Category: News
CCS welcomes new interns Colson Douglas and Savannah Peltrau to support FSG/WCIND project
June 14, 2021CCS’s summer student interns, Savannah Peltrau (B.S., Environmental Sciences) and Colson Douglas (J.D. Candidate, Law) are teaming up to support a project with Florida Sea Grant under a contract with the West Coast Inland Navigation District (WCIND) to update the District’s five year strategic plan.
Read more »Dr. Miles Medina joins CCS as a postdoctoral research fellow studying coastal algal blooms
June 14, 2021Dr. Miles Medina joined the Center for Coastal Solutions as a postdoctoral research fellow in April 2021. Along with Center Director Christine Angelini and Center-affiliated faculty, he is investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics and drivers of coastal algae blooms and related water quality impairments in Florida—in particular, red tide blooms in the Charlotte Harbor Estuary and […]
Read more »CCS Partners with SAS to Expand Artificial Intelligence Efforts in Coastal Communities
June 8, 2021The University of Florida’s Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS) and SAS Institute (SAS) entered a strategic partnership to develop tools, training programs, curriculum and research that will continue to trailblaze around the UF AI initiative and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. The partnership began in January to integrate the center’s cutting-edge research and SAS’ […]
Read more »Dune restoration experiments under way by Hallie Fischman from the Angelini Ecology Lab
June 2, 2021Hallie Fischman is an Environmental Engineering Sciences PhD student in the Angelini Ecology Lab studying the restoration of coastal ecosystems. She is currently researching how facilitation and mutualistic interactions can improve coastal restoration. Hallie’s been busy in the field recently, planting dune grasses as part of a restoration study, and she took a break from […]
Read more »2021 Florida Legislation and Budget Appropriations of Interest to Coastal Stakeholders
May 12, 2021Summary of bills and budget allocations passed during the 2021 legislative session of relevance to coastal stakeholders.
Read more »News video on CCS and SCCF partnership to address coastal water quality hazards
May 12, 2021Check out this news video and article featuring CompCON and the CCS and Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation partnership: Original article by Jessica Halpern at Fox4-WFTX: Local experts to collaborate with University of Florida to protect paradise The University of Florida plans to use Southwest Florida water to do advanced research that will help address […]
Read more »Welcome Matthew DePaolis! Our New FSG/CCS Coastal Policy Analyst Fellow
May 5, 2021We are excited to announced that we have hired Matthew DePaolis as the Florida Sea Grant/Center for Coastal Solutions Coastal Policy Analyst Fellow for the 2021/2022 academic year.
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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 »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.
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