The Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands (CFW) is a Type II center dedicated to facilitating wetland programs at the University of Florida and helping in the intellectual marketing and transfer of these programs at the state, national and international levels. Cutting across campus departments and disciplinary areas, the CFW fosters interdisciplinary research, teaching, and service regarding wetlands and related resources with an emphasis on sustainable patterns of humanity and environment. The CFW is directed by David Kaplan.
The Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands provides sound scientific knowledge about wetlands that will lead to a better understanding of their role in a sustainable partnership of humanity and nature. The Center works toward this goal by conducting, facilitating and coordinating interdisciplinary research and teaching on wetland-related resource management issues.
David Kaplan joined the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences in 2012 and created the Watershed Ecology Lab housed at the Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands. Research in the Watershed Ecology Lab focuses on linkages between ecosystems and the hydrologic cycle, with the goal of advancing natural resources conservation and management. Dr. Kaplan has served as the Assistant Director of the CFW since 2013.
Field experiments inspired by observations of natural systems form the core of The Angelini Lab’s research approach. As community ecologist, Christine Angelini studies how interactions among species, commonly habitat-forming foundation species, drive patterns in the organization of biological communities, and how different types of interactions, such as those involving mutualists and top predators, enhance or reduce an ecosystem’s resilience to climate change. In addition to manipulating species interactions or physical factors of interest with experiments, research methodology includes correlational approaches, spatial models, and biogeochemical analyses when necessary to contextualize research findings, elucidate how ecosystem dynamics may change over time, and tease apart the mechanisms that drive natural patterns. The Angelini Lab group collaborates with a diverse and talented crew of ecologists, hydrologists, soil biogeochemists, and engineers at the University of Florida and several other US and international institutions.
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The H.T. Odum Center for Wetlands and Center for Environmental Policy have been generating publications related to environmental issues since their inception. Digitization of these publications began in the summer of 2004 as a cooperative project with the Digital Library Center, University of Florida Libraries, creating the Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands Publications. Publications include research reports, articles, book chapters, dissertations and theses, and are freely available to anyone. This is an ongoing project and only those publications without copyright restriction will be included.
Created in 1995, The Wetlands Club at the University of Florida is an official UF student organization under the Benton Engineering Council and is open to all students and staff regardless of major. The Wetlands Club hosts a variety of field trips, social events, public service projects and research opportunities.
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June 22, 2023
Mark Brown, professor emeritus in ESSIE’s Environmental Engineering Sciences Department, was recognized as a Fellow of the American Ecological Engineering Society (AEES) at their annual meeting in Tampa, Florida in June. AEES bestows Fellow recognition to members with exemplary qualifications… Read More
April 19, 2023
There was a radical coevolution of science, policy and industry in 1973, the year the Center for Wetlands was founded by H.T. Odum. What began as a project to assess the use of wetlands in recycling wastewater has evolved into… Read More
A team of 11 professional researchers and scientists from the University of South Florida (USF), University of Florida (UF), and South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) were awarded a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to… Read More
Congrats to our student Yiyang Kang for receiving the best poster presentation award at the 2023 SNRE Research Symposium! Kang explored the connection between mangrove vegetation structure and soil organic carbon across a tropical-temperate transition zone. His research found that as the winter temperatures… Read More
Congratulations to our student Nick Chin for receiving the Spring 2023 Water Institute Travel Award from UF Water Institute! The travel award will support Nick in presenting his research in connecting red tide bloom timing and severity to environmental conditions… Read More