What are the potential for using citizen science observations of changes in the behavior of aquatic life in sinkholes to provide early warnings of potential water quality issues in Florida?

May 21, 2018 ... Anthony Randozzo, professor emeritus of geology at the University of Florida, said Hurricane Irma caused more than 400 sinkholes to open last ... Dec 6, 2024 ... Sinkholes are most common in what geologists call karst terrain, which involves types of rock including limestone below the land surface that ... Feb 16, 2025 ... US Representatives Darren Soto, a Democrat, and Gus Bilirakis, a Republican, introduced HR 900 – the Sinkhole Mapping Act, bipartisan legislation that directs ... The sinkholes destroyed homes, roads, and sections of cultivated areas. April 2011. A collapse sinkhole in Trenton, Florida was induced by drilling, causing the ... Sep 17, 2016 ... More than 200m gallons of contaminated wastewater from a fertilizer plant in central Florida leaked into one of the state's main underground ... Mar 6, 2020 ... You might hear about sinkholes in Florida, an area with lots of limestone. But here in Washington State, where I live, other types of rock ... Jul 17, 2019 ... ... Florida that cause potential problems for peoples properties and the environment. New sinkholes can cause some damage to new buildings and roads ... One of the worst human-caused sinkholes occurred in 1994 in Polk County, located in Central Florida. First, some background: 30 percent of the world's phosphate ... A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, ... Mar 5, 2013 ... Sinkholes are an increasingly deadly risk in Florida, due primarily to the region's geology. The state is largely underlain by porous limestone.