Dr. Ron Fick’s work is on the application of machine learning to various data sources, mostly remote sensing data. His current research focuses on using remotely sensed data to better understand water quality conditions for the purpose of mitigation and avoidance of coastal water quality hazards.
He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University in Florida.
Dr. Jose Gonzalez Ondina is a research scientist at the CCS and runs programs that simulate the behavior of the ocean. Jose has more than twenty years of experience developing numerical models for environmental fluids.
He has worked at IH Cantabria (Spain) and, more recently, at the Plymouth Ocean Forecasting Centre (POFC, UK).…
Dr. Tricia Kyzar focuses on using spatial analysis to support environmental and urban planning policy through projects such as understanding the level of risk to coastal septic systems from climate change impacts, changes in land use/land cover from development and how planning can help improve the natural environment.
Tricia joined the Center for Coastal Solutions in July 2022 as a researcher and project manager.…
Dr. Jorge Armando Laurel Castillo collects and analyzes field data to investigate ocean-river interactions in the Peace River, Florida, and their effects on water quality in the estuary.
His research interests include environmental fluid dynamics and transport processes (lakes, rivers and estuaries), coastal processes, flood risks, and computational fluid dynamics.…
Dr. Beatriz Marin-Diaz leads monitoring and experimental field research aimed at restoring coastal systems surrounding Tyndall Air Force Base, including seagrass meadows, marshes and oyster reefs, using nature-based solutions. This work supports the planning, permitting and design of future shoreline enhancement and stabilization projects at Tyndall Air Force Base.
She obtained her Masters in Ecology and Ecosystem Management and Restoration at the University of Barcelona, Spain and her PhD in Ecosystem-based Coastal Protection, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and the University of Groningen.
Dr. Joe Morton is a community ecologist who has been living, researching and teaching on the North Carolina coast for the past decade. While he has diverse research interests, his work has largely centered around using manipulative field experiments to tease out the influence of behavior-altering parasites on coastal ecosystem structure, functioning and stability.
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Dr. Enrique Orozco Lopez is investigating how water and nutrients from Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee River Watershed impact coastal water quality resulting in frequent harmful algal blooms.
His research focuses in modeling the Caloosahatchee River Watershed hydrology, in applying physically-based neural networks to boost models’ calibration and testing efficiencies, and in the sequential integration of the fate and transport models from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee River Watershed and its Estuary.…
Dr. Sharlynn Sweeney manages and coordinates a wide variety of projects at the CCS.
Dr. Sweeney received a dual BS in Biology and Marine Sciences from the University of Miami, MLIS (Masters in Library and Information Studies) from FSU and earned a PhD in Systems Ecology / Environmental Engineering Sciences from UF.