This is a satellite image of the site at Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve with the location of the settlement trays and fiddler crab burrow transects in the restored and non-restored sites. I have received approval from Dr. Smith to continue in assisting with the research being conducted at Guana. I am honestly pretty excited to be given this opportunity and I hope I can add to the team. I believe this will be very beneficial in the coming years and will really allow me to focus on the skills that are required to operate in this field. It isn't very often you find a University offering a course with this experience, typically I feel like you have to find an internship for an opportunity like this. I will begin assistance in the Spring of 2014 and I will also be planning on using my research, or separate research, of this study or my own for my senior project. Estuary restoration is crucial for an area like North East Florida since it is a peninsula state and majority of the development occurs along the coast. As well as the role certain estuarine organisms play in maintaing the water quality by filtering out harmful chemicals and organisms. And I feel like our research is important on a number of levels from economical gain to aesthetic gain.
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