In Florida's humid climate, strawberry growers are in a constant battle with two kinds of fruit rot. Using a decision support system, they can save money by spraying fields only when the plant diseases are a threat, saving up to $400 per acre per year.

Florida’s Charlotte Harbor Estuary was established as national estuary under the 1987 National Estuary Program for its significance to wildlife and local economy. A 20-year Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) was formulated to restore and protect the estuarine system. Restoration activities started in June of 2001

An astonishing 50% of the original Everglades have been destroyed due to changes in the hydrologic regime and urbanization in Florida. In 2000, Congress approved the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) that provides funding for alterations to existing structures and addition of new structures (reservoirs, channels, etc.) to re-create the effect of the original water flow.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established a 5-hectare marsh on Drake Wilson Island off of the coast of Florida in 1976. This was one of the earliest beneficial use of dredged material projects for habitat enhancement. For more than 40 years, this marsh has created recreational opportunities and reduced erosion. 

This project planted approximately 474,634 native plants seaward of existing dunes along Pensacola Beach on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Plantings were 76% sea oats, 19% panic grass, and 5% other native species. These plants were chosen to maximize sand stabilization and limit wind erosion of the dunes.

This project installed a living shoreline off the coast of Eastpoint, Florida to reduce shoreline erosion and provide habitat. This living shoreline used natural and/or artificial breakwater materials to reduce wave energy, create salt marsh habitat, and increase benthic productivity. This project created over 1 acre of new salt marsh habitat. 

This project aimed to restore oyster populations in Pensacola Bay, St. Andrews Bay, and Apalachicola Bay in Florida. This project placed 49,000 cubic yards of cultch material over 210 acres of previously constructed oyster bars. This project hoped to maximize oyster larvae settling and oyster colonization at each restoration site. 

This project built a living shoreline at Project GreenShores Site II in Pensacola Bay to reduce erosion, provide shoreline protection, and create both reef and salt marsh habitat. The constructed breakwaters created 9 acres of salt marsh habitat, and 4 acres of reef habitat. 

Two hurricanes in 2004 destroyed Fort Pierce, Florida’s waterfront. This waterfront is a public access space that includes a park and a marina. The city and Tetra Tech Inc. developed a 6-hectare island breakwater system that will protect the city under current conditions and adapt to projected sea-level rise.  

Alachua County, Florida is facing increasing climate threats from flooding, storms, and droughts. The county government has worked to implement green infrastructure projects and policies to increase Alachua County’s resilience. The county has involved developers, landscapers, and community members to implement green stormwater projects on both public and private lands.  

The Kissimmee River Restoration project aimed to restore over 40 square miles of river/floodplain ecosystem in Central and South Florida after two major hurricanes in the late 1940s caused mass flooding and property damage throughout the upper basin. The project encompassed two primary components: backfilling the C-38 canal and changing water level management practices.

The MacDill Air Force Base (AFB) Oyster Reef Shoreline Stabilization Project in Tampa, Florida is a collaboration between the base and Tampa Bay Watch, a local nonprofit. This living shoreline project reduces erosion, provides protection from storms and sea-level rise, improves water quality, and enhances habitat. 

The state of Florida is working to control invasive Burmese pythons to reduce their impact on native species in the Everglades National Park. This project aimed to identify effective techniques for detecting and removing Burmese pythons, controlling their spread, and educating local partners about their impacts.

Mangrove Reef Walls are seawall-enhancing panels that create engineered-living habitat along developed waterfronts. These were installed in two locations in Florida in 2016 and 2018. These can improve biodiversity and water quality, and reduce erosion in areas where “traditional” living shorelines are not feasible (high energy zones, narrow canals, steep slopes). 

The West Lake estuary and watershed is an urban/suburban estuary ecosystem with one of the largest ports in the USA (Port Everglades). Dredging and filling in support of this port have modified both the shallow edge and bottom of the estuary. This project successful establishment of 500 hectares of mangroves at West Lake in Broward County, Florida.

This project aims to clear dead trees and debris deposited by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 from mangrove tidal passageways in Matheson Hammock Park on Biscayne Bay. In a five-year effort to prevent further damage to this sensitive habitat, the debris are removed by volunteers using canoes and manual labor instead of large machinery.

The St. Johns River is Florida’s most important commercial and recreational river. Mile Point, along the river in Jacksonville, has experienced severe shoreline erosion and has created dangerous navigation conditions. This project improved navigation conditions, reduced erosion, restored salt marsh habitat, and created new oyster habitat. 

On August 4, 1984, the M/V Wellwood, a 122-meter Cypriot-registered freighter, ran aground on Molasses Reef about 6 nautical miles southeast of Key Largo in Monroe County, Florida. The Molasses Coral Reef Restoration Project, implemented by NOAA, involved the restoration of fourteen separate reef sites damaged during the 1984 incident.

This project improved public access to the beaches and water of the Santa Rosa Sound in Florida. This included the addition of two new boardwalks and a kayak/boat launch to improve recreational opportunities and connect the community and visitors with the sound. This project also restored degraded dunes at the park. 

Pensacola faces increasing threats from sea-level rise, storm surges, and erosion along the Gulf Coast. The city of Pensacola created Project Greenshores to re-establish marsh habitat along its coastline. This project, a pioneer in constructing living shorelines in Florida, restored salt marsh habitat and enhanced shoreline protection.