UCF has received two new awards from NOAA related to coastal restoration. One will support restoration efforts as part of the Indian River Lagoon’s National Estuary Program. Since 2007, more than 70,000 volunteers, including students, faculty, staff, and community members, have contributed to coastal restoral work led by UCF’s Coastal and Estuarine Ecology Lab.
The other award will support the evaluation of novel non-plastic materials for use in oyster reef restoration. “The desire to stop using plastics in coastal restoration has opened a floodgate of new and novel restoration materials,” says Lisa Chambers. “We need to know how materials affect the microbes and natural chemical cycles in the coastal ecosystem and long-terms impacts of restoration efforts.”
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