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Lee Florea

 

 

My Research Funding: 

- SEPM, Friedman Fund
- Pinellas County Government
- Internatioal Exploration Grant, 
     National Speleological Society
- US Exploration Grant, 
     National Speleological Society
- Geological Society of America
- Gulf Coast Association for
     Geological Siences
- Florida Studies Center, USF
Downloads:

Karst Studies in West Central Florida
Hog Cay Cave Map, Bahamas
Bellview Formation Cave Map, Florida
Chen Ha cave map, Belize
Cielo Blanco cave map, Belize

Longs Peak, CO

 

 
Who I Am:

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Karst Research Group in the Department of
Geology at the University of South Florida. My research interests include karst
geomorphology, carbonate platforms, and paleoclimates. 

My dissertation involves several aspects of karst research in the Floridan Aquifer of 
West Central Florida. For example, I am interested in the relationship between  platform 
archetecture, permeability and conduit development. To investigate this, I am core-
sampling cave wall profiles in an attempt to describe lateral and vertical variations in 
permeabilty.

A second aspect of my work is relating discharge from first-magnitude springs in
Florida and elsewhere in the world to internal aquifer characteristics such as storage,
and transmissivity. Our goal is to provide a conceptual basis for ongoing numerical
modeling.
  
Currently I am engaged in several research 
projects in the United States and elsewhere.
These projects include:

Karst management studies in Kentucky.

Exploration and study of Bahamian caves

Petrography of Cretaceous breccias of
Belize.

Investigations of Cuban karst.
 
 
 
Contact Me:
Lee Florea
Department of Geology 
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave., SCA 528
Tampa, FL 33620-5201 
813-974-8751(ph)
813-974-2654(fax)
lflorea@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
 
 
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