An essential component of restoration planning in South Florida has been the development and use of computer simulation models for the major physical processes driving the system, notably models for freshwater hydrologic dynamics as it is affected by alternative human ...

Age structure is essential information for monitoring a population's status and recruitment history. This project develops age-length keys and age-length relationships for several reef species such as gag grouper, red grouper, red porgy, and red, gray and yellowtail snapper. For ...

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and the NOAA Coastal Services Center are working together to map benthic habitats within Apalachicola Bay using a combination of traditional benthic sampling, sediment profiling imagery (SPI) and single-beam acoustics. Fieldwork was done ...