Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area

Working to protect the Everglades from invasive species

2016 Everglades Invasive Species Summit

July 12th – 13th, 2016

Tuesday - July 12, 2016

WELCOME

Year in Review – Tony Pernas (NPS) and Dennis Giardina (FWC)
Welcome Address – Elisabeth Hassett, Florida Department of Transportation

REPORTING AND OUTREACH

EDDMapS/IveGot1, Hotline Updates – Jason Wagman (FWC)
Outreach Events – Colleen Closius (UF)
Update on FWC Upland Invasive Plant Program –Jackie Smith (FWC)
Plants You Should Know – LeRoy Rodgers (SFWMD)

INVASIVE PLANT OPERATIONS UPDATES

Regional Assessment of Priority Plants and Control Efforts – Hillary Cooley (ENP)
Updates on Innovations, Successes, and Challenges – Stephen Enloe (UF), Billy Snyder (NPS)
Biological Control of Weeds – Carey Minteer (USDA-ARS)
Brazilian Peppertree Biological Control: Update – Jim Cuda (UF)

INVASIVE ANIMAL OPERATIONS UPDATES

Regional Assessment of Priority Species and Control Efforts – Sarah Funck (FWC)
Updates on Innovations, Successes, and Challenges – Gintas Zavadzkas (Miccosukee Tribe), Katherine Horak (APHIS)****
Giant African Snails – Bill Torres (FDACS)
Non-Native Fish – Kelly Gestring (FWC)

INVASIVE ANIMAL RESEARCH UPDATES

New Guinea Flatworm – Alice Warren (MDC PROS)
USGS Tegus and Pythons – Mike Cherkiss (USGS)
Python Diet Research – Christina Romagosa (UF)
UF Reptile Research, Monitoring & Outreach – Frank Mazzotti (UF)

INVASIVE ANIMAL RESEARCH

USGS Nonnative Wildlife Research Updates Andrea Currylow and Jackie Guzy (USGS)
Bullseye Snakehead Diet and Movement Brian Hutchinson (FWC)
Assessment of Invasive Species Control Melissa Miller (UF)
Predicting Dispersal Paths of Invasive Tegus Brittany Mason (UF)
Colorful Lizards and Conflict of Collection Colin Goodman (UF)

Wednesday - July 13, 2016

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Nile Monitor Containment Strategies in C-51 Basin – Laura Brandt
Biological Control Release Strategies Using UAV’s – Carey Minteer
Nonnative Fish Projects and ECISMA – Kelly Gestring (FWC)
Python Patrol Workshop – Jenny Novak (FWC)

AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Working Session on EDRR Plan Revision Needs – Tylan Dean (NPS), Sarah Funck (FWC), Carrie Beeler (DOI) and Jenny Ketterlin Eckles (MDC-EEL)
FDOT/ECISMA Invasive Plant Control Coordination – Tony Pernas (NPS)
Enhanced Invasive Species Outreach to ESL Contractors – Ryan Brown (SFWMD)