March 20, 2024 - Working Group/ Science Coordination Group Meeting

Joint working group (WG) and science coordination group (SCG) meeting

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Long Key Natural Area & Nature Center
3501 SW 130th Avenue, Davie, FL 33330

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MEETING HANDOUTS AND PRESENTATIONS:

1. Agenda

2. WG and SCG Member Whip-Around

3. Approval of January 16, 2024 Meeting Summary

4. Executive Director’s Report

   • Task Force Reporting Requirements

   • Implementing Sec. 504, Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) 2020 - Invasive Species Risk Assessment, Prioritization, and Management

   • Memo from the Invasive Species Advisory Body to the Working Group

5. REstoration COordination and VERification (RECOVER)

6. Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK)

   • Indigenous Knowledge as Evidence in Federal Rule-Making (University of Miami Law Review Article by Edward Randall Ornstein)

   • Statement of ITEK regarding Historic Miccosukee Water Conservation Area 3-A Conditions (Letter from Chairman Cypress, Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida)

   • Statement of ITEK regarding S-12 A and S-12 B Structure Operations (Letter from Chairman Cypress, Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida)

7. Environmental DNA (eDNA) Analyses to Inform the Geographic Range of Burmese Pythons in Florida

8. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Program and Project Update

9. South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Program and Project Update

10. Florida’s Coral Reef Coordination Team (FCRCT)

11. Florida’s Coral Reef: 2023 Marine Heatwave Impacts and Response

    • 2023 Marine Heatwave Impacts and Response

    • Florida's Coral Reef: 2023 Coral Bleaching Response

12. Watershed Restoration and Juvenile Fish Communities in the Ten Thousand Islands

    • Will Watershed Restoration Impair or Improve Juvenile Fish Communities in the Ten Thousand Islands? (Presentation by Matt Kendall, NOAA)

    • What Controls Home Range Relocations by Estuarine Fishes Downstream from Watersheds with Altered Freshwater Flow? (Article by Matthew Kendall et al., in Hydrobiologia)

    • How Are Man-Made Changes in Freshwater Flow Related to the Abundance of Juvenile Estuarine Fishes? (Article by Bethany Williams et al., in Estuaries and Coasts)

    • Too Much Freshwater, Not Enough, or Just Right? Long‑Term Trawl Monitoring Demonstrates the Impact of Canals that Altered Freshwater Flow to Three Bays in SW Florida (Article by Matthew Kendall et al., in Estuaries and Coasts)