U.S. Geological Survey Science in Florida Proceedings: May 3-5, Orlando, Florida

Presented by the Florida Integrated Science Center

	Introduction
	Session 1 Abstracts
	Poster Session 1
	Session 2 Abstracts
	Session 3 Abstracts
	Poster Session 2
	Session 4 Abstracts

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Introduction Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Time	Author - Presenter	Title
1:00-1:15	Dr. Russ Hall Florida Integrated Science Center (FISC) Director	Welcome
1:15-1:45	Dr. Tim Miller Science Leader; Chief of the Office of Water Quality, USGS, National Center, Reston, Virginia	Keynote Speaker
1:45-2:00	Dr. Lisa Robbins Florida Integrated Science Center (FISC) Director	Overview of FISC Science Plan and Meeting Objectives

SESSION 1 - Freshwater Quality and Availability - Abstracts Session Leader - Dr. David Sumner Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Time	Author - Presenter	Title

2:00	Brian G. Katz, USGS, Tallahassee, Florida	Determining Sources and Timescales of Nitrate Contamination of Spring Waters from Isotopes and Other Chemical Indicators

2:20	Anne F. Choquette, USGS, Nashville, Tennessee Sharon E. Kroening, USGS, Altamonte Springs, Florida	Elevated Nitrate, Pesticides, and Pesticide Degradates in Ground Water and Lakes on the Lake Wales Ridge, a Unique Hydrologic and Geologic Region in Central Florida

2:40	Helen M. Light, USGS, Tallahassee, Florida Melanie R. Darst, USGS, Tallahassee, Florida Franklin D. Price, USGS, Tallahassee, Florida Stephen J. Walsh, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	Declining Water Levels in the Apalachicola River and Impacts on Floodplain Habitats

3:00-3:30	Break
3:30	A.B. Tihansky, USGS, Tampa, Florida	Effects of Aquifer Heterogeneity on Ground-Water Flow and Chloride Concentrations in the Upper Floridan Aquifer near and within an Active Pumping Well Field in West-Central Florida

3:50	Melinda Wolfert, USGS, Miami, Florida Alyssa Dausman, USGS, Miami, Florida Christian D. Langevin, USGS, Miami, Florida Eric D. Swain, USGS, Miami, Florida John D. Wang, University of Miami, Miami, Florida	Using Numerical Models to Simulate Surface-Water and Ground-water Movement in South Florida

4:10	M.J. Byrne, USGS, Fort Myers, Florida J.N. Flanigin, USGS, Fort Myers, Florida	Surface Water Salinity Mapping of Estero Bay and San Carlos Bay, Lee County, Florida

4:30-5:30	Discussion

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POSTER SESSION 1 - Freshwater Quality and Availability Poster Session Leader - Trudy Phelps 5:30-7:30 Tuesday, May 3, 2005
	Author - Presenter	Title

	Alisa W. Coffin, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida / USGS, Gainesville, Florida Ann M. Foster, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Kristy M. Capobianco, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida / USGS, Gainesville, Florida	Creation of a Geospatially Rectified Digital Archive for South Florida and the Everglades: The 1940 Aerial Photography Photoset

	Christy A. Crandall, USGS, Tallahassee, Florida	Geophysical and Water Quality Sampling with Depth in a Public Supply Well in Temple Terrace, Florida and Implications for Water Supply Managers

	N.T. DeWitt, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida A.C. Hine, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida J.L. Kindinger, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida G.R. Brooks, Eckard College, St. Petersburg, Florida S.L. Locker, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida	The Depositional History of Three Freshwater Lakes in North-Central Florida: Brooklyn Lake, Levys Prairie, and Cowpen Lake

	Mario Fernandez, Jr., USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Chad Stout, ETI Professionals, Inc. Kathryn E.L. Smith, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Steve A. Grabe, Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, Florida Kim Yates, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Distribution of Silt and Clay Grain Size and Select Trace Metals in Bottom Sediments of Tampa Bay, July 2003

	Pam Fuller, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) Program Products Produced for NBII

	T.S. Gross, USGS, Gainesville, Florida T.J. Leiker, USGS, Denver, Colorado S. Goodbred, USGS, Sacramento, California E. Orsak, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Las Vegas, Nevada C.M. Wieser, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	Lake Mead Studies 1995-2001: Evidence of Reproductive Dysfunction in Fish Exposed to Pharmaceuticals and Health-Care Byproducts in Wastewater

	Kim H. Haag, USGS, Tampa, Florida Terrie M. Lee, USGS, Tampa, Florida Donald Herndon, USGS, Tampa, Florida	Bathymetry and Vegetation in Isolated Marsh and Cypress Wetlands in the Northern Tampa Bay Area

	Robert B. Halley, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Virginia E. Garrison, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Katherine T. Ciembronowicz, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Randy Edwards, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Walter C. Jaap, Florida Marine Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida Gail Mead, Sustainable Seas Expedition Sylvia Earle, Sustainable Seas Expedition Albert C. Hine, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida / University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida Bret Jarret, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida / University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida Stan D. Locker, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida / University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida David F. Naar, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida / University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida Brian Donahue, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida / University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida George D. Dennis, USGS, Gainesville, Florida David C. Twichell, USGS, Woods Hole, Massachussetts	Pulley Ridge-The U.S.'s Deepest Coral Reef?

	Heather S. Henkel, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Roy Sonenshein, USGS, Miami, Florida	The South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) System

	Todd Donald Hickey, USGS	Geologic Evolution of South Florida Pleistocene-Age Deposits with an Interpretation of the Enigmatic Rock Ridge Development

	Richard L. Kane, USGS, Tampa, Florida Susan Lane, USGS, Tampa, Florida	Digitally Enhanced Water-Resources Data for Southwest Florida

	Lari Knochenmus, USGS, Tampa, Florida	Streamflow Losses through Karst Features in the Upper Peace River Hydrologic Area, Polk County, Florida

	Benjamin F. McPherson, USGS, Tampa, Florida Ronald L. Miller, USGS, Tampa, Florida	Water Quality in South Florida's Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee national Wildlife Refuge ---Trends and Spatial Characteristics of Selected Constituents

	G.G. Phelps, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Stephen J. Walsh, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	Characterization of the Hydrology, Water Quality, and Aquatic Communities of Selected Springs in the St. Johns River Water Management District, Florida

	Christopher Reich, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Robert Halley, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Peter Swarzenski, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Marine Groundwater Studies in Biscayne National Park, South Florida

	Rick M.Spechler, USGS, Orlando, Florida Sharon Kroening, USGS, Orlando, Florida	Hydrology and Quality of Water in Polk County, Florida

	Hilary Stockdon, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Abby Sallenger, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Forecasting Coastal Vulnerability to Hurricanes: Application to the 2004 Hurricane Season

	Amy Swancar, USGS, Tampa, Florida	Effect of El Nino / La Nina Weather Patterns on Central Florida Lake Water Budgets -- Lessons From Lake Starr

	Richard J.Verdi, USGS, Tallahassee, Florida	Hydrologic Effects of the 2004 Hurricane Season in Northwest Florida

	Shaun M. Wicklein, USGS, Orlando, Florida	Florida Integrated Science Center Hydrologic Data Program, 2004

	Dann Yobbi, USGS, Tampa, Florida Kevin Hubbs, USGS, Tampa, Florida	Estimates of Spring Flow in Citrus and Hernando Counties, Florida

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SESSION 2 - Coastal Science - Abstracts Session Leader - Chris Reich Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Time	Author - Presenter	Title

8:30	J.C. Brock, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida A. Nayegandhi, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida D. Hickey, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida L. Mosher, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida M. Harris, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Investigating Benthic Habitats in the Florida Reef Tract with Lidar

8:50	R.Z. Poore, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida T.M. Quinn, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida	Multi-Decadal to Century-Scale Climate Variability in the Gulf of Mexico Region: Links Between Continental and Marine Records

9:10	Tara L. Miller, ETI Professionals, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida Robert A. Morton, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Asbury H. Sallenger, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Laura J. Moore, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio	Recent Shoreline Comparisons, Analyses, and Preliminary Products of the National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project

9:30-10:00	Break

10:00	Amar Nayegandhi, ETI Professionals, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida John Brock, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Determining Vegetation Metrics Using a Temporal Waveform-Resolving Lidar at Assateague Island National Seashore

10:20	Peter Swarzenski, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Kevin Kroeger, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Chris Reich, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Brian Blake-Collins, ETI Professionals, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida Jason Greenwood, ETI Professionals, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida	Submarine Ground-Water Discharge (SGD) and Associated Nutrient Fluxes to the Coastal Ocean

10:40	Kevin D. Kroeger, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Peter W. Swarzenski, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Matthew A. Charette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachussetts John Crusius, USGS, Woods Hole, Massachussetts John F. Bratton, USGS, Woods Hole, Massachussetts Anne Giblin, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, Massachussetts Jane Tucker, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Christopher D. Reich, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Dirk Koopmans, USGS,Woods Hole, Massachussetts	Contrasting Nitrogen Biogeochemistry and Fluxes to Coastal Waters from a Temperate and Subtropical Coastal Aquifer

11:00-12:00	Discussion

12:00-1:30	Lunch

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SESSION 3 - Population and Ecosystem Studies - Abstracts Session Leader - Dr. Bob Dorazio Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Time	Author - Presenter	Title

1:30	Steve W. Ross, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Kenneth J. Sulak, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Martha S. Nizinski, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	Distributions and Ecology of Deep Coral Habitat in the Southeastern United States

1:50	Jennifer S. Rehage, USGS, Everglades National Park Field Station William F. Loftus, USGS, Everglades National Park Field Station	Seasonal Fish-Community Patterns in Upstream Reaches of Coastal Rivers in Everglades National Park, Florida

2:10	Justin M. Krebs, ETI Professionals, Inc., Tampa Florida Adam B. Brame, ETI Professionals, Inc., Tampa Florida Carole C. McIvor, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Habitat Use by Estuarine Fish Assemblages: Assessing Community Structure in Natural and Altered Wetlands in Tampa Bay, Florida

2:30-3:00	Break

3:00	R.M. Dorazio, USGS, Gainesville, Florida H.L. Jelks, USGS, Gainesville, Florida F. Jordan, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana	Improving Removal-Based Estimates of Local Abundance in a Metapopulation of Endangered Fishes

3:20	Catherine Langtimm, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Dennis Krohn, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Clifford Hearn, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Cathy Beck, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	The 2004 Hurricanes -- Storm Attributes, Impacts to Manatee Survival Rates, and Scenarios for Population and Ecosystem Models

3:40	Donald L. DeAngelis, USGS, Miami, Florida	Predicting Vegetation Change in the Everglades

4:00-5:00	Discussion
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POSTER SESSION 2 - Coastal Science Poster Session Leader - Trudy Phelps 5:00-7:00 Wednesday, May 4, 2005
	Author - Presenter	Title

	Cathy Beck, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Ron Osborn, USGS, Ft. Collins, Colorado Howard Kochman, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Jacob Udel, Johnson Controls, Inc., Ft. Collins, Colorado	An Interagency Database for Manatee Population Research: The Manatee Individual Photo-Identification System (MIPS)

	Noreen A. Buster, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Charles W. Holmes, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Recent Discoveries of Elevated Mg within Coral Skeletons and Other Applications of Laser Ablation and the Scanning Electron Microscope

	N.F. Ferina, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida J.L. Kindinger, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida R.A. Morton, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	High-Resolution Holocene Stratigraphy of the Nueces River Bayhead Delta and Incised Valley of the Southwestern Texas Gulf Coast

	James Flocks, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Mark Kulp, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Nicholas Ferina, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Chandra Dreher, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Duncan Fitzgerald, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Jack Kindinger, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Shea Penland, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana	Understanding the Shallow Stratigraphic Architecture of the Louisiana Coastal Zone: the Key to Identifying Potential Sources for Shoreline Renurishment

	Kristen M. Hart, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina / USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Carole C. McIvor, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Tim L. King, USGS, Kearneysville, West Virginia Larry B. Crowder, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina	Integrating Ecology and Genetics to Define Population Structure for a Continuously Distributed Species, Diamondback Terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin)

	Sekeenia Haynes, USGS, Tallahassee, Florida / Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida Richard Gragg, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida Elijah Johnson, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida Carl Orazio, USGS, Columbia, Missouri Larry Robinson, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida	An Evaluation of an Enclosed Method for the Determination of Total Mercury in Aquatic Life

	Noah L. Silverman, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Carole C. McIvor, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Assessing the Consequence of Hurricane-Induced Habitat Conversion on Fish and Decapod Crustacean Assemblages in the Big Sable Creek Complex of Southwest Florida

	Lisa E. Osterman, USGS, Reston, Virginia Richard Z. Poore, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Peter W. Swarzenski, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida David J. Hollander, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida	A Several-Century Record of Low Oxygen Conditions on the Louisiana Continental Shelf

	Amy J. Benson, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Leo G. Nico, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Walter R. Courtenay, Jr., USGS, Gainesville, Florida Pamela J. Schofield, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	Tools Assessing Risks: Ongoing Efforts to Evaluate Potential Harm of Introduced Aquatic Organisms

	Julie C. Bernier, The Environmental Careers Organization, St. Petersburg, Florida Robert A. Morton, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Wetland Loss and Land Subsidence Related to Hydrocarbon Production, South-Central Louisiana

	Paul F. Boetcher, USGS, Tampa, Florida John T. Trommer, USGS, Tampa, Florida	Measuring the Quantity and Quality of Surface-Water Resources in West-Central Florida: the Minimum Flows Network

	Kristy M. Capobianco, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida / USGS, Gainesville, Florida Alisa W. Coffin, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida / USGS, Gainesville, Florida Ann M. Foster, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	Creation of GIS Data of Everglades National Park´s Fire History from 1948 to 1979

	Brian Blake-Collins, ETI Professionals, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida Peter Swarzenski, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Kevin Kroeger, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Chris Reich, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Utilizing Select U/Th Series Radionuclides as Tracers of Hyporheic Exchange within Florida´s Coastal Rivers

	R. Allen Brooks, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Kenneth J. Sulak, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	Habitat Use by Benthic Fishes on Shallow-Water Ridges and Shoals in the Northwest Gulf of Mexico from a Landscape Perspective

	Patricia Metz, USGS, Tampa, Florida Terrie M. Lee, USGS, Tampa, Florida	Ground-Water Flow Patterns of Augmented Lakes and Wetlands in the Northern Tampa Bay Area, Florida

	Andrew M. O'Reilly, USGS, Altamonte Springs, Florida	Simulation of Transient Ground-Water Recharge in Deep Water-Table Settings: A Simple Water-Balance/Transfer-Function Model

	D.M. Sumner, USGS, Orlando, Florida A. Swancar, USGS, Tampa, Florida J.W. Grubbs, USGS, Tallahassee, Florida W.B. Shoemaker, USGS, Miami, Florida	Florida Evapotranspiration Network

	William F. Loftus, USGS, Everglades National Park Field Station, Homestead, Florida Kristine J. Dunker, USGS, Everglades National Park Field Station, Homestead, Florida Bradley E. Dunker, USGS, Everglades National Park Field Station, Homestead, Florida Joel C. Trexler, Florida International University, Miami, Florida	The Rocky Glades: An Endangered Landscape and its Fishes

	Charles W. Holmes, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Marci E. Marot, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	SLIC – When it is Good it's Very Very Good and when it is Bad, it´s Horrid

	Bradley M. Stith, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Jim Reid, USGS, Gainesville, Florida Susan Butler, USGS, Gainesville, Florida	Modeling Manatee Response to Restoration in the Ten Thousand Islands and Everglades National Park

	Thomas J. Smith, III, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Ginger Tiling, ETI Professionals, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida	Long-Term Stability of the Coastal Everglades: Disturbance, Sea-Level Rise, and Peat Collapse

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SESSION 4 - Environmental Health and Degradation - Abstracts Session Leader - Dr. Ken Rice Thursday, May 5, 2005
Time	Author - Presenter	Title
8:30	Dale W. Griffin, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Erin K. Lipp, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia	Waste Water and Reef Health in the Florida Keys

8:50	Charles W. Holmes, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	The Effects of Ecological Changes in South Florida: Are These Problems for Restoration?

9:10	Ilsa B. Kuffner, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Linda J. Walters, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida Mikel A. Becerro, Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, Florida Valerie J. Paul, Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, Florida Raphael Ritson-Williams, Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, Florida Kevin S. Beach, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida	The Role of Macroalgae in Perpetuating the Degraded State of Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys

9:30-10:00	Break

10:00	John T. Lisle, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida Chris D. Reich, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Microbial Ecology of Sediments and Pore Waters of Tampa Bay

10:20	Barbara Poore, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida	Integrating Information for Environmental Decision Making

10:40	E.A. Shinn, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida D.W. Griffin, USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida A.B. Tihansky, USGS, Tampa, Florida T.D. Hickey, USGS	Air, Water, and Corals: Integrated Research at Dry Tortugas National Park

11:00-12:00	Discussion

12:00-12:30	Pam Malam, USGS, Reston, Virginia	Closing Speaker - Summary, Emerging Issues, and Opportunities

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Presented by the Florida Integrated Science Center

IntroductionTuesday, May 3, 2005

SESSION 1 - Freshwater Quality and Availability - Abstracts Session Leader - Dr. David Sumner Tuesday, May 3, 2005

POSTER SESSION 1 - Freshwater Quality and Availability Poster Session Leader - Trudy Phelps5:30-7:30 Tuesday, May 3, 2005

SESSION 2 - Coastal Science - Abstracts Session Leader - Chris ReichWednesday, May 4, 2005

SESSION 3 - Population and Ecosystem Studies - Abstracts Session Leader - Dr. Bob DorazioWednesday, May 4, 2005

POSTER SESSION 2 - Coastal Science Poster Session Leader - Trudy Phelps 5:00-7:00 Wednesday, May 4, 2005

SESSION 4 - Environmental Health and Degradation - Abstracts Session Leader - Dr. Ken RiceThursday, May 5, 2005

Introduction
Tuesday, May 3, 2005

SESSION 1 - Freshwater Quality and Availability - Abstracts
Session Leader - Dr. David Sumner
Tuesday, May 3, 2005

POSTER SESSION 1 - Freshwater Quality and Availability
Poster Session Leader - Trudy Phelps
5:30-7:30 Tuesday, May 3, 2005

SESSION 2 - Coastal Science - Abstracts
Session Leader - Chris Reich
Wednesday, May 4, 2005

SESSION 3 - Population and Ecosystem Studies - Abstracts
Session Leader - Dr. Bob Dorazio
Wednesday, May 4, 2005

POSTER SESSION 2 - Coastal Science
Poster Session Leader - Trudy Phelps
5:00-7:00 Wednesday, May 4, 2005

SESSION 4 - Environmental Health and Degradation - Abstracts
Session Leader - Dr. Ken Rice
Thursday, May 5, 2005