UF Center for Coastal Solutions tracking ecological effects of Piney Point leak into Tampa Bay

April 14, 2021

CCS collaborates with Ocean Conservancy to track ecological effects of Piney Point reservoir leak into Tampa Bay. The first samples are now in hand.

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CCS Collaborates with Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation on solutions to coastal hazards

April 8, 2021

Center for Coastal Solutions and Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation have entered into a strategic collaboration to address coastal water quality hazards.

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New paper by Elliott White & David Kaplan

April 7, 2021

Identifying the effects of chronic saltwater intrusion in coastal floodplain swamps using remote sensing

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Coastal Policy Analyst Fellowship

March 9, 2021

UF Center for Coastal Solutions and Florida Sea Grant announce a new 12-month coastal policy analyst opportunity to advance the development and implementation of science-based coastal policy in Florida.

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Yale Climate Connections radio story with Christine Angelini

February 16, 2021

Yale Climate Connections radio story airing featuring Christine Angelini: “A burrowing crab is speeding destruction of coastal salt marshes”

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UF cluster hire – 4 faculty positions: Artificial Intelligence in Coastal Systems

January 27, 2021

1) Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2) Graph Technology, 3) Reinforcement Learning, 4) Underwater Robotics

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Paul Gader, SECOORA webinar: The Trouble with Deep Learning (Jan 26, 1PM EST)

January 25, 2021

Dr. Paul Gader will discuss some of the inherent and difficult flaws in current Artificial Intelligence practices and use examples from environmental sensing to identify methods for mitigating those flaws.

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New paper by Altieri: Resilience of Tropical Ecosystems to Ocean Deoxygenation

January 8, 2021

Altieri and co-authors suggest that a community and ecosystems perspective that integrates knowledge of organismal physiology with species interactions can reveal new insights into ecological feedbacks and the potential mechanisms that underlie the resilience of tropical ecosystems to deoxygenation.

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Losing Ground: Climate Change Is Altering the Rules of Ecosystem Hierarchy

December 21, 2020

Human activities are resetting which species hold the most sway over ecosystem behavior, says Christine Angelini, principal investigator for the study. Because of overfishing and climate change, purple marsh crabs are “wreaking havoc everywhere” across their range

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As saltwater resculpts the East Coast, researchers say it can’t be stopped but we can adapt

December 17, 2020

“The pines, oaks, cedars and palms have this orderly trajectory of death based on who can hack it in a saline environment and who can’t” – David Kaplan, CCS.

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