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Workshop participants gave 44 presentations on topics ranging from recreational fishing, to nutrient-contamination of spring discharge, riparian ecosystems and water quality, watershed modeling, habitat mapping, and protected species, including the Saltmarsh vole, Gulf sturgeon, and manatee. |
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Jim Preacher (USGS Program Coordinator for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources) was interested to hear about research being conducted in the Suwannee River. |
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Russ Hall (a USGS-FISC Center Director) helped to welcome workshop participants. |
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Ellen Raabe’s (USGS) presentation titled, “An application of remotely sensed imagery to integrated habitat mapping,” covered the structural and dynamic habitat in the Suwannee Estuary. |
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Doug Nemeth described the FFWCC’s fisher-independent monitoring program in Cedar Key. |
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Melanie Darst (USGS-FISC) discussed Ground cover vegetation and potential impacts of flow reductions on plant distributions . |
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Ron Ceryak (SRWMD) discussed the delineation of the Fanning and Manatee Spring Basins in the Suwannee River Management District. |
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James Schneider (SDII Global Corporation) explained how synthesized data is used to quantify surface water, and groundwater relationships between Madison Blue Spring and the Withlacoochee River in North Florida. |
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Carl Goodwin (a USGS-FISC Center Director) thanked everyone for their participation in the workshop. |
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Richard Lowrance (USDA-ARS Southeast Watershed Research) traveled from Georgia to discuss the impacts of riparian ecosystems, on water quality in the western upper Suwannee River watershed. |
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