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

April 18, 2023

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.) Abstract Coastal communities are inextricably linked to the marine environments they border. Marine-dependent industries such […]

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Biogeochemical signals of climate change in tropical streams and temperate coastal wetlands

April 10, 2023

Marcelo Ardón, Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University  Join us for the live stream April 12th, 11:45am EST: 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.) ABSTRACT Water is life, and aquatic ecosystems are the core of the ecological […]

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Cascading feedbacks arising from coastal management

April 3, 2023

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 the direct link.) ABSTRACT Developed barriers are tightly-coupled systems driven by feedbacks between natural processes […]

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Human and climate-driven water quality challenges affecting the Texas coast

March 28, 2023

Michael Wetz, Endowed Chair, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Join us for the livestream March 29th, 11:45am ET: https://tinyurl.com/ys454twm (Please visit our YouTube channel main page for the stream if there are any issues with the direct link.)  ABSTRACT Coastal watersheds in Texas have experienced significant human population […]

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Payment for ecosystem services on Florida farms

March 20, 2023

Sanjay Shukla, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida Join us for the livestream March 22nd, 11:45am ET: https://youtube.com/live/fzxkwJ_Rk2I?feature=share (Please visit our YouTube channel main page for the stream if there are any issues with the direct link.)  Abstract The payment-for-environmental-services (PES) concept is increasingly being used to help restore ecosystems. The […]

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Ecological engineering, upstream processes, and downstream function

March 6, 2023

Nate Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama  Join us for the livestream March 8th, 11:45am ET: https://tinyurl.com/d44rnfry (Please visit our YouTube channel main page for the stream if there are any issues with the direct link.)  ABSTRACT Managing water resources continues to be one of society’s grand challenges. Our water […]

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Fire disturbance impacts on Amazon floodplain forest resilience

February 28, 2023

Sharmin Siddiqui, PhD Candidate, Environmental Engineering Sciences Department, University of Florida Join us for the livestream February 22nd, 11:45am ET: https://t.co/aC6PSixTDC (Please visit our YouTube channel main page for the stream if there are any issues with the direct link.)  ABSTRACT Amazon floodplain ecosystems are attuned to forest-climate interactions, which have governed species composition, ecological […]

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Coupling natural and human models in the context of a lake ecosystem

February 21, 2023

Weizhe Weng, Assistant Professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida  Join us for the livestream February 22nd, 11:45am ET: https://t.co/nFl23xVzMv (Please visit our YouTube channel main page for the stream if there are any issues with the direct link.)  ABSTRACT Lakes support a myriad of ecosystem services that benefit humans and have quantifiable […]

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The vanishing: Hippo effects on riverine ecosystem functioning

February 13, 2023

Christopher Dutton, Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Biology and Anthropology, University of Florida Join us for the livestream February 15th, 11:45am ET: https://youtube.com/live/NoM_R9_Mtig?feature=share  (Please visit our YouTube channel main page for the stream if there are any issues with the direct link.)  ABSTRACT Animals can alter the biogeochemical cycling and functioning of ecosystems. In aquatic ecosystems, […]

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Coordinated coastal ocean circulation observing, modeling, and applications on the West Florida Shelf

February 6, 2023

Yonggang Liu, Associate Research Professor, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida Join us for the livestream February 8th, 11:45am ET:  https://youtube.com/live/KtpoAxiqHRs?feature=share  (Please visit our YouTube channel main page for the stream if there are any issues with the direct link.)  Abstract The Ocean Circulation Lab at University of South Florida College of Marine […]

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