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Last updated: October 11, 2002
South Florida Restoration Science Forum

Wildlife and Wetland Ecology

How will research on fishes and wading birds guide and evaluate Everglades restoration?

Part 3: Authors and Collaborators

USGS WILLIAM F. LOFTUS

Research Ecologist
Biological Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
Everglades National Park Field Station
State Road 9336, Homestead, Florida 33034

photo of William F. Loftus
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Biology, Florida International University - Trophic transfer of mercury in the Everglades and its relationship to marsh characteristics.
M.S. - Dietary differences between two salmon species from Alaska.

Current research - Distribution, habitat use, dynamics, and trophic relationships of native and introduced freshwater fishes and invertebrates.


DALE E. GAWLIK

Senior Environmental Scientist
Everglades Systems Research Division
South Florida Water Management District
3301 Gun Club Road
West Palm Beach, FL 33406

photo of Dale E. Gawlik South Florida Water Management District
Ph.D. - Texas A&M Univ. - Community patterns of wintering geese.
M.S. - Winthrop College - Nesting ecology of loggerhead shrikes and wintering ecology of loggerhead shrikes and American kestrels.
B.S. - University of Wisconsin Stevens Point - research on northern harriers and American kestrels.

Current research - Factors affecting wading bird feeding and nesting ecology and the relationships between tree islands and birds.


Collaborators

Affiliation
Study
USGS-BRD

Donald DeAngelis
- Florida Caribbean Science Center, Univ. of Miami 


Simulation modeling fish and wading birds
National Park Service

Oron Bass 
- Everglades National Park

Sue Perry 
- Everglades National Park 


Long-term monitoring fish and wading birds

Long-term monitoring invertebrates

Florida International University

Joel Trexler
- Department of Biology

Victor Apanius
- Department of Biology 


Fish community dynamics and population genetics

Snowy egret nesting and energetics

NOAA/NMFS

Anne-Marie Eklund 
- Southeast Fisheries Center 


Grass shrimp
University of Miami

Mindy Nelson 
- Environmental Sciences

Jasper Lament 
- Department of Biology 


Alligator ponds
 

Fish food habits

University of Washington

David Armstrong and Noble Hendrix 
- School of Fisheries 


Crayfish studies
University of Florida

Peter Frederick 
- Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation 


Wading bird nesting
Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission

Jim Schortemeyer 
- Wildlife Division 


Wading bird distribution surveys
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers

Dave Nelson 
- Waterways Experiment Station 


Wading bird distribution surveys
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Laura Brandt and Marion Baily
- A.R.M. Loxahatchee Natl. Wildlife Refuge 


Wading bird feeding/hydrology/vegetation


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