Welcome to the first 2006 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 links to new projects, publications, data, project summary sheets, bibliographies, and announcements for upcoming events.

If you have any questions about SOFIA News, please feel free to contact me, Heather Henkel, at hhenkel@usgs.gov.

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+ Data:

• Hydrological Data
• Elevation Data: new .cor files added to: Coopertown, Fortymile Bend, Homestead, Long Island,
  Pennsuco

+ Publications:

(These postings include USGS publications as well as other selected publications that have been converted from paper to an electronic format for the web. Some publications are found on sites other than SOFIA.)

Circular:

• Impact of Anthropogenic Development on Coastal Ground-Water Hydrology in Southeastern Florida, 1900-2000 (Circular 1275 - Updated)
  • Updated release contains numerous non-numeric typographic corrections as well as the following: figure 17 caption corrected; figure 26 updated; and, figure 26 caption corrected.

Open File Reports:

• Descriptions and Preliminary Report on Sediment Cores from the Southwest Coastal Area, Everglades National Park, Florida (USGS OFR 2005-1360)

Papers:

• Crop freezes and land-use change in Florida
• Simulation of integrated surface-water/ground-water flow and salinity for a coastal wetland and adjacent estuary

Posters:

• Assessing the Consequence of Hurricane-Induced Conversion of Mangroves to Mudflats on Fish and Decapod Crustacean Assemblages in the Big Sable Creek Complex of Southwest Florida
• Estuarine Creek Responses to Extreme Hydrologic Events in Northeastern Florida Bay
• Freshwater Flows from Estuarine Creeks into Florida Bay
• Integrating Ecology and Genetics to Define Population Extent for a Continuously-distributed Species, Diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin)

+People:

• Chris Bugbee
• Michael Byrne
• Jessica Flanigin
• Joel Hudley
• Christian Lopez
• Mark Lowery
• Doug Nagle
• Shane Ploos
• Amanda Rice
• Barclay Shoemaker
• Paul Stumpner
• Gail Winters

+Project:

• Salinity and Turbidity Patterns within Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve, Lee County, Florida

+Proposals:

• Salinity and Turbidity Patterns within Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve, Lee County, Florida (2001)
• Ecosystem History: Terrestrial and Fresh-water Ecosystems of southern Florida (1999)
• Ecosystem History: Florida Bay and the Southwest Coast (1999)

+Summary Sheets: 

• SICS and TIME Model Linkages and Development in Support of Everglades Restoration
• Southwest Florida Coastal and Wetland Systems Monitoring
• Integrated Biogeochemical Studies in the Everglades: Task 1 - Nutrients, Sulfur, and Organics
• Hydrodynamic and Bathymetic Characteristics of South Florida Estuarine and Coastal Systems
• Synthesis of the Regional Hydrogeologic Framework for the Floridan Aquifer System, Southern and Central Florida and Relevancy to Aquifer Storage and Recovery
• Predicting Effects of Hydrologic Restoration on Manatees along the Southwest Coast of Florida
• Use of Amphibian Communities as Indicators of Restoration Success
• American Alligator Ecology and Monitoring for CERP
• Tides and Inflows in Mangrove Ecotone (TIME) Surface-Water Model Development
• Development and Stability of Everglades Tree Islands, Ridge and Slough, and Marl Prairies
• Synthesis of South Florida Ecosystem History Research
• Historical Changes in Salinity, Water Quality and Vegetation in Biscayne Bay
• Paleosalinity as a Key for Success Criteria in South Florida Restoration
• Freshwater Flows to Northeastern Florida Bay
• Ecosystem History of the Southwest Coast-Shark River Slough Outflow Area
• Interactions of Mercury with Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Everglades
• Hydrology Monitoring Network: Data Mining and Modeling to Separate Human and Natural Hydrologic Dynamics
• Development of Selected Model Components of an Across-Trophic-Level System Simulation (ATLSS) for the Wetland Systems of South Florida
• A Spatially Explicit Decision Support System for Everglades Ecological Risk Assessment and Restoration
• High Accuracy Elevation Data Collection Project
• Effect of Water Flow on Transport of Suspended Particles and Particle-Associated Nutrients in the Everglades
• South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) Website
• Land Characteristics from Remote Sensing
• Integrated Biogeochemical Studies in the Everglades: Task 2 - Mercury Cycling and Bioaccumulation
• Ecological Models for Evaluating Effects of Restoration Alternatives on Coastal Ecosystems of Southwest Florida
• Spatial and temporal patterns and ecological effects of canal-water Iintrusion into the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
• Development of Integrated Sampling of Fishes in Forested Wetlands in South Florida with Emphasis on Food Web Structure
• Analysis of Historical Water-Quality Data (Phase 1) / Integration, and Synthesis of Water Quality and Flow Data for Assessing Nutrient Flux to South Florida Coastal Ecosystems (Phase 2)
• Internal Surface-Water Flows

+ Bibliography:

• Kevin Cunningham

+ Other Website Updates:

• Loxahatchee Quarterly Update Report, September 2005 -Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Program for the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

+ Upcoming Events:

• Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference (GEER): Planning, Policy and Science
  

  June 5-9, 2006
  Lake Buena Vista, FL

  Mark your calendar and make plans to attend this conference – a forum for restoration practitioners to share their knowledge and challenges concerning restoration of our national treasure – the Greater Everglades.

  Visit the conference web site at: http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/GEER2006 or contact Ms. Beth Miller-Tipton at the UF/IFAS Office of Conferences and Institutes (OCI) – PHONE: 1-352-392-5930; email: bmt@ufl.edu

• USDA-CSREES National Water Conference

  February 5-9, 2006
  San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter
  San Antonio, TX

• 13th Ocean Sciences Meeting - a joint meeting of ASLO, TOS and AGU

  February 20-24, 2006
  Honolulu, Hawaii