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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 and sustained excellence in contributions to the practice, research, and education in the field of […]

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 […]

Sherry Larkin, Professor, Food and Resource Economics Department; Director, Florida Sea Grant Join us for the live stream Sept 29, 11:45am EST: youtu.be/PkK73BzHeew(Please visit our youtube channel main page for the stream is there are any issues with the direct link.) Bio Dr. Sherry Larkin is a natural resource and environmental economist tenured in the […]

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 […]