Welcome to the fifth, hurricane-free 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, personnel pages, and an announcement for the First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration. This issue contains a listing of items that have been posted in two months.

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+ Publications:

Reports:

• DOI Science Plan May 2004 - html version now available (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/reports/doi-science-plan/)

Posters:

• Characteristics of Lightning Gaps in the Mangrove Forests of Everglades National Park (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/posters/lightning_gaps/)
• Variations in Mangrove Peat Salinity from April 1997 to April 2003: A Spatial Analysis (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/posters/mangrove_peat/)
• Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Soil Pore Water Nutrients in an Estuarine Fringe Mangrove Forest (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/posters/mangrv_water/)

Journal Article:

• Copepod Communities from Surface and Ground Waters in the Everglades, South Florida (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/papers/copepod_comm/)

 + Metadata:

• Coastal Everglades Wetlands: Hydrology, Vegetation and Sediment Dynamics (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/coastal_ever_tjslll_04.html)
• Computer Simulation Modeling of Intermediate Trophic Levels for ATLSS of the Everglades/Big Cypress Region (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/gaines_04.html)
• Coupling SW-GW Flow and Transport for SICS & TIME (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/swain_gwsw_flow_trans_04.html)
• Development and Stability of Everglades Tree Islands, Ridge & Slough, & Marl Prairies (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/willard_tree_islands_04.html)
• Ecosystem History of the Southwest Coast-Shark River Slough Outflow Area (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/eco_hist_swcoast_srs_04.html)
• Empirical studies in Support of Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Ecosystems Restoration (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/robblee_fb_shrimp_04.html)
• Geochemical Monitoring of Restoration Progress (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/geochem_mon_restore_fy04.html)
• Historical Changes in Salinity, Water Quality, and Vegetation in Biscayne Bay (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/hist_salinity_wq_veg_bb_04.html)
• Mangrove Modeling of Landscape, Stand-Level and Soil-Nutrient Processes for the ATLSS Program and Everglades Restoration Project (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/mangrove_modeling_04.html)
• Monitoring Sub-aquatic Vegetation Through Remote Sensing: a Pilot Study in Florida Bay (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/monitor_sav_rs_fb_04.html)
• Paleosalinity as a Key for Success Criteria in South Florida Restoration (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/paleosal_restoration_04.html)
• Use of Amphibian Communities as Indicators of Restoration Success (http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/amphib_success_04.html)

+ Projects:

• Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Well-Site Data Acquisition (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/bbwelldata/)
• American Alligator Distribution, Size, and Hole Occupancy and American Crocodile Juvenile Growth & Survival (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/gator_croc/)
• Wading Bird Colony Location, Size, Timing and Wood Stork and Roseate Spoonbill Nesting Success (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/birds_nest/)
• Water Conservation Area 2 Elevation Data (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/wca2_elev/)
• Coastal Gradients of Flow, Salinity and Nutrients (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/coastal_grads/)
• South Florida Seagrass Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/assess_netwk/)

+ Scopes of Work/Proposals/Workplans:

• Assessment of Emerging Pollutants of Concern (EPOCs) in Wastewater Influent and Effluent and Receiving Waters of South Florida (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/epocs.html)
• 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/scopesofwork03/p2mon_net.html)
• An Assessment of Aquifer Storage and Recovery and Mercury Methylation in the South Florida Everglades Ecosystem (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/asr_hg.html)
• Role of Marsh-Mangrove Interface Habitats as Aquatic Refuges for Wetland Fishes & Other Aquatic Animals (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/role_marsh_mang.html)
• Preliminary Characterization of the Microbial Ecology and Literature Review of Microbe-induced Changes in Metal Mobility and Toxicity in Aquifer Storage and Recovery Waters (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/microbe.html)
• Demographic, Movement, and Habitat Studies of the Endangered Snail Kite in Response to Interim Operational Plan, Alternative 7R in Water Conservation Area 3A (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/snailkite.html)
• Analysis of Existing Core in the Floridan Aquifer (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/existcore.html)
• 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/scopesofwork03/asr_qasamples.html)
• 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/scopesofwork03/wadingbird_wcas.html)
• Technical Assistance for the Ecological Evaluation for the Southwest Florida Feasibility Study (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/tech_ecoeval.html)
• Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Well-Site Data Acquisition (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/bbwelldata.html)
• American Alligator Distribution, Size, and Hole Occupancy and American Crocodile Juvenile Growth & Survival (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/gatorcroc.html)
• Wading Bird Colony Location, Size, Timing and Wood Stork and Roseate Spoonbill Nesting Success (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/birdsnest.html)
• Water Conservation Area 2 Elevation Data (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/wca2elev.html)
• Coastal Gradients of Flow, Salinity and Nutrients (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/coastalgrads.html)
• South Florida Seagrass Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork03/assessnetwk.html)

+ New Personnel Pages:

• Jessica Adams (http://sofia.usgs.gov/people/adams.html)
• Ruth Costley (http://sofia.usgs.gov/people/costley.html)
• Peter Frederick (http://sofia.usgs.gov/people/frederick.html)
• Richard Kachelriess (http://sofia.usgs.gov/people/kachel.html)
• Paul McCormick (http://sofia.usgs.gov/people/mccormick.html)
• Jeff Woods (http://sofia.usgs.gov/people/woods.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/.