Detailed Florida Bay Agenda

Joint Conference on the Science and Restoration
of the Greater Everglades and Florida Bay Ecosystem

From Kissimmee to the Keys”

April 13-18, 2003 l Palm Harbor, Florida

Florida Bay Segment (Monday & Tuesday)

 

 

Sunday, April 13, 2003

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Conference Registration Opens and Florida Bay Poster Presenters set up Displays

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Early Bird Social with Welcome Address and Overview by John Hunt

7:00pm

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Social Adjourns to “Unofficial Networking” in Bamboo’s Restaurant

Monday, April 14, 2003

7:00am – 5:00pm

Conference Registration Office Open

7:00am – 8:00am

Early Morning Refreshments & Presenters put up Poster Displays

8:00am – 8:30pm Florida Bay Plenary Session: Overview

8:00am – 8:10am

Welcome and Introduction — John Hunt, PMC Co-Chair

8:10am – 8:30am

 

 

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Overview of the Status and Interactions of Florida Bay Science and Restoration — David Rudnick and Dewey Worth, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL; Erwin Wunderlich, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL

8:30am – 12:10pm

Florida Bay Plenary Session on Question 1 (7 talks)

8:30am – 8:45am

Introduction to Session and Initial Response to Panel Member Questions PMC Team Leader: Peter Ortner

8:45am – 9:05am

Salinity History of Florida Bay: An Evaluation of Methods, Trends, and Causes — T. M. Cronin, L. Wingard, J. H. Murray, USGS Reston, VA; G. Dwyer, Duke University, Durham NC; M. Robblee, USGS, Miami, FL

9:05am – 9:25am

Circulation and Exchange Processes within Florida Bay Interior Basins — Thomas N. Lee and Elizabeth Williams, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL; Elizabeth Johns and Ryan Smith, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; Nelson Melo, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, U. of Miami, Miami, FL

9:25am – 9:45am

Selected Features of Florida Bay Circulation: Targets for Hydrodynamic Model Validation — Ned P. Smith, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Fort Pierce, FL

9:45am – 10:05am

Flows, Stages, and Salinities:  How Accurate is the SICS Integrated Surface-Water/Ground-Water Flow and Transport Model?Christian Langevin, Eric Swain, and Melinda Wolfert, U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Water and Restoration Studies, Miami, FL

10:05am – 10:25am

Refreshment Break

10:25am – 10:45am

Florida Bay Hydrodynamic and Salinity Model Analysis — J. M. Hamrick, Tetra Tech, Inc., Fairfax, VA and M. Z. Moustafa, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL

10:45am – 11:05am

An Integrated Modeling System for Simulating Circulation and Water Quality in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay — Y. Peter Sheng and Justin R. Davis, Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:05am – 11:25am

Establishing Minimum Flow Criteria for Florida Bay — Joel VanArman and David Swift, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL

11:25am – 12:10pm

Question 1 — Detailed Discussion of Panel Member Questions and General Discussion Period on Question 1 Presentations

12:10pm – 1:30pm

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Lunch on Own

1:30pm – 5:30pm

Florida Bay Plenary Session on Questions 2 & 3 (8 talks)

1:30pm – 1:45pm

Introduction to Session and Initial Response to Panel Member Questions PMC Team Leader: Brian Keller

1:45pm – 2:05pm

Connecting Florida Bay with The Upstream Landscape via the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program — Daniel L. Childers, Florida International University, Miami, FL

2:05pm – 2:25pm

Stoichiometry of the Dissolved and Particulate Nutrient Pools, and Phytoplankton Uptake Rates, and Their Relationship with Phytoplankton Community Composition in Florida Bay — Patricia M. Glibert, Jeffrey Alexander and Marta Revilla, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD; Cynthia A. Heil, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; Susan Murasko, David Hollander and Ana Hoare, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL

2:25pm – 2:45pm

Phytoplankton and Bacterial Response to Inorganic and Organic Nutrient Enrichment and Alteration in Florida Bay: Results from Bioassay Enrichment Experiments — Cynthia A. Heil, Susan Murasko, David Hollander and Ana Hoare, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; Patricia M. Glibert, Marta Revilla and Jeffrey Alexander, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD

2:45pm – 3:05pm

Internal Nutrient Cycling in Florida Bay: Denitrification, Nitrogen Fixation and the Role of Microalgae — Jeffrey C. Cornwell, W. Michael Kemp, Michael S. Owens, Jessica Davis and Eric Nagel, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge MD

3:05pm – 3:25pm

Microbial Dynamics in Florida Bay: A New Paradigm for the Microbial Loop in Oligotrophic Marine Waters — Joseph N. Boyer and Susan K. Dailey, Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL

3:25pm – 3:45pm

Refreshment Break

3:45pm – 4:05pm

Uncoupling Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Microbial Response to Increased DOM in Florida Bay — Susan K. Dailey and Joseph N. Boyer, Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL

4:05pm – 4:25pm

Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Nutrients and Salinity in Florida Bay Ground Water from 1994-2000 — Christopher D. Reich and Eugene A. Shinn, US Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, FL

4:25pm – 4:45pm

The Roles of Freshwater Discharge, Advective Processes and Silicon Cycling in the Development of Diatom Blooms in Coastal Waters of the Southwestern Florida Shelf and Northwestern Florida Bay (1999-2001) — Jennifer L. Jurado, Broward County DPEP, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Gary L. Hitchcock, University of Miami, Miami, FL; Peter B. Ortner, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL

4:45pm – 5:30pm

Questions 2 and 3 — Detailed Discussion of Panel Member Questions and General Discussion Period on Question 2 & 3 Presentations

5:30pm

General Session Concludes

6:30pm – 9:00pm

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Florida Bay Poster Session & Reception (Presenters to be stationed at their posters from 7:00pm – 8:30pm)

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

7:00am – 5:00am

Conference Registration Office Open

7:00am – 8:00am

Early Morning Refreshments

8:30am – 5:20pm

Concurrent Sessions: Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER)

12:20pm – 1:30pm

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Lunch on Own

8:00am – 12noon

Florida Bay Plenary Session on Question 4 (8 talks)

8:00am – 8:15am

Introduction to Session and Initial Response to Panel Member Questions PMC Team Leader: Michael Robblee

8:15am – 8:35am

Infection, Infestation, and Disease: Differential Impacts of Labyrinthula sp. on the Seagrass Thalassia testudinum (Banks ex König) in Florida Bay, USA — Barbara A. Blakesley, Donna M. Berns and Margaret O. Hall, Florida Marine Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, St. Petersburg, FL

8:35am – 8:55am

The Effects of Sediment Toxicity on Florida Bay Turtle Grass:  A Synthesis of Field Experiments (1990-2000) — Paul Carlson, Laura Yarbro, Brad Peterson and Alice Ketron, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Marine Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL

8:55am – 9:15am

Meristem Anoxia and Sulfide Intrusion: A Mechanism for Thalassia testudinum Short Shoot Mortality in Florida Bay — Ole Pedersen, Jens Borum and Tina M. Greve, University of Copenhagen, Hillerřd, Denmark; Joseph C. Zieman and Thomas A. Frankovich, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; James W. Fourqurean, Florida International University, Miami, FL

9:15am – 9:35am

Multiple Stressor Effects on Seagrasses in FL Bay: A Mesocosm Research Approach — Marguerite Koch, Stephanie Schopmeyer and Claus Kyhn-Hansen, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; Chris Madden, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL

9:35am – 9:55am

Nitrogen Versus Phosphorus Limitation of Benthic Primary Production and the Role of Epiphyte Grazers in Florida Bay — Thomas A. Frankovich, Amy Willman and James W. Fourqurean, Florida International University, Miami, FL; and Kenneth L. Heck, Dauphin Island Sea Lab and University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island, AL

9:55am – 10:15am

Refreshment Break

10:15am – 10:35am

The Response of Seagrass Distribution to Changing Water Quality: Predictive Models from Monitoring Data — James W. Fourqurean, Joseph N. Boyer and Bradley J. Peterson, Department of Biological Sciences and Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL; Michael J. Durako, Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC; and Lee N. Hefty, Miami-Dade Department of Environmental Resources Management, Miami, FL

10:35am – 10:55am

Use of a Dynamic, Mechanistic Simulation Model to Assess Ecology and Restoration of the Florida Bay Seagrass Community — Christopher J. Madden, Amanda McDonald and Stephen P. Kelly, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL; Marguerite Koch, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

10:55am – 11:15am

A Landscape Model of Thalassia testudinum Dynamics in Florida Bay T.M. Smith, B. Wolfe, J. Zieman, K. McGlathery and E. Bricker, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA

11:15am – 12:noon

Question 4 — Detailed Discussion of Panel Member Questions and General Discussion Period on Question 4 Presentations

12:00pm – 1:30pm

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Lunch on Own

1:30pm – 5:30pm

Florida Bay Plenary Session on Question 5 (8 talks)

1:30pm – 1:45pm

Introduction to Session and Initial Response to Panel Member Questions PMC Team Leader: John Lamkin

1:45pm – 2:05pm

Potential Effects of the Diversion of Freshwater Flow from Taylor Slough to the C-111 Canal on the Salinity, Hydrology, Prey-Base Fish Community and Roseate Spoonbill Nesting Population of Northeastern Florida Bay — Jerome J. Lorenz, National Audubon Society, Tavernier, FL

2:05pm – 2:25pm

A Framework for Assessing Ecological Risks to the Roseate Spoonbill Related to Everglades Hydrologic Restoration Activities — Steven M.  Bartell, The Cadmus Group, Oak Ridge, TN; Jerome J. Lorenz, National Audubon Society, Tavernier, FL; William K. Nuttle, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; William B. Perry, National Park Service, Homestead, FL

2:25pm – 2:45pm

Postlarval Transport of Pink Shrimp into Florida Bay — Maria M. Criales and John Wang, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL; Joan A. Browder and Thomas Jackson, NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, FL; Michael Robblee and Clinton Hittle, U.S. Geological Survey, Water and Restoration Studies Center, Miami, FL

2:45pm – 3:05pm

The Use of GAM Modeling Techniques to Evaluate the Effects of Freshwater Flow Into Florida Bay- Part 1- Forage Fish Models — Darlene Johnson and Joan Browder, NOAA Fisheries, Miami, FL

3:05pm – 3:25pm

Use of Geochemical Tracers to Elucidate Life History Trajectories of Gray Snapper within South Florida's Marine Ecosystems David L. Jones, Univ. of Miami-RSMAS, Miami, FL; Monica R. Lara, Univ. of Miami-RSMAS-CIMAS, Miami, FL; John T. Lamkin, NOAA-NMFS-SEFSC, Miami, FL

3:25pm – 3:45pm

Refreshment Break

3:45pm – 4:05pm

Mercury in Fish from Eastern Florida Bay — David W. Evans and Peter H. Crumley, NOAA, Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research, Beaufort NC; Darren Rumbold, South Florida Water Management District, Fort Myers FL; Sharon Niemczyk, US Army Corps of Engineers, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

4:05pm – 4:25pm

Using Bottlenose Dolphins as an Indicator Species in Florida Bay: Analyzing Habitat Use and Distribution Relative to Water Quality, Habitat and Fish Community — Leigh G. Torres and Andrew J. Read, Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC; Laura Engleby, Dolphin Ecology Project, Key Largo, FL

4:25pm – 4:45pm

Evaluating the Effect of Salinity on a Simulated American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) Population - Paul M. Richards, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; Wolf M. Mooij, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands; Donald L. DeAngelis, U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Water and Restoration Studies, University of Miami, Department of Biology, Coral Gables, FL USA

4:45pm – 5:30pm

Question 5 — Detailed Discussion of Panel Member Questions and General Discussion Period on Question 5 Presentations

5:30pm – 5:40pm

Florida Bay Wrap-up & Closing Remarks

5:40pm

FLORIDA BAY SEGMENT CONCLUDES

6:30pm – 9:00pm

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Joint Conference Networking Reception