Month: April 2023

CFW Celebrates 50 Years of Wetland Wisdom

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

Student Calvin Kang Awarded Best Poster Presentation

Student poses with poster.

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

Sharmin Siddiqui Successfully Defends PhD

Congratulations to Sharmin Siddiqui, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis in March! Dr. Siddiqui’s work focuses on how human activities and infrastructure impact riverine ecosystems, specifically quantifying the effects of landscape disturbance on ecosystem response and resilience in the Amazon… Read More

Economic impacts of Florida red tide: Known knowns and known unknowns after 3 years of investigation

Christa Court, Assistant Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida Join us for the livestream April 19th, 11:45am ET: https://youtube.com/live/Uhq_1gTv-2s?feature=share  (Please visit our YouTube channel main page for the stream if there are any issues with the direct link.)… Read More

Cascading feedbacks arising from coastal management

Katherine Anarde, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University  Join us for the live stream April 5th, 11:45am EST: https://youtube.com/live/mWxHZRHtydc?feature=share (Please visit our YouTube channel main page for the stream if there are any issues with… Read More