{"id":1340,"date":"2020-05-11T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2022-05-11T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T16:45:20","slug":"stetsons-water-institute-receives-185000-florida-sea-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/2020\/05\/11\/stetsons-water-institute-receives-185000-florida-sea-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Stetson\u2019s Water Institute Receives $185,000 Florida Sea Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Sandra Stetson Aquatic Center houses the Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience (IWER) Field Station on the shores of Lake Beresford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience<\/a> (IWER) at Stetson University will be making an environmental difference in Volusia County thanks to a $185,000, two-year Florida Sea Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida Sea Grant is a university-based program that supports research, education and extension to conserve coastal resources and enhance economic opportunities for Floridians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jason Evans, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

IWER is partnering with the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council<\/a>; Thomas Ruppert, the Florida Sea Grant program\u2019s coastal planning specialist; and Volusia County<\/a> to implement a landscape conservation and climate resilience planning project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe joint project provides an opportunity to develop robust recommendations for land conservation in Volusia County that account for the economic value of natural landscapes including environmental planning for flood avoidance, pollinator habitat maintenance, water storage and purification, and carbon sequestration,\u201d said Jason Evans, PhD<\/a>, interim executive director of IWER and associate professor of environmental science and studies at Stetson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The grant will be used to develop recommendations for land conservation in Volusia County, such as Smyrna Dunes Park in New Smyrna Beach, above, with the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grant funds will be used to employ a post-doctoral resilience modeling specialist who will implement geospatial modeling approaches for examining the landscape with mapping techniques through a partnership with Stetson University\u2019s Brown Visiting Teacher-Scholar Fellows Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe the Florida Sea Grant award demonstrates that IWER is recognized as a leader in resilience planning, research and implementation,\u201d said Evans. \u201cHaving resilience planning experience and the ability to conduct a project of this magnitude in Volusia County are important aspects of the grant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Sandra Carr<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience (IWER) at Stetson University will be making an environmental difference in Volusia County thanks to a $185,000, two-year Florida Sea Grant. Florida Sea Grant is a university-based program that supports research, education and extension to conserve coastal resources and enhance economic opportunities for Floridians. IWER is partnering with the East Central Florida […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}