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Seed grants awarded in 2006-07 Seed grants awarded in 20007-08 Current Executive Board Initiatives 1. An Examination of Historical Data Related to the Health of the St.
Johns River Lower Basin. This project will provide baseline data for
Mayor Payton’s River Accord and will help interpret the outcome
of river restoration efforts. The following disciplines at two universities
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• Chemistry (UNF) – Chalk &
Bowman
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| 2. Partnership with the Jacksonville Preservation Project. This project will determine experimentally the best techniques for restoration of some damaged ecosystems on Jacksonville Preservation Project lands and will assess the ecological health of others. The Preservation Projects owns over 83,000 acres, large portions of which need to be restored to their native state. Biology faculty members involved are: | |
• Community Ecology – Moon
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| 3. (Partially funded) Real-Time
Environmental Monitoring. In cooperation with the City of Jacksonville,
UNF will establish a wireless real-time monitoring system in the St. Johns
River. This type of data is essential to infer cause and affect relationships
of factors that influence the health of the river. College of Computing,
Engineering and Construction faculty involved are: |
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• Computing – Lambert &
Coulter
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| 4. Campus Natural Assets Inventory.
This project is the first step in making UNF natural assets more accessible for environmental education and research on our 1,145 acre campus. |
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• GIS mapping technology – Lambert
(CoCEC)
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