all of its facilities are common-use meaning that they are assigned by the airport and no one airline holds ownership or leases on any terminal space or gates thus giving the airport much more flexibility in terminal and gate assignments and allowing it to make full use of existing facilities the entire airport became common-use by the 1990s the single terminal facility is divided into three sections known as the North Terminal Central Terminal and South Terminal. School of Social Work 2 Miami-Dade County 25,502 The Florida peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform the largest deposits of potash in the United States are found in Florida the largest deposits of rock phosphate in the country are found in Florida Most of this is in Bone Valley. . Miami is split roughly into north south west and Downtown areas the heart of the city is Downtown Miami which is on the eastern side and includes the neighborhoods of Brickell Virginia Key Watson Island as well as PortMiami Downtown Miami is Florida's largest and most influential central business district with many major banks courthouses financial headquarters cultural and tourist attractions schools parks and a large residential population Brickell Avenue has the largest concentration of international banks in the United States Just northwest of Downtown is the Health District which is Miami's center for hospitals research institutes and biotechnology with hospitals such as Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami's Leonard M Miller School of Medicine. In 2010 1.9% of the population considered themselves to be of only American ancestry (regardless of race or ethnicity.) while 0.5% were of Arab ancestry as of 2010.
. In 1926 the original Booker T Washington Senior High School building opened in what is now the Overtown district it was the only secondary black high school at the time in South Florida enrolling students from as far away as Broward and Palm Beach counties. Rickenbacker Causeway Brickell and Key Biscayne 1947 Crandon Park, In 2016 Florida had the highest percentage of West Indians in the United States at 4.5% with 2.3% (483,874) from Haitian ancestry 1.5% (303,527) Jamaican and 0.2% (31,966) Bahamian with the other West Indian groups making up the rest. . The North Terminal construction merged the four piers into a single linear concourse designated Concourse D This configuration was adopted in order to increase the number of aircraft that can simultaneously arrive and depart from the terminal allowing each gate to handle approximately twice as many operations per day the construction process started with the extension of the original a and D concourses in the late 1990s By the mid-2000s the gates on the east side of Concourse D were closed in order to make room for new gates being constructed as part of the North Terminal Development project in 2004 a new extension to the west was opened consisting of Gates D39 through D51 Concourse B was demolished in 2005; in summer 2009 Gates D21 to D25 opened where Concourse B once stood Concourse C was demolished in 2009; in August 2013 Gates D26 D27 and D28 opened where Concourse C once stood and were the final North Terminal gates to open Concourse a closed in November 2007 and re-opened in July 2010 as a 14-gate eastern extension of Concourse D in August 2010 a further extension for American Eagle flights was opened designated as Gate D60, Est 2018 6,198,782 11.4% Culture and wildlife, Primera Casa 1969 Richard Blanco.
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