Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Braswell Lab
Led by Anna Braswell · Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences
What we study
The Braswell Lab studies coastal ecosystems, focusing on how human activities and natural disturbances affect marshes and their resilience. They use fieldwork, geospatial analysis, and stakeholder collaboration to understand and manage these systems.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Urban Development, Science Advances
Studies how coastal development and wetland ecosystems interact, including how coastal communities have grown and how much wetland has been lost over time.
Extreme Events, Earth's future
Investigating the effects of extreme events on coastal marshes.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Fertilizer enhances production more than mussels in a deteriorating salt marsh
2026 · Journal of Applied Ecology
Tests whether fertilizer boosts cordgrass growth more than mussels in a degraded salt marsh.
- Toward a Standardized Framework for Benthic Mapping Data and Metadata Integration in Florida
2026 · Data Science Journal
Proposes standards for marine benthic data integration to improve spatial decision-making in Florida.
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- Restoration of a marsh‐upland ecotone specialist: the role of elevation, amendment, and facilitation
2025 · Restoration Ecology
Tests how elevation, soil amendment, and facilitation affect the survival of coastal gumplant in California.
- Climate sensitivity and restoration trajectories: Insights from tidal marsh restoration in Elkhorn Slough, California
2025 · Ecosphere
Tracks plant colonization in tidal marsh restoration, linking success to rainfall and soil salinity.
- Changes in Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Service Delivery under Mangrove Encroachment in Florida
2025 · Estuaries and Coasts
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