Bruce R. Wardlaw Thomas Cronin Unknown Florida Cooperative Geologic Mapping Project http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/coop_map/ This project was designed to provide the framework for understanding (1) ecosystem variability and change prior to and during human development of South Florida (i.e., the detailed ecosystem history over the last 200 years, differentiating natural variability from man-made change) and (2) the resource distribution (primarily water and phosphate) in the subsurface of Florida (i.e., the detailed geology of constraining and resource units). The overall strategy is is to: 1. Sample modern environments throughout the Greater Everglades Ecosystem to understand the present ecosystem and locate undisturbed shallow sediment cores to analyze ecosystem variability and change over the last few hundred years. 2. Analyze deep cores for sedimentology, diagenesis, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and chemostratigraphy in transects across the southern Florida Peninsula to better understand the factors controlling ground water movement and to define aquifer characteristics. In order to understand the role of facies relationships and genetic depositional units in determining groundwater flow, the distribution and abundance of micro mollusks, foraminifers, dinocysts, ostracodes, pollen and spores, and charcoal will be analyzed, and strontium isotopes will be used for geochronology. A multitude of water-related societal issues face southern Florida in the 1990's. These issues include the increasing demands for water for agriculture; business, and the rapidly growing population in the Naples and Miami area (Miami showing the fourth fastest growth rate in the U.S. in the 1980's), the recently mandated restoration of natural sheet flow through the Everglades ecosystem, the effects of runoff from agricultural and urban areas, and the vitality of the important fisheries of Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay. This project provides baselines for ecosystem variability and tracks the change in ecosystems through the last several hundred years to provide critical information for reasonable restoration targets to land planners and managers in southern Florida. In addition, it provides the geologic framework for the aquifers that supply water to the area. This project was completed in 1999. 19961001 19990930 ground condition Complete None planned -82 -80.28 25.5 24.5 none mapping ecosystem history paleoecology sedimentology biostratigraphy chemostratigraphy diagenesis foraminifera molluscs ostracodes pollen dinocysts ISO 19115 Topic Category biota inlandWaters imageryBaseMapsEarthCover environment 002 012 007 010 Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4, Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology US United States U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, D. C., NIST Florida FL Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas, FIPS 6-3, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology Monroe County Miami-Dade County Collier County none Greater Lake Okeechobee Kissimmee Valley Central Everglades South East Coast SW Big Cypress Florida Keys none Data are subject to change and are not citeable until reviewed and approved for official publication. Bruce Wardlaw U.S. Geological Survey mailing address
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Reston VA 20192 USA 703 648-5288 703 648-5420 bwardlaw@usgs.gov http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/coop_map/mapactivities.jpg Florida Cooperative Mapping Project Activities JPEG This project was funded jointly by the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program and the Fragile Envirionments Initiative with added support by the US Army corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District. Other agencies involved in site selection, field support, and others aspects of the project included South Florida Water Management District, Big Cypress National Preserve, Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, Dade County Department of Environmental Resource Management, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Florida Geological Survey, Florida Institute of Oceanography, University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Miami, and several local state parks. In addition the project interfaced with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, NOAA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency (largely in the ecosystem history aspects). Edwards, L. E. Weedman, S. D., Simmons, K. R., Scott, T. M., Brewster-Wingard, G. L., Ishman, S. E., Carlin, N. M. 1998 Lithostratigraphy, petrography, biostratigraphy, and strontium-isotope stratigraphy of the surficial aquifer system of western Collier County, Florida report USGS Open-File Report 98-205 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/ofr/98-205/ Weedman, S. D. Paillet, F. L, Edwards, L. E., Simmons. K. R., Scott, T. M., Wardlaw, B. R., Reese, R. S., Blair, J. L. 1999 Lithostratigraphy, geophysics, biostratigraphy, and strontium-isotope stratigraphy of the surficial aquifer system of eastern Collier County and northern Monroe County, Florida report USGS Open-File Report 99-432 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1999/of99-432/index.html Weedman, S. D. Paillet, F. L., Means, G. H., Scott, T. M. 1997 Lithology and geophysics of the surficial aquifer system in western Collier County, Florida report USGS Open-File Report 97-436 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr97436 Ishman, Scott E. 1997 Ecosystem History of South Florida: Biscayne Bay Sediment Core Descriptions report USGS Open-File Report 97-0437 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/of/ofr97437.html Ishman, Scott E. Graham, Ian, D'Ambrosio, Jill 1997 Modern Benthic Foraminifer Distributions in Biscayne Bay: Analogs for Historical Reconstructions report USGS Open-File Report 97-034 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/of/ofr97034.html Pyle, Laura Cooper, Sherri R., Huvane Jacqueline K. 1998 Diatom Paleoecology Pass Key Core 37, Everglades National Park, Florida Bay report USGS Open-File Report 98-522 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/of/ofr98522.html Brewster-Wingard, G. Lynn Ishman, Scott E., Waibel, Neil J., Willard, Debra A., Edwards, Lucy E., Holmes, Charles W. 1998 Preliminary Paleontologic Report on Core 37, from Pass Key, Everglades National Park, Florida Bay report USGS Open-File Report 98-0122 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/of/ofr98122.html Scott, Thomas M. Means, Guy H., Brewster-Wingard, G. Lynn 1997 Progress Report on Sediment Analyses at Selected Faunal Monitoring Sites in North-central and Northeastern Florida Bay report USGS Open-File Report 97-0534 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/of/ofr97534.html Willard, Debra A. Brewster-Wingard, G. Lynn, Fellman, Claire, Ishman, Scott E. 1997 Paleontological Data from Mud Creek Core 1, southern Florida report USGS Open-File Report 97-0736 Reston, VA U. S. Geological Survey http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr97736 Wingard, G. Lynn Ishman, Scott, Cronin, Thomas, Edwards, Lucy E., Willard, Debra A., Halley, Robert B. 1995 Preliminary Analysis of Down-Core Biotic Assmeblages: Bob Allen Keys, Everglades National Park, Florida Bay report USGS Open-File Report 95-628 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/ofr/95-628 Brewster-Wingard, G. Lynn Ishman, S. E., Edwards, L. E., Willard, D. A. 1996 Preliminary Report on the Distribution of Modern Fauna and Flora at Selected Sites in North-central and North-eastern Florida Bay report USGS Open-File Report 96-0732 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/of/ofr96732.html Ishman, S. E. Brewster-Wingard, G. L., Willard, D. A., Cronin, T. M., Edwards, L. E., Holmes, C. W. 1996 Preliminary paleontologic report on core T-24, Little Madeira Bay, Florida report USGS Open-File Report 96-0543 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/of/ofr96543.html Willard, Debra A. Weimer, Lisa M. 1997 Palynological Census Data from Surface Samples in South Florida report USGS Open-File Report 97-0867 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/of/ofr97867.html Willard, Debra A. 1997 Pollen Census Data from Southern Florida: Sites Along an Nutrient Gradient in Water Conservation Area 2A report USGS Open-File Report 97-0497 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/of/ofr97497.html Brewster-Wingard, G. L. Ishman, S. E., Willard, D. A., Edwards, L. E., Holmes, C. W. 1997 Preliminary paleontologic report on Cores 19A and 19B, Russell Bank, Everglades National Park, Florida Bay report USGS Open-File Report OFR 97-460 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/ofr/97-460/ Cronin, T. M. Boomer, I., Dwyer, G., Rodriguez-Lazaro, J. 2002 Ostracoda and Paleoceanography report Monograph 131 Washington, DC American Geophysical Union in Applications of the Ostracoda to Quaternary Research J. A. Holmes and A. R. Chivas, eds. Cronin, T. M. Dwyer, G. S., Schwede, S. B., Dowsett, H. 2002 Climate variability from Florida Bay sedimentary record: possible teleconnections to ENSO, PNA, and CNP report Climate Research v. 19, no. 3 Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany Inter-Research Willard. D. A. Holmes, C. W. 1997 Pollen and Geochronological Data from South Florida: Taylor Creek Site 2 report USGS Open File Report 97-35 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://sofia.usgs.gov/flaecohist/publications/OFR97-35.pdf not applicable not available The overall work plan is is to: 1. Establish modern census sites and sample every six months for the duration of the project, provide yearly progress reports on the modern census data. 2. Analyze one to three undisturbed cores for each ecosystem history subproject yearly, provide summary report of core upon completion of analysis. 3. Drill numerous holes for analysis of the southwest Florida surficial aquifer system, analyze the cores. 4. Describe and analyze several long cores, with the Florida Geological Survey, for establishing the geologic framework of Florida. 5. Provide paleontological and isotopic support work (as SUPPORTMAP) for activities of the Geological Investigations Projects of the Florida Geological Survey which include: revision of the State Geologic Map and the State Geomorphic Map, surficial sediments and bedrock mapping of the western one-half of the Homestead 1: 100,000 quadrangle, surficial sediments and bedrock geology mapping of the Sarasota 1: 100,000 quadrangle, lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic investigation of the proposed Okeechobee Formation, siliciclastic-carbonate transition in southern Florida and the Keys, hydrostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic characterization of Cenozoic sediments of the Southwest Florida Water Management District, and West Florida coastal estuarine sediment characterization studies. Work planned for FY 1998 included: 1. Continue modern census sampling. 2. Complete final coring in the Taylor Slough region and collect a transect of cores across the northern part of Shark River Slough. 3. Develop a collecting and monitoring program with Biscayne Bay National Park of groundwaters entering Biscayne Bay and examine ecosystem history cores to determine the importance and change of groundwater contribution to the bay. 4. Complete analysis of Pass Key core. 5. Finish manuscripts on synthesis of results from cores and species analysis for SFWMD contract. 6. Continue drilling for surficial aquifer and "River of Sand" studies in Collier and Monroe Counties. 7. Complete manuscripts on Hilliard core, validity of the "River of Sand", and stratigraphic correlation of the shallow aquifer system of Collier County. 1999 Bruce Wardlaw U.S. Geological Survey mailing address
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