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GEER 2008 Conference Video transcripts

Note: Below is a list of presentations and discussions from the GEER 2008 Conference that can be viewed in video format. We are providing PDF files of the video transcripts and Powerpoint presentations (when available), as well as a link to videos available on the Conference website. PDF files require the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader® to be read and video files require the FREE Windows Media Player.

Keynote Presentations

Planning, Policy & Science for Large Scale Ecosystem Restoration: The Everglades Example

Lynn Scarlett

transcript (308 KB, .pdf) | video | presentation (48 KB, .pdf)

Facing Tomorrow's Challenges: The Everglades Living Laboratory

Mark D. Myers

transcript (240 KB, .pdf) | video

Progress Towards Restoring the Everglades: A Challenge Being Addressed by the National Academy of Sciences

Stephanie E. Johnson

transcript (88 KB, .pdf)| video

Panel Discussions

Coffee House: Natural System Hydrology

Rock Salt, Robert Fennema, John Ogden, Jayantha Obeysekera, Paul Souza, Tom Van Lent

transcript (424 KB, .pdf) | video | Fennema presentation (176 KB, .pdf), Obeysekera presentation (944 KB, .pdf)

Climate Change Panel

Nick Aumen (Moderator), Stu Appelbaum, Chuck Collins, Dan Kimball, Jayantha Obeysekera, Fred Sklar, Paul Souza

Information Systems

Staying in Tune with South Florida's Water Cycle for Scientists, Managers, and Policy Makers in Five Minutes per Week

Robert Sobczak

video | presentation (7.5 MB, .pdf)

Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Model Management System (CERP MMS)

Heather Kostura

video | presentation (4.0 MB, .pdf)

GIS Data Acquisition and Visualization in a 3D World for regional Water Quality and Hazardous Waste Screening

Peter Besrutschko

CERPZone

Al Yonick

video | presentation (1.1 MB, .pdf)

Implementing the South Florida Gazetteer to Support Restoration Information Retrieval

Heather Kostura, Chris Friel

video | presentation (2.8 MB, .pdf)

Ecosystem Restoration and Climate Change

Global Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Implications for South Florida

Amy Clement

transcript (216 KB, .pdf) | video | presentation (4.2 MB, .pdf)

Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Natural Resource Challenges in South Florida

Dan Kimball

transcript (248 KB, .pdf) | video

Florida's Wildlife: On the Frontline of Climate Change

Chuck Collins

transcript (152 KB, .pdf) | video

Climate Change Workshops

Climate Change Concerns for Everglades Restoration Planning

Glenn Landers

video | presentation (1.4 MB, .pdf)

Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Saltwater Intrusion in Northern Broward County, Florida

Michael Zygnerski

video | presentation (3.9 MB, .pdf)

Sea Level Rise in Miami-Dade County Florida, Implications for Management of Coastal Wetlands and the Everglades

Peter Harlem

video | presentation (13 MB, .pdf)

The Southwest Florida Feasibility Study and Climate Change

Lisa Beever

video | presentation (9.1 MB, .pdf)

Florida Bay Estuarine Habitat Suitability Assessments of Restoration and Sea-Level Rise Interactions

Leonard Pearlstine

video | presentation (6.9 MB, .pdf)

Climate Change: Vulnerability Assessment and Modeling Scenarios for Water Resources Management in South Florida

Jayantha Obeysekera

video | presentation (2.7 MB, .pdf)

An Initial Evaluation of the Effect of Sea Level Rise on Salinity in Florida Bay Using Statistical Methods and Models

Frank Marshall

video | presentation (0.5 MB, .pdf)

Numerical Model Development to Address the Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Hydrology and Ecology in Southern Florida

Eric Swain

video | presentation (10.5 MB, .pdf)

Predicting the Fate of Florida's Coastal Ecosystems along the Gulf of Mexico under Rising Sea Levels and Climate Change

Thomas Doyle

Review of Current Everglades Ecosystem, Landscape, and Hydrodynamic Models and Potential Applicability to Evaluate Climate Change Effects

Chris Madden, Dave Hallac

video | presentation (2.9 MB, .pdf)

Species Conservation in South Florida and the Challenge of Climate Change

Paul Souza

video | presentation (1.4 MB, .pdf)

Potential Water Balance Impacts of Global Climate Change on the Extant Everglades in Comparison to a Simulated Pre-Drainage Everglades

Fred Sklar

The Resilience of Marine Ecosystems in the Greater Everglades in Response to Multiple Stressors and Climate Change

Marguerite Koch

Wildlife Ecology and Modeling

How Habitat Degradation in the Everglades Has Affected Juvenile Snail Kite Movement

Andrea Bowling

Habitat, Hydrology, and Reproduction: Conservation of the Florida Snail Kite and Everglades Restoration

Christa Zweig

video | presentation (1.2 MB, .pdf)

The Potential for Aquaculture to Support the Recovery of Apple Snail, Pomacea paludosa, Populations in Florida Wetlands and Lakes

Amber Shawl

video | presentation (1.9 MB, .pdf)

Ecological Windows of Opportunity for Florida Apple Snail Recruitment

Phil Darby

Effects of Environmental Methylmercury Exposure on Reproduction in White Ibises (Eudocimus albus)

Nilmini Jayasena

Resource Selection of Two Wading Bird Species with Divergent Foraging Strategies

James Beerens

The Effects of Hydrological Variation on Seasonal Wading Bird Prey Concentrations in the Everglades

Bryan Botson

video | presentation (10.8 MB, .pdf)

A Spatially-explicit Simulation Model of Landscape Quality for the Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) in Southwestern Florida

Dale Gawlik

Wintering Bird Area Occupancy in a Mosaic of Harvested and Un-harvested Sugarcane Fields

Elise Pearlstine

video | presentation (2.1 MB, .pdf)

Vegetation and Hydrologic History of Everglades Marl Prairies: Paleoecological Evidence from Big Cypress National Preserve

Debra Willard

video | presentation (0.8 MB, .pdf)

Discovery and Delineation of Seagrass Beds in the Ten Thousand Islands Using Manatee Radiotelemetry Data, Spatial Modeling, and Stratified Field Sampling

Daniel Slone

Hurricane Impacts on Mangrove Diamondback Terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin) in the Everglades

Kristen Hart

video | presentation (1.3 MB, .pdf)

Hydrologically-Induced Seasonal Changes in Cypress Forest Aquatic Fauna Communities

Shawn Liston

video | presentation (1.4 MB, .pdf)

Temporal and Spatial Dynamics in the Fish Community of Marsh-Mangrove Ecotonal Habitats in the Southwest Region of Everglades National Park

Jennifer Rehage

video | presentation (0.7 MB, .pdf)

Fish Introductions into Everglades Wetlands: An Unforeseen Consequence of Restoration?

Jeffrey Kline

transcript (68 KB, .pdf) | video

Fish Community Structure of Aquatic Refugia, Impacted and Reference Wetlands in Southwest Florida

David Ceilley

transcript (76 KB, .pdf) | video

Comparison of Growth Between Newly-Hatched Young of Two Species of Crayfish, Procambarus alleni (Faxon) and Procambarus fallax (Hagen), from South Florida

Peggy VanArman

transcript (72 KB, .pdf) | video

Closing Plenary Session

Summaries, Discussions and Recommendations

Ronnie Best, K. Ramesh Reddy, Glenn Landers, Agnes McLean, Jud Harvey, Matt Harwell, Betty Grizzle, Lewis Hornung, Sharon Ewe

transcript (148 KB, .pdf) | Reddy presentation (184 KB, .pdf), Landers presentation (36 KB, .pdf), Harwell I presentation (188 KB, .pdf), Harwell II presentation (368 KB, .pdf), Grizzle presentation (308 KB, .pdf), Hornung presentation (420 KB, .pdf)



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