Photo by Charlotte Southern

Oasis in Crisis is part of the Multi-Media movement at the University of Miami and is in affiliation with The Water Project. The Water Project is a "cross disciplinary collaboration among faculty and students at the University of Miami to embark on thoughtful and provocative media endeavors aimed at public education about the crisis facing the availability of clean and safe water in today's world."

The Oasis team currently consists of five students; Sara Miga, Meghan Risser, Kristi Stout, Charlotte Southern, and Mandy Koons, working under Faculty Advisor, Professor Susan Roumelis.  Each student is working on a specific a research project pertaining to the Everglades, writing articles, conducting interviews, and creating photographic essays regarding the Everglades water system and its importance to South Florida. The project focuses on the concern and need for the restoration of the land and its water system.

As an article on the Everglades Restoration site stated:
"The Everglades is an ecosystem in peril. Once it was a vast, free-flowing river of grass extending from the Kissimmee chain of lakes to Florida Bay. Wading and migratory birds were so prolific they darkened the skies. Panthers, manatees and deer were abundant. These sub-tropical wetlands supported a rich diversity of plants, fish and other animals.

However, people started to affect the Everglades as early as the late 1800s, when primitive canals were dug to begin draining south Florida. These changes continued throughout the 20th century, as more than 1,700 miles of canals and levees vastly changed the landscape, interrupting the Everglades' natural sheet-flow and sending valuable freshwater to sea. More than half the Everglades wetlands were lost to development. "


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