Our lab is fortunate to welcome Dr. Thanh Duc Dang! Thanh is already making good steps developing a hydrodynamic and water quality model of Lake Okeechobee and overseeing research in our EPA project.
Nice video featuring our interdisciplinary research with coral restoration
Cool video featuring PhD Candidate Michelle Platz and her research with coral restoration in the Florida Keys:
Charlotte defended her PhD Dissertation!
Congrats to Dr. Haberstroh for defending her dissertation "Plastic Pollution in Urban Rivers: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Plastic Release and Transport"!
Amazing work based on field research in Tampa and Cambodia. First PhD to graduate from our lab!
New project funded by EPA!
We are very excited to kick off an EPA-funded project looking at temporal and spatial optimization of watershed management for control of harmful algal blooms in Lake Okeechobee! We are looking for a postdoc with 2-D water quality modeling and optimization experience, so please reach out if you are that person!
Charlotte's article published in Water Environment Research
Have you ever wondered how hydrodynamics affect how much plastic a river discharges to the sea? Charlotte Haberstroh et al. answers that question in our own Hillsborough River in Tampa. See link in publication list
Alex Miller passed his MS defense
Congrats to Alex Miller for successfully defending his MS Thesis Structural and Agricultural Value at Risk in Florida from Flooding during Hurricane Irma. Alex will now continue working full time for HDR and finally enjoy his free weekends and evenings!
Amazon hydropower paper published in Nature Sustainability!
Amid the pandemic turmoil, our paper looking at impacts of climate change and deforestation on hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon was published in Nature Sustainability!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0492-y
Please email us if you would like to request a copy of the paper.
Wasus and Friends at the Teambuilding Workshop at USF Riverfront Park
This was a super fun afternoon enjoying Florida outdoors and tackling challenges on how to work together and suceed as a team!
New funded project looking at treatment wetlands for landfill leachate!
Exciting to be working on an ecological engineering project in collaboration with Sarina Ergas investigating how to optimize treatment wetlands for landfill leachate. MS student Lilly Mulligan will be developing a process model of the system. Check out the project website here.
PhD student Osama gets the Everglades Foundation Fellowship!
Congratulations to Osama Tarabih who was awarded the 2019 ForEverglades Fellowship! this prestigious award would allow Osama to continue his work with optimization of Lake Okeechobee’s releases into the Caloosahatchee River, St. Lucie River, and the Everglades to mutually benefit the environment and society. Way to go Osama!
Here is the fellowship website with more information about the work Osama is proposing to do: https://evergladesfoundation.org/about-us/careers/fellowships-scholarships/