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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components." National Research Council. 2007. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11754.
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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.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components." National Research Council. 2007. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11754.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components." National Research Council. 2007. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11754.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components." National Research Council. 2007. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11754.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components." National Research Council. 2007. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11754.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components." National Research Council. 2007. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11754.
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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.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components." National Research Council. 2007. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11754.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components." National Research Council. 2007. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11754.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Status of Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) Components." National Research Council. 2007. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11754.
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This report is the first in a congressionally mandated series of biennial evaluations of the progress being made by the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), a multibillion-dollar effort to restore historical water flows to the Everglades and return the ecosystem closer to its natural state, before it was transformed by drainage and by urban and agricultural development. The Restoration plan, which was launched in 1999 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District, includes more than 40 major projects that are expected to be completed over the next three decades. The report finds that progress has been made in developing the scientific basis and management structures needed to support a massive effort to restore the Florida Everglades ecosystem. However, some important projects have been delayed due to several factors including budgetary restrictions and a project planning process that that can be stalled by unresolved scientific uncertainties. The report outlines an alternative approach that can help the initiative move forward even as it resolves remaining scientific uncertainties. The report calls for a boost in the rate of federal spending if the restoration of Everglades National Park and other projects are to be completed on schedule.

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