Florida Aquatic Plant Management Society

06/01/2026

🚨‼️Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
SJRWMD Invasive Plant Technician

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The St. Johns River Water Management District is an equal opportunity employer, with a variety of challenging positions in the professional, administrative, engineering, environmental sciences and hydrologic fields. See job postings here as well. The District also offers internship programs.

05/28/2026

📝📝📝CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! 📝📝📝
Deadline Aug 15th
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05/12/2026

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Join now to attend FAPMS 50th Annual Training Conference!! ✏️📖📝

05/04/2026

📚📚📚Calling all students!!!📝📝📝

The Paul C. Myers Dependent Scholarship through the FAPMS Scholarship and Research Foundation (SRF) is "LIVE" on the FAPMS website, click the link below. This scholarship is designed for college students whose parent(s) has been an active member of FAPMS for the past 3 years. The scholarship is weighted on the financial need of the students and is ranked using the FAFSA score. The FAPMS SRF has awarded over $170K to eligible students.
For more information about the FAPMS SRF, visit the website:
Scholarship Foundation – FAPMS
To submit an application for the Paul C. Myers Dependent Scholarship, click the link below: The due date for submission is JUNE 1, 2026.
Myers Scholarship – FAPMS

*Please note, the William L Maier Graduate Scholarship is awarded every other year on "odd" years. This will be available in 2027.

If you or your student has questions, please contact the FAPMS SRF President- Keshav Setaram, [email protected] OR Secretary- Kelli Gladding, [email protected].

04/15/2026

****JOB ALERT**** please see attached

02/27/2026

Welcome to day 5 and the final day of National Invasive Species Awareness Week (Feb 23-27)!

Today’s post is featuring one of the most infamous invasive aquatic species, water hyacinth. Brought to Florida in 1884, it was placed in a small fish pond near Palatka. After quickly multiplying, the excess plants were discarded into the St. Johns River. Less than a decade later, water hyacinth was hindering boat navigation on the river. By the late 1950s, water hyacinth covered over 51,000 hectares (over 126,000 acres) of Florida’s waterways. The second picture shows a steamer named “Alligator” trying to work its way through water hyacinth. Image courtesy UF/IFAS Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants.

Athough NISAW comes to an end, we must continue everyday to be good stewards of the water and land so that we can protect Floridas natural beauty.

02/26/2026

Today is day 4 of National Invasive Species Awareness Week (Feb 23-27)!

Today’s post features two commonly confused nonnative aquatic species: giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta) and common salvinia (Salvinia minima). Based on the picture, can you tell which is which? It’s easy to see how they can be confused. The correct answer: giant salvinia is on the left, common salvinia is on the right. The key feature that distinguishes giant salvinia from common salvinia is its “egg-beater” or basket-like hairs, as shown in the second picture. Like Halophila stipulacea (see our February 24 post), giant salvinia is an Early Detection Rapid Response species and is highly invasive.

02/25/2026

Welcome to day 3 of National Invasive Species Awareness Week (Feb 23-27)!

In today’s post, we are highlighting one of Florida’s many amazing public waterbodies: Lake Tohopekaliga, commonly called “Lake Toho”. Lake Toho is the largest lake in Osceola County. It is home to some incredible Florida native plant species such as water-spider orchid (Habenaria repens), purple-flowered bladderwort (Utricularia purpurea), and pictured below, buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis).

What is the easiest and cheapest option to keep Florida’s waterways free of damaging invasive species, thus protecting native plants? Prevention! This is why it’s so important to ALWAYS clean, drain, and dry all equipment before entering another waterbody and to NEVER dump your aquarium.

02/24/2026

Welcome to day 2 of National Invasive Species Awareness Week (Feb 23-27)!
Today’s post features Halophila stipulacea. Found for the first time in Florida just 2 years ago in Biscayne Bay, it is an Early Detection Rapid Response (EDRR) species. Halophila stipulacea can rapidly spread across open areas and form dense mats that displace and interfere with native species. It has caused tremendous damage in the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean Sea. This EDRR species has a high invasion risk in Florida.

If you think you see this species, send in a photo and GPS coordinates to [email protected].

02/23/2026

Today marks the start of National Invasive Species Awareness Week (Feb 23-27). This week we will be dropping daily posts about invasive aquatic species throughout Florida. Today’s post is to get everyone pumped up to learn! It’s our job as mangers and good stewards of the land to keep these invasive species from taking over our beautiful Florida. While doing so in a safe and responsible way. Keep up with us throughout the week!