Wednesday, February 16, 2005

9:00: Announcements

Catherine Corbett, Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program

Session 2: Transferring Monitoring and Research Results to Management (continued)

Moderator: Judy Ott

9:10: The Determination of Minimum Flows for the Lower Peace River estuary

Michael Flannery

9:30: The Correlation of Various Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Measures between Qualitative Shore Zone Samples and Quantitative Sublittoral Zone Samples in South Florida Lakes

Robert Rutter

9:50: Dissolved Oxygen Study of Streams in the Myakka River Basin

Kevin Petrus and Zack Shelley

10:10: A Survey of the Effects of Invasive Exotic Vegetation on Wetland Functions: Aquatic Fauna, Wildlife, and Native Plant Community Structures

David Ceilley, Glen Buckner II, Jeffrey Schmid and Brad Smith

10:30: Break

Session 2: Transferring Monitoring and Research Results to Management (continued)

Moderator - John Ryan

10:50: Sarasota County Monitoring Efforts

Greg Wahl

11:10: Water Budget, Water Quality, and Oysters in Coastal Venice

Michael Jones

11:30: Habitat Quality and Nonnative Fish Colonization

R. Kirby Wolfe and Aaron Adams

11:50: Developing an Ecological Context for Monitoring Restoration Effects on Fishes

Aaron J. Adams and R. Kirby Wolfe

12:10: Lunch

Session 3: Use of Environmental Indicators to Monitor and Improve Management

Moderator - Stephen Bortone

1:10: A 5-Year Summary of Seagrass Transect Data: Implications of Depth of the Deep Edge and Light Availability for Watershed Management in Charlotte Harbor, FL

Katie Fuhr, Jaime Greenawalt, Jason Hale and Judy Ott

1:30: Seagrass Species Composition and Distribution in Relation to Multiple Environmental Variables: Addressing management needs for multi-species seagrass preserves

Jaime M. Greenawalt, K. Fuhr, J.A. Hale and J. Ott

1:50: Evaluation of Microbial Diversity and Ecological Function in Seagrass Beds

Eric C. Milbrandt and A. Weissbach

2:10: Sharks as Bioindicators of Pollution in the Charlotte Harbor Estuary

James Gelsleichter, C.A. Manire, N.J. Szabo and L.E.L. Rasmussen

2:30: Five-years of the Southwest Florida Frog Monitoring Network: changes in frog communities as an indicator of landscape change

E. Corrie Pieterson, Lindsey M. Addison, Jorge Agobian , William Bluhm, Brenda Brooks-Solveson, John Cassani, Edwin M. Everham III, David Hoppa, Amy Orlando, and Bradley W. Smith

2:50: Break

Session 3: Use of Environmental Indicators to Monitor and Improve Management (continued)

Moderator - Greg Tolley

3:10: Red Mangrove Crab as a Bioenvironmental Indicator of the Effects of Mangrove Trimming along Whiskey Creek, Lee County, Southwestern Florida

A. Schwartz and H. J. Mitchell-Tapping

3:30: Age and Growth of Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) as an Indicator of Conditions in the Caloosahatchee River/Estuary

Stephen A. Bortone

3:50: Fish Nursery Habitats in Charlotte Harbor, Florida

Philip W. Stevens, David A. Blewett, J. Patrick Casey, Chuck F. Idelberger and Gregg R. Poulakis

4:10: Recent Occurrence of the Smalltooth Sawfish, Pristis pectinata, in Southwest Florida, with notes on its ecology

Gregg R. Poulakis, Jason C. Seitz, Philip W. Stevens and Richard E. Matheson, Jr.

4:30: Importance of Charlotte Harbor to Endangered Smalltooth Sawfish

Colin A. Simpfendorfer

5:00: Closing Remarks

Lisa Beever, Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program