Downstream
Spring, 2010
My spring 2010 term as acting director fortunately was a short one, but I was audience to a tremendous year of activities in Environmental Science and Policy.
Some of the hottest jobs in the environmental field are those in business management, so we are lucky, indeed, to have Tonya Boone as an ENSP program collaborator.
Our newest ENSP faculty member is Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Brent Kaup.
Enter Jes Therkelsen: filmmaker, photographer, media consultant and activist.
Geology professors Jim Kaste and Greg Hancock decided to study the effectiveness of riparian buffers on preventing agricultural runoff from entering the bay watershed.
During the spring 2010 semester, ENSP 204 and GEOL 204 students completed a class research project examining the environmental factors that contribute to mercury contamination in the South River watershed.
As part of an NSF-funded, long-term ecological research (LTER) project examining the Florida Coastal Everglades system, Timothy assists professor Randy Chambers with his studies of soils and organic matter throughout the marsh, mangrove, and seagrass ecosystems that dominate the south Florida landscape.
