Cohen, Kimberly A.

Efforts to create a sustainable environment within the Florida Keys [electronic resource] : requirements for the future / by Kimberly A. Cohen.

Miami, Fla. : Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 1999.

1 electronic text (v., 38 p.) : PDF file, ill., maps

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 29, 2005).

Document available online in PDF format from the Coastal and Estuarine Data Archeology and Rescue Program (CEDAR) via NOAA Miami Regional Library home page.

At head of title: University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

"An Internship report, submitted to the faculty of the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts."

"Restored and transferred to electronic form by M. J. Bello (NOAA) and Jabari Capp (RSMAS) in 2000 as part of the Coastal and Estuarine Data/Document Archeology and Rescue (CEDAR) for South Florida. Sponsored by the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Prediction and Modeling Program. Original stored at the Library, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami. Minor editorial changes were made."

"4/01/99."

Electronic text and image data.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

"The natural environment of South Florida has been affected by many anthropogenic disturbances, such as nutrient enrichment, soil erosion, pesticide contamination, and algal blooms. Efforts to divert freshwater resources to sustain the more populated areas have had devastating effects on the state's wetland areas. Coastal and benthic ecosystems have also been subject to many stressors as a result of runoff and groundwater contamination. Legislators have begun to consider the impact of ecosystem destruction not only ecologically but economically and have responded with increased funding and protective legislation designed to preserve the area. In the last decade, several baseline studies and long-term monitoring projects have been conducted to ensure that conservation and restoration projects are patterned specifically to the needs of the South Florida ecosystem. The Florida Keys have been designated as an area in need of protection and, as such, has been the subject of many of these research/conservation projects. My internship consisted required that I participate in one such project designed to characterize the sedimentation and nutrient patterns within the Florida Keys reef tract. Modelers will then use this data as one parameter which will can combined with concurrent biological, physical, and chemical data for an accurate estimation of system health."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-25).

Restoration ecology Florida.

Wetland ecology Florida.

Coral reef ecology Florida Florida Keys.

Sedimentation and deposition Research Florida Florida Keys.

Florida Keys (Fla.) Environmental conditions.

Bello, Maria J. (Maria Julia), 1955-

Capp, Jabari.

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Coastal and Estuarine Data Archeology and Rescue Program.