Brenda Thomas Profile

Thomas, Brenda (M.S.)

Director, Colloquium

Academic Programs and Curriculum Development

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239-590-1497

bthomas@fgcu.edu

Sustainability Education/Environmental Science

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Brenda Thomas is an Instructor in the Department of Integrated Studies and program Director of FGCU’s capstone course, University Colloquium: A Sustainable Future. Brenda’s previous research focused on the response of plant communities in the southeastern United States to natural and anthropogenic disturbance. More recently, her research has focused on sustainability education and student engagement. Brenda works extensively with the Herbarium of Southwestern Florida and serves on the Board of Trustees for CREW Land & Water Trust.

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- Wilder, G.J., Thomas, B.L. 2016. A floristic inventory of Collier-Seminole State Park and immediately adjacent lands (Collier County), Florida, U.S.A. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, in press.
- Thomas, B.L., T. Doyle, and K. Krauss. 2015. Annual growth patterns of baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) along salinity gradients. Wetlands, DOI 10.1007/s13157-015-0659-x
- Everham, E.M. III, D.W. Ceilley, D.A. Croshaw, J. Firth, C. Gunnels, D.D. Hanson, S. Mariolan, F. Spear, B.L. Thomas, D. E. VanNorman, B.M. Whitmore, and J.R. Cassani. 2012. Ten years of the Southwest Florida frog monitoring network: natural variation and human-driven changes. Florida Scientist, 2:138-149.
- Key, J. G., E. M. Everham III, D. W. Ceilley, B.L. Thomas, and R. Leisure III. 2009. Surface and groundwater dynamics of a cypress swamp in an urbanizing watershed. Florida Scientist. 72(4): 420–436.
- Everham, E. M. III, D. W. Ceilley, B.L. Thomas, and D. Hamilton. 2009. Riparian vegetation along tributaries to Estero Bay, Florida. Florida Scientist. 72(4): 437–447.

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