Proceedings of the 1997 Charlotte Harbor Public Conference and Technical Symposium

This event highlighted the Program’s goals for education, information management, and synthesis of existing data. 274 pages. March 1997. NOTE: Printed copies of this publication are no longer available but it is available as a PDF file.

Introductory Pages and Table of Contents

Measurable Goals and Targets of the Tampa Bay National Estuary Program

    Holly Greening, pages 1-2

Human Pre-History of Charlotte Harbor

    Robin C. Brown, pages 3-6

Transportation Impacts Around Charlotte Harbor: The Land-Use Buildout Scenario

    Lisa B. Beever, pages 7-16

Population Three Million - Charlotte Harbor in the Year ????

    Wayne Daltry, pages 19-21

Late Neogene Geology of the Southeastern Margin of Charlotte Harbor, Lee and Charlotte Counties, Florida

    Thomas M. Missimer, pages 23-31

Depositional Environments and Quaternary Infilling of the Charlotte Harbor Estuarine System

    M.W. Evans, A.C. Hine and D.F. Belknap, page 33

Charlotte Harbor Sediment Quality Data Review and Evaluation

    Steven J. Schropp, pages 35-45

Core Evidence of Sea Level High Stands in Southwestern Florida During the Last 5,000 Years

    Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping, Aleta M. Mitchell-Tapping, Thomas J. Lee and Cathy R. Williams, pages 47-53

Flow Trends of the Peace River at Arcadia and the Myakka River near Sarasota, Florida, and their Implication to Future Water Resource Management

    Kurt O. Thomsen, pages 55-61

Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Streamflow Trends in the Upper Charlotte Harbor Watershed

    Michael S. Flannery and Mark Barcelo, pages 63-71

Water Use and Runoff in the Caloosahatchee Watershed

    E.G. Flaig and J. Capece, pages 73-80

Freshwater Flow to the Caloosahatchee Estuary and the Resource-Based Method for Evaluation

    R.H. Chamberlain and P.H. Doering, pages 81-90

Circulation in the Charlotte Harbor Estuarine System

    Y. Peter Sheng, pages 91-110

Abundance and Productivity of the Seagrass Thalassia testudinum along a Gradient of Freshwater Influence in Charlotte Harbor, Florida

    David A. Tomasko and Margaret O. Hall-Ruark, pages 111-120

Preliminary Estimate of Optimum Freshwater Inflow to the Caloosahatchee Estuary: A Resource-Based Approach

    R.H. Chamberlain and P.H. Doering, pages 121-130

Simulation of Shallow Estuarine Assemblages in Mesocosms: An Experimental Technique for Evaluating Causation of Ecological Change

    Christopher L. Rowe and William A. Dunson, pages 131-139

Seasonal Abundance and Distribution of Fishes in Charlotte Harbor, Florida

    M.E. Mitchell, page 141

Wildlife Resources of the Myakka River System

    Chris Becker, pages 143-148

Regional Protection of Listed Wildlife Species and Other Wildlife Resources in the Greater Charlotte Harbor Ecosystem

    Kimberly A. Dryden and James W. Beever, pages 149-162

Low-Level Monitoring of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Charlotte Harbor, Florida

    K. Bassos-Hull, R.S. Wells and K.W. Urian, pages 163-170

Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Charlotte Harbor

    J.K. Koelsch and T.D. Pitchford, pages 171-185

Loadings of Total Nitrogen, Total Phosphorus and Total Suspended Solids to Charlotte Harbor

    A.P. Squires, H. Zarbock and S. Janicki, pages 187-200

Nutrient, Chlorophyll and Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations in Charlotte Harbor: Existing Conditions and Long-Term Trends

    Gerold Morrison, Ralph Montgomery, Andrew Squires, Roberta Starks, Eric DeHaven and Judy Ott, pages 201-217

Hypoxia in Upper Charlotte Harbor

    M.G. Heyl, pages 219-227

Water Quality in the Caloosahatchee Estuary, San Carlos By and Pine Island Sound, Florida

    P.H. Doering and R.H. Chamberlain, pages 229-240

A Mechanistic Water Quality Model for the Tidal Peace and Myakka Rivers

    J. Raymond Pribble, David L. Wade, Andrew P. Squires and Anthony J. Janicki, pages 241-258

Hourly Dissolved Oxygen Measurements in Central Estero Bay, Lee County, Southwestern Florida

   Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping, Thomas J. Lee and Cathy R. Williams, pages 259-272

What Can Private Individuals do to Protect the Harbor's Resources

   Robert L. Croft, pages 273-274