{"id":3285,"date":"2025-12-23T16:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/units.fisheries.org\/fl\/?page_id=3285"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:21:20","slug":"2024-outstanding-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/awards-and-scholarships\/outstanding-achievement-award-winner\/outstanding-achievement-award-past-recipients\/2024-outstanding-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Outstanding Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"box effect7\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;font-weight: bold\"><b>Ted Lange<\/b><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;text-decoration: underline\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/07\/outstanding_achievement_lange-scaled.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p>\nThroughout his 35-year career with the Game and Fish Commission and Fish and Wildlife Commission, Ted has been a leader in freshwater fish contaminant research in Florida ecosystems. He and his colleagues have studied the bioaccumulation of mercury in fishes from freshwater resources throughout FL, with research designed to understand the trophic relationships of mercury bioaccumulation, as well as the relationships between physical and chemical characteristics of freshwater waterbodies and mercury bioaccumulation. His findings have been recognized nationally through his participation at conferences, symposia, and workshops, and through publication of scientific articles.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably however, Ted\u2019s program and research outcomes have been used to support statewide mercury total maximum daily loads that are set by the FL Dept. of Environmental Protection to list and de-list impaired waterbodies pursuant to the US Clean Water Act., and to directly inform fish consumption advisories published by the FL Dept. of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Ted has also been critical in quantifying stressors and promoting best management practices for bass in Florida. He has worked closely with tournament directors and anglers studying livewell conditions and tournament delayed mortality to promote bass survival. He has researched oxygen dynamics and the relation to vegetation coverage and biovolume in hopes to inform vegetation management for the benefit of both the bass and the anglers that target them.<\/p>\n<p>A common thread throughout Ted\u2019s career has been collaborative science with a multitude of diverse research partners. He understands how much can be accomplished by harnessing the energy, the knowledge, and the passion of others that are working together to achieve a common goal. He is highly respected by scientists, both by young professionals and those that are aged, across a diverse group of scientific disciplines that include fisheries scientists, ecologists, limnologist, and aquatic toxicologists.\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ted Lange Throughout his 35-year career with the Game and Fish Commission and Fish and Wildlife Commission, Ted has been a leader in freshwater fish contaminant research in Florida ecosystems. He and his colleagues have studied the bioaccumulation of mercury in fishes from freshwater resources throughout FL, with research designed to understand the trophic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"parent":2349,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd","first-child","last-child"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3285\/revisions\/3292"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldunitsstaging.fisheries.org\/fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}