Month: April 2021

CBS news video on CCS and Ocean Conservancy ‘Rapid Response’ effort to study Piney Point impacts
April 27, 2021Piney Point rapid response research is underway thanks to our partnership with Ocean Conservancy, Florida Sea Grant, and the Tampa Bay and Sarasota Bay Estuary Programs Check out this news video and article featuring our Director Dr. Christine Angelini. Excerpt from CBS article “Researchers Launch ‘Rapid-Response Team’ To Track Environmental Impacts Of Piney Point Leak” […]
Read more »Article on water access by CCS Advisory Board member Tom Ankersen
April 27, 2021Professor Tom Ankersen, CCS Affiliate Faculty and Director of the UF Conservation Clinic, wrote a fantastic article, Water as Freedom: Fluid Freedom, for the latest issue of Florida Humanities FORUM Magazine: Written in Water. Check it out!
Read more »STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Karen Sem
April 19, 2021Karen Sem M.E. Student, Environmental Engineering Sciences, UF Growing up near Lake Okeechobee, Karen Sem regularly read about the effects of its water quality on the health and prosperity of its surrounding communities. At the University of Florida, where she is pursuing a Masters of Engineering degree in Environmental Engineering Sciences, Karen is researching these […]
Read more »UF Center for Coastal Solutions tracking ecological effects of Piney Point leak into Tampa Bay
April 14, 2021CCS collaborates with Ocean Conservancy to track ecological effects of Piney Point reservoir leak into Tampa Bay. The first samples are now in hand.
Read more »CCS Collaborates with Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation on solutions to coastal hazards
April 8, 2021Center for Coastal Solutions and Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation have entered into a strategic collaboration to address coastal water quality hazards.
Read more »New paper by Elliott White & David Kaplan
April 7, 2021Identifying the effects of chronic saltwater intrusion in coastal floodplain swamps using remote sensing
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