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Congratulations to our newest graduates Katie Schoenberger and Drs. Nick Chin, Dogil Lee and Yiyang Kang!

This story was originally published in the UF Center for Coastal Solutions Coastal Edges newsletter. The sway of plants caused by the flow of water resembles a dance to graduate student Katie Schoenberger, who is researching how this movement can affect the growth and removal of algae in Florida’s springs. Excessive algae growth in many […]

This story was originally published in the UF Center for Coastal Solutions Coastal Edges newsletter. Alexis Jackson didn’t discover environmental engineering as a career option until right before graduate school, when she was on track to become a wetland ecologist. Now a Ph.D. student in the University of Florida’s Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, she […]

A huge congratulations to graduate students Alexis Jackson, Dogil Lee and Katie Schoenberger for their well-deserved honors from the UF Water Institute! We’re incredibly proud to celebrate their outstanding contributions. Alexis Jackson, a Water Institute ambassador, fostered student engagement and a vibrant graduate community. She helped organize student-focused events like the Lunch by the Water […]

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 support the development of new state-of-the-art water quality data and models to better predict and […]

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 get warmer, mangroves expand further north and replace salt marshes, but this may not impact […]

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 and across southwest Florida at the American Ecological Engineering Society Meeting in June. 

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 basin.  Dr. Siddiqui reflects, “Being a part of the CFW and Watershed Ecology Lab has […]

To assess the ecological condition of each wetland, vegetation, soil, and water chemistry samples and hydrology, weather, buffer, and general field observations are collected. These factors are evaluated to reflect key stress indicators and ecological health of the wetlands.

Our multi-institutional team is seeking up to four postdoctoral researchers for an interdisciplinary project titled: Coupling lake, watershed, and estuarine models to better understand the role of engineered freshwater discharges in driving the severity, location, and timing of harmful algal blooms. The collaborative project is led by the University of Florida’s Center for Coastal Solutions […]