Category: Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics

Water is essential for life. And life on Earth as we know it hinges on our collective ability and commitment to safeguard and preserve the purity of water – a vital resource that unites us all.   This Earth Day, we spotlight three researchers from the University of Florida’s Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment […]

Komalpreet Singh, a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, was selected as a National Science Foundation’s (NSF) GeoHealth INTERN to work with public health professionals to monitor human pathogens and bacteria in bodies of water.  To be a GeoHealth INTERN, a graduate student must have at least a full academic year completed […]

Oyster reef ecosystems are essential for marine life and have been known for being self-sustaining and keeping pace with sea level rise. Reefs provide nutrient regulation and also mitigate erosion by reducing the impact of waves. This wave mitigation benefits surrounding habitats like salt marshes. Because of these beneficial properties there has been a rise […]

Charlotte Harbor water quality analytics pilot project expands    The University of Florida’s Center for Coastal Solutions, or CCS, and the SAS Institute, a global leader in data analytics software, are joining forces to study the factors that influence water quality and the connections between water quality and economic activity in southwest Florida. Funded by the […]

Peat bogs, salt marshes, mangrove forests and seagrass meadows cover only 1 percent of the Earth’s total surface but sequester more than 20 percent of all the CO2 absorbed by ecosystems worldwide. This unique property arises because plants build these wet landscapes. Through such landscape-forming processes, an enormous amount of CO2 is captured and stored in […]

Weather forecasting systems today predict ever more accurately where hurricanes will make landfall, but tomorrow they may also predict how much damage the hurricanes will do. Maitane Olabarrieta, Ph.D., associate professor, and Arthriya Subgranon, Ph.D., assistant professor, in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at the UF Herbert […]

The 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’ […]