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 Gulfsci Home page | Suwannee River Basin and Estuary | Meetings | Integrated Science Workshop | Agenda
Suwannee River Basin and Estuary Initiative - Integrated Science Workshop
Cedar Key, Florida September 22-24, 2004


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Agenda:
Date/Time   Authors; *Presenter Affiliation Title
09/22/04
Introduction/Plenary Session
1:00-1:20 Russ Hall, Brian Katz, Ellen Raabe USGS, Tallahassee Welcome, Overview, Logistics
1:20-1:40 Tom Armstrong USGS, Reston Integrated Science Initiatives
1:40-2:15 C.S. "Buzz" Holling Univ. Florida, Prof. Emeritus; Cedar Key Plenary Talk: Panarchy--Understanding transformations in human and natural systems
2:15-2:30 Break
Hydrology Issues
Session chairs: Warren Zwanka (SRWMD), Brian Katz (USGS)
2:30-2:40 *Sara Aicker Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, GA The future of the Suwannee River Sill - A review and update
2:40-2:50 *Jon Martin, Elizabeth Screaton, Paul Moore Department of Geologic Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville Surface and ground water mixing along the Cody Scarp: An example from the Santa Fe River Sink-Rise system
2:50-3:00 *James Schneider, Sam Upchurch, Kyle Champion, John Good, and David Hornsby SDII Global Corporation, Tampa; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak Using synthesized data to quantify surface water-groundwater relationships between Madison Blue Spring and the Withlacoochee River of North Florida
3:00-3:10 *Sam Upchurch, Mark Farrell, Anthony Janicki, Rob Mattson, David Hornsby, James Schneider, David Wade, and Kate Malloy
SDII Global Corporation, Tampa; Water Resources Associates, Inc.; Janicki Environmental, Inc.; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak Development of minimum levels and flows for Blue Spring, Madison County, Florida
3:10-3:20 *Ron Ceryak Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak, FL Delineation of the Fanning and Manatee Spring Basins in the Suwannee River Water Management District
3:20-3:30 *John Good and RobMattson Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak Extension of minimum flows from the lower Suwannee River to upstream tributaries and springs using a reach-based method
3:15-3:30 *Trey Grubbs and Christy Crandall USGS, Tallahassee Exchanges of water between the Upper Floridan aquifer and the lower Suwannee and lower Santa Fe Rivers, Florida
3:30-3:40 *A.C. Hine, S.D Locker, E.E. Wright, and S.L. Goodbred College of Marine Science, University of South Florida; Department of Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, Marine Science Research Center, State University of New York Geologic setting, depositional environments, and geologic history of the Suwannee River delta; Present understanding and proposed work
3:40-3:50 *Randy Edwards and Ellen Raabe University of South Florida, St. Petersburg; USGS, Gainesville Ecological characteristics and forcing functions of the Suwannee River estuary
3:50-4:00 *Jon Martin and Wendy Graham Department of Geologic Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville Toward a hydrologic observatory in the Suwannee River watershed
4:00-5:00 Breakout Sessions/Discussions


09/23/04

Water Quality and Geochemistry
Session chairs: David Hornsby (SRWMD), Ellen Raabe (USGS)
8:30-8:40 *Jerad Bales USGS, Raleigh, NC Hydrodynamics and salt transport in the Suwannee River estuary
8:40-8:50 *Erin Bledsoe and Ed Philips University of Florida, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Gainesville The impact of nutrient loading and hydrodynamics on algal biomass in the Suwannee River estuary
8:50-9:00 *Dale Griffin and Mike Gray USGS, St. Petersburg Source tracking and microbial water quality in three Florida springs
9:00-9:10 *Willie Harris and Vimala Nair Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville
Risk of phosphate movement from soils in the Suwannee River Basin
9:10-9:20 *Brian Katz, Rick Copeland, Tom Greenhalgh, Warren Zwanka, and Sam Upchurch USGS, Tallahassee; Florida Geological Survey, Tallahassee; Suwannee River Water Mangement District, Live Oak; SDII Global Corp, Tampa
Understanding contaminant sources, ground-water residence time and flow patterns in a karstic springshed
9:20-9:30 *Richard Lowrance, George Vellidis, David Bosch, Joseph Sheridan, Randall Williams, and Robert Hubbard USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, GA; University of Georgia Impacts of riparian ecosystems on water quality in the western upper Suwannee River watershed
9:30-9:40 *Eberhard Roeder, Harmon Harden, Jeff Chanton, and Mark Hooks Florida Department of Health Bureau of Onsite Sewage Programs; Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee Evidence for rapid transport of recharge from onsite sewage tretment and disposal systems to groundwater at Manatee Springs State Park
9:40-9:50 *Sam Upchurch, Kyle Champion, James Schneider, David Hornsby, and Ron Ceryak SDII Global Corporation, Tampa; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak Identifying water-quality domains near Ichetucknee Springs, Columbia County, Florida
9:50-10:00 S. Lamsal, S. Grunwald, C.M. Bliss, C.M., I. Lopez-Zamora, N.B. Comerford, and M.W. Clark Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville Assessment of nitrate-nitrogen variability in soils of the Santa Fe River watershed in north-east Florida
10:00-10:50 Breakout Sessions/Discussions
Ecosystem Dynamics
Session chairs: Rob Mattson (SRWMD), Helen Light (USGS)
11:00-11:10 *Lia Chasar, Ted Lange, Trey Grubbs, Jeff Chanton USGS, Tallahassee Long-term and large-scale trends in bioaccumulation of mercury in the Suwannee River Basin
11:10-11:20 *Allen Brooks USGS Partial file received -- Need to submit new file
11:20-11:30 *Rob Mattson, David Wade, and Kate Malloy Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak; Janicki Environmental, Inc., St. Petersburg Benthic macroinvertebrate and periphyton monitoring in the Suwannee River Basin in Florida 1: Overview and biogeography
11:30-11:40 *Malloy, K., Wade, D., Janicki, T., Mattson, R. Janicki Environmental, Inc., St. Petersburg; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak Benthic monitoring in the Suwannee basin in Florida 2: Relationships between physical and chemical variables and biology
11:40-11:50 *David Wade, Kate Malloy, Anthony Janicki, and Rob Mattson Janicki Environmental, Inc., St. Petersburg; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak Benthic Monitoring in the Suwannee basin in Florida 3: Spatial and Temporal Trends
11:50-12:00 *Gary Warren and Tracy Ferring Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville Aquatic invertebrate communities as tools for establishing minimum flows and levels in Suwannee River basin streams
12:00-12:55 Lunch - Provided
1:00-1:10 *Raymond Kurz, Phinla Sinphay, Wendy Hershfeld, and Debra Woithe PBS&J, Sarasota, FL; Debra Childes Woithe, Inc., Plametto, FL Submerged aquatic vegetation mapping in the Ichetucknee Springs and river system, FL
1:10-1:20 *Sky Notestein and Tom Frazer Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida Factors influencing the submersed aquatic vegetation of the Ichetucknee River
1:20-1:30 *Helen Light USGS, Tallahassee Lower Suwannee River floodplain, Florida: Hydrology, topography, and soils of riverine and tidal floodplain forests and ecological consequences of potential flow reductions
1:30-1:40 *Melanie Darst USGS, Tallahassee Lower Suwannee River floodplain, Florida; Canopy, Subcanopy, and ground cover vegetation and potential impacts of flow reductions on plant distribution
1:40-1:50 *Ellen Raabe, RandyEdwards, and Carole McIvor USGS, St. Petersburg, FL; University of South Florida, Department of Marine Science Structural and dynamic habitat in the Suwannee Estuary: An application of remotely sensed imagery to integrated habitat mapping
1:50-2:00 *Steve Barlow and Mike Mitchell USFWS, Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Chiefland, FL The Florida Salt Marsh Vole on the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge
2:00-2:10 *Doug Nemeth George Kirkpatrick Marine Lab, Cedar Key The Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission's fisher-independent monitoring program, Cedear Key, Florida
2:10-2:20 *Randy Edwards, Ken Sulak, Michael Randall, and Allen Brooks University of South Florida, College of Marine Science; USGS, Gainesville; AScI Corp., Gainesville Gulf Sturgeon - The central role of an iconic species in the Suwannee River Initiative
2:20-2:30 *Catherine Langtimm, Cathy Beck, Robert Bonde, and James Reid USGS, FISC, Gainesville The Florida manatee in the Suwannee River and estuary: Past, present, and future
2:30-2:50 Break
2:50-3:00 *Mike Allen and Tim Bonvechio Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida Effects of water level fluctuations on year class strength of sport fish in four Florida rivers
3:00-3:10 *Daniel Dorosheff Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Lake City "Where are the fish?" An angler survey of the Lower Suwannee River
3:10-3:20 *Eric Nagid and Gary Warren Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville Application of the Physical Habitat Simulation Model (PHABISM) to the Santa Fe River
3:20-5:00 Breakout Sessions/Discussions


09/24/04

Information Management, Modeling, New Tools
Session chairs: Doug Nemeth (FFWCC), Gary Mahon (USGS)
8:30-8:45 *Kirk Webster Suwannee River Water Management District Suwannee River Partnership
8:45-8:55 *Del Bottcher, Barry Jacobson, and Jeffrey Hiscock Soil & Water Engineering Technology, Inc.; JGH Engineering Watershed assessment model (WAM) evaluation of the Suwannee River Basin
8:55-9:05 *Alisa Coffin and Ann Foster University of Florida; USGS, Gainesville A Suwannee River Basin geodatabase archetype
9:05-9:15 *Barbara Poore USGS, St. Petersburg, FL Integrating information for watershed management: A Suwannee River Basin watershed atlas
9:15-9:25 *David Stonehouse VeriMap PLUS Inc. An airborne high resolution thermal infrared and multi-spectral mapping system trials over the Suwannee River basin, FL (2002)
9:25-9:45 Break
9:45-12:00 Research Needs/Information Gaps/Wrap-up

       
  Posters
  Authors; *Presenter Affiliation Title
Poster By Emily R. Hall1, Thomas K. Frazer2, Joseph P. Montoya3, and Joseph J. Delfino1 1University of Florida, Department of Environmental Engineering
2University of Florida, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
3Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biology

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of organic aggregates produced by salinity induced flocculation fo dissolved organic matter from the Suwannee River

Poster By Ann. M. Foster1, Nicola J. Kernaghan2, and Robert Mattson3 1U.S. Geological Survey, 412 NE 16th Avenue, Room 250, Gainesville, FL 32601
email: ann_foster@usgs.gov
2University of Florida, P.O. Box 113225, Gainesville, FL 32611
email: nikkik@ufl.edu
3Suwannee River Water Management District, 9225 County Road 49 Live Oak, FL 32060
email: mattson_r@srwmd.state.fl.us

Utilization of GIS methodologies to evaluate the relationship between land use and aquatic ecosystem health
Poster By Thomas H. Greenhalgh Florida Geological Survey, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 903 W. Tennessee St., Tallahassee, FL 32304-7700
email: tom.greenhalgh@dep.state.fl.us

Florida’s first magnitude springsheds
Poster By Keith Patterson and Michael White Avineon, Inc. Seagrass mapping within the Big Bend region

Poster By John R. Pittman and Marian P. Berndt 1U.S. Geological Survey, 2010 Levy Ave., Tallahassee, FL 32303
email: jpittman@usgs.gov mberndt@usgs.gov

Occurrence of herbicide degradation compounds in streams and ground water in agricultural areas of south Georgia, 2002

Poster By Thomas L. Potter1, David D. Bosch1, Dana Sullivan1, and R. Don Wauchope1 1USDA-ARS Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 946, Tifton, GA 31793
Tel. 229-386-7073 Fax 229-7292
email: tpotter@tifton.usda.gov

Pesticide fate and transport in coastal plain watersheds
Poster By Chad Bedee Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 3266 N. Sailboat Ave., Crystal River, FL 34428
email: Chad.Bedee@dep.state.fl.us

Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve

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