{"id":8259,"date":"2022-03-23T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:01:51","slug":"creeks-environmental-and-social-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/creeks-environmental-and-social-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers from Eckerd College and USF\u2013St. Petersburg navigate two iconic creeks to expose environmental and social issues"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”8262″ image_size=”full” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default”][vc_column_text]Sulphur Springs, photos by Amanda Hagood<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\n

The way Amanda Hagood, Ph.D.<\/a>, and Thomas Hallock, Ph.D., see it, one of the best ways to call attention to environmental issues such as climate change and water pollution is to wade in up to your knees, write a series of stories about what you find, and make those stories as accessible as possible.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]That\u2019s why Hagood and Hallock are working together on a series of observations and personal accounts focusing for now on two of the iconic creeks that wind their way through South St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

The Creekshed Project<\/a>, a collaboration between Hagood, Eckerd College animal studies<\/a> instructor, and Hallock, University of South Florida\u2013St. Petersburg professor of English, literature and cultural studies, aims to shine a light on Booker and Salt creeks from their source to where they empty into Bayboro Harbor and Tampa Bay. Hallock calls the project \u201ca storytelling expedition through the margins.\u201d<\/p>\n

For at least the next two years, the pair will continue to wade, kayak and otherwise navigate Booker and Salt creeks. Along the way, they will write about what they encounter, and tell the stories of the people who live along the waterways.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to know when a creek becomes a culvert or ditch; the lost or misremembered histories behind active or buried springs; the relationship between water quality and social health; and the boundaries between built and natural environments\u2014for even the smallest aquatic systems feeding Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico,\u201d Hallock says.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”8261″ image_size=”full” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]He began the project several years ago with his \u201cCity Wilds\u201d column in Creative Loafing Tampa Bay<\/em><\/a>, an alternative weekly newspaper based in Tampa. \u201cWe were looking to write in ways where people would find our work,\u201d he says. Hagood, who has a Ph.D. in American literature, came on board in January 2021, and the two began sharing the column. \u201cIt\u2019s a reflection on how the Tampa Bay area has grown and how our nature has changed,\u201d Hagood says. USF Libraries is posting the stories written by Hallock, Hagood and others interested in the project on a Creekshed story map.<\/p>\n

Booker Creek, which runs past Tropicana Field, has been a primary focus of Hallock\u2019s work. \u201cIs it a poster child for St. Petersburg?\u201d he says. \u201cAbsolutely. It\u2019s misunderstood, it\u2019s culverted, it\u2019s contested, it\u2019s polluted, and it\u2019s smack dab in the middle of our gnarly history of racial injustice. It checks all the boxes of a St. Petersburg creek.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her part, Hagood is focusing on the springs that feed the creeks. As a child, she visited Disney World. But what she remembers most was the side trip to Wakulla Springs, south of Tallahassee. \u201cI\u2019ve been interested in springs ever since,\u201d she says. \u201cWe have a lot of springs in the Tampa Bay area; it\u2019s just that many of them have been paved over or replumbed or trashed beyond the mark of usefulness.\u201d<\/p>\n

To try to change that requires looking at springs in a different light. \u201cAmanda is subtly changing how we write and think about Florida springs,\u201d Hallock says. \u201cThere\u2019s often a simple story line that the springs were once pure and beautiful, but now they\u2019re being ruined. We all agree on that. What Amanda is doing is reconnecting the human story with the natural. There\u2019s some really original writing coming out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such as this excerpt from a Creekshed column Hagood wrote last November:[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”64″ bottom_padding=”48″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”lg_text” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]As I pull into the parking lot of the Sulphur Springs Pool off Nebraska Avenue one warm morning in early fall, lured by the lore of this legendary spring, these opposing images swap back and forth in my mind. What happened to Sulphur Springs? And what does it reflect about our ongoing reckoning with Florida\u2019s water resources?<\/span><\/p>\n

I head through the entrance gate to the sprawling pool, a chlorinated facility supplied by city water, which replaced its spring-fed counterpart after high bacteria counts shuttered it in 1986. When I tell the attendant that I\u2019d like to bypass the pool and get a look at the spring, her eyebrows raise. \u201cYou know you can\u2019t swim in it, right?”<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Hagood, who lives in Gulfport and also writes for the local Gabber<\/em> newspaper<\/a>, and Hallock, who lives in the Old Southeast section of St. Petersburg, met at a conference in Kansas. They describe themselves as environmental humanists and share a love of writing. Of Hallock\u2019s aim, he says, \u201cWrite in ways people will find our work. \u2026\u00a0 Come out with a good story.\u201d<\/p>\n

They have brought in family members and friends to help with the project, and plan to add students from both schools. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of potential for us to expand and bring our students in,\u201d Hagood says.<\/p>\n

Hallock agrees, adding, \u201cWe\u2019re really trying to come together as institutions within one community.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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