ABOUT 

Southeastern Botany, LLC provides botanical consulting services and plant identification workshops throughout Florida and soon to adjoining states. These services include vegetation monitoring, botanical inventories that can include rare and invasive plants, plant community mapping, floristic quality assessments, wetland delineation workshops, management plans and plant identification workshops. Group courses that meet the needs of your organization can be arranged in your area.

We are dedicated to preparing natural resource professionals with a strong working knowledge of the regional flora, understanding that correctly identifying plants, including invasive and exotic plant species, is a necessary component of jurisdictional wetland delineation, habitat management and restoration. CEU certificates are provided for course completion. 

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 INSTRUCTOR

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Christina M. Uranowski, President

M.S. Botany, Professional Wetland Scientist #1720,
completed her Master of Science degree in Botany at the University of South Florida and holds a Bachelor degree in Biology. Her resume includes over 35 years experience working in Florida’s coastal and freshwater wetlands that includes wetland regulation, exotic mapping and removal, seagrass mapping, algal identification,  permitting and restoration, wetland delineation, functional and floristic assessment, wetland plant and grass and sedge  identification, minimum flows and levels for wetlands and lakes, and plant physiology. She has worked as a researcher, consultant, and trainer for academia, private industry, government agencies, and as an instructor for Richard Chinn Environmental Training Inc.  Much of Christina’s research is published in several peer reviewed scientific journals. Christina has taught grass identification and wetland plant classes for over 15 years. She was principal investigator and first author of the Florida Riverine Hydrogeomorphic (HGM) methodology for measuring wetland functions, and assisted in the development of the Florida depressional wetland HGM methodology.  Both were published as national technical documents by the US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station.  From 2011 through 2013 she was President of the South Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists.

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