{"id":2596,"date":"2013-10-25T19:59:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2013-11-07T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:02:56","slug":"community-engagement-and-collaboration-between-usf-anthropology-engineering-and-geography-faculty-and-students-result-in-changes-to-east-tampa-retention-ponds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Global Citizens Program, Community Engagement, and Collaboration across USF contribute to Changes to East Tampa Retention Ponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 13, 2013, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story about improvements to east Tampa retention ponds.\u00a0 Many of the changes can be attributed to community engagement and collaboration between USF Anthropology, Engineering, and Geography faculty and students.\u00a0 <a title=\"link to Dr. Sarina Ergas website\" href=\"http:\/\/ce.eng.usf.edu\/facultyandstaff\/sarinaErgas.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sarina Ergas<\/a>, Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator, Dept. Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida noted that improvements planned to the stormwater pond on Osborne and 30th incorporated many of the aesthetic elements that the CEE capstone design and USF Anthropology students in the <a title=\"Global Citizenship Program\" href=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/?page_id=2404\" target=\"_blank\">Global Citizenship Program<\/a> recommended.\u00a0 <a title=\"link to Dr. Maya Trotz website\" href=\"http:\/\/ce.eng.usf.edu\/facultyandstaff\/mayaTrotz.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Trotz<\/a>, another professor in the USF Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering department, noted that this collaboration paved the way for more involvement between USF, city planners, and the community in order to effect additional changes to east Tampa retention ponds at the project design phase.\u00a0 View <a title=\"USF Global Citizenship Program web page\" href=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/?page_id=2404\">Global Citizenship Program web page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 13, 2013, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story about improvements to east Tampa retention ponds.\u00a0 Many of the changes can be attributed to community engagement and collaboration between USF Anthropology, Engineering, and Geography faculty and students.\u00a0 Sarina Ergas, Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator, Dept. Civil &amp; Environmental\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/?p=2596\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}