Last updated: October 11, 2002

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October

1890 and 1990 Bathymetry of Florida Bay (Open File Report 00-347)

South Florida Virtual Tour

August

Water Resources of Southeastern Florida

Integrated Science Video

Want to learn more about the Place-Based Studies Program?

July

Geochemical Measurements of Carbonate Sediment Production and Organic Productivity in Florida

As water management practices in South Florida are altered during Everglades and Florida Bay restoration efforts, resulting changes in water chemistry will inevitably effect biogeochemical processes.

SHARQ Infested Waters

Learn about the Submersible Habitat for Analyzing Reef Quality, or SHARQ

Paleo-hydrology of Southern Florida?

Buttonwood Embankment: The Historical Perspective on its Role in Northeastern Florida

June

What do we know about pre-drainage conditions in the 1800's?

How do environmental histories of the Everglades help future management?

Effects of Hydrology on Wading Bird Foraging Parameters Report

Mapping Spatial Variability in Marsh Redox Conditions Using Biomass Stable Isotopic Compositions

National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program

Tracing Foodweb Relations and Fish Migratory Habits in the Everglades with Stable Isotope Techniques

A clear understanding of the aquatic foodweb is essential for determining the entry points and subsequent biomagnification pathways of contaminants such as methylmercury (MeHg) up the food chain. This poster shows how stable isotopes can be used to estimate foodwebs for marsh and canal sites, identify nutrient-impacted sites with non-normal foodwebs, and reconstruct the migration habits of large fish.

Re-examining the Submarine Spring off Crescent Beach, Florida (OFR 00-158)

The submarine Crescent Beach Spring, off the NE coast of Florida, provides U.S. Geological Survey scientists with a unique opportunity to field-test a suite of techniques that address coastal oceanography, ground-water geochemistry, sedimentology, and geophysics

May

How can agricultural research in South Dade enable natural land managers and farmers to work together to support habitat restoration?
Everglades Agricultural Hydrology Research Unit

How can an understanding of the changes in the landscape be aided by studying vegetation patterns?

The South Florida Vegetation Mapping Project

What is modeling, and how does it help?

The Florida Everglades (an excerpt from Circular 1182)

The newest version of "What's New" for the Tides and Inflows in the Mangroves of the Everglades (TIME) website is available at http://time.er.usgs.gov/whnew/whatsnew.html. This version has two digital raster graphic maps available. One map identifies the topographic quadrangles in the TIME model domain and the other identifies the hydraulic control structures and gaging stations in the TIME model domain

April

Why are modified water deliveries important to Everglades National Park?

The Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow: why does a tiny bird have a large impact?

How can we avoid the extinction of the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow?

Can they "kill" the restoration effort?

Learn about the new invasive in south Florida - the Old World Climbing Fern, Lygodium microphyllum

What nutrient levels and loads need to be achieved in order to preserve the integrity of the ecosystem?

What sources are significant and why?

March

Restoration of Turner River
Turner River is a meandering stream that originates in the mixed cypress swamp of Big Cypress National Preserve and empties into Chokoloskee Estuary of Everglades National Park. Maintaining the river's health is important because it meanders through many of the reasons behind the establishment of the Preserve.

How will Everglades restoration affect mercury risks?

February

How will research on fishes and wading birds help to guide and evaluate system restoration?
Establishing Linkages Among Water, Aquatic Animals, and Wading Birds to Guide and Evaluate Restoration

Mercury Toxicity in the Food Chain

How do some non-native fishes help us?

How do scientific studies enable managers to ensure the preservation and sustainability of wetlands and wildlife?

Measuring Ecosystem Restoration Success through Coral Reef Management and Monitoring in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

How are we going to adequately meet the increasing and competitive needs for water by the natural, urban, and agricultural areas?

How can an understanding of the changes in the landscape be aided by studying soil patterns?

Changes in South Florida's water and nutrient management can significantly alter the Everglades landscape. In response to past management, the Everglades landscape has undergone changes in spatial extent and pattern, hydrologic regime, and fire regime.

January

Aquatic Cycling of Mercury in the Everglades

Noxious Exotic Weed Task Team

The Noxious Exotic Weed Task Team was formed to develop and assessment of the current status of, and strategic plan for managing invasive plants.

Can management of water quantity or quality reduce the risks?

Almost all of mercury toxicity is expressed as exposure to methylmercury. Thus, reducing risks to mercury can be recast as, "Can Management of Water Quality and Quantity Methylmercury Exposure by Reducing Methylmercury Production or by Increasing Destruction".

Historical Settings: What can soils tell us about the past that helps us today?

Biscayne Bay:

How can the quantity, timing, and quality of freshwater inflow be improved to sustain healthy ecosystems in all parts of this bay that stretches from surban areas to wilderness?

How can the ecological responses to different management alternatives be predicted in the landscape?

Nutrients: What are the predicted long-term transport, fate, and effects?

The spatially explicit ELM simulates the interactions among dynamic hydrology, biology, and biogeochemistry within the wetlands

Hydrogeology of a Dynamic System in the Florida Keys: A Tracer Experiment

Solutions were injected into the shallow subsurface to determine flow velocities and directions within the groundwater-flow system in the upper Florida Keys.

Best Management Practices - What Are They?

November

The Florida Bay Interagency Science Program:
What is the correct quantity, timing, quality and spatial distribution of freshwater inflow from the Greater Everglades needed to restore and sustain the Florida Bay ecosystem?

The Florida Bay Interagency Science Program:
Results: Scientific Information Resources Managers Need

The Southwest Florida Project Coordination Team:
How are we expanding the science needed for effective resource management?

The Southwest Florida Estuaries: How do we restore and protect these valuable estuaries?

October

How do we ensure the delivery of the right amount of fresh water - at the right time and of good quantity - to sustain and enhance coastal waters?
These pages highlight several coastal areas: St. Lucie Estuary, Biscayne Bay, Florida Bay, the Florida Keys, Southwest Florida, and the Caloosahatchee Estuary.

What controls are succeeding, or most likely to succeed?

This set of posters is divided into three parts. The first part, best management practices, helps explain what can be done on site to control nutrient runoff. The second section, stormwater treatment areas, explains what STAs are, and how they are used to help remove phosphorus. The last section explores advanced treatment technologies.

Transforming the Enterprise: Doing Business on the Web

This presentation is from the Water Summit Conference, held in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

September

Forum Review and Follow-up Team Report
This evaluation of the South Florida Restoration Science Forum "serves to reconfirm that the forum was an innovative and valuable source of information exchange between participants; that the efforts of those staff persons who worked so hard on the project should be recognized and commended; and that the forum has provided us with a baseline of information, technological tools and subject areas from which further exchanges (both large and small) should emanate." - Bonnie Kranzer

Can Control of Local Mercury Sources Reduce the Risks?

How can sugarcane research in the Everglades Agricultural Area enable natural land managers and farmers to work together to reduce phosphorus and restore natural hydrology?

What are the biological impacts of concern?

How can the effects of increased phosphorus loading be determined at the landscape level for Everglades structure and functions?

The Southern Inland and Coastal System

Who wants the water, and who gets it?

August

Restoring South Florida's Future - A People, Land & Water special

Is the massive $8 billion replumbing system a water supply and flood control project or a restoration initiative to save and preserve the Everglades? Should its consensus approach among dozens of federal, state, tribal, and local stakeholders be replaced with a top-down command and control management structure? While the Kissimmee - Okeechobee - Everglades watershed is slowly dying and booming south Florida is running out of water, there is no shortage of controversy about how to address those key environmental challenges to the region's future. Susan Jewell of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revisits this once and future wetland wilderness and explains the Greatest Restoration Show on Earth.

The Florida Keys: What is happening to the reef tract and why?

Comprehensive Review Study (Restudy) of the Central and Southern Florida Project

How Can We Effectively Communicate Hydrologic Information to Decision Makers and the Public?