María Menchú-Maldonado, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research scholar at North Carolina State University, and her team at North Carolina State University, University of Florida, University of South Florida, and the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation developed a forecasting framework that predicts the risk… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Dogil Lee, for being awarded the Fall 2024 Water Institute Travel Award from the UF Water Institute! This award will support Dogil in presenting his research at the 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, where… Read More
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Alexis Jackson on being selected as a UF Water Institute Ambassador! We look forward to seeing how you’ll support the UF Water Institute’s graduate community in the 2024-2025 academic year.
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
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