Speaker
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Don Duke
Professor
Florida Gulf Coast University
Don Duke is Professor in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), continuing a career of 40 years in the environmental and water resources field. He has worked in the private sector, in state governance, and in academia, with specialties in watershed assessment; water quality analysis; flood mitigation policy; and effectiveness assessment of policies, regulations, and local/watershed programs. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (civil) and Floodplain Manager. He served on a National Academies panel for revising EPA’s industrial stormwater General Permits, edited two AWRA volumes on Proactive Flood and Drought Management, and was co-lead on an investigation of flood insurance for the state of Pennsylvania. He has been an AWRA member since 1998, serving for 10 years as an AWRA-Florida section Director; two 3-year terms as a National-level Director; and since 2012 as Faculty Advisor for the FGCU AWRA Student Chapter.
Student Chapter Panelists
- Emily Bargas
- Whitney Hummel
- Jemma North
- Riley Plank, President
- Dylan Sharp
- Jasmine Stanton
Description
As presented at the AWRA 2025 Annual Water Resources Conference, Denver CO, November 10 2025.
Florida Gulf Coast University is home to AWRA-FGCU Student Chapter. The Chapter has sustained students’ interest, and delivered educational opportunities, consistently since founding in 2011, and won AWRA’s Spangenberg Award for Outstanding Student Chapter in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The Chapter supports continuing research, monitoring surface water on the 800-acre FGCU campus, giving multiple generations of students hands-on expertise in field methods and data analysis. It supports the Water Resources Concentration in the Environmental Studies degree, and sponsors technical speakers on campus each semester. The Chapter is a lead organizer of the annual Southwest Florida Water Resources Conference – a technical meeting of the AWRA Florida Section. And the students routinely find recreational activities; wet-walk hike in the Southwest Florida wetlands, and ‘kayaking with the manatees’ in Orange River, are two recurring favorites.
Learning Objectives
How the University chapter promote coursework, hands-on research, and pathways to the environmental profession, and how the participation of the student AWRA chapter facilitates that teaching, research, conversation, and connections.
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