From 1999 to 2001 I worked as an Environmental Scientist for the South Florida Water Management District (S.F.W.M.D.) in West Palm Beach, FL. There, I helped improve the ecological dynamics of the Everglades Landscape Model, created by Carl Fitz. If you ever have a boss like Carl, count yourself lucky. Carl let me take time from my primary modeling duties to participate in fieldwork.
In this photo I have just finished a rather sloppy installation of a surface and ground water monitoring station on the Everglades 'tree-island' known as 3A-S2.
The Florida Everglades are a unique ecosystem characterized by extremely slow oligotrophic freshwater flow over the surface of the million+ acre marsh. The nature of this unique hydrologic situation is responsible for the Everglades landscape structure, which, from space, resembles a long, smeared streak. |
