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Lacie Anderson presenting her poster at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Biannual Meeting in Portland, Oregon in November 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n

Congratulations to UCF biology major, Lacie Anderson, for\u00a0her accomplishment as\u00a0the February recipient of the Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher Award <\/a>(DURA).<\/p>\n

Each month, one student is rewarded for their time and effort spent researching a subject of their choice. During their research, students work with a mentor that guides and helps them during the process. With their mentor\u2019s approval the research is submitted for review by the Student Undergraduate Research Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lacie received the DURA award for her research on “Quantifying the Success of Eastern Oysters in Brevard County”. She worked under the mentorship of Linda Walters, Ph.D.,<\/a> after\u00a0she met her on their tropical marine biology\u00a0study abroad trip to Belize in summer of 2014. They started the\u00a0project in Fall 2014 and will continue until Summer 2016.<\/p>\n

The project involves reintroducing the eastern oyster to three sites in Brevard County. Every three months\u00a0the team would visit each deployment site and sample a sub-set from\u00a0each of our treatments.<\/p>\n

Lacie said “This way we are able to asses survival of the gardened oysters, any natural recruitment occurring, and the size of the oysters. I also go to each site once a month to collect abiotic data (salinity, wind speed, air temp, and water temp)”.<\/p>\n

Oysters are an essential species in estuaries to filter water remove nitrogen, protect shorelines, and provide food and hiding places for juvenile fishes, shrimp and crabs. Living shorelines provide better long-term, economical protection of the area in terms of sea level rise, as well as the ability to stop erosion by accreting sediments. The purpose of this study is to determine if these sites are good for future large-scale oyster deployments to ultimately\u00a0improve local lagoon\u00a0water quality in Brevard County.<\/p>\n

“Lacie has been the backbone of this important project that is run collaboratively by UCF, Brevard Zoo and Brevard County Natural Resources and funded by the state\u201d, stated Dr. Walters.\"DURA<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, she is more colleague than student. Many counties in Florida are considering using oysters for natural water filtration. Understanding the success (or lack thereof) of deployed oysters in potential reef locations is hard work, but incredibly important to avoid wasting tax dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacie will be presenting this data at the Indian River Lagoon Symposium <\/a>on Feb. 11, 2016.<\/p>\n

Last semester, Lacie signed up for the Honors in the Major program and\u00a0is now working on an undergraduate honors thesis for this research project.\u00a0She believes in working outdoors, “in the real Florida and helping\u00a0communities understand how to preserve and restore\u00a0ecosystems so that future generations will be able to see them and appreciate them as well.”<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0DURA recipient, Lacie received a\u00a0$100 scholarship to recognize their efforts, in partnership with SGA, a\u00a0certificate and an Office of Undergraduate Research <\/a>(OUR) padfolio, recognition on the Office of Undergraduate Research website and acknowledgment of her award in the monthly OUR electronic newsletter.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher Award, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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