The Virtual Laboratory
In partnership with the GTMNERR, we have created a series of virtual reality programs to provide context to visitors about the WETFEET experiments going on in the marshes of GTMNERR, bolster environmental education at the GTMNERR and beyond, and increase accessibility to these habitats in our increasingly virtual world.
Check out the programs below:
WETFEET Site Tour
Click here to tour one of our experimental sites
Impact of Boat Wakes
Undergraduate researcher Phil Yang’s Senior Thesis details how small estuary channels are impacted by continued boat usage along the Intracoastal Waterway in this ESRI Story Map.
Want to learn more about our work?
Click through these links below to see where else our work has been featured!
PBS NewsHour Weekend and Climate Central recently produced a new segment on mangroves moving northward and the WETFEET project. This ten minute video does an awesome job of summing up our work and its implications for Florida’s environment under climate change. https://www.pbs.org/video/climate-change-pushes-florida-s-mangroves-north-1554054882/
Listen to a podcast of some of the WETFEET students and Sam talk about this project and mangrove research in general. https://www1.villanova.edu/content/villanova/artsci/newsevents/podcast.html (Episode 2)
Sam and Candy talk about hurricanes and mangroves on NPR’s Morning Edition https://www.npr.org/2019/08/29/755322980/mangroves-climate-change-and-hurricanes
Craig Pittman talks about Florida’s special vulnerability to climate change and interviews Sam about mangroves adapting to Florida’s changing climate https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2020/09/03/nature-is-finding-ways-to-adapt-to-how-weve-changed-the-climate-what-are-we-doing-to-adapt-to-it/
Check out this blog post by WETFEET technician and graduate student Gabby Canas which describes her role in the #WETFEETproject https://nerrdsonthewater.com/2018/06/20/our-changing-nerr-borhood/
Here’s our recent project summary for stakeholders, produced by GTMNERR coastal training program and Kaitlyn Dietz.
Read this piece in The Conversation by Samantha Chapman which talks about the roles mangroves play in helping humans adapt to climate change. https://theconversation.com/mangroves-protect-coastlines-store-carbon-and-are-expanding-with-climate-change-81445
Listen to this interview Chapman did on NPR’s science show “The Pulse” about the #WETFEETproject, mangroves, and climate change. https://whyy.org/episodes/global-warning/
Follow #wetfeetproject on Twitter to see our latest activities in the field and beyond.