It's been a few months since you've heard from the SOFIA team, but we have a lot of exciting news to share with you.

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

For more information about SOFIA News, please visit http://sofia.usgs.gov/sofianews.html

+ Data:

(This is a list of new data added; for a complete list of SOFIA data, visit our data exchange pages at http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/)

• GIS Data Exchange - New Site
• Salinity Survey (CSV files added)
• New Digital Elevation Quads: Lone Palm Head and North of Lone Palm Head
• Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN)
  • Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
  • Real-Time Tidal Stations Added

+ Metadata:

(This is a list of new metadata added; for a complete list of SOFIA metadata, visit our metadata pages at http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/)

• Metadata is now also available off of the Data Exchange site
• New Metadata:
  • Aerial Photos of the 1940s
  • Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve hydrological data
  • Everglades Hydrology and Water Quality Data
  • Field Parameters Data (Levesque)
  • Florida Bay 1890 and 1990 data
  • Flow Data (Murray/Solis)
  • Flow Data (Levesque)
  • Flow and Velocity Data
  • Helicopter Magnetic Data
  • Hydrologic measurements and water quality in ENR, WCA2 and WCA3 (OFR 00-168 appendixes)
  • Hydrologic Measurements and Water-Quality Data for Taylor Slough and vicinity (OFR 00-483 appendixes)
  • Lake Okeechobee Bathymetry data
  • Nutrients Data (Levesque)
  • Salinity, discharge, stage (tables 1-6, OFR 02-59)
  • Salinity and Turbidity Patterns within Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve, Lee County, Florida
  • X-Radiographs Data
• Updated Metadata:
  • Over 40 records updated

+ 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.)

NEW: Enhanced Publications Search Now Available! Let us know what you think (hhenkel@usgs.gov).

Abstracts:

• A comparison of rated discharge at Jewfish Creek using a 0.5 MHz and a 1.5 MHz Argonaut-SL using different sampling volumes
• Diurnal Nutrient Fluctuations in the Lake Okeechobee Watershed
• Utilizing the TIME Model to Simulate Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) Scenarios for the Florida Bay and Florida Keys Feasibility Study (FBFKFS)
• Development of a Coupled Surface-water and Groundwater Model of Biscayne Bay
• Ecosystem History of South Florida’s Estuaries – What Do We Know and What Does It Mean for Restoration?
• Response of Loxahatchee Tree Islands and Marshes to 20th Century Hydrologic Change
• Impacts of 20th Century Hydrologic Change on Everglades Tree Islands
• The Everglades Depth Estimation Network in Support of Ecological and Biological Assessments
• Numerical Modeling of Heat and Salinity Transport for West Indian Manatee Habitats in Southwest Florida
• Hydrology of the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge and Surrounding Areas
• Mangroves are Not Adapted to Hurricanes: Comparative Impacts of Four Hurricanes on Mangrove Forests in the Southwest Coastal Everglades (“Labor Day,” Donna, Andrew and Wilma)
• Validation and Application of a Landscape-Level Alligator Population Model in Support of CERP
• Manatee Use within Everglades National Park: Data Summary and Management Implications
• Landscape Evaluation Measures for Inland Southwest Florida Feasibility Study: Wading Birds, Amphibian, Aquatic Fauna and Large Mammal
• Sheet Flow in the Ridge and Slough Landscape of Everglades Water Conservation Area 3A
• Status of the American Alligator in the Everglades
• A Prototype Electronic Atlas Utilizing Static Maps
• A User Interface to the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN)
• Surfacing Daily Everglades Water Depths for the Everglades Depth Estimation Network
• Sulfur Contamination of the Everglades: Why Land and Water Managers Should be Concerned
• Preliminary Results from Studies of Organic Biomarkers of Wading Birds: Potential for Reconstruction of Historical Trends in Wading Bird Populations
• Historical Changes in Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in Sediments from Biscayne Bay and Florida Bay
• Spatiotemporal Variation in the Characteristics of Suspended Particles in the Everglades: Implications for the Ridge and Slough Landscape
• Freshwater and Nutrient Fluxes to Coastal Waters of Everglades National Park –A Synthesis
• Hurricane-induced Conversion of Mangrove Forest to Mudflat: Impacts on Nekton, Big Sable Creek, Florida
• Vegetation Responses to Mineral Gradients in an Ombrotrophic Northern Everglades Peatland, the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
• Distribution, Abundance, and Seasonal Variation of Fishes and Macroinvertebrates in Forested Wetlands of Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida
• Distribution, Abundance, and Diversity of Freshwater Fishes in Big Cypress National Preserve
• Linking a Manatee Individual-Based Model with the TIME Hydrology Model to Assess Restoration Effects in the Everglades and Ten Thousand Islands
• Effects of Hydrological Restoration on Manatees: A Research Program to Integrate Data, Models and Long-term Monitoring across the Ten Thousand Islands and Everglades
• Unraveling the Complexities of Mercury Methylation in the Everglades
• Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) Digital Elevation Model Research and Development
• An Evaluation of Airborne Remote-Sensing Technologies for Everglades Solution-Hole Detection and Characterization
• Amphibian Communities as Indicators of Restoration Success in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem
• Particle Transport through Surface Waters of the Florida Everglades
• The South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) System
• Application of the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) to Monitoring and Restoration
• Understanding Linkages between Sheet Flow and Suspended Sediment Transport Processes in the Ridge and Slough Landscape
• Ecological and Genetic Profiles of Everglades Diamondback terrapins, a Potential Indicator Species
• Predicting Marsh-Mangrove Response and Ecotone Migration under Altered Hydrologic Flow and Changing Sea-level across Ten Thousand Islands NWR
• Modeling Snail Kite Population Viability in a Variable Hydrologic Environment
• Climate Variability, Sea-level Rise, and Coastal Ecosystem Restoration
• Estimating Water Depths at Ungaged Locations in the Florida Everglades Using Artificial Neural Networks
• Application of a Dynamic Clustering Algorithm to the Water-Level Hydrographs of the EDEN Hydrologic Network
• Linking Hydrologic Modeling and Ecologic Modeling: Application of a Spatially-Explicit Species Index (SESI) Model for Adaptive Ecosystem Management in the Everglades Mangrove Zone of Florida Bay
• Hurricane Impacts to Tree Islands in Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida
• Observed Marine-Sediment Depositions from Hurricane Wilma along the Shark River Estuary, Everglades National Park, Florida
• Dissolved Organic Matter and Mercury in the Everglades: Implications for Ecosystem Restoration
• Assessment Of Historical Ecological Changes Using A Molecular Approach
• Estimating Production Origins and Trophic Placement of Biota in Forested-Wetland Food Webs: Preliminary Results from Stable Isotopes
• Solution Holes in the Rocky Glades Region of Everglades National Park: Sources or Sinks for Non-indigenous Fishes?
• Distribution and Life History of the Endemic Miami Cave Crayfish (Procambarus Milleri) in Southern Florida
• Relative Roles of Abiotic Stress and Predation by Non-Indigenous African Jewelfish (Hemichromis letourneuxi) on Native Fishes in Rocky Glades Solution Holes
• Fish Introductions into Everglades Wetlands: An Unforeseen Consequence of Restoration
• Seasonal Fish-Community Patterns in Upstream Reaches of Coastal Rivers in Everglades National Park, Florida
• Using Artificial Neural Network Models to Integrate Hydrologic and Ecological Studies of the Snail Kite Falcon in the Everglades, USA
• The Role of the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) as an Indicator of Ecological Change in Everglades Ecosystems
• Integrating Physical and Ecological Models to Assess Restoration Impacts on Fish, Roseate Spoonbills and American Crocodiles in Northeastern Florida Bay

Map:

• A Plat Exhibiting the State of the Surveys in the State of Florida with References

Papers:

• Development of allometric relations for three mangrove species in South Florida for use in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem restoration

Reports:

• Benefits Anticipated from the 1995 Water Regulation Schedule for Water Conservation Area 1: Review and Analysis
• Groundwater Characterization and Assessment of Contaminants in Marine Areas of Biscayne National Park
• South Florida Ecosystem Restoration: Scientific Information Needs. Report to the Working Group of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
• Variable Growth and Longevity of Yellow Bullhead (Ameiurus natalis) in South Florida
• Water Resources Data, Florida, Water Year 2004. Volume 2A. South Florida Surface Water (Water-Data Report FL-04-2A, Excerpt)
• Water Resources Data, Florida, Water Year 2005. Volume 2A. South Florida Surface Water (Water-Data Report FL-05-2A, Excerpt)

Posters:

A comparison of rated discharge at Jewfish Creek using a 0.5 MHz and a 1.5 MHz Argonaut-SL using different sampling volumes

Northeastern Florida Bay Estuarine Creek Response during the 2004-05 Hurricane Seasons

Open File Reports:

• Initial Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) digital elevation model research and development (Open File Report 2007-1034)

+Project Updates:

• Coastal Gradients of Flow, Salinity, and Nutrients (Statement of Work)
• Kevin Cunningham: Bibliography

+People:

(This is a list of new personnel added; for a complete list of SOFIA personnel, visit http://sofia.usgs.gov/people.html)
• Stephen Huddleston

+Memorial/Commemoration

• Dr. Junius E. Dovell (1911-1986)

+ Other Website Updates:

• Updates to Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) website:
  • New latitude/longitude search for gages
• Updates to Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Program for the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge website:
  • A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Enhanced Monitoring and Modeling Program - 2nd Annual Report
  • Response Letter from A.R.M. Loxahatchee NWR to USGS Review of 2007 2nd Annual Report for the Enhanced Monitoring and Modeling Program
  • Quarterly Reports Added (Oct 2006, Jan and April 2007)

+ Upcoming Meetings/Conferences:

• If you know of any upcoming meetings or conferences, please let us know (hhenkel@usgs.gov)!