Public Education

ERC staff has participated in the following:

• Serving as an adjunct professor at Florida State University (Dr. Tobe)
• Teaching ecotourism courses at Tallahassee Community College
• Teaching hydric soil identification classes to the Department of Health staff and seasonal high water determination workshops to public and private sectors, including the NWFWMD
• Providing guest speakers on topics of wetland permitting at Gulf Coast State College and Florida State University’s Panama City Campus
• Providing site assessment and evaluation training to the FDEP Division of State Lands staff
• Providing plant identification, wetland delineation, and hydric soil training to FDOT District 3
• Identifying aquatic plants for the FDEP Bureau of Labs for Stream Condition Indexing and Lake Condition Indexing
• Providing wetland training to State personnel at the Buffer Preserve in Cape San Blas
• Developing ephemeral pond educational content for the USFWS
• Developing wetland educational signage for display at wetland restoration areas managed by ERC
• Creating plant and animal species identification cards
• Hosted Conferences for Society of Ecological Restoration