Category: News

Undergraduate student Donovan Mitchell can trace the genesis of his goal to earn a doctorate degree in marine sciences to his visits as a child to the Georgia Aquarium.   “I saw what the ocean was really about, and their message about education, and I always admired that.”   As a fourth-year marine science student at the […]

More than 100 students and researchers working in marine science across North Florida gathered for a rich learning, networking and professional development experience at the 10th annual North Florida Marine Science Symposium, held at the UF Whitney Marine Lab in St. Augustine from March 2 to 3.    “This is a great opportunity for students to […]

Stakeholders committed to saltmarsh restoration kicked off a thin layer placement project at a planning workshop in St. Augustine last month, part of an Engineering with Nature Project led by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the area. Thin layer placement is a green solution that involves the addition of several centimeters of sediment […]

Researchers may have unlocked a new key to predict ecosystem responses to environmental change – trait evolution. A team of researchers, including CCS affiliate Kathe Todd-Brown, Ph.D., studied how the differences in plant traits that are passed down and the way they evolve can forecast the future for coastal wetland ecosystems. The team examined sixteen […]

Five researchers from CCS were among more than 1,000 coastal restoration professionals, policy makers, and regulators who attended the 2022 RAE Coastal & Estuarine Summit in New Orleans in December to network and share insights for navigating and pursuing new, more robust strategies to protect and restore our coastal resources.   UF graduate students and postdoctoral […]

CCS kicked off the new year with a two-day participatory strategic planning retreat to envision our future and map out how we are going to get there over the next three years.   Sharon Ryan, CCS associate director of strategy and communications, and Dawn Newman of Blackhawk Facilitation facilitated the workshop, which brought together CCS faculty, […]

CCS warmly welcomes Stacey Dolan as our new administrative support assistant. Dolan will play a vital role in helping the CCS run smoothly on a day-to-day basis by supporting our leadership team, and special events. Stacey’s background is a unique blend of engineering and biology, which builds on the diverse expertise of our team at […]

CCS welcomes Andrew Altieri, Ph.D., as associate director. Altieri, who’s been involved in CCS projects for several years, will oversee the many moving parts and logistics of field operations, which are instrumental to the implementation and success of the Center’s 15 ongoing projects across the state. He will also help guide future CCS growth, including the […]

Congratulations to UF Emeritus Professor Tom Ankersen on winning the 2022 Nature Coast Champion Award from the IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station (NCBS) in December. The award recognizes his extensive work in supporting the conservation, restoration and management, protection of coastal and aquatic resources in Florida’s Nature Coast, an area that encompasses eight counties bordering […]

Small but mighty, oyster gardens enhance oyster recruitment, the process of incorporating new oysters into a population to maintain population sizes; improve water quality and have a valuable role to play in environmental education. Adrian Sakr, a graduate student in the Altieri and Angelini labs, is experimenting with five materials to determine which oyster garden […]