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Introduction
Time	Author, *Presenter	Affiliation	Title	File Availability
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
1:00-1:05	Russ Hall	USGS, Gainesville	Welcome	NA
1:05-1:15	Brian Katz	USGS, Tallahassee	Overview of Workshop, Conceptual Model, Workshop Goals
1:15-1:25	Ellen Raabe	USGS, St. Petersburg	Workshop Breakout Sessions and Goals
1:25-1:45	Tom Armstrong	Chief Scientist, USGS, Eastern Region	Regional Science Initiatives within the USGS Eastern Region
1:45-2:15	Kirk Webster	Deputy Executive Director, Suwannee River Water Management District	Plenary Talk: Suwannee River Partnership
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Hydrogeology Issues
Time	Author, *Presenter	Affiliation	Title	File Availability
2:30-2:40	Sara Aicker	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, GA	The future of the Suwannee River Sill - A review and update
2:40-2:50	*Jon Martin, Elizabeth Screaton, and Paul Moore	Department of Geologic Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville	Surface and ground water mixing along the Cody Scarp: An example from the Santa Fe River Sink-Rise system
2:50-3:00	*James Schneider, Sam Upchurch, Kyle Champion, John Good, and David Hornsby	SDII Global Corporation, Tampa; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak	Using synthesized data to quantify surface water-groundwater relationships between Madison Blue Spring and the Withlacoochee River of North Florida
3:00-3:10	*Sam Upchurch, Mark Farrell, Anthony Janicki, Rob Mattson, David Hornsby, James Schneider, David Wade, and Kate Malloy	SDII Global Corporation, Tampa; Water Resources Associates, Inc.; Janicki Environmental, Inc.; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak	Development of minimum levels and flows for Blue Spring, Madison County, Florida
3:10-3:20	Ron Ceryak	Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak, FL	Delineation of the Fanning and Manatee Spring Basins in the Suwannee River Water Management District
3:20-3:30	*John Good and RobMattson	Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak	Extension of minimum flows from the lower Suwannee River to upstream tributaries and springs using a reach-based method
3:15-3:30	*Trey Grubbs and Christy Crandall	USGS, Tallahassee	Exchanges of water between the Upper Floridan aquifer and the lower Suwannee and lower Santa Fe Rivers, Florida
3:30-3:40	*Al Hine, S.D Locker, E.E. Wright, and S.L. Goodbred	College of Marine Science, University of South Florida; Department of Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, Marine Science Research Center, State University of New York	Geologic setting, depositional environments, and geologic history of the Suwannee River delta; Present understanding and proposed work
3:40-3:50	*Randy Edwards and Ellen Raabe	University of South Florida, St. Petersburg; USGS, Gainesville	Ecological characteristics and forcing functions of the Suwannee River estuary
3:50-4:00	*Jon Martin and Wendy Graham	Department of Geologic Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville	Toward a hydrologic observatory in the Suwannee River watershed
Thursday, September 23, 2004
8:20-8:30	Ellen Raabe	USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Summary of Hydrogeology Breakout Session
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Water Quality and Geochemistry
Time	Author, *Presenter	Affiliation	Title	File Availability
8:30-8:40	*Gary Mahon, Jerad Bales	USGS, Raleigh, NC	Hydrodynamics and salt transport in the Suwannee River estuary
8:40-8:50	*Erin Bledsoe and Ed Philips	University of Florida, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Gainesville	The impact of nutrient loading and hydrodynamics on algal biomass in the Suwannee River estuary
8:50-9:00	*Dale Griffin and Mike Gray	USGS, St. Petersburg	Source tracking and microbial water quality in three Florida springs
9:00-9:10	*Willie Harris and Vimala Nair	Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville	Risk of phosphate movement from soils in the Suwannee River Basin
9:10-9:20	*Brian Katz, Rick Copeland, Tom Greenhalgh, Warren Zwanka, and Sam Upchurch	USGS, Tallahassee; Florida Geological Survey, Tallahassee; Suwannee River Water Mangement District, Live Oak; SDII Global Corp, Tampa	Understanding contaminant sources, ground-water residence time and flow patterns in a karstic springshed
9:20-9:30	*Richard Lowrance, George Vellidis, David Bosch, Joseph Sheridan, Randall Williams, and Robert Hubbard	USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, GA; University of Georgia	Impacts of riparian ecosystems on water quality in the western upper Suwannee River watershed
9:30-9:40	*Eberhard Roeder, Harmon Harden, Jeff Chanton, and Mark Hooks	Florida Department of Health Bureau of Onsite Sewage Programs; Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee	Evidence for rapid transport of recharge from onsite sewage tretment and disposal systems to groundwater at Manatee Springs State Park
9:40-9:50	Sam Upchurch, *Kyle Champion, James Schneider, David Hornsby, and Ron Ceryak	SDII Global Corporation, Tampa; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak	Identifying water-quality domains near Ichetucknee Springs, Columbia County, Florida
9:50-10:00	*S. Lamsal, S. Grunwald, C.M. Bliss, C.M., I. Lopez-Zamora, N.B. Comerford, and M.W. Clark	Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville	Assessment of nitrate-nitrogen variability in soils of the Santa Fe River watershed in north-east Florida
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Ecosystem-Dynamics
Time	Author, *Presenter	Affiliation	Title	File Availability
11:00-11:10	*Lia Chasar, Ted Lange, Trey Grubbs, Jeff Chanton	USGS, Tallahassee	Long-term and large-scale trends in bioaccumulation of mercury in the Suwannee River Basin
11:10-11:20	Allen Brooks	USGS	Gulf sturgeon
11:20-11:30	*Rob Mattson, David Wade, and Kate Malloy	Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak; Janicki Environmental, Inc., St. Petersburg	Benthic macroinvertebrate and periphyton monitoring in the Suwannee River Basin in Florida 1: Overview and biogeography
11:30-11:40	*Kate Malloy, David Wade, Anthony Janicki, and Rob Mattson	Janicki Environmental, Inc., St. Petersburg; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak	Benthic monitoring in the Suwannee basin in Florida 2: Relationships between physical and chemical variables and biology
11:40-11:50	*David Wade, Kate Malloy, Anthony Janicki, and Rob Mattson	Janicki Environmental, Inc., St. Petersburg; Suwannee River Water Management District, Live Oak	Benthic Monitoring in the Suwannee basin in Florida 3: Spatial and Temporal Trends
11:50-12:00	Gary Warren and *Tracy Ferring	Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville	Aquatic invertebrate communities as tools for establishing minimum flows and levels in Suwannee River basin streams
1:00-1:10	*Raymond Kurz, Phinla Sinphay, Wendy Hershfeld, and Debra Woithe	PBS&J, Sarasota, FL; Debra Childes Woithe, Inc., Plametto, FL	Submerged aquatic vegetation mapping in the Ichetucknee Springs and river system, FL
1:10-1:20	*Sky Notestein and Tom Frazer	Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida	Factors influencing the submersed aquatic vegetation of the Ichetucknee River
1:20-1:30	Helen Light	USGS, Tallahassee	Lower Suwannee River floodplain, Florida: Hydrology, topography, and soils of riverine and tidal floodplain forests and ecological consequences of potential flow reductions
1:30-1:40	Melanie Darst	USGS, Tallahassee	Lower Suwannee River floodplain, Florida; Canopy, Subcanopy, and ground cover vegetation and potential impacts of flow reductions on plant distribution
1:40-1:50	*Ellen Raabe, Randy Edwards, and Carole McIvor	USGS, St. Petersburg, FL; University of South Florida, Department of Marine Science	Structural and dynamic habitat in the Suwannee Estuary: An application of remotely sensed imagery to integrated habitat mapping
1:50-2:00	*Steve Barlow and Mike Mitchell	USFWS, Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Chiefland, FL	The Florida Salt Marsh Vole on the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge
2:00-2:10	*Doug Nemeth and George Kirkpatrick	Marine Lab, Cedar Key	The Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission's fisher-independent monitoring program, Cedear Key, Florida
2:10-2:20	*Randy Edwards, Ken Sulak, Michael Randall, and Allen Brooks	University of South Florida, College of Marine Science USGS, Gainesville; AScI Corp., Gainesville	Gulf Sturgeon - The central role of an iconic species in the Suwannee River Initiative
2:20-2:30	Catherine Langtimm, *Cathy Beck, Robert Bonde, and James Reid	USGS, FISC, Gainesville	The Florida manatee in the Suwannee River and estuary: Past, present, and future
2:50-3:00	*Mike Allen and Tim Bonvechio	Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida	Effects of water level fluctuations on year class strength of sport fish in four Florida rivers
3:00-3:10	Daniel Dorosheff	Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Lake City	"Where are the fish?" An angler survey of the Lower Suwannee River
3:10-3:20	*Eric Nagid and Gary Warren	Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville	Application of the Physical Habitat Simulation Model (PHABISM) to the Santa Fe River
Friday, September 24, 2004
8:30-8:45	Ellen Raabe	USGS	Summary of Breakout Session Discussions for Water Quality and Ecosystem Dynamics
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Information Management, Modeling, New Tools
Time	Author, *Presenter	Affiliation	Title	File Availability
8:45-8:55	*Del Bottcher, Barry Jacobson, and Jeffrey Hiscock	Soil & Water Engineering Technology, Inc.; JGH Engineering	Watershed assessment model (WAM) evaluation of the Suwannee River Basin
9:05-9:10	Barbara Poore	USGS, St. Petersburg, FL	Integrating information for watershed management: A Suwannee River Basin watershed atlas
9:10-9:15	Mike Crane	USGS, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD	Existing geospatial data sets covering the Suwannee River Basin
9:15-9:25	David Stonehouse	VeriMap PLUS Inc.	An airborne high resolution thermal infrared and multi-spectral mapping system trials over the Suwannee River basin, FL (2002)
9:25-9:35	*Ann Foster and Alisa Coffin	USGS; University of Florida	A Suwannee River Basin geodatabase archetype	NA
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Research Needs, Wrap-Up
Time	Author, *Presenter	Affiliation	Title	File Availability
10:00-10:15	Carl Goodwin	USGS	Interagency Cooperation
10:15-11:40	Ellen Raabe, Lisa Robbins, and Brian Katz	USGS	Setting Priorities, Open Discussion, Next Steps, Steering Committee
11:40-11:45	Workshop Coordinators	USGS	Acknowledgments
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Posters
Presenter		Affiliation	Title	File Availability
E.R. Hall, T.K. Frazer, J.P. Montoya, and J.J. Delfino		Univeristy of Florida, Department of environmental Engineering; University of Florida, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences; Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biology	Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of organic aggregates produced by salinity induced flocculation fo dissolved organic matter from the Suwannee River
T.H. Greenhalgh, III		Florida Department of Environmental Protection	Florida's first magnitude springsheds
Keith Patterson and Michael White		Avineon, Inc.	Seagrass mapping within the Big Bend region
J. Pittman and M.P. Berndt		USGS, Tallahassee	Occurrence of herbicide degradation compounds in streams and ground water in agricultural areas of south Georgia, 2002
T.L. Potter, D.D. Bosch, D. Sullivan, and R.D. Wauchope		USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, GA	Pesticide fate and transport in coastal plain watersheds	NA
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