Grantee Research Project Results
Center for Science and Policy Applications for Coastal Environments (SPACE)
EPA Grant Number: X832302Center: Water Innovation Network for Sustainable Small Systems
Center Director: Reckhow, David A.
Title: Center for Science and Policy Applications for Coastal Environments (SPACE)
Investigators: D'Elia, Christopher F , Gore, James
Institution: University of South Florida
EPA Project Officer: Packard, Benjamin H
Project Period: September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2009
Project Amount: $727,000
RFA: Targeted Research Center (2004) Recipients Lists
Research Category: Hazardous Waste/Remediation , Targeted Research
Objective:
The overall objective is to develop an interdisciplinary center for the study, protection and amelioration of the coastal environment'. The center will enhance understanding of ways that human activity in rapidly developing coastal areas affects ecological systems and of human institutions and practices for managing such effects.
Approach:
Approach: An interdisciplinary team of natural and social scientists will form a new center for Science and Policy Applications for the Coastal Environment (SPACE). Research will focus on the fate, effect and remediation of pollutants; social and policy implications of coastal environmental science; and data management and analysis through GIS and statistical modeling.
Expected Results:
(1) Insight for managing water resources by understanding historical anthropogenic activities that have impacted the environment such as terrestrial runoff, water quality, and local land-based environmental modifications; (2). Assessment of land-use changes and other anthropogenic influences on the establishment of cyanob4cterial populations, and determination of the water quality parameters which promote cyanobacterial persistence, and lead to a shift to cyanobacterial dominance; (3) Collection of scientific data !essential for implementation in future PCB remediation field projects; (4) Analysis of the socioeconomic and cultural factors that underlie contemporary patterns of lawn management and quantitative evaluation of the environmental benefits that could be realized through an expansion of the adoption of xeriscaping within the study area; (5) Analysis of best practices 'i,, for Marine Protected Area (MPA) management for shallow-water, tropical ecosystems, identification of key management indicators, and establishment of a management database for Caribbean coral reefs; (6) Development of a GIS-based integrated tool for researchers and resource managers to determine the linkages among the soils, land use, watershed hydrology, noni-point source pollution, minimum flows and health of an aquatic habitat, and to improve risk assessment and management; (7) Establishment of analytical core support, and (8) Deployment of a highly sophisticated Guided Surface Vehicle (GSV) for use in monitoring of shallow water ecosystems.
Center Website: http://www.stpt.usf.edu/wangx/cspace/cspace.asp
Journal Articles: 7 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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DeVor R, Carvalho-Knighton K, Aitken B, Maloney P, Holland E, Talalaj L, Fidler R, Elsheimer S, Clausen CA, Geiger CL. Dechlorination comparison of mono-substituted PCBs with Mg/Pd in different solvent systems. Chemosphere 2008;73(6):896-900. |
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Dixon B, Earls J. Examining spatio-temporal relationships of landuse change, population growth, and water quality in the SWFWMD. Interdisciplinary Environmental Review 2007;9(1):71-93. |
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Earls J, Dixon B. A comparison of SWAT model-predicted potential evapotranspiration using real and modeled meteorological data. Vadose Zone Journal 2008;7(2):570-580. |
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Johns RA. The potential of geographic analysis in solving environmental dilemmas. Interdisciplinary Environmental Review 2005;7(2):13-33. |
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Pomeroy LR, D’Elia CF, Schaffner LC. Limits to top-down control of phytoplankton by oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2006;325:301-309. |
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Whitmore TJ, Brenner M, Kolasa KV, Kenney WF, Riedinger-Whitmore MA, Curtis JH, Smoak JM. Inadvertent alkalization of a Florida lake caused by increased ionic and nutrient loading to its watershed. Journal of Paleolimnology 2006;36(4):353-370. |
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Whitmore TJ, Riedinger-Whitmore MA, Smoak JM, Kolasa KV, Goddard EA, Bindler R. Arsenic contamination of lake sediments in Florida: evidence of herbicide mobility from watershed soils. Journal of Paleolimnology 2008;40(3):869-884. |
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Supplemental Keywords:
Water, watersheds, groundwater, land, soil, marine, estuary, chemicals, toxics, PCB, heavy metals, ecosystem, restoration, terrestrial, aquatic, habitat, innovative technology, remediation, restoration, public policy, decision making, modeling, monitoring, analytical, remote sensing; Florida, FL, EPA Region 4,, RFA, Scientific Discipline, Water, Watersheds, Water & Watershed, Ecology and Ecosystems, Environmental Monitoring, coastal watershed, water quality, coastal ecosystems, watershed assessment, remediation, hazardous waste, aquatic ecosystemsProgress and Final Reports:
Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
X832302C001 Past and Present Water Quality in Florida Coastal Waters
X832302C002 Cyanobacteria Proliferation and Eutrophication in Florida Lakes
X832302C003 Reactive Metal Particle Emulsions for Removal of PCBs
X832302C004 The Social and Environmental Dimensions of Xeriscaping: A Pathway for Ameliorating Coastal Environments
X832302C005 An Historical Perspective on the Economic and Environmental Impacts of the Phosphate Industry on the Tampa Bay Region
X832302C006 Interfacing SWAT and PHABSIM: A Potential GIS-based Water Resource Management Tool
X832302C007 Acquisition of Counters for Gamma-Emitting Radioisotopes
X832302C008 Guided Surface Vehicles
X832302C009 Science Journalism
X832302C010 Administration and Outreach
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.