Are you interested in seeing how the LCC, Climate Science Centers, Coastal Zone Management Programs, and Gulf of Mexico Alliance goals and activities align? Check out this matrix: LCC, CSC, CZM, GOMA Matrix. This matrix was provided to the Gulf of Mexico Alliance during their annual meeting in June 2012. The annual meeting is used by the Alliance to bring together partners to identify…

Working Title:  ASSOCIATE RESEARCH SCIENTIST-FWC

Broadband/Class Code:  19-1023-04

Position Number:  77000813

Annual Salary Range:  $46,685 annually

Announcement Type:  Open Competitive

City:  GAINESVILLE

Facility:  Wildlife Research Lab

Closing Date:  10/15/2012

JOB DESCRIPTION:  Coordinates and conducts research on terrestrial birds and their habitat statewide, particularly passerines and…

Abstract:

Recent attention has focused on the high rates of annual carbon sequestration in vegetated coastal ecosystems—marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses—that may be lost with habitat destruction (‘conversion’). Relatively unappreciated, however, is that conversion of these coastal ecosystems also impacts very large pools of previously-sequestered carbon. Residing mostly in sediments, this ‘blue carbon’ can be released to the atmosphere when these ecosystems are converted or degraded.…