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In the State of Florida, water and water quality are compelling issues. With more than 20 major estuaries, where the fresh water from the land mixes with the salt water from the sea, Florida sports a coastal diversity unmatched by any other state.

Florida's 1,350-mile coastline and its estuarine and nearshore ecosystem are are prone not only to the impact of the state's 17 million residents and 70 million annual visitors, but to occasional bouts of mother nature's fury. Florida Sea Grant is involved in several key issues in a coordinated manner, ranging from discovery of how habitats function to advising citizen groups in enhancing the practical use and conservation of the state's coastal and marine resources.

Florida Sea Grant Research Projects 2000-2008
Containing project abstracts and contact information of principal investigators for Florida Sea Grant research projects funded from 2000-2008.

Search the National Sea Grant Research Database 1995-2004
A searchable database of research funded through state programs comprising the national Sea Grant network, dating from 1995-2004.

Search the National Sea Grant Information Management Systems
A growing, searchable database of research funded through state programs comprising the national Sea Grant network, dating from 1995 to the present. Check back often as archived research information is added.

Artificial Reef Research at Florida Sea Grant
Artificial reefs in Florida have been especially popular since the 1970s. Eleven major studies completed at Florida Sea Grant since 1984 are summarized here in easy-to-read, semi-technical language. Remarkably, this modest effort still makes Florida the most active in this area of all 30 Sea Grant programs nationally.

See also
The Socioeconomic Study of Reef Resources in SE Florida and the Florida Keys (December, 2001)
This study determined, in a comprehensive manner, the net economic value of southeast Florida's natural and artificial reef resources to the local economies and the reef users.