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Welcome to the fourth issue of SOFIA News! SOFIA News is a bimonthly email update of new postings on the USGS South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) website. This update includes announcements of new projects, publications, metadata, data sets, personnel pages, proposals and workplans, and an announcement for the First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration. This issue contains a listing of items that have been posted in the last two months.

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+ Publications:

• DOI Science Plan in Support of Ecosystem Restoration, Preservation, and Protection in South Florida (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/reports/doi-science-plan/)
• Gaining Ground on Lygodium microphyllum (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/posters/climb_fern/)
• South Florida Information Access ( SOFIA ) Metadata for the U.S. Geological Survey Greater Everglades Place-Based Studies (http://sofia.usgs.gov/geer/2003/posters/sofia_meta/)
• Application of ground-penetrating radar, digital optical borehole images, and cores for characterization of porosity hydraulic conductivity and paleokarst in the Biscayne aquifer, southeastern Florida, USA (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/papers/hc_paleokarst/)
• New method for quantification of vuggy porosity from digital optical borehole images as applied to the karstic Pleistocene limestone of the Biscayne aquifer, southeastern Florida (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/papers/vuggypor/)
• Assigning Boundary Conditions to the Southern Inland and Coastal Systems (SICS) Model Using Results from the South Florida Water Management Model (SFWMM), USGS Open File Report 2004-1195 (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/ofr/2004-1195/)
  

+ Data:

• Desmond elevation model v 2.0 posted along with new DEM map (http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/desmond/desmondelev.html#elevmodel)
• Northeastern Florida Bay Estuarine Creek Data (stage, discharge, salinity (surface and bottom), and temperature (surface and bottom)) (http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/patino/patinoflow.html)
  

+ Updated Metadata:

• American Alligator Ecology and Monitoring for CERP (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/rice_alligators_04.html)
• Ecological Risk Assessment of Toxic Substances in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem: Wildlife Effects and Exposure Assessment (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/eco_assess_risk_toxics.html)
• Evapotranspiration Measuring & Modeling in the Everglades (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/german_et_04.html)
• Fire Ecology of South Florida Wetlands (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/fire_ecol_sfl_04.html)
• Ground Water Flow and Transport for the SICS and TIME Models (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/gw_flow_trans_TIME.html)
• Impacts of Hydrological Restoration on Three Estuarine Communities of the SW Florida Coast (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/mcivor_hydroimpact.html)
• Interactions of Mercury with Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Florida Everglades (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/Hg_DOC_fy04.html)
• Internal Surface-water Flows (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/int_surf_water_flows_04.html)
• Land Characteristics from Remote Sensing (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/landchar_rs_04.html)
• Mercury Cycling and Bioaccumulation (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/dk_merc_cycl_bio.html)
• Nutrients, Sulfur, and Organic Matter (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/nuts_S_orgmat_04.html)
• Predicting effects of hydrologic restoration on manatees along the southwest coast of Florida (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/manatees_04.html)
• Quantitative Sampling of Freshwater Fish Species within the Big Cypress Nartional Preserve (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/loftus_lh_fishes_04.html)
• South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) Website (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/sofia_website_04.html)
• SOFIA Metadata Project (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/sofia_metadata_04.html)
• SOFIA Environmental Database Development and Maintenance (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/sofia_database_04.html)
• SOFIA Geospatial Interface (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/sofia_geospatial_04.html)
• SOFIA - Development of a Digitial Library of Biological Information (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/sofia_diglib_04.html)
• Southwest Florida Coastal and Wetlands Systems Monitoring (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/sw_coast_mon_04.html)
• Tides and Inflows in the Mangrove Ecotone (TIME) Model Development (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/TIME_04.html)
• Vegetative Resistance to Flow (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/veg_resist_flow_mod.html)
• Vegetative Resistance to Flow: Summary of Vegetation Sampling in Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, September 1997-July 1998 (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/veg_resist_TS_mod.html)
• Vegetative resistance to flow - flume study (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/veg_resist_flume_mod.html)
• Vegetative resistance to flow - flume/wind experiments (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/veg_resist_flume_wind_mod.html)
• Vegetation Description and Classification at sites NESRS3 and P33 in Shark River Slough (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/veg_resist_srs_mod.html)

+ Upcoming Meetings:

• First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration
  • This First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER) will enable national and international information exchange on many issues involved in landscape-scale ecosystem restoration. NCER will be held December 6-10, 2004 in Orlando, Florida at the Wyndham Palace, which provides a centralized setting and more than 200,000 square feet of meeting space to comfortably accommodate our educational sessions, workshops, poster displays and exhibits. To learn more, visit the conference website at http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/ecosystem/.

+ WORK PLANS AND SCOPES OF WORK:

• 2004 work plans linked off of http://sofia.usgs.gov/proposals/
• L-31N Data Interpretation (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/seepmgmtsow_interp.html)
• L-31N Well-Site Data Acquisition (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/seepmgmtsow_aq.html)

+ NEW PROJECT PAGES:

• L-31N Seepage Management Pilot (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/seep_mgmt/)
• Analysis of Existing Core in the Floridan Aquifer (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/exist_core/)
• Technical Assistance for the Ecological Evaluation for the Southwest Florida Feasibility Study (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/tech_ecoeval/)
• Quality Assurance Split Sample Analysis and Reporting for the Lake Okeechobee, Western Hillsboro Canal, and Caloosahatchee River Aquifer Storage and Recovery Pilot Projects (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/asr_qasamples/)
• Monitoring of Wading Bird Reproduction in Water Conservation Areas 1, 2, and 3 of the Everglades, and Study of Survival and Movements of Juvenile Wood Storks (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/wadingbird_wcas/)
• Demographic, Movement, and Habitat of the Endangered Snail Kite (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/snailkite/)
• An Assessment of Aquifer Storage and Recovery and Mercury Methylation in the South Florida Everglades Ecosystem (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/asr_hg/)
• Preliminary Characterization of the Microbial Ecology of the Upper Florida Aquifer and Literature Review of the Microbe-Induced Changes in Metal Mobility and Toxicity during Aquifer Storage and Recovery Testing (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/microbe/)
• Assessment of Emerging Pollutants of Concern (EPOCs) in Wastewater Influent and Effluent and Receiving Waters of South Florida (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/epocs/)
• Role of Marsh-Mangrove Interface Habitats as Aquatic Refuges for Wetland Fishes and Other Aquatic Animals (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/role_marsh_mang/)
• Phase Two Sub-Basin-Scale Monitoring Network For Construction, Instrumentation, and Ten-Year Operation of Seventeen Water Quality and Streamflow Monitoring Stations for Lake Okeechobee Watershed Project (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/p2mon_net/)

+ NEW PEOPLE PAGES:

• John Lisle: http://sofia.usgs.gov/people/lisle.html
• Mike Meyer: http://sofia.usgs.gov/people/meyer.html