Coastal Wetlands StudiesJessica Balerna
2020 The Garden Club of America Award in Coastal Wetlands Studies
Understanding Relationships between Depressional Wetland Ecohydrological Condition and Water Management Decisions in Tampa, Florida
Jessica Balerna is a PhD candidate in the Integrative Biology Department at the University of South Florida. She is conducting interdisciplinary research to address key issues in freshwater health and management. For her dissertation, she will study the feedback between management decision-making and wetland ecohydrological function in depressional basin wetlands under the assumption that human perceptions and behaviors both are influenced by and influence wetland conditions. Specifically, she will survey residents and conduct wetland soil and water sampling to identify variability and potential trade-offs between the biophysical and cultural ecosystem services that these wetlands provide.
The Garden Club of America Award in Coastal Wetlands Studies
To promote, expand, and enrich the body of research concerning the coast by actively supporting graduate students in the field of coastal wetlands science.
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