UNESCO 2017 DRAFT AGENDA

 7:09pm

Flight arrives at FLL from JFK airport

7:45-8:30pm

Travel to Boca Campus

8:30-9:30pm

Students check in dorms and brief orientation

7:00am

Breakfast

7:45am

Travel to SFWMD

8:30am

Students arrive at SFWMD

9:00-12:00pm

Morning Introductory Lectures in the B-1 Storch Room

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

12:00-1:00pm

Lunch at Gun Club Café (on your own)

1:00 - 2:00pm

Return to Boca Campus

Evening

Dinner (on your own)

7:00am

Breakfast

7:45-9:30am

Travel to Lake Okeechobee

9:30-10:00am

Overview of Lake Okeechobee: Instructor – Lawrence Glenn

10:00-10:45am

Travel to the Riverwoods Field Lab on the Kissimmee River

10:45-11:30am

Arrival at Riverwoods & Overview of the Kissimmee River Restoration Project

11:30am-12:15pm

Lunch at Riverwoods (provided)

12:15-4:45pm

Kissimmee River Tour via Pontoon Boat

Kissimmee River Research Presentation: Development and Evaluation of Large-scale Ecological Restoration - Lawrence Glenn

4:45-7:00pm

Travel to Boca Campus

Evening

Dinner (on your own)

8:00-9:00am

Bus departs Boca Campus to travel to Davie Campus  

9:00am-5:00pm

USGS Lectures

• Managing Multiple Species With Conflicting Needs - Stephanie Romañach
• Water, Energy and Carbon Cycling in Greater Everglades Forested Wetlands - Barclay Shoemaker
• Monitoring Freshwater Flows to the Coastal Everglades in Response to Restoration Efforts - Eric Carlson
• Sensors as Proxies for Mercury, Carbon and Nitrate in Southwest Florida - Amanda Booth
• Alligators and crocodiles as indicators of Everglades restoration, linking ecology and hydrology - Laura Brandt
• Invasive Reptiles and Amphibians: Where are we now? - Brian Smith

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Return trip from Davie to Boca Campus  

8:00-9:00am

Bus departs Boca Campus to travel to Davie Campus 

9:00am-5:00pm

USGS Lectures

• Active Surface-Water Routing in Hydrologic Models of Highly Managed Urban and Wetland Environments - Jeremy Decker
• The Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystem Sciences (GEPES) Program - Nicholas G. Aumen
• Making a Numerical Model an Effective Prediction Tool in the Everglades - Eric Swain
• Predictions and projections of future precipitation in south Florida – Johnna Infanti
• Linking hydrologic scenarios with ecological models for Greater Everglades decision support – Mark McKelvy

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Return trip from Davie to Boca Campus 

7:00am

Breakfast

8:00-9:00am

Travel to Ft. Lauderdale

9:00-11:15pm

Presentation at City Hall: The Challenges to Building a Resilient Community - Nancy Gassman 

Ft Lauderdale 2 foot Basemap and land elevation map

11:15am-12:00pm

Travel to Everglades Holiday Park

12:00-2:00pm

Airboat rides & other adventures

2:00-3:30pm

Travel to Palm Beach Aggregates

3:30-5:00pm

Tour Palm Beach Aggregates - C-51 and L8 Reservoirs

5:00-6:00pm

Return to Boca Campus

7:00am

Breakfast

8:00-8:30am

Travel to ARM Loxahatchee NWR

8:30-9:00am

Walk along swamp boardwalk and bathrooms

9:00 -11:30pm

Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment (LILA) project visit 

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

LILA Map and Macrocosms Over Time

11:30am-12:00pm

Travel to restaurant in Boynton Beach

12:00-1:30pm

Lunch (on your own)

1:30-2:00pm

Travel to the SFMWD

2:00-4:00pm

UNESCO Student Poster Session at SFWMD in the Lobby

4:00-5:00pm

Return to Boca Campus

Evening

Dinner (on your own)

7:45-9:45am

Depart FAU Boca Campus and travel to Everglades National Park (ENP)

9:45am – 10:30am

Guided walk with ENP Interpretive Ranger – Anhinga Trail 

10:45am - 11:20am

Visit Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center

11:30am - 11:40am

Travel to S-199 (Just outside the Park’s eastern boundary)

11:45am – 12:15pm

Everglades Restoration viewing area & overview 

12-15pm – 12:30pm

Travel to ‘Robert is Here’ Fruit & Milkshake Stand

1:15pm - 2:30pm

Visit ‘Robert is Here’ Fruit & Milkshake Stand– unique local landmark with legendary milkshakes/smoothies

2:30pm – 5:30pm

Shopping at Sawgrass Mills Mall

5:30 – 6:30pm

Travel back to FAU Boca  

Evening

Dinner (on your own)

7:00am

Breakfast

8:15-9:00am

Travel to SFWMD

9:00-4:30pm

Lectures in the EMD Training Room

• Model Development using Regional Simulation Model as a case study - Randy VanZee
• CFD Modeling of structures - Matahel Ansar
• Inverse Modeling and its applications - Alaa Ali
• Parameter Estimation using PEST - Dave Welter
• GIS/Remote Sensing  at SFWMD - Rick Householder
• Tours of Control Room, Job Shadowing, Research exchange - Paul Linton

4:30-5:30pm

Return to Boca Campus

Evening

Dinner (on your own)

7:00am

Breakfast

8:15-9:00am

Travel to SFWMD

9:00-2:30pm

Lectures in the B-1 Storch Room

• Operational Planning - Jenifer Barnes & Cal Neidrauer
• Lake Okeechobee / Watershed Modeling - Joyce Zhang & Tom James
• Lake/Wetland Hydrodynamic Modeling - Kang Ren Jin
• Stormwater Treatment Areas - Delia Ivanoff & Nathan Ralph

2:30-3:30pm

Return to Boca Campus

Evening

Dinner (on your own)

7:00am

Breakfast

8:15-9:00am

Travel to Green Cay Wetlands

9:00-9:45am

Tour of Green Cay Wetlands

9:45-10:30am

Presentations in the Green Cay Visitor Center

10:30-11:30am

Tour of PBC Southern Region Water Reclamation Facility

11:30 -11:45am

Travel to Lunch in Boynton Beach

11:45-1:00pm

Lunch (on your own) 

1:00-1:30pm

Travel to SFWMD

1:30-3:00pm

Water Management Exercise in the EMD Training Room

Are you smarter than a water manager?  

3:00-4:00pm

Closing Ceremony w/certificates in the B1 Storch Room 

4:00-5:00pm

Return to Boca Campus

Evening

Dinner (on your own)