2019 DRAFT AGENDA 

11:10-11:30am

Travel to SFWMD

11:30am

Students arrive at SFWMD for Security

12:00-1:00pm

Lunch at Gun Club Café (on your own)

1:00-4:00pm

Introductory Lectures in the 2A Bridge Room

• Overview of the Central and Southern Florida Water Management System – Matahel Ansar
• Everglades Overview  – Fred Sklar
• Introduction to modeling at SFWMD – Akin Owosina

4:10-4:30pm

Travel to West Palm Beach

8:00-10:30am

Travel to the Riverwoods Field Lab

Kissimmee River Research: Development and Evaluation of Large-scale Ecological Restoration: – Steven Bousquin

& Michael Cheek, SFWMD

12:00-12:30pm

Lunch

12:30-2:30pm

Tour of the Kissimmee River via Pontoon Boat – Loisa Kerwin, FAU’s Center for Environmental Studies

2:30 - 4:30pm

Travel to Lake Okeechobee (Port Mayaca Lock & Dam) 

 4:30-5:00pm

5:00-6:15pm

Travel to West Palm Beach

7:30-9:00am

Travel from West Palm Beach to the FAU Davie Campus   

9:00am-5:00pm

USGS Lectures

• Developing hydrologic parameters for numerical models: evaluating relative importance – Eric Swain
• Water, energy, and carbon cycling in the Greater Everglades – Barclay Shoemaker
• Monitoring of harmful algal blooms in Lake Okeechobee, the Caloosahatchee River and St Lucie River – Amanda Booth
• Alligators and Crocodiles as Indicators of Everglades Restoration, Linking Ecology and Hydrology - Laura Brandt
• Balancing competing restoration objectives: a working session on optimization and visualization for decision support tool development – Saira Haider

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Return trip from Davie to West Palm Beach  

7:30-9:00am

Travel from West Palm Beach to the FAU Davie Campus 

9:00am-4:00pm

USGS Lectures

• Monitoring freshwater flow to the coastal Everglades in response to restoration – Mark Zucker
• Everglades Restoration, sea-level rise, and coastal ecosystem change – Dave Rudnick
• Everglades: development, water quality litigation, restoration, hydrology, and ecology – Donatto Surratt
• Invasive species: reptiles and amphibians… where are we now? – Brian J. Smith
• Interaction with live invasive animals – Brian J. Smith

4:00pm–5:30pm

Return trip from Davie to West Palm Beach 

7:55-9:00am

Travel to Green Cay Wetlands

9:00-9:45pm

Tour of Green Cay Wetlands

9:45am-10:15am

Presentation in the Green Cay Visitor Center - Jeremy McBryan, Water Resources Director,
Palm Beach County

10:15-10:30am

Travel to Water Reclamation Facility

10:30-11:30am

Tour of PBC Southern Region Water Reclamation Facility

11:30-11:45am

Travel to Nearby Lunch Location

11:45am-1:00pm

Lunch (on your own)

1:00-1:15pm

Travel to Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

1:15-1:30pm

Walk along swamp boardwalk and bathrooms

1:30-4:00pm

Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment (LILA) project visit 

A Sculpted River of Grass: Harnessing the Power of a Model - Eric Cline & Fred Sklar

4:00pm-5:15pm

 Travel to West Palm Beach

8:10-9:00am

Travel to STA 1E & S-319 Pump Station

9:00-10:45am

Tour of STA 1E & S-319 Pump Station – Luis Bianchi, Jill King & Nathan Ralph

10:45-11:00am

Travel to Palm Beach Aggregates

11:00am-12:30pm

Overview & Tour: Palm Beach Aggregates, C-51 & L8 Reservoirs – Ernie Cox

12:30-1:00pm

Travel to the SFMWD

1:00-2:00pm

Lunch at Gun Club Café (on your own) 

2:00-4:00pm

IHE Delft Student Symposium 

4:00-5:00pm

Clean Drinking Water Team Presentation – Rick Miessau (EMD Training Room B-2)

5:10-5:30pm

Travel to West Palm Beach

7:10-9:30am

Travel to Tamiami Trail 

9:30–10:15am

Overview of Tamiami Trail Modifications

10:15-11:00am

Travel to Shark Valley & Explore Visitor Center

11:00am–1:00pm

  Guided Tram Tour with ENP Interpretive Ranger

1:00-1:15pm

Travel to Miccosukee Indian Village   

1:15pm-2:15pm

Miccosukee Indian Village – Airboat Ride 

2:15–3:30pm

Travel to Sawgrass Mills Mall

3:30–6:00pm

Shopping at Sawgrass Mills Mall

6:00-7:15pm

Travel to West Palm Beach  

8:10-9:15am

Travel to Lake Okeechobee Herbert Hoover Dike at the South Bay Campgrounds

9:15-10:45am

Presentation by Ingrid Bon & Anibal Mercado, US Army Corps of Engineers. Topic: Cut-off wall construction on HHD

10:45-11:00am

Travel to Winn Dixie to pick up lunch

11:00-11:30am

Shopping at Winn Dixie

11:30am-11:45am

Travel to Belle Glade IFAS Extension office

11:45am-12:30pm

Lunch in Conference Room

12:30-1:15pm

Presentation by Thomas D. Waite, Ferrate Solutions – Topic: Nutrient Removal

1:15-3:00pm

Presentations by Andres Rodriguez & Tim Lang, UF/IFAS – Topic: Best Management Practices

3:00-3:30pm

Travel to Section 20 Pump Station

3:30-4:30pm

Presentation in Field by Luis Girado, Florida Crystals – Topic: Best Management Practices

4:30-5:30pm

Travel to West Palm Beach

8:15 - 8:45am

Travel to SFWMD

Morning Lectures in the 3A Bridge Room

• Managing Complexity: Applying the Right Model for the Task - Jason Godin & Jeff Iudicello
• CFD Modeling of structures - Matahel Ansar
• Inverse Modeling - Alaa Ali

Lunch at Gun Club Café (on your own)

Afternoon Lectures in the EOC Room and Control Room

• Parameter Estimation using PEST - Dave Welter
• GIS/Remote Sensing at SFWMD - Rick Householder
• Tours of Control Room, Job Shadowing, Research Exchange - Paul Linton/Matahel Ansar

Travel to West Palm Beach

8:15 - 8:45am

Travel to SFWMD

• Operational Planning - Jenifer Barnes & Cal Neidrauer
• Lake Okeechobee/Watershed Modeling - Joyce Zhang
• Storm Surge Modeling for Lake Okeechobee - Kang-Ren Jin

• Are you smarter than a water manager? – Cal Neidrauer

Closing Ceremony w/Certificates in the EMD Training Room B2

Travel to West Palm Beach