FCE News from the Sloughs

August 25, 2020

Hi all:

Hope everyone’s well! Congratulations to our student e-board president, Jon Rodemann, on his recent award, and former FCE high school student Lisa Goldberg on her publication on global mangrove loss.

Of course, we are all excited about the announcement from NSF of our successful proposal securing our next four years of funding! Be on the lookout for dates and ways to be involved in our Fall Virtual ASM and recurring thematic science meetings to kick off FCE 4.2! Students, please join us for a welcome this Friday (see details below) and share with any new folks in your lab.

Best wishes,
Evelyn and John

LTER Network Office Updates

FCE in the News

Ph.D. student earns research grant

Jonathan Rodemann, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environment, was recently awarded the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association and FACT Network fisheries research grant to study how temperature, habitat and prey resources impact fish movement patterns in Florida Bay.

NASA study on global mangrove loss

With the help of FCE funding, lead author Liza Goldberg was among researchers who created the first map showing global mangrove habitats between 2000 and 2016 - a valuable tool to aid conservation efforts for these vital coastline defenders.

Opportunities & Upcoming Events

Research & Publications

FCE Publications:

Howard, J.L., C.C. Lopes, S.S. Wilson, V. McGee-Absten, C.I. Carrión, and J.W. Fourqurean. 2020. Decomposition rates of surficial and buried organic matter and the lability of soil carbon stocks across a large tropical seagrass landscape. Estuaries and Coasts. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-020-00817-x

Education & Outreach

Liza Goldberg, a NASA Goddard intern and freshman at Stanford University is working to measure the impact of humans on mangrove forests at the global scale. Using hundreds of thousands of satellite images acquired between 2000 - 2016 of mangrove forests all around the world, Liza was able to identify the location and extent of mangrove loss. Take a closer look at her work at the Global Mangrove Loss Drivers website she created.

Student Section

Please join us on Friday, August 28, 2020 at 10 a.m. for a FCE Student Group Welcome Seminar to introduce FCE 4.2. For more information and how to join, please contact Mike Rugge (ruggem@fiu.edu) for the Zoom link.

General / Field Reminders

Please fill out this survey on GLEON PONDING project for US state/territory agencies - what is a pond?
Updated contact list for wildlife reporting in Everglades National Park.

Donate to Support Everglades Research at FIU

The Florida Coastal Everglades LTER program is based at Florida International University.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation through the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research program under Cooperative Agreements #DEB-1832229, #DEB-1237517, #DBI-0620409, and #DEB-9910514. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

2020 Florida Coastal Everglades LTER, CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.

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