About Living on the Edge

“Living on the Edge: Florida’s Barrier Islands in an Era of Change” was reported by students in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Fall 2022 Environmental Journalism course.

For questions or to get in touch, contact faculty advisor Cynthia Barnett, clbarnett@jou.ufl.edu.

Living on the Edge Contributors

Emma Barrett

Lauren Bonich

Stephanie Castellano

Delaney Currie

Fernando Figueroa

Alan Halaly

Abigail Hasebroock

Ana Clara Mattiuzzi Martins

Uma Raja

Nicholas Sopko

Gabrielle Thaw

Elliot Tritto

Mariaguadalupe Vilchez

John Watson

Marielle Zuber


Living on the Edge editors

Project editor/faculty advisor: Cynthia Barnett, Environmental Journalist in Residence
Additional editing: Ethan Magoc, news manager, WUFT News
Web editors: Craig Lee, Kristin Moorehead, Joanna Keen, Avery Lotz

Living on the Edge cover image: Photograph by Josh Baker, taken on Seahorse Key, Florida


With special thanks to

Micheal S. Allen, director, UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station; Rich Doty, GIS coordinator and research demographer, the UF Bureau of Economic and Business Research; Andrew Gude, refuge manager, Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge; Alex Harris, climate change reporter, The Miami Herald; April Hines, librarian and researcher, UF College of Journalism and Communications; Tom Hoctor, director, UF Center for Landscape Conservation Planning; Capt. Kenny McCain, marine operations manager, Nature Coast Biological Station; Kenneth E. Sassaman, Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of Florida Archaeology, UF Department of Anthropology; Matt Sheehan, managing director, UF Center for Public Interest Communications; Travis Thomas, biological scientist, Nature Coast Biological Station; and UF landscape architecture major Anna Ward.