South Florida

	South Florida Links
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General Databases and Software

NOAA OCRM South Florida Ecosystem Monitoring Integration
USGS South Florida Ecosystem Program: An intergovernmental effort to reestablish and maintain the ecosystem of south Florida.

Ag/Soils

Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System: A comprehensive electronic library of information from major programs within the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Cooperative Extension Service.
Introduction to Best Management Practices for Phosphorus Control on Organic Soils: Addresses the concern for phosphorus control in the Everglades Agricultural Area. The information contained in the series may be applied to any agricultural area composed primarily of organic soils or Histosols.

Air

Biodiversity

Everglades National Park Species Database
Florida's Endangered and Threatened Species Official List: This document consolidates the state and federal official lists of endangered species, threatened species, and other species categorized in some way by the respective jurisdictional agencies as meriting special protection or consideration.
Florida Native Plant Infobase: A directory of Florida's native plant species giving descriptions, images, horticultural information and other data.

Florida Natural Areas Inventory: Lists of the species and natural communities tracked by the program with ranks and legal statuses.

Chemicals/Toxics

Mercury
- Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Everglades Round Robin Program: Raw data and statistical charts for the latest round of blind sample results from the Office of the Mercury Coordinator
- Mercury Poisoning in Florida Panthers: This report presents the magnitude and distribution of mercury levels in various tissues from free-ranging Florida panthers sampled over the past 13 years. Mercury concentrations in selected tissues from white-tailed deer, raccoon, bobcat, otter, and alligator are also reported.

Economy and Environment

Florida Sustainable Communities Center:
Initial Report of the Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida: Created by a 1994 Executive Order to make recommendations for achieving a healthy Everglades ecosystem that can coexist and be mutually supportive of a sustainable South Florida economy and quality communities. This is the Commission's Initial Report to the Governor and the Cabinet that presents its findings and recommendations.
Linking the Economy and Environment of Florida Keys/Florida Bay: The Monroe County Tourist Development Council, The Nature Conservancy, Florida Keys Initiative, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have jointly funded a study to establish contributions made by tourism to Monroe County's economy, and to measure the importance of outdoor recreation and marine resources to the visitor industry.

Everglades Restoration

Comprehensive Plan for Restoration of the Everglades: The following links are related to the Departments of the Interior, Justice, and Agriculture as well as the Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to restore the Everglades. The following links are related to the Plan:
- Central and Southern Florida Project "Restudy": The purpose of the Restudy is to develop modifications to the Army Corps of Engineers' Central and Southern Florida Project to restore the Everglades and Florida Bay ecosystems while providing for the other water-related needs of the region.
- Environmental Assessment for Land Acquisition of the Florida Everglades Agricultural Area: The Department of the Interior, in partnership with other entities including the state of Florida, is restoring the essential physical and biological processes of the South Florida ecosystem.
- South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force: Established by section 528(f) of Public Law 104-303, the Water Resources Development Act of 1996.
Everglades Digital Library: A library of information resources relating to the south Florida environment. The collections include scientific and technical reports, natural history writings, educational and interpretive materials, datasets, maps, photos, and a directory of other Internet sites relating to the Everglades.

Fish

Southeast Fisheries Science Center (NMFS)

Forestry

GIS

Florida Data Directory: A catalog of who has what geographic information in Florida.
Florida Department of Environmental Protection Technical Service's GIS Data Directory: A web-based index illustrating all datasets located on the department's GIS servers.
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish GIS Data Layer Directory
Florida Geographic Data Library: A mechanism for distributing satellite imagery, aerial photographs, tax data and spatial (GIS) data throughout the state of Florida.
Landscape Modeling in the Everglades
University of Florida's Continuously Operating Reference Station Data Website: This site provides RINEX GPS data files obtained with a dual-frequency ASHTECH Z12 receiver and collected in Gainesville, Florida at a one-second rate.

Nonindigenous Species

Florida's Most Invasive Plant Species List (1997)
Nonindigenous Aquatic and Selected Terrestrial Species of Florida: Status, Pathway and Time of Introduction, Present Distribution, and Significant Ecological and Economic Effects.

Physical Attributes

Florida Bay Data Products
Florida Bay Project (NOAA/AOML): A large multi-discipline project designed to study and understand the effects on the Everglades and Florida Bay caused by past water management policy. This page includes research results on the Sediment Record, Episodic Meteorological Events, Rainfall Events, Circulation and Exchange, and the Trophodynamic Roles of Zooplankton.
Florida Radar-Derived Precipitation: This site makes available both data processed from raw High-Resolution Digital Precipitation data files, as well as individual and animated GIF images of precipitation totals for various time periods (daily, weekly, and monthly) from January 1996 to the present.

Water

NAWQA Study Units:
- South Florida study unit
Southeast Environmental Research Program's Water Quality Monitoring Network - Addresses regional water quality concerns that exist outside the boundaries of individual political entities. Biscayne Bay, Florida Bay & Whitewater Bay, and Ten Thousand Islands are sampled monthly, while the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Southwest Florida Shelf are sampled quarterly. The summary maps are produced on a quarterly basis by integrating the individual projects into one data file for that month sampled.
South Florida Water Management District
Southwest Florida Water Management District
Water Data from the Florida District of the USGS

Wetlands (see Everglades Restoration)

Social/Legal

Everglades Litigation Collection: The University of Miami School of Law Library possesses an important collection of Everglades litigation documents. The Collection's database is accessible for on-line searching.
The Everglades and the Sugar Cane Trade: A case study in the legal aspects of balancing ecological restoration and maintaining an industry's viability.

Major Research Centers

Everglades Research and Education Center: An agricultural and environmental research and education unit of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS).
Florida Marine Research Institute: The Division of Marine Resources, Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI), is the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's scientific bureau for providing applied research and information synthesis to better manage our marine resources.
Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve: Rookery Bay represents one of the few remaining undisturbed mangrove estuaries in North America.

Expertise

Academic Institutions:
- Florida Sea Grant College Program: The Florida State University System's program for coastal research, extension and education.
- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science: The University of Miami's graduate school of marine and atmospheric science. It is the only subtropical applied and basic marine and atmospheric research institute of its kind in the continental United States.
- University of Florida Department of Food and Resource Economics - Department faculty members are involved in a full range of research, extension, and teaching programs including Agricultural Marketing and Policy, Production/Farm Management, International Trade and Development, Marine Economics, Natural Resources, Community/Regional Development, and Labor Economics.
Agencies and Tribes:
- Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: The mission of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is to safeguard the public and support Florida's agricultural economy.
- Florida Department of Community Affairs: Helping Floridians create safe, vibrant, sustainable communities.
- Florida Department of Environmental Protection: The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is Florida's principal environmental and natural resources agency.
- Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission: Since its creation, the Commission has proudly assumed the leadership role in protection and management of the 1,500 species of fish and wildlife. It is organized into entities responsible for wildlife, freshwater fisheries, law enforcement, environmental services, information services and administration.
- Florida Seminole Indian Tribe:
Private Consultants:
- Environmental Management Systems, Inc.: A leading Environmental Consulting firm in Florida.
Sara Gottlieb / Maryland Sea Grant Extension / Last Updated: 09/02/98

South Florida Links

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| General | Ag/Soils | Biodiversity | Chemicals | Economy and Environment |
| Everglades Restoration | Fish | Forestry | GIS | Nonindigenous Species |
| Physical | Water | Wetlands | Social/Legal | Research Centers | Expertise |