Florida Water & Climate Alliance and Geosyntec Consultants Webinar
Recent Advances in Lake Okeechobee Science: Insights for Restoration and Climate Adaptation
Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Lake Okeechobee is the largest freshwater lake in the state of Florida and is part of a much larger Greater Everglades watershed. It provides natural habitat to fish, birds, and other wildlife as well as being a key component of water supply and flood control systems in South Florida.
This webinar, co-hosted with Geosyntec Consultants, summarized new research and technological advancements in evaporation measurements, vegetation mapping, suspended sediment models, algal blooms, and hurricane-induced storm surge that provide insight into Lake Okeechobee science and management. Over 100 participants joined the webinar from private industry, water management districts, academic institutions, local, state, federal, and international government agencies, utilities, tribal nations, and non-government organizations.
Featured Speakers:
- W. Barclay Shoemaker, Research Scientist, United States Geological Survey, Evaporation from the Interior of Lake Okeechobee — Insights for Water Management (copy of report)
- Caiyun Zhang, PhD, Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Vegetation Mapping of Lake Okeechobee using World View Satellite Imagery and Object-Based Machine Learning Ensemble Technique
- Brett Johnston & W. Scott McBride, Hydrologists, United States Geological Survey, Echoes from Lake Okeechobee: Predicting Suspended Sediment with Hydroacoustics
- Anna Wachnicka, PhD, Principal Scientist, South Florida Water Management District, Managing the Seemingly Unmanageable: SFWMD’s Integrative Lake Okeechobee Cyano-HAB Monitoring and Mitigation Program
- K.R. Jin, PhD, Lead Scientist, South Florida Water Management District, Hurricane-Induced Storm Surge on Lake Okeechobee
Moderated by Jeffrey King, PhD, PE, CFM, Principal, Geosyntec Consultants
Original webinar registration website
NOTE: Some information presented at the webinar was provisional and not approved for recording or distribution.
