Previous Presentations:
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2025

• Jeannine Richards, FGCU Water School

Beach Dune Recovery & Resilience Following Multiple Hurricanes

• Chris Mason, Division Director Collier County Community Planning & Resiliency

An Overview of Division Functions and Initiatives
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• Jeremy Sterk, Partner/Principal Environmental Consultant, Earth Tech Environmental

​Biological Monitoring of Clam Bay

2024

• Brian Beckner, Native Bird Boxes, Inc.

Birding and Birdhouses in SWFL and Your Backyard, Featuring the New Birdhouses along the Berm

• Brad Cornell, Audubon Western Everglades and Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

What is a Resilient Pelican Bay?

• Jeremy Sterk, Partner/Principal Environmental Consultant, Earth Tech Environmental

​Biological Monitoring of Clam Bay
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• Katie Laakkonen, Environmental Specialist for the City of Naples 

Oyster Restoration in Naples Bay

• Brittany Piersma, Audubon Western Everglades​​

​Shorebirds, the Nesting and Migratory Birds with Collier County

2023

• April Olson, Conservancy of SW Florida

Coastal Risk Management Plan Study Re-Initiation

• Nick Penniman, Co-author of “Enjoyment of the Same:

A History of Public Lands in Southwest Florida

• Daniel Andrews, Captains for Clean Water

History and Accomplishments of CCW
 
2022

• Laura Flynn, Coastal Resources Group

Mangrove Restoration

• Charles Sobczak, SWFL Naturalist and Author

Rewilding of Florida Wildlife

• MAG met regularly via Zoom without a speaker program

2020 – 2021

• MAG met regularly via Zoom without a speaker program

 

• Adam DiNouvo, Audubon Rookery Bay

Black Skimmers and Other Shorebirds
 
2017 - 2019

• Mary Lusk, Assistant Professor, Gulf Coast Research,

University of Florida, Landscape Practices Including Reclaimed Water and Pesticides

• April Olson, Conservancy of SW Florida

Moving to Florida? Where Would You Live?

• Michael Parsons, Professor of Marine Science, Coastal Programs, FGCU

Deadly Blooms: Good, Bad and Ugly

• Jennifer Bobka & Jeremy Sterk, Earth Tech Environmental

Biological Monitoring of Clam Bay

• John Scoular, Manta Films 

Paradise Reef, Documentary Offshore Naples

• April Olson, Conservancy of SW Florida

How Many People Can Coller County Hold? 

• Joanne Muller, Professor Department of Marine and 

Ecological Science, FGCU, The Climate and the Winds that Forecast What is Ahead

• Rhonda Watkins, Principal Environmental Specialist, 

Collier County Growth Management Division Collier County Red Tide Monitoring 

• Mike Savarese & Felix Jose, Professors, FGCU SW FL

Sea Level Rise & Storminess

• Ken Christensen

PEMS, A Solution for Beach Erosion

• Bob Verastro, Plan Mgr, SF Water Management District

SFWMD Plans for SW Florida

• Tim Hall, Turrell, Hall & Associates

Clam Bay Observations

• Nick Penniman

Collier County Growth Management Oversight Committee

• Nicole Johnson, Conservancy of SW FL

SW FL is Growing: Are We Keeping Up?