Florida Coastal Everglades All Scientists’ Meeting
Garden
House at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
May 6, 2026
| Poster # | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Temporal Variability of Aquatic Carbon Fluxes in a Degrading Brackish Water and Freshwater Marsh | Lauren DeVito, Edward Castañeda, Leonard Scinto, Tiffany Troxler |
| 2 | Restoration and Water Management Influences on Carbon Fluxes in Everglades Marshes: Two Decades of Change | David Yannick, Steven F. Oberbauer, Christina L. Staudhammer, Gregory Starr |
| 3 | Carbon stocks and fluxes: Resolving carbon budgets and testing theories of geomorphic control in mangroves | Lukas Lamb-Wotton, Jacob Berkowitz, Dan Friess, Gregg Snedden, James P. Cronin, Ken W. Krauss, Jaxine Wolfe, Amir Keshta, Andy S. From, Sinead Borchert, Eric Plage, Michael Cherkiss, Gabriella J. Reyes, Andre Rovai |
| 4 | Declining March Rainfall in Florida Since 1979: Reduced Cyclone Efficiency and Enhanced Subtropical Subsidence | Rigo Olivera, Robert Burgman |
| 5 | Hydrology-mediated shifts in home range size and spatial overlap of Common Snook and Florida Bass in the Florida coastal Everglades | Cameron C. Atkinson, Mack White, Victoria S. Goldner, James W. Sturges, Jonathan R. Rodemann, W. Ryan James, Justin S. Lesser, Rolando O. Santos, Jennifer S. Rehage |
| 6 | Movement and trophic dynamics of Common Snook and Atlantic Tarpon across hydrologically distinct coastal Everglades lakes | Haley Blische, Cameron C. Atkinson, Justin S. Lesser, W. Ryan James, Joshua Linenfelser, Christopher J. Madden, Jennifer S. Rehage, Rolando O. Santos |
| 7 | Assessing How Seasonal Variation and Movement Tactics Influence Trophic Interactions of Juvenile Bull Sharks | William R. Sample, Sophia Hemsi, Michael R. Heithaus |
| 8 | Brown, Green, & Everything Between: A metanalysis of coastal food web energy channels quantified using tri-isotope Bayesian mixing models | James W. Sturges, Justin S. Lesser, W. Ryan James, Ryan J. Rezek, Rolando O. Santos, James Nelson, Jennifer S. Rehage |
| 9 | Responding to Climate Extremes: A Rapid Assessment of the 2026 Cold-Related Fish Mortality Across South Florida | Sophia Costa, Ross Boucek, Jennifer Rehage |
| 10 | Imported Snacks vs. Local Fare: Energetic ecology of native and nonnative Everglades fishes | Angelo Moreno, Justin Lesser, Jennifer Rehage |
| 11 | Do Nonnative Species Prefer Anthropogenic Spaces in an Urban Preserve? | Jack Ramirez, Ana Rojas, Michael Borbolla, Elizabeth Anderson |
| 12 | First landscape-scale characterization of prokaryotic communities across Big Cypress National Preserve reveals hydrology as the primary driver of microbial assembly | Kevin Montiel, Anna Simonsen |
| 13 | Mangroves, microbes, and metacommunities along Shark River Estuary in the Florida Everglades, USA | Jenny Marie R. Patalinghug, Edward Castañeda-Moya, John S. Kominoski, Rafael Travieso, Nathan I. Wisnoski |
| 14 | Microbial respiration and methanogenesis across salinity and inundation gradients in the coastal Everglades wetlands | Ji-Yeon Cha, Brigitte Gaudreault, Emily Standen, Rafael Travieso,Sandro Stumpf, John Kominoski, Willm Martens-Habbena |
| 15 | Monitoring Saltwater Intrusion in the Southern Everglades National Park Through Multi-temporal Geophysical Methods | Denise Garcia, Dean Whitman |
| 16 | Rookery Bay NERR Wetlands and Water Levels Program: Results from the Initial Five Years | Ubierna N., C. Ceballos, R. Parkinson, J. Franklin, J. Schmid, G. Curry, L. Juhasz, J. Flickinger, J. Drevenkar, D. Ogurcak |
| 17 | Growing our coastline: Coastal nutrient loading drives variation of above-ground biomass and productivity in fringe mangrove forests of Biscayne National Park (Florida, USA) | Kevin Montenegro, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Elena Solohin, Kevin R.T. Whelan, Michelle Prats, Roger Bendana, John S. Kominoski |
| 18 | A Comparative Study on Carbon Pools Between Restored and Non-Restored Mangrove Ecosystems in Miami-Dade County | Ivonne Batan, Rafael Araujo, Ana Rojas, Evan D’Alessandro |
| 19 | Quantifying carbon loss of native and invasive plant species litter along phosphorus gradients in freshwater marshes | Veronica B. Restrepo, Roger Bendana, John S. Kominoski |
| 20 | Developing a Tree Island Integrity Index for the Greater Everglades Area | Lael Licht, Michael Ross |
| 21 | Epiphyte Biomass Scales with Seagrass Cover, Not Density | Phillip Wright, Gina A. Badlowski, W. Ryan James, Rolando O. Santos |
| 22 | Effect of Hydrologic Restoration and Fire on Pine Rockland Understory Diversity | Natalia Herrera-Blitman, Pablo L. Ruiz, Brittany Harris, Michael Sukop, Michael Ross |
| 23 | Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) in Estimating Moisture Content Variability in Tropical Trees | Danielle Nering, Samuel H. Adams, Md Rajeun Islam, Imani Newton, Xavier Comas |
| 24 | Mapping peat soil stability across a salinity gradient in the Everglades using hydrogeophysical methods | Samuel Adams, Danielle Nering, Caiyun Zhang, Xavier Comas |
| 25 | Regional variations in resource use provide context for recreational fishery decline | Alia A. Jones, Jennifer S. Rehage, Rolando Santos, Justin Lesser, Jessyca LaBadie, Ross Boucek, W. Ryan James |