POSTER SESSION ONE

Gordon Anderson, A Paired Surface-water/Groundwater Monitoring Network

Christian Avila, Relations of Seagrass and Physical Trends in Southern Biscayne Bay

Charles Bargeron, Bugwood: Resources to Support Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health Education

Amanda Booth, Discharge and Water Quality Trends, Southwest Coast of Everglades National Park

Adam Brame, Episodic Use of Tarpon Bay, Shark River, in ENP as Nursery Habitat for Common Snook

Laura Brandt, Hurricane Impacts and Colonization of Lygodium microphyllum on Tree Islands of the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

Becky Burns, RECOVER and the Role of Science in Everglades Restoration

Leonardo Calle, Anthropogenic Resource Utilization in the Diet of the Sacred Ibis

Elizabeth Lisle Carwell, Projects and the Role of Science in Everglades Restoration — A Closer Look at C-111

Chunfang Chen, Setup, Formulation and Validation of a Spatially Explicit Hydrodynamic and Surface Water Chloride Concentration Model

Paul Conrads, Conceptual Components for the Coastal Everglades Depth Estimation Network

Paul Conrads, Hindcasting Water-Surface Elevations for Water Conservation Area 3A South

Zhanao Deng, Developing Genetic and Molecular Tools for Assessing and Controlling the Invasive Potential of Lantana camara

M. Brett Gallagher, Effects of Seasonal Hydrology and the 2010 Cold Snap on the Distribution & Abundance of Snook

Brandon Gamble, Changing how Projects are Managed while Maintaining Traditional Protocols

David Gandy, How do Canals Function as Habitat for Native & Nonnative Fishes in the Everglades Ecosystem?

Gregory Garis, Biscayne Bay Salinity Monitoring Program

Peter Gottfried, SAV Monitoring in the Southern Indian River Lagoon, St. Lucie Estuary, Lake Worth Lagoon, and Caloosahatchee River and Estuary

Denise Gregoire, Salinity Tolerance of Wild-caught Hatchling Burmese Pythons

Thomas Harmon, Potential Anthropogenic Changes in Dove Lake

Elizabeth Harrison, Evaluating the Impacts of Cichlasoma urophthalmus in the Southern Everglades

Kristen Hart, A Field Trial of Trap Effectiveness for Invasive Burmese Pythons

Savannah Howington, Hybridization of Typha Species Contributes to Cattail Invasion and Landscape Vegetation Change in Wetlands

Freddie James, Analysis and Simulation of the C-111 Detention Area System

Brian Jeffery, Alligators as an Indicator of Ecological Change in Greater Everglades Ecosystems

Darlene Johnson, Canal-Related Infl uences on Biscayne Bay Seagrass and Mangrove Fishes and Invertebrates

Marcie Kapsch, Vegetation Site Characterization at A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

Jeffrey Kline, Island Apple Snails in Everglades National Park: 5 Years Later

Gregory Koch, Seasonally Changing Surface Water Discharge Drives Ecosystem Metabolism Rates in Estuarine Taylor River

Jon Lane, USACE Invasive Species Policy

Laurel Larsen, Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Trace Seasonal DOM Dynamics, Disturbance Effects, and Hydrologic Transport

Melinda Lohmann, Potential Impacts of Localized Hydrologic Features on Sea-Level Rise Induced Saltwater Intrusion in South Florida

Diana Lopez, Trait Variation across the Range of an Invasive Species: African Jewelfi sh

Andrew LoSchiavo, Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Project Adaptive Management Plan

Morgan Maglio, Modeling Surface-Subsurface Exchange of Water and Reactivity of Solutes in the Ridge and Slough Landscape

Frank Mazzotti, Crocodiles as an Indicator of Ecological Change in Everglades Ecosystems

Katie McCallion, The Southwest Florida Feasibility Study

Ryan Moore, High-Density Aquatic Vegetation Baseline Surveys of Lake Istokpoga and the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes

James B. Murray, Decline in Populations of the Non-Native Red Rimmed Melania in Biscayne Bay National Park, FL

Erin Myers, The Florida Invasive Species Partnership

Paul R. Nelson, The Disappearing Islands of Whitewater Bay

C. Mindy Nelson, Fish Health of the St. Lucie River Estuarine System in Relation to Canal Discharges and Water Quality

Tae-Goo Oh, Spatial Occurrence of Ridge Senescence in Water Conservation Area 3A, 3B, and Everglades National Park

Todd Z. Osborne, Vegetation Community Responses to Prescribed Fire Regimes in the A. R. M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

Dianne Owen, The Effect of Hydrology, Fire Regime and Exotic Invasion on the Postburn Successional Trajectory of Plant Communities in Big Cypress

J.P. Perea-Rodriguez, Prevalence of a Parasitic Isopod, Probopyrus spp, on Palaeomonid Shrimp along a Marsh-Estuarine Gradient in the S. Everglades

Amy Renshaw, Effect of Water Management Changes to the Stage-Discharge Relationship in Upper Taylor Slough

Gregg Reynolds, Comparison of Everglades Slough Vegetation Hydrologic Suitability from Scientific Literature, and Experimentally Determined Plant Species Responses

Mike Robblee, Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Juvenile Pink Shrimp in South Florida Estuaries

Michael Rochford, Movements, Habitat-Use, Thermal Biology, and Diet of Burmese Pythons in the Everglades

Christina Romagosa, The Northern African Python in South Florida

Kory M. Ross, Factors Affecting Exotic Fish Distribution at Babcock Ranch

William Roth, A Compartmental Screening Model for Stage and Water Quality in a Large Everglades Wetland

Amartya Saha, Development of a Hydrological Budget for Shark River Slough

Pamela Schofield, Why Ecophysiology Matters

Mark Shafer, Assessing Sea Level Rise Impacts to CERP Coastal Projects

Dilip Shinde, Simulation of Water Flow and Phosphorous Transport in a Highly Interactive Surface Water Groundwater System in the Series of S-332

Sahas Shrestha, Modeling Hydrologic Flow across a Marsh-Mangrove Ecotone in Ten Thousand Islands

Lars Soderqvist, Seasonal and Spatial Distribution of Freshwater Flow and Salinity in the Ten Thousand Islands Estuary

Roy Sonenshein, A Hydrologic Model to Evaluate Seepage beneath Levee 31N from Northeast Shark River Slough

Pushpa Soti, Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Supporting Invasiveness of Old World Climbing Fern in South Florida Natural Areas

Erik Stabenau, Status and Trends in Marine and Estuarine Conditions, Florida Bay

Jennifer Stiner, Science Communication: Evolution of the CERP System

Suresh Subedi, Determination of Nutrient Limitation on Trees Growing in LILA Tree Islands

Zoltan Szantoi, Classifi cation of Marl Prairie and Marsh Vegetation Communities in the Everglades National Park

Craig Thompson, Quantifying Freshwater Infl ows to the Caloosahatchee River Estuary

Ginger Tiling-Range, Mapping the Changing Coastline of Southwest Florida

Louise Venne, Response of Wading Birds to Fire in the Central Everglades

Anna Wachnicka, Mutualistic Relationship between Periphyton Mats and Macrophytes in the Southern Everglades Wet Prairies

Michael Waldon, Designing and Testing Modeled Hydrological Performance Measures

Susan Walls, Presence of Invasive Cuban Treefrog Reduces Probability of Occurrence of Native Treefrog

Theresa Walters, Nested Conceptual Models for Understanding Ecological Impacts of Burmese Pythons

Kevin R.T. Whelan, Corridors of Invasiveness Plant Monitoring

Kathy Worley, Mangrove Restoration in Selected Areas of Pine Island Sound after Hurricane Charlie

Zhixiao Xie, Revisions to the EDEN Ground-Surface Digital Elevation Model and Water Surface Model in the Water Conservation Area 1

POSTER SESSION TWO

Karen Balentine, Crab Burrows and their Contribution to Surface Elevation in Mangrove Forests of Tampa Bay and Everglades National Park

Tim Bargar, A Water Quality Criteria-Based Evaluation of Copper Impacts to South Florida’s Freshwater Environment

Tim Bargar, A Risk Assessment of Methylmercury to Fish in South Florida

Jim Barnes, Low Impact Development Strategies: Tools and Techniques for Sustainability

Ian Bartoszek, American Alligator and Selective Faunal Surveys for the Picayune Strand Restoration Project

Laura Belicka, Biochemical Markers of the Effects of Canal-Induced Nutrient Gradients on Food- Webs in a Taylor Slough

Marcia Berry, Hydrologic Information of the Western Tamiami Trail and the Ten Thousand Islands

Amanda Booth, Water Quality Monitoring at McIntyre Creek, J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge

Richard Botta, Effects of Lake Stage and Marsh Elevation on Wading Bird Nesting Effort at Lake Okeechobee

Ross Boucek, Resource Partitioning Among Five Mesopredators in the Upper Shark River Estuary

Laura Brandt, Planning for Climate Change in South Florida: Climate Envelope Modeling for Threatened and Endangered Species

Edwin Brown, Forecasting Effects of Nutrient Loading and Availability of an Ecosystem Restoration in the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Estuaries

Edwin Brown, The Effects of CERP, upon Submerged Aquatic Communities in Lake Okeechobee

Becky Burns, CERP Adaptive Management Program Implementation

Brittany Burtner, Do Wading Birds Nest Near Alligators by Choice?

David W. Ceilley, An Update of the Biological Monitoring Plan for the Lake Trafford Restoration Project, Collier Co. FL

Gail Chmura, Bone-rich Anthropogenic Sediments on Everglades Tree Islands

Philip Darby, Modeling Apple Snail Population Response to Hydrologic Change in the Everglades

Vic Engel, Tree Island-Grass Coexistence in the Everglades Freshwater System

Kris Esterson, Making Sea Level Rise Projections Actionable For Engineering

Larry Fink, A Time-Dependent, Multi-Trophic Level Model of First-Flush Methylmecury Bioaccumulation. Part 2.

Ann Foster, Fire History in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve

Piero Gardinali, Using Large Datasets to Develop Background Concentration Ranges of Trace Elements in Soils

Roxanne Gause, Modeling Nutrient and Biological Sources within Hendry and Mullock Creek Basins

Matthew Hanson, Foraging Ecology of Nesting Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park

Kristen Hart, Inter-Nesting Habitat for Dry Tortugas Loggerhead Sea Turtles

Kristen Hart, Mercury Bioaccumulation in Everglades Pythons

Judson Harvey, Sediment and Particulate Phosphorus Transport in a Free Flowing Everglades

J. Matthew Hoch, Monitoring Fish Communities and Populations on the Eastern Boundary of Everglades National Park

Rebecca Howard, Effects of the Picayune Strand Restoration Project on Vegetation Assemblages of the Mangrove/Marsh Transition

Angie Huebner, Lessons Learned: Invasive Plant Management at 8.5 Square Mile Area

David Krabbenhoft, Bacterial Mercury Methylation: The Role of Dissolved Organic Carbon

Jon Lane, The Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area

Sylvia Lee, Trajectory Analysis of Everglades Diatom Community Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Influences

Yanbin Li, Degradation of Methylmercury and Its Effects on Mercury Distribution and Cycling in the Florida Everglades

Alicia Logalbo, Effects of Historical Changes and CERP Restoration Projects to Endangered Everglades Avian Populations

John Marshall, GEER Progress from a Total Ecosystem Services View

Jennifer Mitchell, Phosphorus Dynamics as a Result of Restoration in Subtropical Grazed Wetlands

Steve Mortellaro, Macroinvertebrates as an Indicator of Wetland Condition

Gregory Mount, Characterization of Dissolution Structures and Porosity Distributions in the Upper Part of the Biscayne Aquifer

Jing-Yea Yang, Flow Rating Improvement and Uncertainty Analysis for Culverts in a Stormwater Treatment Area

William Orem, Sulfate Contamination in the Everglades — What Concentration Minimizes Impacts?

Joseph Parkos, Infl uence of Canals on Dispersal Patterns of Native and Non-native Fish in the Everglades

Elise Pearlstine, A Conceptual Ecological Model for the Everglades Agricultural Area

Leonard Pearlstine, A CircuitScape Dispersal Model and Index for Connectivity in South Florida Landscapes

Leonard Pearlstine, A Collaborative Computing Framework for Rapid Ecomodel Development

Matthew Petkewich, Automation of the Estimation of Missing Water-Level Data for the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN)

Emily Pifer, Use of Remote Cameras to Detect Small and Medium-sized Mammals in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve

Ronald Reese, Origin of High Salinity Groundwater in the Surficial Aquifer System at the Herbert Hoover Dike

Jennifer Richards, The Public Face of Everglades REMAP 2005

Colleen Rochelle, Mercury in Sentinel Fish from Coastal Regions of the Greater Everglades

Darren Rumbold, Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Mercury Concentrations in Blood and Hair of Florida Panthers

Darren Rumbold, Fine Scale Spatial Variation in Total Mercury Levels in Molluscan Bivalves from Southwest Florida

Seema Sah, Everglades based College Level Field Courses

Lauren Serra, Land-clearing Treatments Indicate Differences in Total Phosphorus in Soils Following Soil Removal

Dilip Shinde, Improved Water Quality Sampling Methodology and Comparison with Conventional Grab and Auto-Sampling Methods

Jim Snyder, Experimental Study of Post-fi re Recovery of Short-Hydroperiod Prairies

Eric Sokol, Inter-annual Variation in Hydroperiod Affects Periphyton Standing Crop and the Associated Macroinvertebrate Community

Peter Stone, Common Peat-Over-Marl Sedimentary Sequences in South Florida

Michael Sukop, A New Approach in Geostatistical Modeling to Capture Stratifi cation of Macroporosity in the Biscayne Aquifer

Michael Swain, Experimental Determination of Soil Heat Storage Depth for the Simulation of Heat Transport in a Coastal Wetland

Georgio Tachiev, MIKE SHE and MIKE 11 Surface/Subsurface Hydrological Model for the Everglades National Park

Pamela Telis, Using a Network of Benchmarks to Evaluate and Verify the EDEN Surface-water Model

Joel Trexler, Trade-offs Between Nutrient and Predator Effects on a Primary Consumer Along a Canal Gradient in an Oligotrophic Wetland

Joel VanArman, Natural and Human Factors that Affect Water Quality and Biological Resources in the Everglades

Boya Volesky, Online Everglades Library

Amanda Watson, Decompartmentalization and Sheetfl ow Enhancement within Water Conservation Area 3

Adam Watts, Post-fire Survival of Pond Cypress Following the Deep Fire, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida

Adam Watts, Landform Elevation as Evidence of Regular Surface Patterning in Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida

Russ Weeks, CERP Climate Change Study — Modeling the Effects of Sea Level Rise in South Florida

Zach Welch, Shifts in Snail Kite Nesting and Implications for Central Florida Lake Management

Alan Wright, Extracellular Enzyme Activity in Sulfur-Amended Everglades Soils

Alan Wright, Seasonal Dynamics of Phosphorus in Sulfur-Amended Organic Soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area

Alan Wright, Linking Soil Chemical Properties and Microbial Activity in Everglades Agricultural Area Soils

Alan Wright, Decomposition Dynamics of Nymphaea in Everglades Wetlands

Tan Xu, Hydrologic Effects on Nutrient Release and Microbial Activity for Different Land Uses in the Everglades Agricultural Area

ADDITIONS

Savannah Howington, How to Get Involved

Amartya Saha, Tropical Hardwood Hammocks along a water availability gradient

Jonathan Taylor, Promoting the Reestablishment of Caladium Jamaicense