Planning Committee

Dr. Todd Z. Osborne, Conference Chair, Assistant Professor, University of Florida/IFAS Soil and Water Sciences Department, Estuarine Ecosystems Laboratory, Wetland Biogeochemistry Laboratory, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, Gainesville, FL

Dr. John R. White, Conference Co-Chair, Professor, Louisiana State University Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA

Dr. K. Ramesh Reddy, Graduate Research Professor and Chair, University of Florida/IFAS Soil and Water Sciences Department, Gainesville, FL

Ms. Beth Miller-Tipton, Director, University of Florida/IFAS Office of Conferences & Institutes (OCI), Gainesville, FL



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OCI stands for the Office of Conferences & Institutes. It is a full service conference planning agency at the University of Florida. OCI was created to support the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) mission to develop knowledge in agriculture, human and natural resources, and to make that knowledge available to people to sustain and enhance the quality of life.

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