Joe Bisesi named associate director of Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants
Press release from UF/IFAS
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) has selected Joe Bisesi as the new associate director of the UF/IFAS Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants (CAIP). The center focuses on developing and sharing environmentally sound management techniques for aquatic and natural area invasive plant species.
Bisesi, formerly the associate chair of UF’s Department of Environmental and Global Health, brings a wealth of interdisciplinary expertise and leadership experience to the role.
He served as an associate professor and Ph.D. program director in his previous department and holds additional affiliations with UF’s Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology, Water Institute and Emerging Pathogens Institute. He comes with a background in land-grant university research, earning his Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from Clemson University, and has spent over a decade at UF in management, research, and teaching roles.
If by controlling invasive plants you mean spraying Roundup on everything, there by poisoning the ground water, I don’t think much of it. I was at Paynes
prairie on Thursday and two 4 wheelers were spraying something along 441. The county is spraying it on what we once called Camp McConnell, along streams. Most people around there use wells for their drinking water so again, I think this is short sighted and dangerous.