Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference

Scientific Oversight PanelDrs. Bill Boicourt, Ed Houde and Bill Dennison from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science served on the Scientific Oversight Panel for the Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference in Naples, Florida in Dec. 2008. Other Scientific Oversight Panel members included Drs. John Hobbie (chair), Hans Paerl, and Steve McCutcheon. The conference, organized by the Florida Bay Program Management Committee, provided updates and syntheses of research progress since the last meeting in 2005. The focus of the conference was to increase the understanding of the connectivity and ecological dynamics and relationships among south Florida estuarine and coastal ecosystems.