FUNDED AND PENDING RESEARCH AWARDS
- Using ECOSTRESS to monitor seasonal and diurnal ET patterns across Florida plant communities and fire regimes (co-PI), $150,000, NASA, pending.
- Assessing the vulnerability and management of coastal fish and fisheries along the Florida Gulf Coast as they respond to warming and altered freshwater flow (co-PI), $400,000, US Dept. of Interior (DOI) Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, pending.
- Monitoring and modeling of pollutant dispersal from septic tanks into the Guana Tolomato Matanzas lagoonal system and adjacent ocean: present time analysis and impact of sea level rise (co-PI), $200,000, Florida SeaGrant, pending.
- NOAA Restore: Impacts of Changing Freshwater Flow Dynamics on Coastal Food Webs, Fisheries and Protected Species Management (co-PI), $3,000,000, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) RESTORE Science Program, pending.
- iCoast: a 21st Century Coastal Monitoring Network (PI), $750,000, University of Florida "Moonshot" program.
- Why is flow in Silver Springs is declining? (PI), $49,369, Florida Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
- Agricultural Water Security for the Floridan Aquifer: An Integrated Assessment of Economic and Environmental Impacts (co-PI), $4,918,922, USDA, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Water for Agriculture Challenge.
- Rapid, low-cost nanobiosensors for developing risk assessment decision analytics in rural Colombia (co-PI), $4,800, University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies International Working Group.
- CNH-RCN: Amazon Dams Network: advancing integrative research and adaptive management of social-ecological systems transformed by hydroelectric dams (Senior Personnel), $498,997, National Science Foundation.
- Agricultural Water Security Through Sustainable Use of the Floridan Aquifer: An Integrated Assessment of Economic and Environmental Impacts (PI), $80,000, Unites States Geological Survey.
- Long-term trends in floodplain forest tree growth across salinity gradients in along Florida’s Big Bend coastline (PI), $64,625, Unites States Geological Survey.
- National Wetlands Condition Assessment - Florida Wetlands (PI), $414,225, US Environmental Protection Agency/Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
- Supplemental National Wetlands Condition Assessment Contract, (PI), $179,669, FL Department of Environmental Protection.
- Hydrologic transformation in the Amazon basin: reconciling economy, society, and the environment in the world’s largest watershed (PI), $1,082,402, UF Water Institute.
- Modeling the connections between hydrology, water quality, and ecosystem health to support coastal preservation efforts across the Northern Gulf Coast (PI), $300,000, National Park Service/United States Geological Survey Water Quality Partnership.
- Collaborative Research Initiative on Sustainability and Protection of Springs (co-PI), $3,000,000, St. Johns River Water Management District.
- Quantifying a novel ecosystem service of oyster reefs: estuarine freshwater entrainment (co-PI), $10,000, Florida SeaGrant.
- Managing forests for increased regional water availability (co-PI), $637,725, Suwannee River, St. Johns River, South Florida, Southwest Florida, and Northwest Florida Water Management Districts/Florida Division of Agricultural and Consumer Services/Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
- Establishing a Natural Resources-Based “Adaptation Action Area” for the town of Yankeetown, FL (PI), $25,000, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
- Predicting the effects of water use, climate change, and sea-level rise on saline and freshwater communities of the Lower Suwannee and Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges, FL (PI), $39,314 US Fish and Wildlife Service.
- Establishing ecological observatory networks in Southeastern barrier island forests (Co-PI), $21,500, USDA McIntire Stennis Program.
- Quantifying water yield from upland habitat restoration and management: benefits to wetlands, watersheds, and aquifers (co-PI), $10,470, USDA, McIntire Stennis Program.
