USGS Water Quality Workshop

Held October 23-24, 2000
West Palm Beach, FL

Broward County Enersol Canada / Tiger Florida Department of Environmental Protection Florida Favorite Fertilizer Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Florida International University Honeywell IMC Global Louisiana State University Martin Resources, Inc. Miami-Dade County National Academies, Committee on the Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem CROGEE

National Park Service Natural Resource Defense Council Palm Beach County South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force Sugar Cane Growers Coop Tetra Micronutrients Tiger-Sunbelt Department of the Interior, COM South Florida Water Management District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service U.S. Sugar Corp. University of Florida, Cooperative Extension Service

Agenda (Please note: you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDFs below. The PPT files are PowerPoint files, and you will need Microsoft PowerPoint to read them.)

Monday, October 23, 2000 1:00-1:15 Opening Remarks Aaron Higer, Coordinator South Florida Ecosystem Program 1:15-2:15 Geochemistry of Wetland Sediments from South Florida William Orem Abstract (PDF) Lignin Phenols from Sediments of Florida Bay as Indicators of Seagrass History 2:15-3:15 The Aquatic Cycling of Mercury in the Everglades (ACME) Project David Krabbenhoft Poster (The ACME Project: Challenges of Linking Field Data to Conceptual Models: PDF or PowerPoint) Abstract (PDF) 3:15-3:30 Break 3:30-4:30 Interactions of Mercury with Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Everglades George Aiken Abstract (PDF) 4:30-5:30 Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange Fluxes and Relation to Nutrient and Mercury Cycling in the Everglades Judson Harvey Abstract (PDF)

Tuesday, October 24, 2000 8:30-9:30 Bacterial Demethylation of Methylmercury in the South Florida Ecosystem Mark Marvin-DiPasquale Poster (Environmental Controls on Methylmercury Production and Degradation in Everglades Sediments - PowerPoint) Abstract (PDF) 9:30-10:30 Predicting Salinity in Florida Bay Bruce Wardlaw Poster (Predicting Salinity in Florida Bay - PowerPoint) Abstract (PDF) 10:30-11:30 Cycling and Speciation of Mercury in the Food Chain of South Florida Carol Kendall Posters (Tracing Foodweb Relations and Fish Migratory Habits in the Everglades with Stable Isotopes and Mapping Spatial Variability in Marsh Redox conditions Using Biomass Stable Isotopic Compositions) Abstract (PDF) 11:30-12:00 Lunch (onsite cafeteria) 1:00-2:00 Mercury Transfer Through an Everglades Aquatic Food Web Joel Trexler and Bill Loftus (Bill has a prior commitment.) Poster: Accumulation and Fate of Mercury in an Everglades Aquatic Food Web (PPT - Note: the file size for this poster is 7.4 MB) Abstract (PDF) 2:00-3:00 Determination of Nutrient Loads to East Coast Canals Clinton Lietz Poster (Nutrient Concentration, Distribution, and Transport from the East Coast Canals to Biscayne Bay and Water-Quality Trends at Selected Sites in South Florida - PPT) Abstract (PDF) 3:00-3:15 Break 3:15-4:15 ASR Source Water Characteristics Ben McPherson and Brian Katz Poster (Water-Quality Characterization of Surface and Ground Waters for Geochemical Modeling of Aquifer Storage and Recovery - PDF) 4:15-5:15 Estimating Suspended Solids Concentrations in Estuaries Using Acoustic Instruments Eduardo Patino, Mike Byrne and John R. Gary Abstract (PDF) 5:15-5:30 Wrap Up