Florida Cooperative Geologic Mapping Project

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Project Investigators: Bruce R. Wardlaw, Thomas M. Cronin Project Start Date: 1996 End Date: 1999 Proposals Data Metadata Publications Related Links Project Location Map

A multitude of water-related societal issues face southern Florida in the 1990's. These include irrigation demands of agricultural; business, run-off from agricultural lands and canals, increasing demands of a rapidly growing population in the Naples and Miami area (Miami showing the fourth fastest growth rate in the U.S. in the 1980's), the recently mandated restoration of natural sheet flow through the Everglades ecosystem, and vitality of the important fisheries of Florida Bay. This project provides a baseline for the geologic framework of aquifers and a baseline for ecosystem variability and tracks the change in ecosystems through the last several hundred years to provide critical information for reasonable restoration targets to land planners and managers in southern Florida. This project was an umbrella project that encompassed the ecosystem history projects (see list below) as well as information about geohydrology. For information about the geohydrologic project, please see information below. This project ended in 2000.

The following projects are part of the South Florida Ecosystem History project:

• Ecosystem History of Biscayne Bay and the Southeast Coast
• Ecosystem History: Florida Bay and the Southwest Coast
• Ecosystem History: Terrestrial and Fresh-water Ecosystems of Southern Florida
• Paleosalinity as a Key for Success Criteria in South Florida Restoration

Florida Cooperative Mapping Project Activities

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Accomplishments

• What Have the Scientists Learned?

Proposals

• 1998
• 1999

Data

Metadata

• Florida Cooperative Geologic Mapping Project (project metadata)
• 1995 - 2007 Ecosystem History of South Florida's Estuaries Database (data set metadata)

Publications

Abstracts

• Climatic and Anthropogenic Influence on Florida Bay Salinity over the Past Century (from the Florida Bay Science Conference Proceedings, 1998)
• Florida Bay Ecosystem: Measuring Historical Change (from the Florida Bay Science Conference Proceedings, 1995, and can be found on the Ecosystem History: Florida Bay and the Southwest Coast project page)
• Florida Cooperative Mapping
• Introduction to Paleoecological Studies of South Florida and the Implications to Land Management Decisions (from the GEER Conference, December 2000)
• Paleosalinity of Florida Bay (from the Florida Bay Science Conference, April 2001)
• Patterns and Possible Causes of Temperature and Salinity Variability in Central Florida Bay 1880-1998 (from the Florida Bay Science Conference, April 2001)
• Reconstructing the Salinity History of Florida Bay Using Ostracode Shell Chemistry (from the Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference, November 1999)
• The Biotic Record of Change in Florida Bay and the South Florida Ecosystem (from the Florida Bay Science Conference Proceedings, 1996, and can be found on the Ecosystem History: Florida Bay and the Southwest Coast project page)

Fact Sheets

• Florida Cooperative Mapping Project
• Hydrogeology of the Surficial Aquifer System in Southwest Florida (Fact Sheet 158-96)

Open File Reports

• Lithology and geophysics of the surficial aquifer system in western Collier County, U.S. (Open File Report 97-436, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)
• Lithostratigraphy, Petrography, Biostratigraphy, and Strontium-Isotope Stratigraphy of the Surficial Aquifer System of Western Collier County, Florida (Open File Report 98-205)
• Microfossils from Chesapeake Bay Sediments: Illustrations and Species Database (Open-File Report 99-45, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)
• Modern Benthic Foraminifer Distributions in Biscayne Bay: Analogs for Historical Reconstructions (OFR 97-034, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)
• Paleontological Data from Mud Creek Core 1, Southern Florida (Open-File Report 97-736, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)
• Palynological Census Data from Surface Samples in South Florida (Open File Report 97-867, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)
• Pollen and geochronological data from South Florida: Taylor Creek Site 2 (Open-File Report 97-35)
• Pollen Census Data from Southern Florida: Sites Along a Nutrient Gradient in Water Conservation Area 2A (Open File Report 97-497, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)
• Preliminary Paleontologic Report on Core 37, from Pass Key, Everglades National Park, Florida Bay (Open-File Report 98-122, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)
• Preliminary report on the distribution of modern fauna and flora at selected sites in north central and northeastern Florida Bay (Open-File Report 96-732, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)
• U. S. Geological Survey Program on the South Florida Ecosystem - Proceedings of the Technical Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Open File Report 97-385, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)

Related Links

• Ecosystem History of Biscayne Bay and the Southeast Coast
• Ecosystem History: Florida Bay and the Southwest Coast
• Ecosystem History: Terrestrial and Fresh-water Ecosystems of Southern Florida
• Paleosalinity as a Key for Success Criteria in South Florida Restoration
• South Florida Ecosystem History Kid's Corner Photo Gallery
• South Florida Ecosystem History Project Home Page