Stark to bring ‘unparalleled expertise’ as new leader of UF’s Center for Coastal Solutions

University of Florida Associate Professor and researcher Nina Stark was named the new director of the Center of Coastal Solutions — known as CCS — within the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

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