Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Unmaking and Remaking of Central Florida's Phosphate Fertilizer Landscapes

本研究探讨景观变化与磷肥工业在中央佛罗里达的废物产出。在这个地区，磷矿被开采，转化为肥料，并大量用于农业。磷矿开采和它产生的粘土废物已经从根本上改变了该地区骨谷的陆地景观？的磷矿区。磷肥的农业应用通过径流改变了整个半岛的水生生态系统。在陆地和水生区域，研究人员和管理人员正在尝试填海和恢复项目。本研究考察了骨谷和阿波普卡湖，一个大型浅水湖正在恢复的背景下，这样的项目。通过在中央佛罗里达15个月的研究，Caple先生将进行与复垦和恢复科学家的民族志采访;做档案工作;和景观测绘项目，以创建一个帐户，其中包括当地农业和采矿的环境历史;废物景观研究人员和管理人员的知识实践;和现有景观的多物种相互作用。 从他的研究中获得的知识将对佛罗里达中部产生实际影响？的磷管理，以及世界各地的磷景观。

This research examines landscape change associated with the waste outputs of the phosphate fertilizer industry in Central Florida. In this region, phosphate rock is mined, converted into fertilizer, and used abundantly in agriculture. Phosphate mining and the clay wastes it produces have radically transformed terrestrial landscapes in Bone Valley, the region?s phosphate mining district. Agricultural application of phosphate fertilizer has, through runoff, transformed aquatic ecosystems throughout the peninsula. In both terrestrial and aquatic zones, researchers and managers are attempting projects of reclamation and restoration. This research examines such projects in the contexts of Bone Valley and Lake Apopka, a large shallow lake undergoing restoration. Through 15 months of research in Central Florida, Mr. Caple will conduct ethnographic interviews with reclamation and restoration scientists; do archival work; and landscape mapping projects to create an account that includes an environmental histories of local agriculture and mining; knowledge practices of waste-landscape researchers and managers; and multispecies interactions on existing landscapes. The knowledge gained from his research will have practical implications for Central Florida?s phosphorus management, as well as phosphorus landscapes around the world.