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PhD student Alexis “AJ” Jackson featured in latest issue of Heartland LIVING Magazine

August 11, 2021

PhD student Alexis “AJ” Jackson is featured in the latest issue of Heartland LIVING Magazine. The portrait was taken when she was the Vaughn-Jordan Research Intern in Archbold’s Plant Ecology Research Program, and is part of a series of 100 portraits by Dustin Angell of individuals linked to conservation in the headwaters region of the […]

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Flow Regimes of the Amazon: An Initial Product from the Rios Vivos Andinos Working Group

May 12, 2021

Four inductive approaches for classifying streamflow regimes across the Amazon using streamflow records from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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New paper by Elliott White and David Kaplan

April 7, 2021

Identifying the effects of chronic saltwater intrusion in coastal floodplain swamps using remote sensing Coastal floodplain swamps are an important part of the coastal wetland mosaic, however they are threatened due to accelerated rates of sea level rise and saltwater intrusion (SWI). In this newly published paper in Remote Sensing of Environment, CFW alum Dr. […]

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MS Assistantship opening: 2021 National Wetland Condition Assessment

December 3, 2020

Dr. David Kaplan is recruiting a student to work on the 2021 National Wetland Condition Assessment. Assistantship includes stipend, tuition & benefits.

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David Kaplan co-wrote an amicus curiae brief for the Supreme Court about a case regarding the Clean Water Act

October 29, 2020

In April, the Supreme Court declared, in a 6-3 ruling, that the CWA requires the federal government to regulate some groundwater pollutants that can navigate into waters such as oceans, rivers and streams.

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Watershed Ecology Lab coastal work in the spotlight

November 1, 2016

Ghost Forests: How Rising Seas Are Killing Southern U.S. Woodlands

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Dye tracer experiments in the Silver River

March 25, 2015

Dye Release In Silver Springs from nreaver on Vimeo. On March 8th, 2015, Dr. Kaplan’s Watershed Ecology Lab implemented the first of four proposed dye tracer experiments in Silver River, one of Florida’s largest springs. The study is part of a $3,000,000 interdisciplinary research project funded by the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) […]

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