Water quality sampling taken at Bruce Beach

Bruce Beach is a natural waterfront located in downtown Pensacola sandwiched between the Maritime Park and Joe Patti's Seafood. What makes this location so unique are the 3 distinctive sites it is made up of: Washerwoman Creek, Sandy Shoreline and the Mitigated Wetland. Each site also has a different water type. This location has been affected by events such as hurricanes, oil spills, rainstorms etc. Recently closed by the city of Pensacola due to hurricane damage, Bruce Beach will be eventually turned into a recreational park for children. The first step in this process is establishing healthy waters in hopes that this historic site will be reopened to the public one day for all to enjoy

A citizen science project: Monitoring seagrass in the Pensacola Bay System

Seagrasses play a critical role in estuaries; thus monitoring is crucial. UWF and Florida Sea Grant have a partnership supporting citizen science in Big Lagoon, Santa Rosa Sound, Predido Bay and urban bayous

Viable Vibrio vulnifius and parahaemolyticus in the major basins within Pensacola Bay: Water column, sediments, and biofilms

Vibrio vulnificus and V. parahaemolyticus are two species of problematic waterborne pathogens in NW Florida Gulf of Mexico. Their abundances have yet to be determined in Pensacola Bay and accompanying basins within. The rising threat of global climate change, (i.e., eutrophication) is often associated with higher Vibrio loads.Please use the link provided in the Full Description information to access this presentation

Reimagining the future of engineering

Reimagining suggests the idea of opening up new, unconventional spaces of possibilities for an activity or an entity that already exists. This chapter sketches some ideas of the future of engineering in various aspects: designing, action, problem framing, professional and disciplinary identity, and the training of future engineers. The thoughts presented here are intended to be inconclusive. They take up and address the question of reimagining the future of engineering in order to inspire future dialogue between philosophers and engineers.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog

Adaptive management as a foundational framework for developing collaborative estuary management programs

Collaborative nonregulatory programs can benefit the long-term sustainability of environmental resources. Such programs benefit from extensive planning and assessment relative to ecological systems as well as public participation. While many programs use adaptive management as a guiding programmatic framework, few programs successfully integrate social and human context into their adaptive management frameworks. While this adaptive governance framework can be successful, many potential challenges arise when incorporating public stakeholders into the adaptive management framework. To reduce those challenges, programs need participation from diverse stakeholder groups that represent multiple communities of interest, place, and identity. The participatory process benefits from a diverse group of stakeholders and can result in successful management of environmental resources. We highlight the participatory co-management process of three newly developing nonregulatory programs that are modeled after the United States EPA’s National Estuary Program in the Perdido and Pensacola Bay systems, Choctawhatchee Bay, and the St. Andrew and St. Joseph Bay systems (Florida USA). This case study illustrates how collaborative nonregulatory programs can be implemented not only in the United States, but also in other regions of the world.Journal ArticleArticle # 11310