Last week members of the UF Geomorph group attended the U. S. Coastal Research Program’s (USCRP) “Coastal Storms” workshop in St. Pete, Florida. We were treated to a tour of the Florida Institute of Oceanography’s (FIO) research vessel the R/V Weatherbird II and attended many excellent presentations on storm effects in the coastal environment. The […]
On Saturday March 17th the UF Geomorph group participated in the 12th annual Department of Geological Sciences outreach event “Can You Dig It?” held at the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH). Our “tide tank” is 4′ x 4′ x 1′ basin equipped with a recirculating pump, a barrier island, a tidal inlet, and wind-generated […]
On Friday, February 9, 2018, Juan Felipe Paniagua Arroyave successfully defended his PhD Dissertation “Hydrodynamic Processes Associated with the Evolution of Cape-Related Shoals”. Pani has been a star within the UF Geomorphology group for the last 5 years and will be greatly missed, but we are happy to report that he will be moving on to a […]
This month, our group has offered a hypothesis about the geomorphic origin of the Merritt Island-Cape Canaveral Sedimentary Complex (MICCSC) and the possibility of St. Johns River reversal some time in the Holocene. The work was published online Jan. 11th in and will be formally released in the April 2018 issue of Geomorphology. The .pdf […]