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April 17-20, 2017 | Coral Springs, Florida, USA www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/GEER2017 Monday, April 17, 2017 Workshop Attendee Arrival and Registration [Conference Center Wing]
9am
Optional Pre-Conference Workshops Water, Energy and Carbon Cycling Within the Greater Everglades Ecosystem [Ibis] -AND-
10:00am-5:00pm Enhancing Engagement: Skills & Strategies to Involve Stakeholders in Everglades Restoration Efforts [Sandpiper]
Main Conference Registration Open
7pm
4pm - 4pm Exhibiting Sponsors and Poster Session One Presenters Install Displays (Poster Session One presenters will remove displays on Wednesday during the 10:00am-10:20am refreshment break.
7:00pm 4:00pm- Poster Session Two presenters will install displays on Wednesday during the 12noon-1:20pm lunch break.) Informal Networking Social on Breeze's Terrace
7:00pm (Please plan to arrive in time to join us!)
5:00pm - 5:00pm Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Conference Registration Open
5:00pm
7:30am-
Morning Refreshments in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
8:30am
7:30am- Opening Plenary Session: Bridging Science to Management in Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration Programs [Great Cypress & Royal Poinciana]
Opening Remarks - Conference Chair Nick Aumen, Regional Science Advisor - South Florida, US Geological Survey, Davie, FL
Welcome and Introductions Jack Payne, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Florida/IFAS, Gainesville, FL
8:30am-10:00am
Presenters Mike Chotkowski, San Francisco Bay-Delta Science Coordinator, US Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA "Cultivating Reproducible Science and Social Capital in Major Science Enterprises"
Stephen Brandt, Professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR “Ecosystem Forecasting: Bridging Science to Management”
AM Refreshment Break in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
10:20am
10:00am-
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Concurrent Sessions – 10:20am - 12:00noon Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Great Cypress Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper
Everglades Stormwater Tools in Support of Applying Innovative The Utility of Strategic Treatment Areas: Restoration and Invasive Controls on Wildlife Modeling Approaches to Communication to the GEER Understanding the Flow- Species Science and Population Dynamics Protect and Restore the Community of Practice Way Black Box - Part I Management Greater Everglades
Matt Harwell Delia Ivanoff Joel Trexler Rolando Santos Donald DeAngelis
10:20am Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Matt Harwell Delia Ivanoff David Lagomasino Simona Picardi William Harford The Science of Strategic Current State of the Stick in the Mud: Mangrove Tracking Large-Scale Forecasting Inshore Red Tide Communication Stormwater Treatment Areas Loss in South Florida Movements of Wood Stork in Blooms Using Recent Past the Greater Everglades Offshore Conditions on the 10:30am Ecosystem West Florida Shelf
Stephanie Johnson Rupesh Bhomia Hannah Cooper Michelle Petersen Steven Bartell Strategic Communication of Nutrient Storages in the Fusing LiDAR with RTK GPS Effect of Water-Level Application of the the National Academies of Everglades Stormwater Using Random Forest Fluctuations on Resource Comprehensive Aquatic Sciences, Engineering, and Treatment Areas Regression Shows Promising Selection of Wading Birds System Model (CASM) in Medicine: Everglades Studies for DEMs of Mangrove and Support of Ecosystem
10:45am and Beyond Sawgrass Soil Heights in Restoration Florida’s Coastal Everglades
Todd Hopkins Mike Jerauld Daina Stoutenburg Dale Gawlik Simeon Yurek Using Strategic Phosphorus Flux in the A New Eye in the Sky: A Case Evolving Views of Food- Simulating a Classic Study of Communication to Advance Everglades Stormwater Study on 3D Modeling Limitation in Wading Birds: Prey Concentration in the the Mission of the Landscape Treatment Areas Everglades Restoration Differing Implications of Prey Everglades in Support of Long
11:00am Conservation Cooperatives Projects With Drone Imagery and Foraging Habitat Term Decision Strategy Availability
Patti Gorman Serge Thomas DeEtta Mills Jason Bosley Bo Zhang Strategic Communication of Settling and Entrainment “Agri-Dogs”: Using Canines Long-Term Changes in Simulating the Impact of REstoration COordination Properties of Stormwater for Earlier Detection of Laurel Territory Use: A Markovian Biological Control on an VERification (RECOVER) Treatment Area Particulates Wilt Disease Affecting Approach to Modeling Bald Invasive Plant by Using an Science for the Avocado Trees (Persea Eagle Dynamics in Florida Bay Individual Based Model Comprehensive Everglades Americana) in South Florida (JABOWA)
11:15am Restoration Program
Shannon Estenoz Manuel Zamorano Rebekah Wallace Rolando Santos Eric Swain Strategic Communication at Historical Performance of the Citizen Science and IveGot1 Integration of Fishery- Numerical Model for Short- the South Florida Ecosystem STA-3/4 Periphyton-based Dependent Data and Local- Term Forecasting of Restoration Task Force Stormwater Treatment Area Ecological Knowledge to Everglades Hydrology Using a Characterize Bonefish Albula Current Conditions Water-
11:30am Vulpes Population Trends in Level Network Florida Bay
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11:45am
Lunch Buffet Provided
1:20pm
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Concurrent Sessions – 1:20pm - 3:00pm Session 6 Session 7 Session 8 Session 9 Session 10 Great Cypress Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper
Status, Causes, and Everglades Stormwater Biocontrol of Weeds in the Consequences of Ongoing, Treatment Areas: Plant Communities: Ecology Habitat Links to Wildlife Greater Everglades Large-Scale Seagrass Die-off Understanding the Flow- and Management Ecology Ecosystem, Part 1 in Florida Bay Way Black Box - Part II
Amanda McDonald Delia Ivanoff Sue Newman Mark Cook LeRoy Rodgers
1:20pm Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview James Fourqurean Odi Villapando Junbin Zhao Emilie Kohler Carey Minteer Dieoff Déjà Vu – The Late Water Quality Along Inflow Photosynthetic Activity of C3 Prey Selection by the Little Determining the Feasibility of 1980’s Seagrass Dieoff in to Outflow Gradient of the and C4 Graminoids in Blue Heron (Egretta Biological Control of a Weed Florida Bay Looked Eerily Everglades Stormwater Response to Water Table Caerulea) in Great White Target Similar to Current Events Treatment Areas Change in a Short- Heron National Wildlife
1:30pm Hydroperiod Wetland of the Refuge Florida Everglades
Christopher Kavanagh Kanika Inglett Helen Hammond Edwin Everham Rosalind James Florida Bay 2015 Seagrass Die- Microbial Dynamics in the Survey for Lygodium Anurans as Indicators of USDA-ARS National Program Off: Extent and Stormwater Treatment Areas Microphyllum and Other Landscape Change in Overview of Biocontrol of Characteristics Invasive Exotic Species on Southwest Florida Weeds
1:45pm Tree Islands in Water Conservation Area 3
Margaret Hall Jill King Michael Manna Jennifer Nestler Greg Wheeler Long-Term Changes in Florida Role of Vegetation on Honing the Blade of Active Assessing Habitat Use in the Biocontrol of Weeds in the Bay Seagrass Communities: Phosphorus Reduction in the Marsh Improvement: Is American Crocodile Greater Everglades Tales of Resilience and Everglades Stormwater Sequence Important for (Crocodylus Acutus), a Ecosystem: Process, Vulnerability Treatment Areas Controlling Cattail for Threatened Species in the Challenges and Paths
2:00pm Rehabilitation of Ridges and Greater Everglades Forward Sloughs? Ecosystem
Paul Carlson Kevin Grace Michael Duever Jenna May Bob Tichenor Physical, Chemical, and Effect of Limerock Substrates Considerations for The Effects of Colony Why Has it Taken So Long to Biological Processes Cause on the STA Water Quality and Controlling Willow Invasions Structure and Nest Position Permit New Weed Biocontrol Seagrass Mortality in Florida Vegetation Characteristics of Marshes on the Nesting Success of Agents? 2:15pm Bay Wading Birds
Christopher Kelble Stefan Gerber Donny Smoak Mark Cook Eric Rohrig Seeing the Forest through the Data Integration and Will Future Soil Accretion in Investigating Active Marsh Interagency Coordination for Dead Seagrass: Response of Synthesis Framework for the Mangrove Forest Keep Improvement Approaches for the Mass Production and Florida Bay Fish Species to Understanding the Up with Sea Level Rise? Restoring Water Bird Habitat Distribution of Biological Seagrass Dieoffs, Salinity, and Phosphorus Cycling and in the P-Enriched Everglades Control Agents 2:30pm Other Environmental Factors Reduction Mechanisms in STA Flow-ways
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2:45pm
PM Refreshment Break in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
3:20pm
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Concurrent Sessions – 3:20pm - 5:00pm Session 11 Session 12 Session 13 Session 14 Session 15 Great Cypress Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper
Everglades Stormwater Water Storage in Biocontrol of Weeds in the Treatment Areas: Modeling for Everglades Comprehensive Everglades Wildlife Diet and Stress Greater Everglades Understanding the Flow- Restoration Restoration Plan Ecosystem, Part 2 Way Black Box - Part III
Thomas Van Lent Rupesh Bhomia Fahmida Khatun Betsy Evans LeRoy Rodgers
3:20pm Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Wendy Graham Larry Fink Jaime Graulau-Santiago Ashley Jackson Ellen Lake Options to Reduce High An Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the PSRP South Diet Shift of Egrets in Confirming Safety: Ecological Volume Freshwater Flows to Synthesis for Enhancing West Flood Protection Response to Environmental Host-range and Monitoring the St. Lucie and Nutrient Removal by Features in the Gridded Change for Spillover in Weed Caloosahatchee Estuaries and Stormwater Treatment Areas Surface Subsurface Biological Control
3:30pm Move More Water from Lake for Everglades Restoration Hydrologic Analysis Tool Okeechobee to the Southern Everglades
Kevin Kotun William Gao Michael Brown Mathew Denton Melissa Smith Water Storage Features in Stormwater Treatment Area Use of a Natural System Stable Isotope Ecology of Biotic Resistance in Weed the Comprehensive Performance Prediction using Regional Simulation Model in American Alligators within Biological Control Everglades Restoration Plan Artificial Neural Networks Restoration Project Planning the Greater Everglades
3:45pm (CERP) – Original Goals and Current Status
Rajendra Paudel Kristin Vaughan Fahmida Khatun Marisa Martinez Phil Tipping A Comparison of the Benefits Evaluation of Inundation Evaluation of Options for Prey Availability of Wading Indirect Effects – Food Webs of Northern and Southern Depth and Duration Sending More Water to Birds in Intertidal Systems in Biological Control Everglades Storage Threshold for Cattail Florida Bay via Taylor Slough Sustainability – In Situ Study Using Regional Simulation
4:00pm Model for the Everglades and Lower East Coast
Sanjay Shukla Wasantha Lal Kiren Bahm Michiko Squires Lyn Gettys Water Storage and Mapping Vegetation Effects of Restoration Responses of American Integrated Weed Control Treatment Services from Properties and Flow Patterns Alternatives on Stages and Crocodiles to Environmental Agricultural Lands in the in Stormwater Treatment Flows in the Southern Conditions at a Power Plant Northern Everglades Areas (STAs) Using Wave Everglades, Using the Mike Site in Southern Florida
4:15pm Tests Marsh Model of Everglades National Park (M3ENP)
Forrest Dierberg Christopher Buzzelli Betsy Evans Min Rayamajhi Soil Accrual and Phosphorus Predicting the Responses of Dietary Flexibility of Wood Ecosystem Recovery Retention in a Flow-Way Seagrass and Oyster Habitats Storks in Response to Human- Following Implementation of Dominated By Submerged to Changes in Water Induced Landscape Change in Weed Biological Controls; Aquatic Vegetation within an Management South Florida Melaleuca quinquenervia Everglades Treatment Area: A
4:30pm Q&A - Discussion Longitudinal Study
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4:45pm Poster Session One & Networking Reception (To allow for greater interaction and ease of discussion, presenters at ODD numbered boards are asked to stand at their posters from 5:30-6:15pm. There will be a break for poster presenters to switch and a prize drawing from 6:15-6:30pm. Presenters at EVEN
5:00pm-7:15pm numbered boards are asked to stand at their posters from 6:30-7:15pm.)
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Conference Registration Open
5:00pm
7:30am-
Morning Refreshments in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
8:30am
7:30am-
Plenary Session: Design, Innovation, and Governance (DIG): Solutions for Everglades Restoration [Great Cypress & Royal Poinciana]
Session Organizers: Fred Sklar, Director and Section Administrator, Everglades Systems Assessment Section, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL –and– Nick Aumen, Regional Science Advisor – South Florida, United States Geological Survey; GEER 2017 Chair
“Sustainability” — Dan Childers, Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
“Keeping it Real” — Stephanie Johnson, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
8:30am-10:00am "The Allegory of the Patient" — Fred Sklar, Director and Section Administrator, Everglades Systems Assessment (ESA) Section, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL
“Bird Brains” — Peter Frederick, Research Professor, University of Florida/IFAS, Gainesville, FL
“The Value of Citizen Science” — Jennifer Rehage, Assistant Professor, Florida International University, Miami, FL
“Resource Governance” — The Honorable Robert "Bob" Graham, former Florida Governor and United States Senator, Miami Lakes, FL
AM Refreshment Break in Poster & Sponsor Display Area (ATTENTION Poster Session One Presenters: Please remove your poster during this refreshment break.)
10:20am
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Concurrent Sessions – 10:20am - 12:00noon Session 16 Session 17 Session 18 Session 19 Session 20 Great Cypress Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper Genetic Tools and Everglades REMAP 2014: Ecological Resilience and Ecology, Climate and Environmental DNA (eDNA) Landscape Findings for Regime Shifts: Evidence for Restoration Along the RECOVER Five-Year Plan Surveillance to Inform Mercury, Sulfur, Nutrients, Human and Climate Impacts Southern Everglades' Invasive Species and Vegetation on Coastal Ecosystems Boundary Management
Peter Kalla & Dan Scheidt Anna Wachnicka April Patterson Amanda McDonald Margaret Hunter
10:20am Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Jennifer Richards Anna Wachnicka Glenn Landers Tom Frankovich Sophia Orzechowski The Landscape Context for Detecting Signs of Impending New Climate Change Light Attenuation in Are Burmese Pythons REMAP IV: Plant Community Large-Scale Ecological Regime Information for Estuarine Mangrove Lakes Attracted to Tree Islands with Distribution and Cover Shifts in South Florida Consideration in Enhancing Wading Bird Colonies? Using Derived from Vegetation Estuaries Through the Lens of Everglades Restoration eDNA to Determine
10:30am Mapped with WorldView2 Paleoecology Climate Preparedness and Occupancy Rates of Pythons Satellite Data Resilience at Wading Bird Breeding Sites in the Everglades
Leonard Scinto Debra Willard Presenter TBD Peter Frezza Joshua Finn Spatial Distribution in Long-term Patterns of Integration and Refinement Response of the Sav Environmental DNA (eDNA) Everglades Nutrient Budgets Coastal Response to of Everglades Science: New Community in the Coastal and Environmental RNA and Their Effects on Changing Land Use and Conceptual Models and Mangrove Zone of Florida (eRNA) Markers for Invasive Biogeochemical Processes Climate: Examples from the Analysis of Ecological Bay to Record Rainfall and Species Detection 10:45am Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Vulnerability Increased Freshwater Flow Plains
Guangliang Liu Lynn Wingard Andy LoSchiavo Michelle Robinson Edgardo Diaz-Ferguson Distribution of Mercury Centennial to Millennial Scale Targeted Adaptive Unique Hydrologic Events Molecular Characterization of Species in the Everglades: A Perspective on the Role of Management to Inform CERP during the 2015-16 Arthur R. Marshall Geochemical Perspective and Salinity in Ecological Regime Progress Hydrologic Year Provide Loxahatchee National Implications on Mercury Shifts in South Florida's Further Incite into the Wildlife Refuge Fish
11:00am Bioaccumulation Estuarine Ecosystems Effectiveness of the C-111 Community Spreader Canal Western Project
Yong Cai Michael Savarese Gretchen Ehlinger Michael Kline Jared Wood Decadal Variations of Shifting Baselines in RECOVER’s Role in CERP Effects of a US-1 Mitigation Insights into the Introduction Mercury in Mosquitofish in Southwest Florida's Oyster Implementation Effort on Hydrologic Histories of the Nile Monitor the Everglades and Relation Populations: The Effects of Conditions and SAV (Varanus Niloticus) and to Changes in Atmospheric Overharvesting by Native Abundance Argentine Black-and-White Hg Deposition and Ecosystem Americans and the Tegu (Salvator Merianae) in Alteration Implications for Future Florida via Next Generation
11:15am Management and Sequencing and Population Restoration of Oyster Reefs Genetic Analysis
Peter Kalla Laurel Collins Agnes McLean Meijing Zhang Kelly Williams Everglades R-EMAP Phase IV Historical Perspective on the Integration and Refinement Investigate Spatial Finding NiMo: eDNA 2014: Implications for Ecosystem Health of Florida of Everglades Science: A Differences in Flooding Risk Detection of Nile Monitors Mercury Methylation and Bay - A Foraminiferal Proxy Relook at CERP Interim Goals Associate with Rainfall and (Varanus Niloticus)
11:30am Bioaccumulation for Seagrass Abundance and Targets Canal Water Stage in the C- 111 Agricultural Basin
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11:45am Lunch Buffet Provided
1:20pm (ATTENTION Poster Session Two Presenters: Please install your poster during this lunch break.)
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Concurrent Sessions – 1:20pm - 3:00pm Session 21 Session 22 Session 23 Session 24 Session 25 Great Cypress Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper
Periphyton Responses to Evaluation of Factors Landscape Perspectives from Ecological Response to Water Flow and Nutrient Groundwater Discharge Influencing Methylmercury the Central Everglades; 14th Changing Stressors in Loading and Implications for Along Coasts Accumulation in South Annual A.R.M. Loxahatchee Everglades Estuaries Everglades Restoration Florida Marshes NWR Science Workshop
Forrest Dierberg & Luca Marazzi Rene Price Andre Daniels Steven Henry Paul Julian
1:20pm Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Barry Rosen Rene Price Binhe Gu Christian Avila Rebekah Gibble Why the Primary Producers Significance of Groundwater High Biotic Mercury in South A Review of Seagrass Losses Unique Role of the A.R.M. (Algae and Cyanobacteria) Discharge to Coastal Zones Florida Wetlands: Fish and Algal Blooms in Biscayne Loxahatchee National are the Key Early Responders Trophic Position and Wading Bay Wildlife Refuge in the to Nutrient and Water Flow Bird Redistribution Greater Everglades
1:30pm Changes in the Everglades Landscape
Sue Newman Hilary Flower Paul Julian Galia Varona Yong-shan Wan Effects of Increased Flow and Rapid and Intense Phosphate Limiting Factors in Mercury Development, Persistence, Hydrologic Drivers of Associated Phosphorus Loads Desorption Kinetics When Methylation Hotspot and Impacts of a Decade Long Ecological Processes in the on Microbial Responses Saltwater Intrudes into Development: The Tangled Macroalgal Bloom in Biscayne Central Everglades
1:45pm Carbonate Rock Web Bay
Evelyn Gaiser Christopher Smith Curtis Pollman Lauren Kircher Donatto Surratt Water Quality Implications of The Role of Tides in Biogeochemical Variables Changes in Salinity in the St. Development of a Simple Hydrologic Restoration Groundwater-Surface Water Driving Temporal Dynamics Lucie Estuary and Implication Vegetation Index to Monitor Alternatives in the Florida Exchange in the Shark River, and Spatial Variability in for Snook Movement Habitat Impacts Everglades, USA: A Florida Coastal Everglades, Mercury Bioaccumulation in Patterns Periphyton Perspective Florida Gambusia in the Everglades - 2:00pm A Model Analysis Using R- EMAP
Erik Tate-Boldt Shimelis Dessu Tom DeBusk Amanda Kahn Dickens Andrew Eastwick The Influence of Altered Flow Taylor Slough Groundwater Investigation of Factors that St. Lucie Estuary and Indian Invasive Exotic Species in the Regimes on Aquatic Discharge Simulation Using Contribute to Variations in River Lagoon: Examining Northern Everglades: A Ecosystem Metabolism in an Sutra Mosquitofish (Gambusia Seagrass Species Composition Regional Perspective Everglades Marsh holbrooki) Mercury Coupled with Flow Rates and
2:15pm Concentrations in Water Salinity Conservation Area 2A
Sarah Bornhoeft Joshua Allen Andrew Ogram Andre Daniels Steve Traxler Influence of an Experimental Hydrochemical Conditions of Phylogenetic Distribution of Hypersalinity Impacts on Role of Landscape Sheet Flow Regime on Two Estuarine Mangrove Mercury Methylators in the Seagrass and Molluscan Conservation Cooperatives Aquatic Food Webs of the Lake Drainage Systems in the Water Conservation Areas Communities in Western (LCCs) in Everglades
2:30pm Central Everglades Everglades Florida Bay Restoration
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2:45pm
PM Refreshment Break in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
3:20pm
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Concurrent Sessions – 3:20pm - 5:00pm Session 26 Session 27 Session 28 Session 29 Session 30 Great Cypress Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper
Freshwater-Estuarine Hydrologic and Ecological Assessing Ecosystem Invasive Species in the Gradients in Forecasting in Support of Response to Restoration Snail Kites & Apple Snails Restoration Context Biogeochemistry Natural Resource Planning and Water Management
Stephanie Romañach & Jon Lane John Kominoski James Beerens Michael Simmons Paul Gray
3:20pm Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Robert McCleery Colin Saunders Leonard Pearlstine Gregory Sonnier Kenneth Meyer Burmese Pythons and Flow Impacts on P and Revisiting Everglades Species Assessing the Success of Movements of Snail Kites Urbanization Shape the Meso- Organic Matter Cycling in the Ecological Models for Hydrological Restoration in (Rostrhamus sociabilis) Mammal Community Across Ridge and Slough: Lessons Planning and Assessment Two Conservation Easements Tracked by Satellite, 2007- the Everglades from Landscape Budgets in within the Headwaters of the 2016: Habitat Associations, the Decomp Physical Model Everglades Multiple Residence Areas,
3:30pm and Shark River Slough, and Sustainable Management Everglades National Park of a Range-Wide Habitat Network
Jeffrey Kline Greg Starr James Beerens Jennifer Chastant Robert Fletcher Expansion and Dominance of Seasonal Patterns in Energy The Sensitivity of Everglades Preserving the South Florida Consequences of Hydrology Non-Native Fish Populations Partitioning of Everglades Species Model Predictions Ecosystem Mosaic: Palm for Reproduction by Snail Across Everglades National Freshwater Marshes Across Near-Term Depth Beach County Natural Areas Kites: A 20-Year Investigation Park Forecasts with Emphasis on Acreage
3:45pm Pines Natural Area
Joel Trexler Lu Zhai Joseph Long Sean Sculley Ellen Robertson Non-Native Fish and Application of a Dual-Isotope An Operational Forecast Response to the WCA-3A A Conservation Genetic Everglades Restoration: An Model in the Shark River Model for Coastal Water High Water Emergency Assessment of the Florida Unexpected Challenge to Slough Watershed: Levels February – May 2016 Snail Kite Restoring An Iconic Separating Increases in
4:00pm Ecosystem Salinity Due to Saltwater Intrusion from that Due to Evaporation
Marsha Ward Rudolf Jaffé Mark McKelvy Shawn Clem Brent Bachelder Tree Island Restoration in the Tracers of Organic Matter Designing a Software Recent Hydrologic Change in Enhance It and They Will Florida Everglades: Reversing Transport in Flowing Framework for Hydrologic a Rainfall-Driven Western Come - Everglade Snail Kite the Exotic Plant Invasion Everglades Wetlands, from Forecasts and Modeling Everglades Swamp Utilization of Habitat
4:15pm Marsh to Estuary Species Responses Management Areas on Lake Okeechobee
Michael Rochford John Kominoski Stephanie Romañach Bob Sobczak Jennifer Bernatis Relationships Between Shifting Long-term Managing Multiple Species WERP: How an Obsolete Occurrence of Apple Snails Invasive Wildlife and Biogeochemical Baselines: with Conflicting Needs in the Levee and an Abandoned Beyond the Shallow Marsh Ecosystem Restoration in the Enhanced Marine Everglades Jetport Hold the Key to a Rain- Florida Everglades Connectivity Increases Driven Swamp 4:30pm Nutrient Availability in Coastal Wetland Ecosystems
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4:45pm
Evening On Own
5:00pm
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Thursday, April 20, 2017 Conference Registration Open
5:00pm
7:30am- Morning Refreshments in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
8:00am
7:30am- Poster Session Two & Networking (To allow for greater interaction and ease of discussion, presenters at ODD numbered boards are asked to stand at their posters from 8:30-9:15am. There will be a break for poster presenters to switch and a prize drawing from 9:15-9:30am. Presenters at EVEN
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10:15am numbered boards are asked to stand at their posters from 9:30-10:15am.) Concurrent Sessions – 10:20am - 12:00noon Session 31 Session 32 Session 33 Session 34 Session 35 Great Cypress Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper Biogeochemical Controls and Sea-Level Rise and Effects of Mercury Delivering Climate Change Everglades Restoration: Contamination of the Research to Support Wetland Forest Human Dimensions Coastal Wetland Dynamics Everglades: An Ecosystem Decision Making and Responses Perspective Tiffany Troxler David Krabbenhoft Young Gu Her Tom Dreschel Andrew Stainback
Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview
10:20am Tiffany Troxler Brett Poulin Michael Spranger Shimon Wdowinski Jennifer Cooper Carbon Cycle Science in the The Influences of Dissolved Public Engagement Strategies Estimating Mangrove Canopy Influence of Floating Aquatic Florida Coastal Everglades: Organic Matter on Mercury to Address Today's Complex Height and Above-Ground Vegetation on Environmental Research to Inform Bioavailability in the Florida Issues Biomass in the Everglades Parameters Affecting Landscape Management Everglades: Insights on National Park with Airborne Phosphorus Removal in the
10:30am Organic Sulfur Chemistry LiDAR and TanDEM-X Data Everglades Agricultural Area
Ben Wilson William Orem Young Gu Her Rebecca Howard Timothy Collins Biogeochemical and Ecosystem-Wide Modeling of Modeling Strategies to Vegetation and Soil Elevation Risks for Florida’s Native Land Physiological Effects of Methylmercury Distributions Provide a Holistic Picture of Dynamics in a Mangrove- Snails and Residents from the Simulated Sea Level Rise in in the Everglades: Responses Climate Change and Sea Level Marsh Ecotone within the New Guinea Flatworm the Coastal Everglades to Reductions in Sulfate Rise Impacts in South Florida Picayune Strand Restoration Platydemus manokwari
10:45am Loading Project Impact Area
Shelby Servais Darren Rumbold Yuncong Li Alexandra Serna Elizabeth Kelly Effects of Increased Salinity A Regional-Scale Ecological Impact of Climate Change Soil Building Processes in Re- Fecal Indicator Bacteria (FIB) on Microbial Processing of Risk Assessment of Mercury and Sea Level Rise on Created Everglades Tree and Beach Management Carbon and Nutrients in Across South Florida Farmland Adjacent Islands Policies
11:00am Brackish and Freshwater Everglades Wetland Soils
Mike Osland Peter Frederick Mathieu Basille Mike Ross Kathleen Sullivan Sealey Coastal Wetland Vulnerability Effects of Mercury Exposure Engaging Society in Every Structure and Recent The Dynamic Interplay to SLR in the Greater on Nest Success in Great Step of the Scientific Process: Dynamics in Coastal Between Floods and Finance: Everglades: A Synthesis of Egrets (Ardea alba): The Role A Plea for New Extension Everglades Tree Islands Rebuild vs. Relocate USGS Wetland Surface of Parental Care Approaches Decisions Calculated with 11:15am Elevation Change Studies Restored Wetland Valuation
Fred Sklar David Krabbenhoft Pamela Fletcher Tom Dreschel Andrew Stainback Coastal Subsidence as a Drivers of Geospatial & Techniques for Including The Ghost Tree Islands of The Economic Significance of Function of Salinity Intrusion Temporal Variability in the Extension in Research and Everglades Water Florida Bay and Peat Decomposition in a Distribution of Mercury and Reporting Conservation Area 2A: 11:30am Karst Environment Methylmercury in ENP Tracing a History of Change
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11:45am Lunch Buffet Provided
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Thursday, April 20, 2017 Concurrent Sessions – 1:20pm - 3:00pm Session 36 Session 37 Session 38 Session 39 Session 40 Great Cypress Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper The DPM High-Flow Ecology and Community Acoustic Technology for Marl Prairie Landscape: Its Sea Level Rise and Saltwater Experiments: Direct Dynamics of Invasive Restoration and Ecology and Importance in Intrusion: Biogeochemistry Observations to Serve Reptiles Management (Part 1 of 2) Everglades Restoration and Water Quality Adaptive Management Jay Choi John Volin Erik Stabenau Jay Sah Todd Osborne
1:20pm Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Jud Harvey Brian Smith Aaron Rice Jay Sah Anteneh Abiy Testing the Restoration of a Stable Isotopes Reveal Fish Bioacoustic Activity in Marl Prairie Landscape as the Evaluation of Regional Free-flowing Everglades: The Remarkable Niche Plasticity Everglades National Park: Cape Sable seaside sparrow Hydroclimate Variability and Decompartmentalization of Invasive Burmese Pythons Processing and Scaling for Habitat: the Pivot of Links to the Hydrology and
1:30pm Physical Model (DPM) High- Effective Restoration and Hydrologic Restoration in Saltwater Intrusion in South flow Experiments Management Southern Everglades Florida
Carlos Coronado M. Rockwell Parker Jennifer Rehage James Snyder Steve Davis Effect of Increased Sheetflow Understanding the Understanding How Snook The Response of Muhly Grass Episodic Disturbance Effects on Sediment Transport Reproductive Chemical Respond to the Hydrological (Muhlenbergia capillaris var. on Florida Coastal Everglades Dynamics Along the L67C Ecology of Invasive Reptiles: Landscape: Synchrony in filipes) , a Prairie Dominant, Water Quality
1:45pm Canal Burmese Pythons and Movement Over Time to Fire and Flooding Argentine Tegus
Mike Bush Emma Hanslowe Joseph Park Thomas Virzi Miriam Jones Effects of Hydroscape Assessment of Python and Avian Source Localization Next Steps Towards Recovery Impact of Sea-Level Rise on Modification on Everglades Boa Records from the Florida from a Small-Aperture of the Cape Sable Seaside Everglades Carbon Storage Aquatic Consumers: Keys Acoustic Array Sparrow Capacity
2:00pm Evaluating Two Hypotheses
Jennifer Lewis Bryan Falk Kevin Boswell Jesse Blanchard Viviana Mazzei Transport of Phosphorus with How Can We Use Activity Predator Density and Water- Fish in Marl Prairies- Functional and Compositional Suspended Particulates Patterns to Improve the Level Mediate Prey Disturbance Severity, Responses of Periphyton During Experimental Management of Invasive Utilization of an Intertidal Invasions, Traits and Mats to Simulated Saltwater Restoration of Everglades Reptiles? Estuarine Highway Emergent Community Intrusion in the Southern
2:15pm High Flows Structure Everglades
Christa Zweig Frank Mazzotti Jessica Noble Jimi Sadle Kristie Wendelberger Scaling Active Management A Scientific Framework for a How a Disturbance Event Someone Has to Watch the Halophytes Can Salinize Soil Simplified Conceptual Impacted the Overwintering Crabgrass Grow: A Survey of When Competing with Approach for Early Detection, Home Range of Common Potential Effects of Glycophytes, Intensifying Rapid Response and Removal Snook Hydrologic Restoration on Effects of Sea Level Rise in of Invasive Wildlife: Marl Prairie Plant Species Coastal Communities
2:30pm Removing Veiled Chameleons (Chamaeleo Calyptratus)
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Thursday, April 20, 2017 Concurrent Sessions – 3:20pm - 5:00pm Session 41 Session 42 Session 43 Session 44 Session 45 Great Cypress Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper
System-wide Modeling to Integrating Science and Acoustic Technology for Integrated Phosphorus Predict Ecological Outcomes Management for Controlling Restoration and Biscayne Bay Management of Restoration Invasive Species Management (Part 2 of 2)
Jud Harvey Vic Engel & Julien Martin Jennifer Rehage Melodie Naja Sarah Bellmund
3:20pm Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Walter Wilcox Brad Udell Megan McKenna Yogesh Khare Sarah Bellmund Refining Flow Restoration to Decision Analysis for the Underwater Acoustic Hydrologic and Water Quality Salinity in Biscayne Bay and Work with the Landscape Optimal Control of Melaleuca Monitoring in U.S. National Modeling for Evaluating Best the Biscayne Bay Coastal Parks Management Practices Wetlands
3:30pm Implementation in a Western Everglades Watershed
Jay Choi Christina Romagosa Ross Boucek Maria Loinaz Joan Browder Modeling Restoration Improving the Decision- Snook are Just Awesome Integrated Phosphorus Reconstituting the Estuarine Outcomes for the Everglades Making Process for Early Woodstorks Pt. 2: Assessing Model to Evaluate Changes in Community of Mainland Ridge-Slough Landscape Detection and Rapid the Importance of Foraging Land Management in Nearshore South-Central Response Actions Habitat at Spawning Agricultural Basins North of Biscayne Bay
3:45pm Aggregation Sites for Two the Everglades Estuarine Species
William Nardin Daniel Slone Greg Hill Chelsea Qiu Ian Zink Multi-Vegetation Feedbacks Risk Assessment to Inform Fine Scale Tracking of Water Hydrological Control on Nearshore Pink Shrimp Affecting Flow Routing and Management Decisions: Non- Level by Sunfish: Implications Phosphorus Concentration in Densities Relative to Habitat Bed Shear Stress Native Fishes in Everglades for Wading Bird Foraging the Everglades: The Role of Limitations in Biscayne Bay: A Distributions in Everglades National Park Water Level Dynamics in a Spatiotemporal Analysis of 10
4:00pm Ridges and Sloughs Marsh-Canal Hydrosystem Years of Data
Laurel Larsen Mathieu Bonneau Kristen Hart Hongying Zhao Bahram Charkian Effects of Flow Reconnection Optimal Control of an Passive Acoustic Tracking of A Systematic Approach in Restoration Benefits on Connectivity of Invasive Species Using a Marine Turtles in Coral Reef Evaluating the Source/Sink Observed from the Biscayne Biogeochemical Processes in Reaction Diffusion Model and Seascapes Behaviors for Water Quality Bay Coastal Wetlands Project
4:15pm the Everglades Linear Programming Parameters in an STA Canal
Carl Fitz Fred Johnson Bradley Strickland Jehangir Bhadha Jerry Lorenz Integrated Landscape Trends Navigating the Science-Policy Using Telemetry to Elucidate Phosphorus Management Recent Changes in Nesting of Water Depth/Flow, Boundary in Natural Resource the Roles of Estuarine through Sustainable Patterns of Roseate Phosphorus and Sulfate, Soil Management Predators and Likely Impacts Agricultural Practices in Spoonbills in the Everglades Accretion, and Vegetation of Restoration South Florida Suggest a Response to Sea Under Future Management Level Rise and Global Climate
4:30pm Scenarios Including Climate Change Change and SLR
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4:45pm Networking Reception in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
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5pm - 5pm Closing Keynote Address
7pm 6pm - 6pm Michael Grunwald, senior writer for Politico Magazine, and Editor-at-Large of POLITICO’s new public policy site, The Agenda Stay afterward for a BOOK SIGNING and chance to meet the author! Books available for $20 each (cash only please): The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise -and-
8:00pm 7:00pm- The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era Exhibitor and Poster Move-out — Conference Concludes
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