.. and that means we're due for the next issue of SOFIA News. This update includes links to new projects, publications, data, project workplans, and other website updates.

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+ Data:

(This is a list of new data added; for a complete list of SOFIA data, visit our data exchange pages at http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/)

• Ecosystem History of South Florida's Estuaries Database
• Estero Bay Data:
  • New data for: Big Carlos, Big Hickory, Imperial River
  • Updated data for: Estero River, Fishtrap Bay, Horseshoe Key, Matanzas Pass, and Mullock Creek
• High Accuracy Elevation Data:
  • New Topo data for West of Deem City, East of Lone Palm Head, South of Deem City, Homestead
• Northeastern Florida Bay Estuarine Creek Data:
  • New data for: Jewfish, Oregon, East Highway Creek; Upstream Taylor, Trout, McComick, West Highway, Stillwater new data for year 2005
  • Updates: Format, Methodology, Location Map, and Sites Listing
• Southwest Coast Estuarine River Data update:
  • Location Map (new)
• GIS Layers updated for Circular 1275, "Impact of Anthropogenic Development on Coastal Ground-Water Hydrology in Southeastern Florida, 1900-2000"

+ Metadata:

• Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Well-Site Data Acquisition
• Hydrologic Monitoring in Joe Bay data (note: link updated 5/20/09)
• L-31N Lithological and Geophysical Data
• L-31N Seepage Management Pilot
• Salinity Maps for Florida Bay

+ 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. Some publications are found on sites other than SOFIA.)

Abstracts:

• Estimates of Nutrient Loads at West Highway Creek in Northeastern Florida Bay
• Using an Integrated Hydrologic Monitoring Network as a Tool to Analyze Everglades Ecosystem Response during CERP Implementation
• Nutrients Inputs along Coastal Transects within Everglades National Park, Florida

Circular:

• GIS Layers updated for Circular 1275, "Impact of Anthropogenic Development on Coastal Ground-Water Hydrology in Southeastern Florida, 1900-2000"

Fact Sheet:

• Microbial Ecology in Reef Sediments of Biscayne National Park (Fact Sheet 2006-3052)

Papers:

• Diurnal Variation in Rates of Calcification and Carbonate Sediment Dissolution in Florida Bay
• Estimating changes in heat energy stored within a column of wetland surface water and factors controlling their importance in the surface energy budget
• Permanent 'phase shifts' or reversible declines in coral cover? Lack of recovery of two coral reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands

Reports:

• Surface-Water and Ground-Water Interactions in the Central Everglades, Florida (SIR 2004-5069)
• 2005 DOI Science Plan in Support of Ecosystem Restoration, Preservation, and Protection in South Florida

Thesis/Dissertation:

• "The Successional Dynamics of Lightning-initiated Canopy Gaps in the Mangrove Forests of Shark River, Everglades National Park, USA"

+People:

(This is a list of new personnel added; for a complete list of SOFIA personnel, visit http://sofia.usgs.gov/people.html)
• Nina Burkardt
• Justin Davis
• Elizabeth Debiak (note: link updated 5/20/09)
• Robert M. Dorazio
• Toby Feaster
• Paul Hearn
• Caroline Hermans
• Dianna M. Hogan
• Rebecca J. Howard
• Lynne Koontz
• Bill Labiosa
• Berton L. Lamb
• Laurel Larsen
• Catherine A. Langtimm
• Thomas Sabin
• Daniel H. Slone
• David R. Strong
• Alicia Torregrosa
• Anne Wein

+Projects:

(This is a list of new project pages added; for a complete list of SOFIA projects, visit http://sofia.usgs.gov/title.html)

Please note: SOFIA project pages now list start and end dates for each project. In addition, funding information is listed for current projects.

• A GIS-Based Decision-Support Tool to Evaluate Land Management Policies in South Florida
• Linking a conceptual karst hydrogeologic model of the Biscayne aquifer to ground-water flow simulations from Everglades National Park to Biscayne National Park - Phase 1
• Baseline hydrologic data collection along the I-75/State Road 29 corridor in the Big Cypress National Preserve
• Modeling Hydrologic Flow and Vegetation Response across the Tamiami Trail and Coastal Watershed of Ten Thousand Islands NWR
• Effects of hydrological restoration on manatees: Integrating data and models for the Ten Thousand Islands and Everglades
• Western Tamiami Trail Flows - Baseline Information and Response to CERP
• Hydrologic Monitoring and Synthesis of Existing Hydrologic Data in the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge and Surrounding Areas
• CERP/RECOVER Restoration Technology Transfer: USGS-CERP Liaison with SFWMD
• CERP/RECOVER Restoration Technology Transfer: USGS-CERP Liaison with USACE

+Workplans: 

• A GIS-Based Decision-Support Tool to Evaluate Land Management Policies in South Florida
• Linking a conceptual karst hydrogeologic model of the Biscayne aquifer to ground-water flow simulations from Everglades National Park to Biscayne National Park - Phase 1
• Baseline hydrologic data collection along the I-75/State Road 29 corridor in the Big Cypress National Preserve
• Modeling Hydrologic Flow and Vegetation Response across the Tamiami Trail and Coastal Watershed of Ten Thousand Islands NWR
• Effects of hydrological restoration on manatees: Integrating data and models for the Ten Thousand Islands and Everglades
• Western Tamiami Trail Flows - Baseline Information and Response to CERP
• Hydrologic Monitoring and Synthesis of Existing Hydrologic Data in the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge and Surrounding Areas
• Hydrology Monitoring Network: Data Mining and Modeling to Separate Human and Natural Hydrologic Dynamics
• Effect of Water Flow on Transport of Solutes, Suspended Particles, and Particle-Associated Nutrients in the Everglades Ridge and Slough Landscape
• Integrated Biogeochemical Studies in the Everglades: Task 2, Mercury Cycling and Bioaccumulation
• Alligator Ecology and Monitoring for CERP
• Historical Changes in Salinity, Water Quality and Vegetation in Biscayne Bay
• Freshwater Flows to Northeastern Florida Bay
• Synthesis of South Florida Ecosystem History Research
• Ecosystem History of the Southwest Coast-Shark River Slough Outflow Area
• Development and Stability of Everglades Tree Islands, Ridge and Slough, and Marl Prairies
• SICS and TIME model linkages and development in support of Everglades Restoration
• Southwest Florida Coastal and Wetland Systems Monitoring
• Integrated Biogeochemical Studies of Contaminants in the Everglades: Task 1 - Nutrients, Sulfur, and Organics
• Internal Surface-water Flows
• Compilation, Integration, and Synthesis of Water Quality and Flow Data for Assessing Nutrient Flux to South Florida Coastal Ecosystems
• Spatial and temporal patterns and ecological effects of canal-water intrusion into the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
• Ecological Models for Evaluating Effects of Restoration Alternatives on Coastal Ecosystems of Southwest Florida
• Contaminants Synthesis
• South Florida Landscape Dynamics
• Across Trophic Level System Simulation Program for the Everglades/Big Cypress Region
• Interactions of mercury with dissolved organic carbon in the Everglades
• South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) Website
• CERP/RECOVER Restoration Technology Transfer: USGS-CERP Liaison with SFWMD
• CERP/RECOVER Restoration Technology Transfer: USGS-CERP Liaison with USACE

+ Other Website Updates:

• Updates to Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Program for the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge website