New WATERSHED series launches with article on CCS red tide research

New WATERSHED series investigating water quality and marking the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act launches with an article focusing on collaborative red tide research by CCS and the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation.

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Coastal Policy Update: 2022 Marine and Coastal Related Legislation and Appropriations Recap with Commentary

Coastal policy received a significant amount of attention in the Florida legislature this year, with several bills and budget items making their way to the Governor’s desk and others dying in committees. This update describes bills and projects of particular relevance to the CCS community and provides some context.

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CCS research finds that nitrogen inputs from human activity intensified red tide events

In a new study that is the first to explain what some have long suspected, researchers found that human activity helps sustain and intensify naturally occurring red tide blooms in Southwest Florida.

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CCS Seminar: Why Experimental Ecology Matters to Conservation Biology by Mark Bertness

Join us for a CCS seminar on March 18, 3-4pm at Phelps Lab, Room 101, UF campus, followed by a mixer at First Magnitude Brewery from 5-6:30pm.   Why Experimental Ecology Matters to Conservation Biology Mark Bertness, Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University Mark Bertness is the […]

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COASTAL POLICY LAB FACULTY AND STUDENTS ENGAGE IN THE FIELD WITH RESTORATION AQUACULTURE STAKEHOLDERS IN TAMPA BAY

By Tom Ankersen, Legal Skills Professor & Legal Program Director, UF Law Students and faculty in the CCS Coastal Policy Lab (CPL) kicked off Spring Break with a field trip to Tampa Bay to get out on the water and meet the stakeholders where they work. The CPL is an experiential learning partnership between the […]

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New CCS postdoc Beatriz Marin-Diaz will monitor coastal systems and study their restoration in the Tyndall AFB Nature-Based Solutions Project

Welcome Dr. Beatriz Marin-Diaz! Dr. Beatriz Marin-Diaz joined the Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS) and Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE) as a Postdoctoral Associate in March 2022. Beatriz will be working alongside Dr. Christine Angelini and Dr. Andrew Altieri on a CCS project focused on Tyndall Airforce Base near Panama City, Florida. […]

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Students of CCS-affiliated faculty present research at the UF Water Institute Symposium Poster Session

Students of CCS-affiliated faculty presented their research at the 2022 UF Water Institute Symposium Poster Session. Topics included macroalgae decay rates, impact of sea level rise on wave loads, morphodynamics of oyster reefs, crabs as ecosystem engineers, invasive species databases, tidal flows in fjords, sturgeon conservation, invasive hog impact on salt marshes, water modeling of […]

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UF Water Symposium will include CCS-organized program on coastal water quality monitoring, modeling, management, and policy

For the 8th UF Water Institute Symposium, the CCS has organized a program of sessions and panels that explore what the future of coastal water quality monitoring, modeling, management, and policy should/could look like from a technological, scientific and engineering perspective, as well as through a management and policy lens.

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Changing the Channel: Navigating Toward Self-Mitigation

As part of the Fall 2021 Coastal Policy Lab, a partnership between Florida Sea Grant, the University of Florida Conservation Clinic at the Levin College of Law and the CCS in the College of Engineering, faculty and students investigated the potential to mitigate the impacts of repetitive maintenance dredging by using more efficient channel designs.

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CCS to develop web-based water quality dashboard for Charlotte Harbor

In partnership with the Coastal & Heartland National Estuary Program (CHNEP), CCS will analyze water quality trends and develop a web-based data visualization dashboard for the CHNEP Water Atlas. The public-facing Shiny dashboard will allow users to explore water quality changes within the harbor and its watershed over time, highlighting locations where conditions have substantially […]

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New CCS postdoc Dr. Hithaishi Hewageegana will develop a hydrodynamic model of the Caloosahatchee River estuary to predict harmful algal blooms

Hithaishi will be working alongside Dr. Maitane Olabarrieta and CCS-affiliated colleagues to understand how flow and nutrients from Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee River Watershed will impact the coastal water quality and the generation of harmful algal blooms.

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CCS awarded $3M US Army Corps project to enhance Engineering With Nature® design and implementation in coastal systems

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This project, funded through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering With Nature initiative, will advance understanding of how and why coastal landforms, including dunes, salt marshes, and oyster reefs, are evolving through innovative coastal sensing, modeling, and experimental research. A team of six Principal Investigators (PIs) from Civil and Coastal Engineering (Professor Alex Sheremet, […]

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Dr. Enrique Orozco López joins CCS as a postdoctoral research fellow studying watershed impacts on coastal water quality

Along with Dr. David Kaplan and a team of CCS-affiliated scientists, Enrique is investigating how water and nutrients from Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee River Watershed impact coastal water quality resulting in frequent harmful algal blooms.

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State Policy Brief: Marine Aquatic Resource Mitigation Banking in Florida

Bills to authorize mitigation banking for seagrass and other marine resources on sovereign submerged lands (SSL) have been introduced in the Florida House of Representatives and Florida Senate for consideration in the 2022 legislative session.

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Dr. Jospeh Morton joins CCS as a postdoctoral research fellow studying dune restoration

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Joseph Morton to the Center for Coastal Solutions as a postdoctoral research fellow on an interdisciplinary project, funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering With Nature (EWN) initiative. Along with Center Director Christine Angelini, a team of six PIs from the departments of Civil and Coastal Engineering (CCS), […]

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Coastal Policy Lab wraps up the semester with presentations in Sanibel Island

The inaugural semester of the CCS Coastal Policy Lab came to close in early December with a field trip to Sanibel Island to present the results of the students’ interdisciplinary projects. The Coastal Policy Lab (CPL) is a student-centered experiential learning collaboration between the University of Florida Colleges of Law and Engineering, and Florida Sea […]

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CCS AWARDED $2.3 million MULTI-INSTITUTION GRANT TO STUDY HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS

CCS Associate Director Dr. David Kaplan, and a team of CCS-affiliated scientists and engineers from UF, the USF, NCSU, and the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation have received $2.3 million from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study how water and nutrients flowing from Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee River watershed interact with tides, currents, and waves at the coast to affect coastal water quality.

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State Policy Update: Rule Development in the DEP office of Resilience and Coastal Protection

Rule Development in the DEP Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, by Matthew DePaolis, Coastal Policy Analyst Fellow, Center for Coastal Solutions / UF Law Conservation Clinic & Florida Sea Grant Legal Program

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UF Postdoctoral Fellowship and Graduate Student Opportunities with CCS | Engineering With Nature Project

A post-doctoral associate fellowship and six graduate student research assistantships are available starting in August 2022 at the University of Florida for an interdisciplinary project, funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering With Nature initiative, based out in the UF Center for Coastal Solutions. A team of six PIs from the departments of […]

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CCS and SCCF Partner on New Coastal Policy Lab Course

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The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation has a new article out on the inaugural Coastal Policy Lab course. Full text is provided below and and you can find the original SCCF article here. As part of SCCF’s new memorandum of understanding with the University of Florida (UF) Center for Coastal Solutions, an inaugural fall semester course called […]

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Dr. Angelini co-author of new study on top-down effect of crabs on a California salt marsh

Salt marsh resilience compromised by crabs along tidal creek edges A long-term study in Elkhorn Slough revealed the impact of superabundant crabs on salt marsh vegetation and the vulnerability of tidal creek banks to erosion     Excerpt from press release by Tim Stephens / UC Santa Cruz News, August 09, 2021: Coastal marshes are […]

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New paper on life cycle informed restoration co-authored by Dr. Angelini

CCS Director Dr. Christine Angelini co-authored a recently published paper in the Journal of Applied Ecology titled Life cycle informed restoration: Engineering settlement substrate material characteristics and structural complexity for reef formation. The study defines and experimentally tests ‘life cycle informed restoration’, a restoration concept that focuses on overcoming multiple bottlenecks throughout the target species’ […]

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New fact sheet: Massive influxes of Pelagic Sargassum in the Wider Caribbean Region

A new fact sheet, Massive influxes of Pelagic Sargassum in the Wider Caribbean Region, describes the science, law and policy, and management challenges of Sargassum, a macroalgae that has become established and invasive in the Caribbean and parts of the Gulf, including Florida, with significant economic and social costs. The project was facilitated by the […]

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