Plastic-free Restoration of Oyster Shorelines (PROS)
A Partnership for PROS
We focus a lot on oyster restoration at UF and reducing plastic use in oyster restoration has us excited. This project is called the Partnership for Plastic-free Restoration of Oyster Shorelines, or PROS for short. This network of practitioners, educators, and local government partners is working toward implementing living shoreline projects using a newly developed plastic-free material called reef prisms. Read more on our blog...Â
Join the Team
Learn how to build and use reef prisms and other plastic-free materials in your own living shorelines work! Send us a request to join the PROS Team on Microsoft Teams to connect with the quickly growing community of practice!
Project LEADS
Funding acknowledgement
This project was funded in part, through a grant agreement from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Coastal Management Program, by a grant provided by the Office for Coastal Management under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Award No. NA20NOS4190109. The views, statements, findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the State of Florida, NOAA or any of their subagencies.