Balancing act: Lake O releases slowed to help protected species during nesting season
Zombie Estuaries: St. Lucie, Caloosahatchee to be dumping grounds in 2021
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Average flows to the Caloosahatchee were 2,000 cubic feet per second, but the Army Corps lowered that to 1,200 cubic feet per second, and levels in St. Lucie were dropped to 300 cubic feet per second, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers records. It s a good number, said Barry Rosen, a professor with Florida Gulf Coast University s Water School, talking about the flow to the Caloosahatchee system. Twelve hundred (cubic feet per second) is not going to harm oysters, and it s not going to hurt the freshwater tape grasses.
Average flows to the Caloosahatchee were 2,000 cubic feet per second, but the Army Corps lowered that to 1,200 cubic feet per second, and levels in St. Lucie were dropped to 300 cubic feet per second, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers records. It s a good number, said Barry Rosen, a professor with Florida Gulf Coast University s Water School, talking about the flow to the Caloosahatchee system. Twelve hundred (cubic feet per second) is not going to harm oysters, and it s not going to hurt the freshwater tape grasses.
The Army Corps has tried for several weeks now to lower Lake Okeechobee, which was just over 14 feet above sea level Wednesday afternoon, in order to avoid summertime releases.
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Young people now eligible for vaccine; some waiting for their elders
Published: April 5, 2021 8:34 AM EDT
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Starting this week, anyone 16 and older can get vaccinated for COVID-19 (though 16- and 17-year-olds must get the Pfizer vaccine), which could mean longer lines and longer waits.
The college students WINK News spoke to say they will get the vaccine, but maybe not right away. Some want to make sure older adults have a chance to get the vaccine first, others just lack the urgency seen in many of their elders, but they are all ready to get back to a sense of normalcy. One golf student, Florida Gulf Coast University senior Joseph Adams, says he is looking forward to tournaments.
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DAVID L. MAJOR, 50 University of Miami, Miami
When Major joined the faculty of the University of Miami in 2019, it was a homecoming for the associate professor of professional practice. Major was born and raised in Miami, and his late mother worked in child care at the university, where he would head when his school day finished. “When I would get out of elementary school, I would spend my time running around that campus,” he says.
Now he’s teaching management and strategy classes in UM’s MBA program, where he takes an interactive approach in the classroom. “I make participation a huge part of my classes,” he says. “When it comes to strategy, it’s not black and white. There is so much in terms of gray areas, so talking through that is hugely important.”