Our Positions and Actions

Positions and Sign-On Letters

December 12, 2024

• Expediting Progress to Send Water South (NGO Sign-On) 

November 15, 2024

• Lake O Recovery Operations Letter to Colonel Brandon Bowman of USACE

September 10, 2024

• Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) South NGO Sign-On Letter

June 24, 2024

• Support for LOSOM Sign-On Letter

May 29, 2024

• Support Letter for Petition to Establish Water Quality Standards for Cyanotoxins

April 23, 2024

• Governor DeSantis Veto Request for 24-25 Budget Line Items 1756 & 1543

April 22, 2024

• Everglades Restoration NGO Appropriations Request Sign-on Letter

April 5, 2024

• NGO Western Everglades Support Letter (FL House)
• NGO Western Everglades Support Letter (FL Senate)

March 1, 2024

• Rivers Coalition Letter to Gov. DeSantis & Assistant Sec. of the Army Michael Conner Regarding Lake Okeechobee Releases

February 16, 2024

• Letter to Governor DeSantis Against Lake Okeechobee Releases

August 3, 2023

• Sign-On Letter to Representative Mast - Lost Summer Roundtable: Restoring America's Everglades
• Sign-On Letter to Senator Rubio - Lost Summer Roundtable: Restoring America's Everglades
• Sign-On Letter to Senator Scott - Lost Summer Roundtable: Restoring America's Everglades

May 24, 2023

• Request to Governor DeSantis to Reappoint Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch to the SFWMD Governing Board
• Letter to Shana Kinsey with FDEP regarding opposition to LS 261 (Offshore Oil & Gas Leasing)

May 11, 2023

• Sign-On Letter to Governor DeSantis — Request for Line Item Veto of Proviso for Specific Appropriation 146 in SB 2500 (Local Fertilizer Ordinance Ban)

May 3, 2023

• Letter to Governor DeSantis — Veto SB 540/HB 359 to Protect Florida's Watersheds

May 1, 2023

• Sign-On Letter to Governor DeSantis — Veto HB 1191 "Use of Phosphogypsum"

April 10, 2023

• Nation Marine Sanctuary Foundation — Letter to Congress 

March 7, 2023

• Letter to Senator Gayle Harrell — S.B. 1240

January 25, 2023

• Letter to Governor DeSantis — An End to Lake Okeechobee Discharges

December 12, 2022

• Martin County Forever - Support Letter

October 26, 2022

• NOAA - Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Restoration Blueprint
• Florida Oceanographic Sign-On Letter to Superintendent Fangman, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Restoration Blueprint

October 5, 2022

• Florida Oceanographic Sign-On Letter to Col. Booth of USACE and Executive Director Bartlett of SFWMD Regarding WERP Support

June 8, 2022

• World Oceans Day - Making Our Oceans A Priority 

January 24, 2022

• Rivers Coalition Sign-On Letter to Rep. Overdorf Regarding HB 349

June 1, 2021

• LOSOM Sign-On Letter

Board Actions

January 24, 2022

• Florida Oceanographic Society Letter to Governor DeSantis requesting action on NEEPP

October 11, 2019

• Letter to Senator Gayle Harrell 

Board Resolutions

March 2025

• Rescue the River of Grass (Board Resolution) 

June 2024

• World Ocean Month

June 2023

• Ocean Climate Action

October 2022

• Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary Commitment

March 2021

• Florida Oceanographic Society Resolution EPA Clean Water Act Section 404 Program 
• Florida Oceanographic Society Resolution Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual
• Florida Oceanographic Society Resolution The EAA Storage Reservoir Project

May 2019 

• Florida Oceanographic Society Resolution opposing offshore drilling and seismic activities.

December 2018 

• Florida Oceanographic Society Resolution LORS and EAA Reservoir
• Florida Oceanographic Society Resolution to achieve TMDLs