Poster Session

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