Coastal & Estuarine Ecology Lab

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Hi folks, Mangrove gardening on UCF campus resumes this week! Our nursery is located behind the Biology Field Research B...
09/06/2026

Hi folks, Mangrove gardening on UCF campus resumes this week! Our nursery is located behind the Biology Field Research Building on Ara Drive. Times for the fall will be Wednesdays from 10:00 - 11:30 AM and Fridays from 3:00 - 4:30 PM. Lots of transplanting and weeding to be accomplished. To participate, please email Dr. Walters at [email protected] for a volunteer waiver. Plan to wear clothes and shoes that will get dirty/wet and bring a full water bottle plus sunscreen/insect repellant.
All plants will be used for coastal shoreline stabilization projects in the spring of 2027!

Tara's PhD project to reconnect recently fragmented intertidal oyster reefs in the Indian River Lagoon started today wit...
08/14/2026

Tara's PhD project to reconnect recently fragmented intertidal oyster reefs in the Indian River Lagoon started today with staging of these biodegradable MDC-POSH units at Riverside Conservancy in Edgewater. More to share soon!

We have had lots of requests, so here are some of our favorite photos from our trip last week to the Peruvian Upper Amaz...
08/08/2026

We have had lots of requests, so here are some of our favorite photos from our trip last week to the Peruvian Upper Amazon basin vacation to celebrate 34 years of being married! Lots of amazing people, fish, monkeys, sloths, fungi, bats, and, of course, birds! Wonderful place to visit to experience a place where people have not overtaken most of the jungle footprint!

Final week of summer field work (fall work starts next week!) that included final deployment day, and the monitoring of ...
07/24/2026

Final week of summer field work (fall work starts next week!) that included final deployment day, and the monitoring of lots of projects including mangrove Katherine's research looking at marine heat waves and shading effects by mangroves growing on oyster reefs. We also cleaned old mat materials off of 26 reefs this summer in our goal to be plastic-free as soon as possible. We encourage all other groups to avoid plastic for restoration at all costs - removing 10-20 year-old materials that are no longer effective is no fun.

UCF Environmental Studies undergraduate students worked on comparing mangrove encroachment on patch vs fringing oyster r...
07/24/2026

UCF Environmental Studies undergraduate students worked on comparing mangrove encroachment on patch vs fringing oyster reefs for their capstone project. The clients were Dr. Walters (UCF), Annie Roddenberry (FL FWCC), and Casey Craig (FL FWCC). Here is the outreach material that they created to accompany their research results. Good job team!

Another full week of CEELAB summer restoration monitoring - both seagrass and oysters. Here are some photos of the actio...
07/18/2026

Another full week of CEELAB summer restoration monitoring - both seagrass and oysters. Here are some photos of the action plus the amazing biodiversity all around us!

Another week of summer 2026, with 3 long days of seagrass restoration completed in Mosquito Lagoon. Lots of great volunt...
07/11/2026

Another week of summer 2026, with 3 long days of seagrass restoration completed in Mosquito Lagoon. Lots of great volunteers in the photos. Thanks to the IRLNEP/NOAA and FL FWCC for your support. At the end of photo collection, there are a few images of Paul's birthday boat celebration, day 2, plus an image of Caulerpa ashmeadii, a beautiful but potentially problematic macroalga (seaweed) in the Indian River Lagoon.

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