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Monday, April 23, 2018
4:00pm-6:00pm Poster Presenters and Sponsors Set Up Displays
[Conference Center - Orchid Ballroom]
4:00pm-7:00pm Symposium Registration Open
[Conference Center - Palm Foyer]
6:00pm-8:00pm Welcome Reception on Breeze's Terrace
(Please plan to arrive in time to join us!)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
7:30am-5:00pm Symposium Registration Open
[Conference Center - Palm Foyer]
7:30am-8:30am Morning Refreshments in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
8:30am Opening General Session
[Royal Poinciana]
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Introductory Remarks
Dr. Todd Osborne, Assistant Professor, University of Florida/IFAS Soil and Water Sciences Department, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, St. Augustine, Florida -and-
Dr. John White, Professor, Louisiana State University Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
8:45am Welcome Address
Dr. Jack Payne, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Florida/IFAS, Gainesville, FL
9:00am Plenary Presentation
Coastal Environmental Settings as a Model to Explain Global Controls of Carbon Storage in Mangroves
Dr. Robert Twilley,
Executive Director, Louisiana Sea Grant College Program; Professor, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA
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10:00am-10:30am AM Refreshment Break in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
[Conference Center - Orchid Ballroom]
Concurrent Sessions [10:30am - 12noon]
Session 1 Session 2 Session 3
Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret
Methane and Nitrous Oxide Cycling in Wetlands and Upland Forests (Part 1) New and Emerging Tools and Techniques for the Study of Biogeochemistry in Wetlands  Shifts in Foundation Species
10:30am Pat McGonigal
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David Krabbenhoft Ilka Feller
Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview
10:35am Sunitha Pangala
Large Methane Emissions from Amazon Floodplain Trees
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Brian Bergamaschi
Tidal Wetland Biogeochemistry in High Definition: Using High-Frequency Measurements to Estimate Biogeochemical Rates
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Samantha Chapman
Warming Facilitates Mangrove Encroachment and Alters Belowground Processes
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10:50am Kristofer Covey
Methane in Upland Forest Trees
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Collin Eagles-Smith
Flow Cytometry as a Novel, Rapid, Screening and Research Tool For Methylmercury Production Activity in Aquatic Ecosystems
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Catherine Lovelock
Fluctuating Sea Level and Habitat Change in Western Australia
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11:05am Mari Pihlatie
Plant-Mediated Methane and Canopy Exchange in a Boreal Upland Forest
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Sarah Janssen
From Cellular to Global: Using Mercury Stable Isotopes to Understand Mercury Cycling and Sources
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Loraé Simpson
Effects of Nutrient Enrichment on the Carbon Dynamics in the Salt Marsh - Mangrove Ecotone
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11:20am Kazuhiko Terazawa
Vertical Patterns of CH4 Emission along Tree Stems of Alnus japonica and Fraxinus mandshurica
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Brett Poulin
Molecular- and Atomic-Level Approaches to Characterize Dissolved Organic Matter: Insights for Mercury Bioavailability in the Florida Everglades
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Anne Ola
The Roots of Blue Carbon in Mangrove Forests: The Effects of Soil Properties on Stilt Root Development in Rhizophora stylosa
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11:35am Joost van Haren
Large Methane Emissions from Palm Stems in Amazonian Peat and Flood Lands
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William Orem
Methods of Sulfur Analysis in Wetlands and Applications to Studies of Mercury Biogeochemistry
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Emily Dangremond
Extreme Events and Historical Regime Shifts in the Mangrove-Salt Marsh Ecotone
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11:50am Q&A Q&A Q&A
12noon-1:30pm Group Luncheon Buffet
Concurrent Sessions [1:30pm - 3:00pm]
Session 4 Session 5 Session 6
Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret
Methane and Nitrous Oxide Cycling in Wetlands and Upland Forests (Part 2) Wetland Enzymes in a Changing Environment (Part 1) The Novel Biogeochemistry of Ubiquitous Understudied Urban Wetlands
1:30pm Sunitha Pangala Patrick Inglett Ashley Smyth
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Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview
1:35pm Pat Megonigal
Methane Emissions from both Wetland and Upland Trees across a Flooding Gradient
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Colin Jackson
What Controls Microbial Enzyme Activity in Wetlands?
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Alexander Reisinger
Challenges of Connectivity Within Urban Landscapes: Examples From The Baltimore Ecosystem Study
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1:50pm Zhiping Wang
Methane Emissions from the Stems of Living Trees in Upland Forests
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Patrick Inglett
Warming Rate Drives Microbial Nutrient Limitation and Enzyme Expression
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Lauren Kinsman-Costello
Urban Stormwater Wetlands As Novel Biogeochemical Systems: Elevated Salt and Sulfate
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2:05pm Rodrigo Vargas
Automated Measurements of CO2, CH4, and N2O Fluxes from Tree Stems and Adjacent Soils
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Hojeong Kang
PH Controls Phenol Oxidase and DOC Leaching From Global Peatland
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Eban Bean
A Little Retro: Valuing an Undersized Urban Stormwater Wetland Retrofit
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2:20pm Paul Brewer
High-Frequency Tree CH4 Flux Measurements Reveal Relationships with Tree Physiology and Environmental Properties
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Chris Freeman
Sequestering Carbon in Wetlands Through Enzyme Suppression
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Ariane Peralta
How Do We Manage Microbiomes to Promote Urban Wetland Functions?
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2:35pm Christopher Schadt
Methanogenic Archaea Dominate Mature Populus deltoides Heartwood Habitats
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Q&A Monica Palta
Accidental Urban Wetlands: Biogeochemical Processes in Unexpected Places
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2:50pm Q&A Q&A
3:00pm-3:30pm PM Refreshment Break in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
[Conference Center - Orchid Ballroom]
Concurrent Sessions [3:30pm - 5:00pm]
Session 7 Session 8 Session 9
Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret
Methane and Nitrous Oxide Cycling in Wetlands and Upland Forests (Part 3) Wetland Enzymes in a Changing Environment (Part 2) Agents and Causes of Peat Stability and GHG Ratios Across Moisture, Temperature & Latitude Gradients
3:30pm Dongqi Wang Kanika Inglett Curtis Richardson and Jeff Chanton
Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview
3:35pm Ashley Smyth
Time Series Soil Oxygen Data Help Identify Hot Spots and Hot Moments of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Wetlands
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Stephanie T. Castle
Linking Microbial Extracellular Enzyme Activities with Rates of Plant Litter Decay
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Jeff Chanton
A Global Latitudinal Gradient in Peatland Organic Matter Chemistry
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3:50pm Dongqi Wang 
Effects of Temperature Increasing On the Nitrous Oxide Emission from Intertidal Area along the East China Coast
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Nic Vermeulen
Use of Bacterial Transformation in Processing Non-Biodegradeable Plastics
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Curtis Richardson
Chemical Controls on Carbon Sequestration and GHG Flux Along A Boreal To Tropical Gradient
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4:05pm Jeroen De Klein 
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wetlands with Different Vegetation Type
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Zuhair AlQulaiti
Hydrological Variation and Enzymic Decomposition in Wetlands
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Maite Martinez-Eixarch
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Sequestration in Mediterranean Rice Fields and Wetlands: The Ebro Delta Case
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4:20pm Iikka Haikarainen 
Methane Fluxes of Trees and Forest Floor under Two Different Water Level Condition in Forestry Drained Peatland in Southern Finland
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Kathleen Pietro
Microbial Enzyme Activity in a Stormwater Treatment Ares in Response to Inflow Flow Conditions
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Hongjun Wang
Does An 'Iron-Gate' Regulate Drought Effects On Peat Decomposition?
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4:35pm Q&A Kanika Inglett
Stoichiometric Controls of Microbial Enzyme Activities on Nutrient Cycling In Wetlands
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Neal Flanagan
Thermal Alteration of Peat By Low-Severity Fire Reduces Net Carbon Loss To Microbial Respiration
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4:50pm Q&A Q&A
5:00pm-7:00pm Poster Session Reception I
(Poster presenters at odd numbered boards to be available for questions and discussion from 6pm - 7pm.)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
7:30am-5:00pm Symposium Registration Open
[Conference Center - Palm Foyer]
7:30am-8:30am Morning Refreshments in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
[Conference Center - Orchid Ballroom]
8:30am General Session
[Royal Poinciana]

Introductory Remarks
Dr. K. Ramesh Reddy, Graduate Research Professor and Chair, Soil and Water Sciences Department,
University of Florida/IFAS, Gainesville, Florida
8:40am Impacts of Hurricane Irma on the Everglades and South Florida Ecosystem
Dr. Nick Aumen, Regional Science Advisor - South Florida, Center for Collaborative Research,
US Geological Survey, Davie, Florida
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9:00am Plenary Presentation
Carbon Remineralization and Burial in the Coastal Margin: Linkages in the Anthropocene

Dr. Thomas S. Bianchi,
Jon and Beverly Thompson Endowed Chair of Geological Sciences, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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10:00am-10:30am AM Refreshment Break in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
Concurrent Sessions [10:30am - 12noon]
Session 10 Session 11 Session 12 Session 13
Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper
Blue Carbon: Improving Data Applied to IPCC Emission Factors and Carbon Markets (Part 1) Biogeochemical Responses to Saltwater Transgression Events in the Marine Environment Wetland Management Effects on Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gasses Coastal Processes
(Part 1)
10:30am Gail Chmura
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Todd Osborne Kimberli Ponzio
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Loraé Simpson
Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview
10:35am Junsung Noh
Capacity Change in Organic Carbon Storage in Intertidal Flat During Drainage After Reclamation: Case Study in Saemangeum, Korea
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Jayantha Obeysekera
An Overview of Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Projections: Means and Extremes
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Janet Ho
Characterizing Biogeochemical Shifts in Two Shrub Encroached Marshes under Different Historical Disturbance Regimes in the St. Johns River, FL
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John Nyman
How Nutrients Interact With Stresses, such as Flooding and Salinity, to Affect Wetland Plant Growth and Leaf Tissue Stoichiometry
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10:50am Gail Chmura
Blue Carbon Losses with Salt Marsh Drainage
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Benjamin Wilson
Drivers and Mechanisms of Peat Collapse in Coastal Wetlands
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Dave Sumner
Role of Hydroperiod and Fire on Carbon Dynamics of a Subtropical Peat Marsh
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Shelby Servais
Effects of Increased Salinity on Microbial Processing of Carbon and Nutrients in Brackish and Freshwater Wetland Soils
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11:05am Andre Rovai 
Global Controls of Carbon Storage in Mangrove Soils
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Lisa Chambers
Short-Term Response of Freshwater Wetland Soils to Saltwater Intrusion
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Brian Benscoter
Shifting Fire Regimes and the Future of Peatland Carbon Storage
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Katie Bowes
Sediment Phosphorus Speciation and Distribution in Coastal LA Sediments: Implications for Hypoxia and Food Web Dynamics 
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11:20am Guangcheng Chen
Considerations in Blue Carbon Accounting with Mangrove Restoration - Case Studies from South Fujian, China
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Scott Neubauer
Persistent Saltwater Intrusion Alters Ecosystem Carbon Cycling In Tidal Freshwater Marshes: Comparison of Results from In Situ Manipulations in Virginia and South Carolina
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Angelique Bochnak
Subsidy Stress Gradient in a Peat-based Floodplain Marsh
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Joshua Papacek 
Have We Reached a New Normal?: Nutrient Cycling and Bloom Dynamics in the Northern Indian River Lagoon
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11:35am Havalend Steinmuller
Fate of Soil Carbon Following Sea Level Rise-Induced Coastal Wetland Submergence: a Microcosm Experiment
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Todd Osborne
Translating the Effects of Sea-Level Rise in Urban Systems to the Coastal Ecosystem Interface
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Barclay Shoemaker
Carbon Cycling and Potential Soil Accumulation within Coastal Forested Wetlands
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Shaofeng Pei
Nutrient Dynamics and Their Interaction with Phytoplankton Growth in the Aquatic Areas of Coastal Wetland in Liaohe Delta, China
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11:50am Q&A Q&A Q&A Q&A
12noon-1:30pm Group Luncheon Buffet
Concurrent Sessions [1:30pm - 3:00pm]
Session 14 Session 15 Session 16 Session 17
Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper
Blue Carbon: Improving Data Applied to IPCC Emission Factors and Carbon Markets (Part 2) Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dynamics in Aquatic Systems Hydrological Restoration: Reconnection of Wetland Ecosystems Coastal Processes
(Part 2)
1:30pm Gail Chmura
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Kevin Grace John White Lisa Chambers
Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview
1:35pm Derrick Vaughn
Blue Carbon Sequestration Within a Northeastern Florida Intertidal Wetland - Response to Climate Change and Holocene Climate Variability
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Hilary Flower
Shifting Ground: Landscape-Scale Modeling Of Soil Biogeochemistry under Climate Change in the Florida Everglades
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Greg Noe
Nutrient and Sediment Inputs Change Soil Structure and Biogeochemistry in Floodplain Ecosystems: A Cross-Study Synthesis
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Tianna Picquet 
Novel Interactions May Affect Range Expansions: Is Heavy Ungulate Browsing Restraining Mangrove Advance On The South Texas Coast?
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1:50pm Elise Morrison
The Role of Priming Effects on the Conversion of Blue Carbon to CO2 in the Coastal Zone
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Paul Julian 
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other. Evaluation of Wetland Nutrient Stoichiometry and Homeostasis in a Subtropical Treatment Wetland
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Sara McMillan
Effects of Floodplain Restoration on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dynamics in Agricultural Watersheds
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Derek Detweiler 
Phytosterols as Tracers of Terrestrial and Wetland Carbon to Ten Thousand Islands, Florida, USA: Implications for Trophic Resource Usage in the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea Virginica
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2:05pm Cailene Gunn
Measuring Continuous Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Pacific Northwest Tidal Wetland Sediments Following Salt-Water Intrusion
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Sara Phelps 
Reevaluating the Consequences of Land Use: Accelerated Dissolution of Geologic Phosphate Deposition in Humic Lakes
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Natalie Peyronnin
Rebuilding Mississippi River Delta: Operating a Sediment Diversion to Balance Ecosystem and Social Needs
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Hayley Craig 
Factors Controlling Diversity and Composition of Soil Microbial Communities in Mangroves
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2:20pm Thomas Mozdzer
Nutrient Enrichment Alters Blue Carbon Pools and Processes
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Alina Spera 
Effect of Hydrologic Restoration on Coastal Wetland Soil Properties
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Nia Hurst
Reducing Nitrogen Removal Uncertainty for Operation of Mississippi River Sediment Diversions: Nitrate Reduction Rates In Turbulent Flow Conditions
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Michael Wessel 
Developing a Nutrient Management Strategy for Southwest Florida Tidal Creeks by Linking Source Water Concentrations, Instream Processes, and Estuarine Dynamics
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2:35pm Siyuan Ye
Carbon Sequestration and Its Controlling Factors in the Temperate Wetland Communities Along the Bohai Sea, China
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William Mitsch 
Sustainably Solving Legacy Phosphorus and Nitrogen in Landscapes with Wetlands and Wetlaculture
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John White
Evaluating Nitrate Reduction in a Hydrologically Restored Bottomland Hardwood Forest: Is Reconnection Improving Water Quality Function?
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Jessica Vaccare
The Impacts of Corexit EC9500A on Wetland Microbial Activity and Community Structure in Barataria Bay, LA., USA
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2:50pm Q&A Q&A Q&A Q&A
3:00pm-3:30pm PM Refreshment Break in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
Concurrent Sessions [3:30pm - 5:00pm]
Session 18 Session 19 Session 20 Session 21
Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret Sandpiper
Blue Carbon: Improving Data Applied to IPCC Emission Factors and Carbon Markets
Part 3
Influence of Large-scale Restoration on Biogeochemical Processes Biogeochemical Studies Toward Improving Performance of the Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas Treatment Wetlands
3:30pm Gail Chmura
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Fred Sklar
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Odi Villapando Mark Sees
Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview
3:35pm Joseph Smoak
Coupled Soil Carbon Measurements and Remote Sensing to Quantify Above and Belowground Carbon Stocks in Mangrove Forest of the Ten Thousand Islands Region of Southwest Florida, USA
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Sue Newman
Restoration of Biogeochemical Characteristics through Active Management of the Nutrient-Enriched Everglades (CHIP)
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Len Scinto
Settling and Entrainment Properties of Particulates in the STAs
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Carles Ibanez 
Dynamics of Metals, Nutrients, Sediments and Carbon in Mediterranean Constructed Wetlands Receiving Agricultural Runoff
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3:50pm Joshua Breithaupt
Are Carbon Burial Rates in the Coastal Everglades Higher Now Than They Were a Century Ago?
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Erik Tate-Boldt
Biogeochemical Drivers of Aquatic Ecosystem Metabolism under an Altered Flow Regime in an Everglades Marsh
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Patrick Inglett
Hydrologic Flow Effects on Microbial Stoichiometry and Enzyme Activity in the Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas
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Li Zhang
Hydrological Regime Impacts on Macrophyte Communities of Urban Stormwater Treatment Wetlands in Southwest Florida
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4:05pm Jeffrey Kelleway
What is the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Australia's Coastal Floodplain Forests?
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Colin Saunders
Flow Impacts on P and OM Cycling across Everglades Ridge and Slough: Lessons from Landscape Budgets in the DECOMP Physical Model and Shark Slough, ENP
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Lauren Griffiths
Nutrient Retention via Vegetative Uptake and Sedimentation in Created Wetlands in Subtropical Florida
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Taylor Nesbit
Seasonal and Hurricane Irma Effects on the Hydrologic Regime of A Constructed Urban Stormwater Treatment Wetland Complex in Southwestern Florida
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4:20pm Bong-Oh Kwon
Carbon Storage Capacity of Estuarine Tidal Flat and Salt Marsh in the West and South Coasts of Korea
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Christa Zweig
Active Management Influences on Biogeochemistry in a Nutrient-Poor Wetland
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Mike Jerauld
Phosphorus Flux in the Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas
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R. Thomas  James
Effects of Hydrology, Time and Inflow Concentration on Phosphorus Discharge from a Periphyton-Based Stormwater Treatment Area
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4:35pm Stephen Crooks
Inclusion of Coastal Wetlands in United States Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks
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Mark Cook
Faunal Contributions to P Cycling and their Influence on Restoration of the Everglades
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Odi Villapando
Biogeochemical Response of Selected STA Flow-ways to Different Flow Scenarios
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Ronald Corstanje
Big Data Applied to the Stormwater Treatment Areas in The Everglades, Mapping Out System Resilience
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4:50pm Q&A Q&A Q&A Q&A
5:00pm-7:00pm Poster Session Reception II
(Poster presenters at even numbered boards to be available for questions and discussion from 6pm - 7pm.)
Thursday, April 26, 2018
7:30am-12noon Symposium Registration Open
[Conference Center - Palm Foyer]
7:30am-8:30am Morning Refreshments in Poster & Sponsor Display Area
Concurrent Sessions [8:30am - 10:00am]
Session 22 Session 23 Session 24
Royal Poinciana Ibis Egret
Biogeochemical Processes in South Florida Ecosystems Contaminant Removal in Wetlands Wetland Soil Biogeochemistry in Created and Restored Environments
8:30am Mike Jerauld Anna Sophia Knox
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Jacob Berkowitz
Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview Introduction & Overview
8:35am Kevin Grace
Nutrient Exchange Dynamics Following Sediment Resuspension in South Florida Wetlands
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Matt Huddleston
Savannah River Site’s A-01 Constructed Wetland System: A Model for Sustainable Aquatic Risk Mitigation
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Christine VanZomeren
Biogeochemical Response of Coastal Wetland Soil to Thin Layer Sediment Application
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8:50am Jennifer Cooper
Influence of Mineral Precipitation and Aquatic Vegetation on Phosphorus Removal in Canal Water from the Everglades Agricultural Area
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Anna Sophia Knox
Metal Mobility and Retention in Constructed Wetland Sediment
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Jacob Berkowitz
Rapid Formation of Potential Acid Sulfide Soils Following Wetland Restoration – A Cautionary Tale
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9:05am Barry Rosen
The Role of Cyanobacteria in Nucleating the Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate in the Everglades: Vaterite and Aragonite
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Michael H. Paller
Using DGT to Measure Bioavailable Metals in A Constructed Wetland Treatment System
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Kim Oldenborg
Impacts of Sediment Dredging on Phosphorus Dynamics of a Restored Riparian Wetland
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9:20am Hanh Nguyen 
Microbial Composition of Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas is Linked to Sulfur Cycle
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Xiaoyu Xu
Do Constructed Wetlands Remove Metals or Increase Metal Bioavailability?
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Hongjun Chen
Dissolved Oxygen Sag Events in the Phase I Area of The Kissimmee River Restoration Project
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9:35am Richard Baker
Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in Card Sound, Florida, Inventory and Annual Turnover Circa 1973

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Sanjana Banerjee
Turning a Liability into an Asset: Can We Use the Invasive Apple Snail Pomacea Maculata In Biomonitoring Of Metal Contamination In Freshwater Marshes?
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Masanori Fujimoto
Spatial Variability in Microbial-Mediated Biogeochemical Processes in Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas
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9:50am Q&A Q&A Q&A
10:00am-10:30am AM Refreshment Break
Poster Presenters and Sponsors Remove Displays
10:30am-12noon Closing "Dr. K. Ramesh Reddy Tribute" General Session
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12noon Symposium Concludes
12noon-5:30pm Optional Post-Conference Field Trip
Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment (LILA)
Participants to gather in lobby next to registration to prepare for departure.


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