An Online Watershed Weekly Journal — Communicating South Florida's Hydrology in Weblog
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'A
Abstract
How many investors grab a newspaper to view the trend lines of key financial indices? Or, how many sports fans in their younger days unwound the rubber band from their stack of baseball cards to study the career statistics of their favorite players? Whatever one's business, knowing the numbers and watching where new numbers place in the historical parade of numbers that came before them, is both fun and empowering. To keep abreast of the happenings on sensitive regional water resources, from hydrology numbers to water politics, the Big Cypress Watersheds Restoration Coordination Team has developed a weekly weblog named the South Florida Watershed Journal (SFWJ). SFWJ illuminates and celebrates the water cycle and complex inner workings within and among the wetlands and waterways of the Kissimmee-Okeechobee-Everglades (KOE) and adjacent Big Cypress watersheds (http://sfwj.blogspot.com). The weblog provides a place where stakeholders of water resources and the interested public can quickly glance at and digest the numbers and graphics — just like looking at a watch — in a way that keeps them in tune with the constant tick of the region's water cycle and watersheds. It includes a weekly narrative, an interactive database, news-links, and other features of socio-political water interest. The watersheditorials provide a forum to discuss regional water resources projects and policies to obtain feedback from aquatic resources professionals across Florida. SFWJ can certainly serve as a model on-line journal for implementing forums for local/regional water and environmental resources information.
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© 2008 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Business management
- Computer networks
- Computing in civil engineering
- Engineering profession
- Financial management
- Hydrologic engineering
- Hydrology
- Internet
- Political factors
- Practice and Profession
- Professional development
- Public administration
- River engineering
- River systems
- Water and water resources
- Water management
- Water policy
- Water resources
- Watersheds
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