About TIME

The Tides and Inflows in the Mangroves of the Everglades (TIME) project of the USGS Priority Ecosystems Science (PES) Initiative is a joint research effort to investigate the interacting effects of freshwater inflows and tidal forces in and along the mangrove ecotone of south Florida. The purpose of this web site is to provide a forum for scientists collaborating in the TIME project to readily share information and disseminate findings to other researchers. Links to additional sites of interest describing other ongoing scientific efforts in south Florida are provided. A USGS Fact Sheet describing the TIME project is available online at http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/fs-031-01 and a summary of the project is presented in Overview of the "Tides and Inflows in the Mangroves of the Everglades" (TIME) project of the U.S. Geological Survey's South Florida Ecosystem Program. There are also two posters available for online viewing: one describes the TIME Project and the other describes the Data Pages of the TIME website. The USGS South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) website (http://sofia.usgs.gov) should be consulted for detailed descriptions of PES projects and metadata. Questions about this web site and information for posting should be transmitted to the TIME Webmaster.

The following PES projects have contributed scientific findings and project results to the TIME project and (or) this website:

High Accuracy Elevation Data Collection (Everglades) (G.B. Desmond, Principal Investigator)
Geophysical Monitoring of the Southwest Florida Coast (D.V. Fitterman, Principal Investigator)
Evapotranspiration measurements and modeling in the Everglades (E.R. German, Principal Investigator)
Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions and Relation to Water Quality in the Everglades (J.W. Harvey, Principal Investigator)
Freshwater Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay (C.D. Hittle, Principal Investigator)
Effect of Wind on Surface Water Flows (H.L. Jenter, Principal Investigator)
Land Characteristics from Remote Sensing (J.W. Jones, Principal Investigator)
Ground Water Flow and Transport for the SICS and TIME Models (C.D. Langevin, Principal Investigator)
Southwest Florida Coastal and Wetland Systems Monitoring (E. Patino, Principal Investigator)
Tides and Inflows in the Mangrove Ecotone (TIME) Model Development (R.W. Schaffranek, Principal Investigator)
Coastal Everglades Wetlands: Hydrology, Vegetation and Sediment Dynamics (T.J. Smith, Principal Investigator)
TIME and SICS Modeling of Surface Water and Interactions with Ground Water (E.D. Swain, Principal Investigator)