8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Greeting and Meeting Overview

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Unique Aspects of Barrier Island Ecosystems in Southwest Florida from Real-time Observations to Restoration of Marine Habitats

Eric Milbrandt, SCCF

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Opportunities For Salt Marsh Types in Southwest Florida

James Beever, SWFRPC

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Geologic History and Paleoecology of Southwest Florida’s Holocene Vermetid Gastropod Reefs and Implications Related to Past and Present Sea Level Rise

Nicole Fronczkowski, FGCU

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Sources and Sinks of Nutrients to the Caloosahatchee River and the Gulf of Mexico

Ai Ning Loh, FGCU

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Oyster Reefs in Pumpkin and Faka Union Bays, Ten Thousand Islands, Florida and Their Physiological and Ecological Responses to Terrestrial Drivers

Patricia Goodman, UBO & FGCU

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

SW Florida's Coastal Geomorphic Development

Mike Savarese, FGCU

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch Break - Bus transportation to SoVi provided

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Group Discussion 

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Poster Session with refreshments

Thursday April 26, 2012

8:30 AM – 8:50 AM

Greeting and Recap from Day 1

8:50 AM - 9:10 AM

Trophic Transfer of Mercury to Sharks off Southwest Florida

Darren Rumbold, FGCU

9:10 AM - 9:30 AM

Fish Ecology in the Rivers of Southwest Florida and Implications for Freshwater Inflow Management

Philip Stevens, FWC

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

Relationship between seasonal and spatial variation of contaminants and other stressors, on the health and physiology of oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Estero Bay Estuary, Hendry Creek, Florida.

Erin Rasnake, FDEP

9:50 AM - 10:20 AM

Coffee Break

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Shifts in the Functional Diversity of Bacterioplankton Along the Salinity Gradient Within the Caloosahatchee River Estuary

Hidetoshi Urakawa, FGCU

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Oyster Crassostrea virginica as Sentinels of Ecosystem Health and Environmental Perturbation:  A Case Study in the Caloosahatchee Estuary, Florida.

Aswani Volety, FGCU

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Harmful Algal Blooms Along the Coast of SW Florida

Mike Parsons, FGCU

11:20 AM -  11:40 PM

Managing Freshwater Inflow to Optimize Prey Production for Young Estuarine–Dependent Fishes in The Caloosahatchee Estuary

Greg Tolley, FGCU

11:40 AM -  1:15 PM

Lunch Break - Bus transportation to SoVi provided

1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Group Discussion 

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Poster Session with refreshments

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Greeting and Recap from Days 1 and 2

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

CHNEP Research Gaps and Collaborative Agenda

Lisa Beever, CHNEP

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

A Journey Down the Corkscrew Watershed Interactive Smartphone-ready GIS Map

David Green, FGCU

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Hydrologic Restoration Planning for the 14,000 acre Yucca Pen Preserve Unit of the Babcock-Webb Wildlife Preserve.

Bill Byle, Charlotte County Community Development

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Wet Detention Ponds: Their Incapacity to Detain Pollutants Which Impact Downstream Hydrosystems

Serge Thomas, FGCU

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Understanding the Long Term Hydrologic Effects of Development on Natural Southwest Florida Plant and Animal Communities

Mike Duever, Natural Ecosystems LLC

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch Break - Bus transportation to SoVi provided

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Group Discussion  and Next Steps Forward