Research
April 13-28, 2003
Announcing Dates & Call for Abstracts:
Florida Bay
& Greater Everglades Restoration Science Conferences
Dear Colleague,
The Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference
and the
Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (G.E.E.R.) Science
Conference
will, for the first time ever, be held in conjunction to provide
a joint
forum for the exchange of information among physical, biological
and social
scientists. The structure and integrity of each event will remain
independent as it has in the past, with independent meeting
sessions,
abstract books and scientific reports.
The Joint Conference on the Science and Restoration of the
Greater
Everglades and Florida Bay Ecosystem - "From Kissimmee to
the Keys" will be
conducted April 13-18, 2003 at the Westin Innisbrook in Palm
Harbor,
Florida, just 25 miles from Tampa.
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2002 Joint
Conference on the Science and Restoration of the Greater Everglades and Florida Bay Ecosystem
October 25, 2002
Comprehensive Everglades
Restoration Plan
Draft Agenda as of 18
October 2002
0900 Welcome
to West Palm Beach
Colonel May
Jacksonville District Engineer
0910 Welcome
to the Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
Lieutenant General Flowers
Chief of Engineers
0920 Swearing
in Board Members
Colonel May
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Copyright © 2002 Environmental
Advisory Board All rights reserved.
October 1, 2002
Independent Scientific Review on the
Everglades and South Florida Ecosystem Programs
Pertinent Legislation:
Section 601(j) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000
(Public
Law106-541) (http://www.evergladesplan.org/the_plan/2lev_legislation.shtml)
includes a provision requiring independent scientific review of
the
Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan's (CERP) progress
toward achieving
the natural system restoration goals. Specifically
subsection (j) this
legislation reads as follows:
(j). INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC REVIEW. -
(1) IN GENERAL. - The Secretary [of the Army],
the Secretary of the
Interior, and the Governor,
in consultation with the South Florida
Ecosystem Restoration task
Force, shall establish an independent
scientific review panel
convened by a body, such as the
National Academy of
Sciences, to review the Plan's progress toward
achieving the natural system
restoration goals on the Plan.
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Copyright © 2002 Environmental
Advisory Board All rights reserved.
Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan
Performance Measures and Adaptive Management
Introduction
The scope, complexity, and significance of the Comprehensive
Everglades
Restoration Plan (CERP) (http://www.evergladesplan.org)
warrant the
establishment of tools to measure, assess alternative plans, and
report
progress towards achieving the CERP objectives. Performance
measures have
been developed by the REstoration COordination and VERification
(RECOVER)
(http://www.evergladesplan.org/pm/recover/recover.shtml)
team to evaluate
and assess the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP).
These
performance measures will be used to measure and evaluate the
success of
CERP and to demonstrate compliance with all applicable federal
and state
laws and regulations, including the Water Resources Development
Act of 2000,
Florida Statute 373, the Principles and Guidelines, and federal
regulations
specifically guiding implementation of the CERP, including the
programmatic
regulations (http://www.evergladesplan.org/pm/progr_regs.shtml)
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Copyright © 2002 Environmental
Advisory Board All rights reserved.
16-Nov--01
Basin-Specific Feasibility Studies to achieve the
Long-term Water Quality
Goals for the Everglades
In order to meet the requirements of the 1994
Everglades Forever Act and the federal Everglades Settlement Agreement,
the District and other parties are currently working to achieve the
long-term water quality and water quantity goals for the Everglades. The
long-term goal of the Everglades Program restoration effort is to combine
point source, basin-level and
regional solutions in a system-wide approach to ensure that all waters
discharged into the Everglades Protection Area are in compliance with all
state water quality standards by December 31, 2006. In order to achieve
this goal, the District is implementing a strategy to ensure all water
quality standards are met on a basin by basin basis. This strategy
consists of
conducting basin-specific feasibility studies which will integrate
information from research, regulation, and planning studies to determine
the optimal combination of Best Management Practices, optimized Stormwater
Treatment Areas, advanced treatment technologies, Water Preserve Areas,
etc., to meet the final water quality objectives for the Everglades.
This interactive WebBoard is being placed on our web
site to make it possible for scientists and engineers from throughout the
state, the nation, and the world to review and comment on reports and
future deliverables.
Note:
The latest draft is the October 30,
2001 draft subject to review and
revision.
SFWMD will also be posting documents
describing alternatives for the
Everglades Stormwater Program basins (non-ECP basins) today
11/8/01.
SFWMD.gov
http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/erd/bsfboard/bsfsboard.htm
01-Nov--00
Missing Pieces in Ecosystem Restoration: The Case of the Florida Everglades
Economic Systems Research, VoL 12, No. 3,
2000
Richard Weisskoff
(Received January 1999; revised November 1999)
ABSTRACT The largest ecosystem restoration in the world-a $7.8
billion rescue package-is now beginning in the Florida Everglades. This
paper examines both the economic impact of the restoration itself and those
pieces that are 'missing' from the official project analysis; namely,
increased tourism, urban construction, in-migration, and changing
agricultural patterns. These pieces comprise a variety of scenarios that are
tested for a 45 year planning period with an augmented input-output
model derived from a regional SAM. The new output and employment
generated by the 'missing pieces', which are small relative to the
vast economic base of the region, do represent a considerable increase
over the annual growth, especially by the year 2045. We conclude with a
discussion of ways in which a growing regional economy might be
reconciled with ecosystem restoration. Read
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