Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Watershed Ecology Lab
Led by David Kaplan · Environmental Engineering Sciences
What we study
The Watershed Ecology Lab studies how water, ecosystems, and human activities interact to improve natural resource management. They use hydrological modeling and fieldwork to predict restoration effects and guide water management.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Stakeholder-informed environmental-economic tradeoffs at the farm and forest scale
2026 · Journal of Environmental Management
- The Annual Modulation of Subtidal Estuarine Dynamics by the Gulf Stream
2026 · Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Shows how Gulf Stream affects estuary water levels, salinity, and temperature.
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- Implications of land-use and climate change for meeting environmental flows and water quality targets in a groundwater-dominated watershed
2026 · Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
Looks at how climate and farming affect water quality in a Florida river basin.
- Water quantity and quality modeling of Lake Okeechobee, Florida: a systematic and critical literature review
2025 · Lake and Reservoir Management
Reviews models for Lake Okeechobee's water quantity and quality.
- Leveraging long‐term datasets to quantify variability in reference wetland hydrology
2025 · Restoration Ecology
Tests how wetland hydrology varies between different wetland types.
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