Happy New Year from SOFIA! We have new website additions and updates to share with you.

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+ Data:

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

• Updated Data:
  • Hydrology Data (South Florida Hydrology Database) (Coastal Gradients of Flow, Salinity and Nutrients; Freshwater Flows to Northeastern FL Bay; Hydrologic Monitoring in Joe Bay; SW FL Coastal & Wetland Systems Monitoring; Flow Monitoring Along the Tidal Caloosahatchee River & Tributaries; and Hydrodynamic & Salinity Char. of Rivers and Estuaries of the Ten Thousand Islands projects)
  • Everglades Gage Gazetteer

+ Metadata:

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

• New Metadata:
  • Geology and Ecological History of the "Buttonwood Ridge" region (project metadata)
  • Lake Okeechobee Watershed Project (project metadata)
  • Spatial and Temporal Patterns and Ecological Effects of Canal-water Intrusion into the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge (project metadata)
  • Ground Water-Surface Water Seepage at Selected TIME Sites (project metadata)
  • Florida Bay Surface Maps (data set metadata)
  • Florida Bay Air:Sea CO2 Exchange Maps (data set metadata)
  • Hydrologic Variation and Ecological Processes in the Mangrove Forests of South Florida: Response to Restoration (project metadata)
  • Southern Inland and Coastal Systems (SICS) Model Development (project metadata)
  • Groundwater Characterization in Marine Areas of Biscayne National Park (project metadata)
  • Linking Land, Air and Water Management in the Southern Everglades and Coastal Zone to Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration: Task 3, Natural Organic Matter-Mercury Interactions (project metadata)
  • Sediment Properties and Transport Processes in Florida Bay (project metadata)
  • IMMAGE- Internet-based Modelling, Mapping, and Analysis for the Greater Everglades (project metadata)
  • Synthesis by Aquatic Cycling of Mercury in the Everglades (project metadata)
  • Assessment of Emerging Pollutants of Concern (EPOCs) in Wastewater Influent and Effluent and Receiving Waters of South Florida (project metadata)
  • Population Structure and Spatial Delineation of Consumer Communities in the Everglades National Park (project metadata)
  • The Role of Aquatic Refuges in the Wetland Complex of Southern Florida in Relation to System Restoration (project metadata)
  • Mercury Transfer Through an Everglades Aquatic Foodweb (project metadata)
  • Ecological Models for Evaluating Effects of Restoration Alternatives on Coastal Ecosystems of Southwest Florida (project metadata)
  • Synthesis of the Regional Hydrostratigraphic Framework for the Floridan Aquifer System, Southern and Central Florida and Relevancy to Aquifer Storage and Recovery (project metadata)
  • American Alligator Distribution, Size, and Hole Occupancy and American Crocodile Juvenile Growth & Survival (project metadata)
  • Compilation of Alligator Data Sets in South Florida for Restoration Needs (project metadata)

• Updated Metadata:
  • Dynamics of Land Margin Ecosystems: Historical Change, Hydrology, Vegetation, Sediment, and Climate (project metadata)
  • South Florida Hydrology Database (data set metadata)
  • Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) Water Surfaces Data (data set metadata)
  • Hydrologic Monitoring and Synthesis of Existing Hydrologic Data in the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge and Surrounding Areas (project metadata)
  • Spatial and Age-Structured Population Model of the American Crocodile for Comparisons of CERP Restoration Alternatives (project metadata)
  • Evapotranspiration and Rainfall Data for EDEN Gages (project metadata)
  • Creation of a Digital Archive of Historical Photographs for Everglades National Park and the Greater Everglades Ecosystem (data set metadata)
  • American Alligator Ecology, Modeling, and Monitoring to Complement MAP (project metadata)
  • A GIS-based Decision Support Tool to Evaluate Land Management Policies in South Florida (project metadata)
  • Color Infrared Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles for the South Florida Ecosystem Area (project metadata)
  • Hydrodynamic and Bathymetric Characteristics of South Florida Estuarine and Coastal Systems (project metadata)
  • Evapotranspiration Measuring and Modeling in the Everglades (project metadata)
  • Evapotranspiration Data (data set metadata)
  • Impacts of Hydrological Restoration on Three Estuarine Communities of the Southwest Florida Coast and on Associated Animal Inhabitants (project metadata)
  • A Retrospective and Critical Review of Aquifer Storage and Recovery Sites and Frameworks within the Upper Floridan Aquifer in South Florida (project metadata)
  • American Alligator Ecology, Modeling, and Monitoring to Complement MAP (project metadata)
  • Interrelation of Everglades Hydrology and Florida Bay Dynamics to Ecosystem Processes and Restoration in South Florida (project metadata)
  • Quantification of Ground-Water Seepage Beneath Levee 31N, Miami-Dade County, Florida (project metadata)
  • Integrating EDEN with Real-Time Hydrology and Biological Responses (project metadata)

+ 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.)

Digital Data Series:

• Seasonal and Spatial Distribution of Freshwater Flow and Salinity in the Ten Thousand Islands Estuary, Florida, 2007-2009 (Data Series 501)

Fact Sheets:

• Borehole Geophysical Logging Program: Incorporating New and Existing Techniques in Hydrologic Studies (Fact Sheet 2008-3098)
• Filtering NetCDF Files by Using the EverVIEW Slice and Dice Tool (Fact Sheet 2010-3035)

Open File Reports:

• Flow Velocity, Water Temperature, and Conductivity in Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park, Florida: July 1999 - August 2001 (OFR 02-159)
• Users' Manual and Installation Guide for the EverVIEW Slice and Dice Tool (Version 1.0 Beta) (OFR 2009-1177)
• Distribution of the Non-Native Gastropod Melanoides tuberculatus in Biscayne National Park, Florida (OFR 2010-1126)
• Giant Constrictors: Biological and Management Profiles and an Establishment Risk Assessment for Nine Large Species of Pythons, Anacondas, and the Boa Constrictor (OFR 2009-1202)

Papers:

• Controls on mangrove forest-atmosphere carbon dioxide exchanges in western Everglades National Park
• Regional processes in mangrove ecosystems: spatial scaling relationships, biomass, and turnover rates following catastrophic disturbance
• Hurricane Wilma's Impact on Overall Soil Elevation and Zones Within the Soil Profile in a Mangrove Forest
• Satellite tracking reveals habitat use by juvenile green sea turtles Chelonia mydas in the Everglades, Florida, USA
• Sediment Transport on Cape Sable, Everglades National Park, Florida
• A Simulation of Historic Hydrology and Salinity in Everglades National Park: Coupling Paleoecologic Assemblage Data with Regression Models - Response of Everglades tree islands to environmental change
• Response of the Everglades ridge and slough landscape to climate variability and 20th-century water management
• Advection, dispersion, and filtration of fine particles within emergent vegetation of the Florida Everglades
• Evapotranspiration Rates From Two Different Sawgrass Communities In South Florida During Drought Conditions

Posters:

• Developing Insight into Coastal Wetland Hydrology Through Numerical Modeling
• Sheet Flow in the Ridge and Slough Landscape of Everglades Water Conservation Area 3A
• Development of a Variable-Density Groundwater Flow Model for the Taylor Slough Area
• Measuring Flow Velocity in the Everglades “River of Grass
• Sheet Flow Velocity in Everglades National Park, Everglades
• Surface-Water Flow and Transport Model of the Southern Florida Everglades
• The Tides and Inflows in the Mangroves of the Everglades (TIME) Project

+ Project Updates:

• Bibliography:
  • Kevin Cunningham

• 2006 Work Plan:
  • Use of Amphibian Communities as Indicators of Restoration Success

• 2007 Work Plan:
  • Trap Development for Invasive Burmese Pythons

• 2008 Work Plans:
  • Trap Development for Invasive Burmese Pythons
  • Impacts of Hydrologic and Climatic Change on Greater Everglades Marl Prairies, Marshes, and Sloughs
  • Integrating EDEN with Real-Time Hydrology and Biological Responses (revised)

• 2009 Work Plans:
  • Determining Target Salinity Values for South Florida's Estuaries: The Combined Effects of Climate, Sea Level, and Water Management Practices
  • Control tool development for invasive Burmese Pythons in the Everglades ecosystem
  • Impacts of Hydrologic and Climatic Change on Greater Everglades Marl Prairies, Marshes, and Sloughs
  • Linking a conceptual karst hydrogeologic model of the Biscayne aquifer to ground-water flow simulations from Everglades National Park to Biscayne National Park-Phase 1
  • Ecosystem History of the Southwest Coast-Shark River Slough Outflow Area
  • Effect of Sheet Flow on Transport of Suspended Particles and Particle-Associated Nutrients in the Everglades Ridge and Slough Landscape: Phase II

• 2010 Work Plans:
  • Determining Target Salinity Values for Restoration of the Estuaries of the Greater Everglades
  • Linking a conceptual karst hydrogeologic model of the Biscayne aquifer to ground-water flow simulations within the Greater Everglades from Everglades National Park to Biscayne National Park-Phase 1
  • Impacts of Hydrologic and Climatic Change on Greater Everglades Marl Prairies, Marshes, and Sloughs
  • Development of control tools for invasive pythons in Greater Everglades ecosystems
  • Flow Effects on Greater Everglades Ecosystems
  • Greater Everglades Hydrology Monitoring Network: Data Mining and Modeling to Separate Human and Natural Hydrologic Dynamics
  • Sea Level Rise and Climate: Impacts on the Greater Everglades Ecosystem and Restoration

• 2009 Scope of Work:
  • Data Mining and Modeling to Separate Human and Natural Hydrologic Dynamics

+ People:

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

• Robert N. Reed
• Gordon H. Rodda
• Ronald Rozar
• Tara L. Colley
• Bethany Stackhouse
• Katie Skalak
• Trevor Langston
• Stephen Benedict
• Kenneth Odom

+ Projects:

(This is a list of new project pages added; for a complete list of SOFIA projects, visit http://sofia.usgs.gov/title.html)

• IMMAGE - Internet-based Modeling, Mapping, and Analysis for the Greater Everglades
• Development of control tools for invasive pythons in Greater Everglades ecosystems
• Impacts of Hydrologic and Climatic Change on Greater Everglades Marl Prairies, Marshes, and Sloughs
• Sea Level Rise and Climate: Impacts on the Greater Everglades Ecosystem and Restoration

+ Other Website Updates:

• Updates to Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) website:

  • 2009 WY Final Water Surface Data posted (10/1/08-9/30/09) and 2010 WY Provision Water Surface Data posted (10/1/09-9/30/10)

    http://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/models/watersurfacemod.php.

  • Rainfall Data Posted

    Rainfall data for the months of March-November 2010, have been processed. The new data is now available for download, by area, at http://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/nexrad.php.

  • Evapotranspiration Data Posted

    Evapotranspiration data for 2009 have been processed. The new data is now available for download, by area, at http://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/evapotrans.php.

  • Meteorologic (Rainfall and Evapotranspiration) Data Sets Updates

    The meteorologic (rainfall and evapotranspiration) data sets have been QA/QC'd over their period of record and brought into agreement with original agency data, and new gages have been added to the historical data sets. http://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/meteorologic.php.

  • Benchmarks Database

    TA database of benchmarks established in the Greater Everglades has been established to test, validate, and improve the EDEN surface-water interpolation model that creates daily water-level surfaces (http://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/benchmarks/).

  • EDEN Newsletter

    If you are interested in receiving updates to the EDEN website, please sign up for our free EDEN Newsletter. Information can be found at http://sofia.usgs.gov/eden/newsletter.php or by contacting Heather Henkel (hhenkel@usgs.gov).

• Updates to Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Program for the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge website:
  • Quarterly Update Reports:
    - Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Program for the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Quarterly Update Report - January 2010
    - Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Program for the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Quarterly Update Report - April 2010
    - Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Program for the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Quarterly Update Report - July 2010
    - Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Program for the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Quarterly Update Report - October 2010
    

+ Past Conference:

• The Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) 2010 theme was "The Greater Everglades: A Living Laboratory of Change". Change comes in many forms . . . Degradation Change, Restoration Change, Human Influence Change, Threatened and Endangered Species Change, Invasive Species Change, Nutrients-Contaminants Change, Climate Change, Change in Sea Level Rise and Natural Hazard Change. All of these "Changes" are actively impacting the Greater Everglades. It is imperative we understand change so we can predict change (Science), that we integrate the 'Science of change' into Planning for the future; and, that we use Science and Planning to help us move forward with effective Policy for a sustainable future. GEER 2010 provided a valuable forum for restoration practitioners to do just that. Conference presentations are now available online from the conference website.
  • Speaker Presentations and Videos
  • Poster Presentations

+ Upcoming Meetings/Conferences:

• National Surface Water Conference and Hydroacoustics Workshop, March 28-April 1, 2011, Tampa, Florida.
• American Water Resources Association's 2011 Spring Specialty Conference: Managing Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources: Adaptation Issues, Options, and Strategies, April 18-20, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland.
• The National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration, August 1-5, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland.
• The International Water Conference, November 13-17, 2011, Orlando, Florida.
• If you know of any upcoming meetings or conferences, please let us know (hhenkel@usgs.gov)!