Project Participants
Who is Participating?
Over 70 researchers are interested in establishing a Hydrologic Observatory in the Suwannee River Basin. These researchers are affiliated with universities (University of Florida, Florida State University, University of South Florida, University of Central Florida, University of North Florida, Florida International University, Florida A & M University, University of Georgia, Princeton, Ohio State, University of New Hampshire), state agencies (Suwannee River Water Management District, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Geological Survey) , Federal agencies (USDA (Tifton, Georgia), USGS, NOAA, NASA) and the Joseph W. Jones Research Center.
List of Participants
| Affiliation | Name | Department | Area of Interest |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAMU | Lia Chasar | National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program | Mercury in aquatic ecosystems, microbial ecology, |
| FAMU | Jennifer Cherrier | Environmental Sciences Institute | Bio-geochemistry, Microbial Ecology, Bioremediation |
| FGS | Tom Greenhalgh |
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Springs both on and offshore and springsheds. Water quantity and quality issues. |
| FIU | Mike Sukop | Earth Sciences | Fluid dynamics in cityscapes, natural and engineered surface water bodies, and cavernous, fractured, and porous media |
| FLDEP | Laura Morse | Ground Water Protection Section | Regional water supply planning, water conservation, aquifer water quality |
| FLDEP | Rick Copeland | ||
| FLDEP | Tom Scott | ||
| FLDEP | Michael Bascom | ||
| FLDEP | Jennifer Gihring | ||
| FLDEP | Gary Maddox | ||
| FSU | Paul Ruscher | Meteorology | Synoptic and mesoscale meteorology, the planetary boundary layer, and physical and applied climatology |
| FSU | Steve Kish | Geology | Use of isotopes in geochronological and geochemical studies |
| FSU | Bill Burnett | Oceanography | Applications of naturally occurring radio isotopes to address problems in the earth, marine, and environmental sciences |
| FSU | Bill Hu | Dept. of Geological Sciences | Hydrogeology |
| FSU | Henry Fuelberg | Meteorology | Synoptic and mesometeorology, diagnostic energy analysis of storm-environment interactions |
| FSU | Jeff Chanton | Dept. of Oceanography | Chemical cycling of the major elements, carbon, sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen and iron in the coastal zone and in wetlands |
| FSU | Harry Cooper | Meteorology | Role of convective storms in surface vegetation-atmosphere interactions with hydrology. Satellite retrieval of downwelling solar radiation as applied to hydromet models, evapotranspiration, soil water movement and hydrology |
| Jones Center | Steve Opsahl | Biogeochemistry | |
| NOAA | Parks Camp | National Weather Service | Advanced weather decision-making, precipitation modeling |
| NOAA | Richard (Joel) Lanier | Hydrology | Water supply, flooding, flash flooding, areal flooding, drought and extremes |
| OSU | Bill Mitsch | Natural Resources and Environmental Science | Wetland management for water quality improvement, hydrologic pulsing effects on water and wetland quality |
| Princeton | Eric Wood | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Soil moisture modeling, remote sensing |
| SDII-Global | Sam Upchurch | Hydrogeology, modeling | |
| SRWMD | David Hornsby | Hydrology | Spring mapping, water quality monitoring, Minimum Flows and Levels |
| SRWMD | John Good | ||
| SRWMD | Warren Zwanka | Hydrology | Hydrogeology, groundwater quality |
| SRWMD | Ron Mattson | Aquatic biology | |
| SRWMD | Ron Ceryak | ||
| SRWMD | Kirk Webster | ||
| UCF | Ni-Bing Chang | Dept. of Environmental and Civil Engineering | Environmental information systems, remote sensing, and environmental modeling |
| UCF | George Yeh | Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Numerical modeling, hydrology, hydraulics, and water resources |
| UF | Mike Binford | Geography | Land use and environmental change, paleoecology, physical geography, remote sensing |
| UF | Jasmeet Judge | College of Engineering, Center for Remote Sensing | Microwave remote sensing of land surface conditions, land surface process modeling, sub-surface hydrology, moisture and energy transport in soil |
| UF | Andy James | Soil and Water Science | hydrologic modeling |
| UF | Jon Martin | Geological Sciences | Surface and groundwater interactions, fluid-rock interactions, water chemistry |
| UF | Jim Heaney | Environmental Engineering Sciences | Wet weather control systems, stormwater management |
| UF | Sabine Grunwald | Soil and Water Science | GIS, soil-landscape modeling, geostatistics |
| UF | Eric Triplett | Microbiology and Cell Science | Microbial diversity and ecology |
| UF | Sarah Carte | Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences | Education and outreach for improved water quality |
| UF | Allan Turner | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | sensor technology, wireless communications, precision agriculture and robotics |
| UF | Jim Jawitz | Soil and Water Science | Minimizing human impacts on natural hydrologic ecosystems, including watersheds, wetlands, and aquifers |
| UF | Tom Frazer | Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | Ecology |
| UF | Joe Delfino | Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences | Water Quality and Water Chemistry |
| UF | Justin Davis | Civil and Coastal Engineering | Coastal & estuarine interdisciplinary modeling, model integration, forecasting modeling systems, high performance computing and grid computing |
| UF | Andy Zimmerman | Geological Sciences | Organic geochemistry, biogeochemistry, aquatic paleoecology, geomicrobiology, estuarine research |
| UF | Matt Cohen | Soil & Water Science | Isolated and riparian wetland ecology and biogeochemistry, soil spectroscopy, watershed-scale planning and sustainability, ecological modeling, ecological indicators |
| UF | Mark Clark | Soil & Water Science | Wetlands and water quality, extension and outreach |
| UF | Wendy Graham | Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Physical hydrology, numerical and stochastic modeling of hydrologic processes, data assimilation |
| UF | Peter Sheng | Civil & Coastal Engineering | Coastal & estuarine interdisciplinary modeling, model integration, forecasting modeling systems, high performance computing and grid computing |
| UF | Ed Phlips | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | Biology, ecology, and management of algae and aquatic microorganisms, planktonic primary production, toxic algae |
| UF | Thomas Obreza | Soil & Water Science | Management of nutrients, pesticides and wastes; Providing research-based education about soil and water resources. |
| UF | Rafael Munoz-Carpena | Ag and Bio Engineering | Hydrologic modeling |
| UF | Lou Motz | Civil and Coastal Engineering | Water resources, groundwater modeling |
| UF | Ramesh Reddy | Soil and Water Science | Biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in wetlands, shallow lakes, estuaries, and constructed wetlands |
| UF | Mark Brown | Environmental Engineering Sciences | Wetlands, ecological modeling, ecological engineering, watershed science |
| UF | Kathleen McKee | Soil and Water Science | GIS, remote sensing, data integration |
| UF | Liz Screaton | Geological Sciences | Hydrogeology |
| UF | Jeff King | Civil and Coastal Engineering | |
| UF | Clint Slatton | Electrical and Computer Engineering, Civil & Coastal Engineering | Multiscale stochastic estimation, data fusion, information-theoretic data segmentation, sensor modeling, and remote sensing applications (especially for laser ranging and radar) |
| UF | Mike Annable | Environmental Engineering Sciences | Contaminant and nutrient fate and transport including field methods for quantifying stores, fluxes and pathways |
| UF | Jim Sickman | Soil and Water Science | Watershed biogeochemistry |
| UF | Ken Campbell | Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department | Watershed hydrology and water quality |
| UF | Bill Lindberg | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | Marine ecology, behavioral ecology and crustacean biology |
| UGA | Todd Rasmussen | School of Forest Resources | Fluid flow and solute transport through surface and subsurface environments, focusing on the physical, chemical, mathematical, and statistical description and quantification of hydrologic processes |
| UGA | Alan Covich | Institute of Ecology | Impacts of disturbances on stream food webs |
| UGA | Susan Crow | National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory | Agricultural practices and land use effects on water quality, spatial analysis/GIS, watershed ecology |
| UGA | George Vellidis | Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department | Agricultural engineer; Ecological processes governing water quality dynamics |
| UNF | Pat Welsh | Division of Engineering, Advanced Weather Information Systems Laboratory | Operational information systems delivering atmospheric data, and specifically for this project, delivering daily UCAR Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) mesoscale prognostic modeling in near-realtime to the Suwannee HO |
| UNH | Jennifer Jacobs | Environmental Research Group | Spatiotemporal land-surface water dynamics (e.g., evapotranspiration and soil-water dynamics) through experimentation and modeling |
| USDA-ARS | Dana Sullivan | Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory | Remote sensing of near-surface soil properties, conservation programs to protect water quality |
| USDA-ARS | Tom Potter | Southeast Watershed Research | Remote sensing, soil resources, BMPs for water quality |
| USDA-ARS | Joseph Sheridan | Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory | Landscape approaches to protecting water quality |
| USDA-ARS | Richard Lowrance | Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory | Water quality impacts of BMPs, impacts of land use on hydrologic processes in watersheds |
| USDA-ARS | Dave Bosch | Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory | Research Hydraulic Engineering |
| USDA-ARS | Tim Strickland | Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory | Soil science and water quality; mechanisms regulating nutrient transfer in ecosystems; use of stable and radioisotope methodologies, microbial ecology |
| USF | Shawn Landry | Florida Center for Community Design & Research | Data integration, public information access tools, web-based software development, GPS/GIS, biological/ecological data management, stormwater infrastructure |
| USF | Al Hine | College of Marine Science | Stratigraphy and sedimentary processes along continental margins |
| USF | Arlene Laing | Geology, Meteorology Computer Laboratory and Weather Station | Modeling atmospheric nitrogen deposition, mesoscale convective systems, wildfire forecasting, satellite estimates of hurricane rainfall, and flash flood mitigation |
| USF | Mark Rains | Geology | Ecohydrology, hydrogeology, wetland and river systems |
| USF | Mark Ross | Center for Modeling Hydrologic and Aquatic Systems | Hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality modeling |
| USF | Mark Stewart | Geology | Hydrogeology, Applied Geophysics |
| USF | Jeff Vacher | Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences | Wastewater Reuse Options, Urban Wet-weather BMPs |
| USF | Len Vacher | Geology | Hydrogeology, Education, Quantitative Literacy |
| USF | Sarah Kruse | Geology | Environmental Geophysics, Tectonophysics |
| USGS | Hal Davis | ||
| USGS | Brian Katz | Geochemistry of Springs | |
| USGS | Gary Mahon | ||
| USGS | Peter Swarzenski | Center for Coastal & Watershed Studies | Chemical oceanography, coastal groundwater flux into estuaries, sediment-hosted contaminants to estuaries |
| UWF | William Huth | Marketing and Economics | Financial economics; forecasting |
| VALST | Cam Denizman | Geosciences | Hydrogeology, landforms formed by the dissolution of limestone, conduit trend analyses |
91 Total
Key to Affiliations
- FAMU - Florida A&M Univ.
- FGS - Florida Geological Survey
- FLDEP - Florida Dept of Environmental Protection
- FSU - Florida State Univ.
- FWCC - Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission
- Jones Center - Joseph W. Jones Ecological Res. Ctr, Newton, GA
- NASA - Natl Aeronautics and Space Admin
- NOAA - Natl Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin
- OSU - Ohio State Univ.
- Princeton - Princeton Univ.
- SRWMD - Suwanee River Water Mgmt District
- UCF - Univ. of Cent. Florida
- UF - Univ. of Florida
- UGA - Univ. of Georgia
- UNF - Univ. of N. Florida
- UNH - Univ. of New Hampshire
- USDA-ARS - US Dept of Agric-Agricultural Research Services
- USF - Univ. of S. Florida
- USGS - US Geological Survey
- VALST - Valdosta State Univ.
