GEER 2015 POSTER DIRECTORY As of: 4/7/2015 POSTER DISPLAY SPECIFICATIONS
POSTER DISPLAY First Name Last Name Prof Title Organization Dept/Div City ST Abstract Title NUMBER
Graduate Alvarez- Student-Soil University of Florida- Soil and Water Science Biochar and Mill Ash Use as Soil Amendments to Grow 8 Odiney Belle Glade FL Campos and Water EREC Department Sugarcane on Sandy Soils of South Florida Science
Comparing the Seasonal and Spatial Variability of Wetlands 37 Gordon Anderson USGS - SESC SESC Gainesville FL Surface Water and Groundwater Salinity in the Eastern Hydrology Panhandle, Everglades National Park, FL, USA
Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Section South Florida Water Applied Hydraulics West Palm 49 Matahel Ansar FL Hydraulic Design of an Everglades Restoration Administrator Management District Section Beach Strategies Project
Lead Hydrologic South Florida Water Hydrology & Hydraulics West Palm Climate Sensitivity Runs Using the South Florida Water 50 Jenifer Barnes FL Modeler Management District Bureau Beach Management Model
Everglades National Park - South Florida Natural Carbon Cycling in Coastal Mangrove Forests: Where 25 Jordan Barr Hydrologist Homestead FL SFNRC Resources Center Has the Missing Sink Gone?
Parasite Gain and Enemy Release: Comparing the Florida International 61 Christine Beck M.S. Student Earth & Environment Miami FL Parasite Assemblages of Everglades Introduced Cichlids University and Native Sunfishes
US DOI, Office of South Florida Program 57 Carrie Beeler Everglades Restoration Ecosystem Restoration Homestead FL Invasive Exotic Species Strategic Action Framework Manager Initiatives Task Force
Shifted Assembly Rules: How Do Non-native Fishes Florida International 63 Jesse Blanchard Ph.D. student Miami FL Affect Metacommunity Assembly in Ephemeral University Wetland Habitats?
Southeast Florida International Forest Productivity Along an Elevational Gradient in 51 Jesus Blanco Lab Manager Environmental Miami FL University the Upper Florida Keys. Research Center
Physical Spatial Distribution of Nitrate+Nitrite Concentrations in 90 Amanda Booth US Geological Survey Fort Myers FL Scientist the Tidal Caloosahatchee River During 2014
Research Biologist and Assessing Trade-Offs Among Ecosystem Services in a Archbold Biological 6 Elizabeth Boughton Program Lake Placid FL Payment-For-Water Services Program on Florida Station Director of Agro- Ranchlands ecology
University of South Environmental Science, Saint A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Mangrove Coverage 53 Lindsay Brendis M.S. Candidate FL Florida - St. Petersburg Policy, and Geography Petersburg in Charlotte Harbor
Graduate Florida International Economics Valuation of Fishery Ecosystem Services of the 87 Christina Brown Research Miami FL University Department Everglades Water Management Assistant
Carbon Sequestration in the Mangrove Forests of University of South 27 Megan Burford St. Petersburg FL Charlotte Harbor and Implications for Conservation Florida St. Petersburg and Restoration
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POSTER DISPLAY First Name Last Name Prof Title Organization Dept/Div City ST Abstract Title NUMBER
Transport of Phosphorus with Suspended Sediment 13 Brendan Buskirk Hydrologist U.S. Geological Survey Reston VA During Experimental Restoration of Everglades High Flows
U.S. Geological Survey, Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR): A New Approach to 92 John Butterfield Biologist Southeast Ecological Conservation Genetics Gainesville FL Environmental DNA (eDNA) Detection of Rare and Science Center Cryptic Species Macroinvertebrates of Wetlands, Canals, and Streams Johnson Engineering, in SW Florida: A Rapid Field Assessment and 19 David W Ceilley Senior Ecologist Environmental Fort Myers FL Inc. Multivariate Approach for Community Analysis and Identifying Indicator Taxa Tape Grass, Vallisneria Americana Restoration in SW Johnson Engineering, 20 David W Ceilley Senior Ecologist Fort Myers FL Florida Using Exclosure Cages to Reduce Herbivory and Inc. Promote Seed Production
Research Assessment of Small Mammal Demographics and 60 Julia Chapman CNTS Davie FL Biologist Communities in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem
Organic Carbon Burial Rates in an Area Transitioning 26 Kailey Comparetto Student USF St. Petersburg FL from Sawgrass Marsh to Mangrove Adjacent to the Harney River in Everglades National Park
South Atlantic Water Automated Online Ecological Modeling And Evaluation 47 Paul Conrads Hydrologist USGS Columbia SC Science Center For Everglades Management And Restoration
Graduate University of West Quantifying Habitat and Apple Snail Density Effects on 74 Philip Coppola Pensacola FL Student Florida Prey Availability to Snail Kites
Environmental and Economic Benefits of a Water Florida International 88 Juliana Corrales PhD Student Miami FL Quality Trading Program in a Northern Lake University Okeechobee Basin
Chemistry & Graduate Florida International Methylmercury in Food Webs in the Everglades: 34 Wenbin Cui Biochemistry Miami FL Student University Temporal Variations Over the Last Two Decades Department
U.S. Geological Survey, Diet and Foraging Ecology of Diamondback Terrapins 67 Mathew Denton Biologist Southeast Ecological SESC Davie FL (Malaclemys Terrapin) in South Florida, Including Science Center Everglades National Park
Hydrologic Monitoring at S-152 for the Caribbean-Florida 48 Mark Dickman Hydrologist U. S. Geological Survey Davie FL Decompartmentilization Physical Model (DPM) Flow- Water Science Center Release Test
Associate Florida Atlantic Predation by Crayfish Favors Native Over Invasive 78 Nathan Dorn Davie FL Professor University Apple Snails
Habitat Suitability for an Endangered Butterfly, Ph.D. Florida Atlantic 72 Alana Edwards Geosciences Boca Raton FL Bartram's Scrub Hairstreak, and Implications for Candidate University Management
Florida Gulf Coast Marine and Ecological Guiding Lake Trafford's Restoration: Lake Trafford 97 Edwin Everham Professor Ft. Myers FL University Sciences Management Team And Management Action Plan
Herpetofaunal Community Changes in Multiple Florida Gulf Coast Marine and Ecological 98 Edwin Everham Professor Ft. Myers FL Habitats Over Fifteen Years in the Corkscrew Regional University Sciences Ecosystem Watershed
The Role of the American Alligator (Alligator Wildlife University of Florida - Mississippiensis) and American Crocodile (Crocodylus 69 Seth Farris Research IFAS Davie FL FLREC Acutus) as Indicators of Ecological Change in Technician Everglades Ecosystems
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Owner and Waterwise Consulting, Derivation of a Water Quality Criterion to Protect the 32 Larry Fink Hollywood FL Principal LLC Florida Panther (Puma Concolor Coryi) Southeast Laboratory Florida International Environmental Does Fire Have a Role in the Transition From a Healthy 24 Junnio Freixa Miami FL Technician Univ Research Center Tree Island to a Ghost Island? A Fire History Analysis (SERC)
Assistant Home Range and Movements of American Alligators in 70 Ikuko Fujisaki Research University of Florida Davie an Estuary Habitat Professor
Describing Largemouth Bass Biometric and U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE Peninsular Florida 65 John Galvez Project Leader Vero Beach FL Distributional Characteristics in Arthur R. Marshall SERVICE Fisheries Office Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, USA
Describing the Fish Community in the Arthur R. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE Peninsular Florida 66 John Galvez Project Leader Vero Beach FL Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, SERVICE Fisheries Office Florida, USA
South Community The Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National 94 Helena Giannini National Park Service Florida/Caribbean I&M Palmetto Bay FL Ecologist Preserve Vegetation Mapping Project Network
Using Heat as a Tracer to Quantify Effects of Restored National Research 38 Jesus Gomez-Velez Hydrologist U.S.G.S. Reston VA High Flows on Groundwater-Surface Water Program Interactions in the Everglades Fisheries & Florida Fish & Wildlife Assessing Impacts of an Active Water Schedule on Wildlife Division of Habitat & 89 Sergio C. Gonzalez Conservation Sunrise FL Vegetation and Mammal Communities in Holey Land Biological Species Conservation Commission Wildlife Management Area Scientist II
Research Small Mammal Communities as Indicators of 68 Matthew Hanson USGS Davie FL Biologist Restoration Success in the Greater Everglades
Effectiveness of Aerial Herbicide Treatment of Research Florida Atlantic Charles E. Schmidt 81 Diane Harshbarger Davie FL Melaleuca for Habitat Recovery in the Northern Technician University College of Science Everglades
Human Fort Lauderdale Concern for Invasive Burmese Pythons (Python 58 Rebecca Harvey Dimensions University of Florida Research & Education Davie FL Molurus Bivittatus) Among Participants and Non- Coordinator Center Participants in the 2013 Python Challenge
Home Range Size and Habitat Use by the Eastern Florida Gulf Coast 79 John Herman Instructor Biological Sciences Ft. Myers FL Indigo Snake (Drymarchon Couperi) in South Florida: C- University 44 Reservoir Site, Allapattah Flats, and Babcock Ranch
Quantifying the movement and habitat use of native Masters Florida International 64 Gregory Hill Miami FL sunfishes in response to seasonal hydrological Student University, SERC variation in the Everglades
U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental DNA (eDNA) Occurrence and Detection 59 Margaret Hunter PhD Southeast Ecological Gainesville FL Estimates for Invasive Burmese Pythons in Southern Science Center Florida
Res. Assistant University of Florida - Carbon Functional Groups Influence Methanogenesis 11 Kanika Inglett Soil and Water Science Gainesville FL Professor IFAS Pathways: Florida Everglades as a Case Study
Res. Assistant University of Florida - Microbial Methane Oxidation in Freshwater Wetland 12 Kanika Inglett Soil and Water Science Gainesville FL Professor IFAS Soils: Kinetics and Sensitivity to Nutrient Conditions
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Research Developing Sustainable Soil Management Practices for 7 Stephen Jennewein University of Florida Soil and Water Science Belle Glade FL Assistant Organic Soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area
South Florida Water West Palm An Integrated Environment Model for a Constructed 39 Kang-Ren Jin Lead Scientist FL Man. Dist. Beach Wetland - Hydrodynamics and Transport Processes
Department of Civil Monitoring Water Stage and Vegetation in the Florida International 40 Anupama John PhD Student and Environmental Miami FL Everglades Using Single Polarimetric Radarsat-2 University Engineering Imagery
South Florida Water Everglades Systems West Palm Biogeochemical Fluxes from Estuarine Mangrove Lake 16 Stephen Kelly Scientist 4 FL Management District Assessment Section Beach Sediments Adjacent to Florida Bay
Vegetation Regeneration in the Hole-In-The-Donut, 95 Suzanne Kennedy Plant Ecologist Floravista, Inc. Merritt Island FL Everglades National Park, Meets Success Targets
Where Are All the Bonefish? Integrating Angler Graduate Florida International Earth and 62 Emily Kroloff Miami FL Perspectives and Ecological Changes Influencing Student University Environment Bonefish Declines in the Florida Bay
Florida International Chemistry and Biodiversity of Functional Genes Across Miami-Dade 35 Priyanka Kushwaha PhD Candidate Miami FL University Biochemistry County Soils
Senior Research University of Miami - IBBEAM – An Intebrated Biscayne Bay Ecological 85 Gladys Liehr Miami FL Scientist RSMAS Assessment and Monitoring Project
Masters Florida International Hydrologic Controls of Coastal Groundwater Discharge 41 Edward Linden Earth & Environment Miami FL Student University in Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, FL, USA
Graduate Florida International Earth and The Rrelationship Between Rainfall and Nutrient 15 Mario Londono Miami FL Student University Environment Concentrations in the Coastal Everglades
Postdoctoral Florida International Algal Biodiversity in Subtropical Wetlands: An 75 Luca Marazzi Miami FL Associate University, SERC Opportunity for Comparative Research
Pine Rockland Initiative The Institute for The Pine Rocklands of the Miami Rock Ridge: An 1 Sarah Martin Program Delray Beach FL Regional Conservation Everglades Ecosystem in Peril Coordinator and Biologist
Response of the Diatom Encyonema Evergladianum to Florida International 96 Viviana Mazzei PhD student Miami FL Environmental Changes Associated with Sea Level Rise University in the Caribbean Basin
Spatial Variability in Biogenic Gas Releases from Florida Atlantic 30 Matthew McClellan PhD. Student GeoSciences Davie FL Subtropical Peat Monoliths is Revealed from High University Frequency Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
Contractor to Cherokee Nation Nesting Habitat Availability for Cape Sable Seaside 46 Bryan McCloskey St Petersburg FL USGS Technology Solutions Sparrows as a Function of Everglades Water Depth
Contractor to Cherokee Nation Using Explore and View EDEN (EVE) to Access 44 Bryan McCloskey St Petersburg FL USGS Technology Solutions Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) Data
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POSTER DISPLAY First Name Last Name Prof Title Organization Dept/Div City ST Abstract Title NUMBER Using the Everglades Depth Estimation Network Contractor to Cherokee Nation (EDEN) for Real-time Evaluation of the Everglades 45 Bryan McCloskey St Petersburg FL USGS Technology Solutions Restoration Transition Plan (ERTP) and its Impacts on Tree Islands in the Florida Everglades Snail Kite (Rostrhamus Sociabilis) Exposure To Mercury Executive Avian Research and 33 Kenneth Meyer Gainesville FL In Florida: Sub-Lethal Concentrations In The Southern Director Conservation Institute Everglades May Hinder Reproduction And Curtail
Assistant Florida International Disease, Dogs and Drones: An Integrated Approach for 5 DeEtta Mills Biological Sciences Miami FL Professor University Tracking Fungal Pathogens in the Environment
Graduate Teaching Florida Atlantic Examining Biogenic Gas Dynamics in Peat Soils of the 9 Cali Munzenrieder Assistant; Geosciences Boca Raton FL University Florida Everglades Using Capacitance Moisture Probes Masters Student Private Lands US Fish and Wildlife The Florida Panther Payment for Ecosystem Services 86 Erin Myers Immokalee FL Biologist Service Pilot Project
Outreach and The Institute for 36 Lindsey Nieratka Delray Beach FL Floristic Data – Theory, Application, and Impact Education Regional Conservation
Use of Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter (FDOM) Caribbean-Florida 22 Eduardo Patino Hydrologist U S Geological Survey Fort Myers FL Sensor Data to Calculate Dissolved Organic Carbon Water Science Center Concentrations in Everglades National Park
Emeritus EG Revitalization: Manage the Unavoidable of Sea- 52 Thomas Poulson Retired Jupiter FL Professor Level Rise Graduate Florida Atlantic Post-Fire Succession and Carbon Storage in the 23 Lisa Reger Davie FL Student University Northern Everglades
Cyanobacterial Mediated Mineralization of a Rare 31 Barry Rosen Biologist USGS- Southeast Region Orlando FL Form of Calcium Carbonate in the Everglades: Vaterite
National Park Service, The Botany of Shell Mounds in Southwestern 54 Jimi Sadle Botanist Homestead FL Everglades National Park Everglades National Park, Florida
Southeast Hydrologic Driven Short-term Vegetation Successional Research Florida International 84 Jay Sah Environmental Miami FL Dynamics in Shark River Slough, Everglades National Associate University Research Center Park, Florida
Research The Trojan Y Method for Controlling Established 77 Pamela Schofield U S Geological Survey Gainesville FL Biologist Invasive Species
Reducing Labile Phosphorus in Agricultural Canal Research The University of Florida - 3 Anne Sexton Soil and Water Science Belle Glade FL Sediment by Controlling Floating and Submerged Assistant IFAS Aquatic Vegetation
Utilizing Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to Geophysics Lab Florida Atlantic Investigate the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of 28 Thomas Shahan Geosciences Davie FL Technician University Biogenic Gases from Peat Soils at the Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment (LILA)
South Florida Natural Alligator Production Suitability Index Model for 71 Dilip Shinde Ecologist Everglades National Park Homestead FL Resources Center Restoration Planning and Assessment
Graduate Application of Voc Analysis for Canine Training and the 55 Alison Simon FIU Miami FL student Detection of the Fatal Laurel Wilt Disease
Investigating the Effects of Increased Salinity and Florida Atlantic Department of 29 Matthew Sirianni PhD student Davie FL Temperature on Carbon Gas Dynamics of Subtropical University Geosciences Peat Soils
Graduate UNIVERSITY OF Mitigating the Cultural and Ecological Losses from 56 J Lanette Sobel Forestry Gainesville FL Student Florida/IFAS Laurel Wilt on Swamp Bay on Tribal Lands in Florida
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POSTER DISPLAY First Name Last Name Prof Title Organization Dept/Div City ST Abstract Title NUMBER
Visualization of Water Velocity Fields Entering and Hydrologic USGS Caribbean-Florida Exiting Structure-152 in Support of the 42 Lars Soderqvist Fort Myers Field Office Ft Myers FL Technician Water Science Center Decompartmentalization Physical Model (DPM), Water Conservation Area 3, Miami-Dade County, Florida
Postdoctoral Influence of Soil Biogeochemical Properties on Exotic Florida International Earth and 10 Pushpa Soti Research Miami FL Invasive Lygodium Microphyllum: A Cross Continent University Environment Associate Comparison of Soil Characteristics to Invasion Success
Physical Science Molluscan Survival in Extreme Environments of Florida 76 Bethany Stackhouse USGS Reston VA Technician Bay
Insights Into Feeding Ecology, Timing of Egg Formation, University of Miami - and Geographic Range of Waterbirds from South 73 Peter Swart Professor Marine Geoscience Miami FL RSMAS Florida Using the Stable Isotopic Composition of Carbonate (C & O) and the Organic Matrix (C & N)
Measuring High-Flow Sediment Dynamics to Research USGS - National 14 Allison Swartz Water Reston VA Determine a Hydraulic Threshold for Restoring the Associate Research Program Ridge and Slough Landscape
Hydrologic Modeling of Proposed Reservoir in West Principal 18 Georgio Tachiev GIT CONSULTING LLC Coral Gables FL Miami Dade to Supply Fresh Water for Environmental Engineer Restoration of Biscayne National Park
Assistant Florida Gulf Coast Marine and Ecological Stormwater Ponds Of SW Florida Could Deal a Blow to 2 Serge Thomas FORT MYERS FL Professor University Sciences GEER
Geologist/GIS USGS/Cherokee Nation Using Fossilized Charcoal and 210Pb to Test the 21 Ginger Tiling-Range St. Petersburg FL Specialist Technology Solutions Everglades Fire History Geodatabase
Impact of Water Management on Rice Yields, Rice Research University of Florida - 4 Mohsen Tootoonchi Soil and Water Science Belle Glade FL Water Weevil Infestation and Rainage Water Quality in Assistant Student the Everglades Agricultural Area
Nutrients in Leaves of Pond Apples (Annona Glabra) Environmental (Arthur R. Marshall 17 Joel VanArman Lake Worth FL and Surrounding Soil and Water in a Cypress-Pond Scientist Foundation) Apple Swamp in the Northern Everglades
Research University of Miami - Insar For Water Level Monitoring In The Everglades 43 Shimon Wdowinski Associate Marine Geosciences Miami FL RSMAS Wetlands Professor
Hydrologic Availability of Geodetic Surveys by the U.S. Geological 91 Corey Whittaker US Geological Survey Water Resources Davie FL Technician Survey in south Florida
Diet Analysis of Oustalet’s Chameleons (Furcifer Biological University of Florida - 80 Sara Williams Davie FL Oustaleti), an Established Exotic in Southern Florida, Technician FLREC USA
Seasonal Biogenic Gas Dynamics in the Florida Florida Atlantic 82 William Wright Grad Student Geosciences Davie FL Everglades are Revealed Using Hydrogeophysical University Methods
Florida Atlantic Using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to Image 83 William Wright Grad Student Geosciences Davie FL University Spatial Variability in Porosity in the Miami Limestone
School of Natural Research Pattern Metrics and the Early Detection of Ecosystem 93 Jing Yuan The University of Florida Resources and Gainesville FL Assistant Degradation in the Ridge-Slough Landscape Environment
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