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Appendix C
Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components1
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This list reflects MAP component status as of August 2006.
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APPENDIX C
MAP Component
MAP Section
Status
Contracting Agency
Implementing Entity
Greater Everglades Wetlands Module
Fish Sampling Methods Testing in Forested Wetlands
3.1.3.8
Under way
USACE
USGS and Audubon
Aquatic Fauna Regional Populations and Periphyton Mat Cover and Composition
3.1.3.8.9
Under way
SFWMD
FIU
Dry Season Aquatic Fauna Concentrations
3.1.3.11
Under way
SFWMD
FAU
Wading Bird Nesting Colony Location, Size, and Timing
3.1.3.13
Under way
USACE
UF
Wood Stork and Roseate Spoonbill Nesting
3.1.3.14
Under way
USACE
FAU and Audubon of Florida
American Alligator Distribution, Size, and Nesting
3.1.3.15
Under way
USACE
UF
American Crocodile Juvenile Growth and Survival
3.1.3.16
Under way
USACE
USGS
Effects of Environmental Mercury Exposure on Development and Reproduction of White Ibises
3.1.4.10
Under way
USACE
UF
Regional Distribution of Soil Nutrients
3.1.3.2
To be implemented in FY07
USACE
UF
Sediment Elevation and Accumulation in Response to Hydrology and Vegetation
3.13.9
Under way
USACE
USGS
Coastal Gradients: Salinity, Flow and Nutrients
3.1.3.3
Under way
USACE
USGS
Systemwide Vegetation Mapping
3.1.3.4
Under way
SFWMD
SFWMD, with private contract with Avineon, Inc.
Landscape Pattern: Marl Prairie/Slough Gradients
3.1.3.5
Under way
USACE
FIU
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MAP Component
MAP Section
Status
Contracting Agency
Implementing Entity
Landscape Pattern Ridge, Slough, Tree Islands Mosaic
3.1.3.6
To be implemented in FY 2006
SFWMD
Under contracting process
Greater Everglades Stratified Random Design
3.1.3.1
3.1.3.10
Completed pilot study ongoing
SFWMD
FIU
Transect and Sentinel Sampling Design
3.1.3.1
Completed
SFWMD
FIU
Tidal Creek Geomorphic Survey in Southwest Everglades
3.1.3.7
Completed
SFWMD
USGS
Greater Everglades Regional Aquatic Fauna Baseline Characterization
3.1.3.10
Completed pilot study ongoing
SFWMD
FIU
Crayfish Population Dynamics and Hydrological Influences
3.1.4.6
Under way
SFWMD
FAU
Systematic Reconnaissance Flights Wading Bird Distribution Surveys Synthesis, 1985-2001
3.1.4.9
Under way
SFWMD
SFWMD
Transect Water Quality and Biological Sampling
3.1.3.1
Under way
SFWMD
SFWMD and FDEP
Everglades Soil Mapping (Regional Distribution of Soil Nutrients)
3.1.3.2
Completed
SFWMD
UF
Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment
3.1.4.4
Completed
SFWMD in collaboration with USFWS
SFWMD
Southern Estuaries Module
Salinity Monitoring Network, Biscayne Bay
3.2.3.2
Under way
SFWMD
NPS
South Florida Fish Habitat Assessment Network
3.2.3.3
Under way
SFWMD
FWC
Seagrass Fish and Invertebrate Assessment Network
3.2.3.5
Under way
USACE
NOAA
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MAP Component
MAP Section
Status
Contracting Agency
Implementing Entity
Shoreline Fish Community Visual Assessment
3.2.3.6
Under way
USACE
NOAA
Juvenile Spotted Seatrout Monitoring in Florida Bay
3.2.3.7
Under way
USACE
NOAA
Large-Scale Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Remote Sensing
3.2.3.4
Under way
SFWMD
FWC
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Mapping in Florida and Biscayne Bays
3.2.3.4
Completed
SFWMD
FWC
Southern Estuaries Dissolved Organic Matter Fate and Effect
3.2.4.3
Under way
SFWMD
SFWMD
Northeast Florida Bay Water Quality Trends
3.2.3.1
Completed
SFWMD
SFWMD
Northern Estuaries Module
Salinity Monitoring Network
3.3.3.1
Under way
SFWMD
SFWMD
Caloosahatchee Water Quality and Phytoplankton Monitoring Network
3.3.3.2
Completed
SFWMD
Mote Marine Lab
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Mapping from Aerial Photography; Indian River Lagoon and Loxahatchee Estuary Seagrass Photography and Mapping
3.3.3.3
Completed
SFWMD
SFWMD
SAV Monitoring for Caloosahatchee Estuary
3.3.3.4
Under way
SFWMD
Mote Marine Lab and SCCF
SAV Transects/Visual Surveys for St. Lucie Estuary/Indian River Lagoon, Lake Worth Lagoon, and Loxahatchee River Estuary
3.3.3.5
Under way in all estuaries except Lake Worth Lagoon
SFWMD
SFWMD
Oyster Monitoring Network
3.3.3.6
Under way
SFWMD
FWC, FGCU
Juvenile Fish Community Monitoring Network
3.3.3.7
Under way in Caloosahatchee
SFWMD
ECOS
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MAP Component
MAP Section
Status
Contracting Agency
Implementing Entity
(Caloosahatchee Estuary, St. Lucie Estuary and Indian River Lagoon)
Estuary; pilot project for St. Lucie Estuary/Indian River Lagoon with proposed FY 2006 start
Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring St. Lucie Estuary and Southern Indian River Lagoon
3.3.3.8
Under way in St. Lucie Estuary/Indian River Lagoon, planned FY 2006 start in Loxahatchee Estuary
SFWMD
Smithsonian Marine Station
Caloosahatchee Estuary Submerged Aquatic Mapping from Aerial Photography
3.3.3.3
Completed
SFWMD
Us Imagining and Avineon, Inc.
Caloosahatchee Estuary/ Charlotte Harbor Juvenile Fisheries Monitoring
3.3.3.7
Under way
SFWMD
FWC
Charlotte Harbor Research
3.3.4.1
Completed
SFWMD
Mote Marine
Southern Indian River Lagoon Seagrass and Macro-algae Monitoring
3.3.3.5
Under way
SFWMD
SFWMD
Lake Okeechobee Module
Lake Okeechobee Benthic acroinvertebrates
3.4.3.5
Under way
SFWMD
FWC
Lake Okeechobee Fish Condition and Population Structure
3.4.3.6
Under way
SFWMD
FWC
Water Quality Monitoring
3.4.3.1
Under way
SFWMD
SFWMD
SAV growth, competition, and germination experiments for evaluation tool construction
3.4.4.4
Under way
SFWMD
SFWMD
Lake Okeechobee Trophic Community Structure
3.4.3.6
Under way
SFWMD
FWC
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MAP Component
MAP Section
Status
Contracting Agency
Implementing Entity
Lake Okeechobee Taxonomic Support Services for Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Monitoring
3.4.3.1
3.4.3.4
Completed
SFWMD
SFWMD, John Beaver Associates
Lake Okeechobee Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Monitoring
3.4.3.3
Completed
SFWMD
SFWMD
Lake Okeechobee Littoral Zone Emergent Vegetation mapping/monitoring
3.4.3.2
Under way
SFWMD
Photoscience, Inc.
South Florida Hydrology Monitoring Network Module
Regional Hydrology Monitoring Network Optimization Study
3.5.3.1
Completed
SFWMD
SFWMD-internal
Regional Hydrology Monitoring Network Water Conservation Area 1 Elevations
3.1.1
Completed
SFWMD
USGS
South Florida Hydrology Monitoring Network
3.5.4.1
Under way
USACE
USGS
South Florida Mercury Bioaccumulation Module
Mercury Bioaccumulation
3.6.3.1
Under way
USACE
NOAA
Potential to Reduce Rates of Mercury Methylation through a Reduction in Sulfur Inputs
3.6.4.4
Under way
SFWMD
SFWMD
NOTE: FAU: Florida Atlantic University; FGCU: Florida Gulf Coast University; FIU: Florida International University; FWC: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NPS: National Park Service; SAV: submerged aquatic vegetation; SCCF: Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation; SFWMD: South Florida Water Management District; UF: University of Florida; USACE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; USFS: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; USGS: U.S. Geological Survey.
SOURCE: McLean et al. (2005); McLean et al. (2006); RECOVER (2004); Tomma Barnes, April Huffman, Darren Rumbold, Bruce Sharfstein, Patti Sime, SFWMD, personal communication, 2006.