Students who might be interested in managing floodplains, land conservation, wetland protection, and waste management should attend the FLERA 2015 Symposium in Alachua County.
FLERA is the umbrella professional association of county and municipal EPD-like agencies. It’s Board also includes environmental consultants. This year FLERA is holding their annual meeting here in Alachua Co. (June 25-26) and is an opportunity to network with public and private practitioners, hear about best practices and get legislative updates.
FLERA has put together a really good agenda (http://www.flera.org/conferences-education/#Agenda ) Steve Martin from Florida Dept. of Emergency Management (FDEM) will be speaking about managing floodplains outside of wetlands and John Humphreys from FDEP is speaking about UMAM and the new worksheets (and a lot more). There are also roundtables devoted to land conservation, wetland protection, waste management, and other specific focus areas.
The cost is $60.00; $63.75 if you want to offset your carbon footprint.
http://www.flera.org/flera-2015-summer-symposium-june-25th-26th/
and the link to all the info is here: http://www.flera.org/conferences-education/
