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CONFERENCE PHOTOS: Page 2

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	Workshop participants gave 44 presentations on topics ranging from recreational fishing, to nutrient-contamination of spring discharge, riparian ecosystems and water quality, watershed modeling, habitat mapping, and protected species, including the Saltmarsh vole, Gulf sturgeon, and manatee.
	Jim Preacher (USGS Program Coordinator for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources) was interested to hear about research being conducted in the Suwannee River.
	Russ Hall (a USGS-FISC Center Director) helped to welcome workshop participants.
	Ellen Raabe’s (USGS) presentation titled, “An application of remotely sensed imagery to integrated habitat mapping,” covered the structural and dynamic habitat in the Suwannee Estuary.
	Doug Nemeth described the FFWCC’s fisher-independent monitoring program in Cedar Key.
	Melanie Darst (USGS-FISC) discussed Ground cover vegetation and potential impacts of flow reductions on plant distributions.
	Ron Ceryak (SRWMD) discussed the delineation of the Fanning and Manatee Spring Basins in the Suwannee River Management District.
	James Schneider (SDII Global Corporation) explained how synthesized data is used to quantify surface water, and groundwater relationships between Madison Blue Spring and the Withlacoochee River in North Florida.
	Carl Goodwin (a USGS-FISC Center Director) thanked everyone for their participation in the workshop.
	Richard Lowrance (USDA-ARS Southeast Watershed Research) traveled from Georgia to discuss the impacts of riparian ecosystems, on water quality in the western upper Suwannee River watershed.

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