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+ Publications:

(These postings include USGS publications as well as other selected publications that have been converted from paper to an electronic format for the web.)

Abstracts:

• L-31N Seepage Management Pilot Project (http://sofia.er.usgs.gov/projects/seep_mgmt/)
  • Pathogen Transport in a Sole Source Karst Aquifer Near a Public Well Field - Will Everglades Limestone Mine Expansion Pose a Clear and Present Danger to Public Health?
  • A Sequence-Stratigraphic Based Approach For Developing a Real-World Conceptual Hydrogeologic Model of the Karstic Biscayne Aquifer, Se Florida, USA

Data Series:

• Northeastern Florida Bay Estuarine Creek Data, Water Years 1996-2000 (http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/ds/ds105/)

Fact sheets:

• Novel geophysical and geochemical techniques used to study submarine groundwater discharge in Biscayne Bay, Florida ( http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/fs/2004-3117/)
• Development of a Long-term Sampling Network to Monitor Restoration Success in the Southwest Coastal Everglades: Vegetation, Hydrology, and Sediments (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/fs/2004-3015/)
• Lightning Gaps in the Mangrove Forest of Everglades National Park (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/fs/2004-3016/)
• Isotopic Views of Food Web Structure in the Florida Everglades (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/fs/2004-3138/)

Open File Reports:

• An autonomous, electromagnetic seepage meter to study coastal groundwater/surface-water exchange (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/ofr/2004-1369/)
• OFR 2004-1226: Submarine ground-water discharge and its role in coastal processes and ecosystems (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/ofr/2004-1226/)

Papers:

• Ground Water Recharge and Discharge in the Central Everglades (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/papers/gw_discharge/index.html)
• Characterization of Saltwater Intrusion in South Florida Using Electromagnetic Geophysical Methods ( http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/papers/sw_intrusion_sfl/index.html )

Scientific Investigations Map:

Hydrogeology and Ground-water Flow at Levee 31N, Miami-Dade County, Florida, July 2003 to May 2004: Scientific Investigations Map I-2846 (http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/sim/I-2846/index.html)

+ Projects:

• High Resolution Bathymetric Mapping (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/hires_bathy_lakeo/)

+Scopes of Work:

• High Resolution Bathymetric Mapping (http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/scopesofwork01/hires_bathy_lakeo.html)

+Updated Data:

• Elevation Data:
  • Cooper City NE (http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/desmond/desmondelev.html#coopercityne)
  • Coral Springs NE (Updated data files, http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/desmond/desmondelev.html#coralsprings-ne)
• Northeastern Florida Bay Estuarine Creek Data (http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/patino/patinoflow.html)
• Discharge Data (Tamiami Canal) (http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/telis/telisdischarge.html)
  

+Past Conference Update:

• National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration: photos and abstract book now available (http://sofia.usgs.gov/ncer/)

+ Upcoming Meetings:

• USGS Workshop: "Linking hydrological change and ecological response in streams and rivers of the eastern United States"

  Days Hotel and Conference Center at Dulles
  Herndon, Virginia
  February 8-10, 2005

• The 2005 George Wright Society Biennial Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites

  March 14-18, 2005
  Loews Philadelphia Hotel
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• 9th International Symposium on Biogeochemistry of Wetlands

  March 20-23, 2005
  Cook Conference Center & Hotel at LSU
  Baton Rouge, LA, USA

• EastFIRE: Wildland Fire, Remote Sensing, Modeling, & Management DSS

  May 11-13, 2005
  George Mason University
  Fairfax, VA

• 26th Annual International Wetlands Meeting: Coastal Plain Wetlands: Ecological, Landscape, and Regulatory Transformations

  Charleston Convention Center
  Charleston, South Carolina
  June 5 - 10, 2005

• DoD Symposium and Workshop for Threatened, Endangered, and At-Risk Species

  June 7-9, 2005
  Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel
  Baltimore, MD

• 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals

  November 28-December 2, 2005
  Miami, FL