Jason Evans, PhD

Technical Resource & Adviser

Publications & Reports

• • Chamberlin, J., C. Soehnlein, J. Evans, and B. Tanner. 2022. A 1900-year sediment record suggests recent establishment of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) stands within a salt marsh in St. Augustine, Florida, USA. Quaternary 5(1):2.
  • Pricope, N.G., C. Hidalgo, J.S. Pippin, and J.M. Evans. 2022. Shifting landscapes of risk: Quantifying pluvial flood vulnerability beyond the regulated floodplain. Journal of Environmental Management 304:114221.
  • Evans, J.M., A. Clark, M. Blakely, S. Cooler, Z. Hoffman, T. McDonald, C. Reich, R. Brown, and C. Tolleson. 2020. Chatham County and City of Savannah Joint Coastal Watershed Management Plan: Stormwater System Assessments with Future Sea-Level Rise and 100-Year Coastal Flood Conditions.
  • Evans, J.M. and A. Clark. 2019. HAZUS Coastal Flooding Assessment under Current and Future Conditions for the Village of Islamorada, Florida. DeLand: Stetson University Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience.
  • Evans, J.M., A. Clark, and E.L. Deady. 2019. Monroe County Watershed Management Plan. Key West: Monroe County Floodplain Management Program.
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  • Evans, J.M., A. Clark, R. Bogart, and C. Abbatantuono. 2019. Coastal Flood Vulnerability Assessment for the City of New Smyrna Beach under Current and Future Conditions. DeLand: Stetson University Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience.
  • Evans, J.M., A. Clark., E. Deady. 2019. Monroe County Watershed Management Plan. DeLand: Stetson University Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience.
  • Evans, J.M. and A. Clark. 2019. Sea-Level Rise Inundation Assessment for the City of Rockledge Stormwater System. DeLand: Stetson University Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience.
  • Abbatantuono C., J. Evans, A. Clark. 2019 Current and Future Flood Risk Damage Assessments with Hazus-MH: Parcel-Level Analysis in Monroe County, Florida. DeLand: Stetson University Department of Environmental Science and Studies.
  • Evans, J.M., E. Mitchell, A. Carr, C. Goodison, P. Zwick, and T. McCue. 2019. Sea-Level Rise Technical Planning Assessment for the City of Satellite Beach. Gainesville: Florida Sea Grant.
  • Benedict, L., C. Glazer, C. Bergh, S. Traxler, B. Stys, and J. Evans. 2018. Florida Keys Case Study on Incorporating Climate Change into Conservation Planning and Actions for Threatened and Endangered Species. Tallahassee: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
  • Evans, J.M., and E.L. Deady. 2018. Climate Change Vulnerability Analysis: Potential Current and Future Climate Change Hazards from Sea Level Rise, and Flood Risk from Precipitation, for Sunrise, FL. DeLand: Stetson University Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience.
  • Gambill, J.M. Russell, K. Spratt, J. Whitehead, M. Alfonso, C.S. Hopkinson, and J.M. Evans. 2017. St. Mary’s Flood Resiliency Plan. Athens: Georgia Sea Grant.
  • Evans, J.M., J. Gambill, R.J. McDowell, P.W. Prichard, and C.S. Hopkinson. 2016. Tybee Island Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Plan. Athens: Georgia Sea Grant.
  • Evans, J.M. and C. Bergh. 2016. Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment for Monroe County, Florida. Technical Appendix in Support of th GreenKeys! Sustainability and Climate Action Plan. Key Largo: Monroe County Sustainability Program.
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  • Clark, A., T. Abbott, J. Evans. 2016 A GIS approach to analyzing Lake Beresford for the production and phytoremediation potential of Pistia stratiotes & Eichhornia crassipes. DeLand: Stetson University Bachelor of Science Senior Research Project.
  • Tanner, B. R., Work, K. A., and Evans, J. M. 2020. The Potential of Organic Sediments in Florida Spring Runs as Records of Environmental Change. Southeastern Geographer 60:200-214.
  • Jones, S., Ruppert, T., Deady, E. L., Payne, H., Pippin, J. S., Huang, L. Y. and Evans, J. M. 2019. Roads to nowhere: State and local governments in the Atlantic southeast facing sea-level rise. Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 44:67-136.
  • Hauer, M. E., Evans, J. M. and Mishra, D. R. 2016. Millions projected to be at risk from sea level rise in the continental United States. Nature Climate Change 6:691-695.
  • Evans, J. M., Calabria, J., Borisova, T., Boellstorf, D. E., Sochacka, N., Smolen, M. D., Mahler, R. L., and Risse, L. M. 2015. Effects of local drought condition on public opinions about water supply and future climate change. Climatic Change 132:193-207.
  • Hauer, M. E., Evans, J. M. and Alexander, C. R. 2015. Sea-level rise and sub-county population projections in coastal Georgia. Population and Environment 37:44-62.
  • Evans, J. M. 2013. Pistia stratiotes L. (water lettuce) in the Florida Peninsula: Biogeographic Evidence and Conservation Implications of Native Tenure for an ‘Invasive’ Aquatic Plant. Conservation and Society 11:233-246.
  • Fletcher, R. J., Robertson, B. A., Evans, J. M., Doran, P., Alavalapati, J. and Schemske, D. 2011. Biodiversity Conservation in the Era of Biofuels: Risks and Opportunities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9:161-168.
  • Evans, J. M. and Wilkie, A. C. 2010. Life Cycle Assessment of Nutrient Remediation and Bioenergy Production Potential from the Harvest of Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata). Journal of Environmental Management 91:2626-2631.
  • Evans, J. M., Fletcher, R. J. and Alavalapati, J. 2010. Using Species Distribution Models to Identify Suitable Areas for Biofuel Feedstock Production. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 2:63-78.
  • Heffernan, J. B., Liebowitz, D. M., Frazer, T. K., Evans, J. M. and Cohen, M. J. 2010. Algal Blooms and the Nitrogen-Enrichment Hypothesis in Florida Springs: Evidence, Alternatives, and Adaptive Management. Ecological Applications 20:816-829.

Check these out!

1. NOAA R/C-S-62 Grant / City of Satellite Beach Sea-Level Rise Technical Assessment and Adaptation Planning
2. NOAA R/C-S-65 Grant | NOAA South Atlantic Regional Research on Coastal Community Resilience
3. Climate Change Vulnerability Analysis: Potential Current and Future Climate Change Hazards from Sea Level Rise, and Flood Risk from Precipitation, for Sunrise, FL
4. Marys Flood Resiliency Project and Tybee Island Sea Level Rise Adaptation Plan

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Jason Evans, PhD

Technical Resource & Adviser

Jason is an esteemed Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Executive Director of Stetson University's Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience. He is also a Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Environmental Management. Jason's expertise lies in landscape and systems ecology, and he is highly skilled in dataset development, spatial modeling, and flood hazard vulnerability assessments using GIS. He has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator for fourteen projects since 2011, focusing on coastal flooding vulnerability and adaptation in various states. Jason has also led the technical analyses and served as the primary author for Watershed Management Plans in both Monroe County, FL, and Chatham County, GA. The Monroe County Coastal Watershed Management Plan has been recognized for its sea-level rise vulnerability assessment methodology, becoming one of the first coastal communities in the United States to achieve a Class 4 compliant WMP under the National Flood Insurance Program's Community Rating System.

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