# Presentation: 504950

## Please note: this presentation has not received Director’s approval and is subject to revision.

## South Florida Map Server

**http://sofia.usgs.gov**

## SOFIAMission Statement

**SOFIA web site (information, documents and other resources)**
**Online clearinghouse for the South Florida Restoration science forum**
**Searchable databases, including the Data Exchange**
**Searchable bibliography**
**Thesaurus; South Florida Ecosystem Gazetteer**
**Geospatial interfaces**
**Searchable metadata -FGDC and NBII**

## SOFIA - Information

**Detailed information about the projects (proposals, metadata, project chief, study area, bibliography, and photographs)**
**Field data (site location, parameters, frequency, method, equipment, and period of record)**
**Interpretive results and access to supporting documents (maps, graphs, conference abstracts, fact sheets, and posters)**

## SOFIA - Features

**Subsets the project information by geographic area, ecosystem topic, agency and project chief **
**Provides links to related information on other systems**
**Search database**
**Download data objects**

## Turbidity
Bathymetry
Sediment accretion and erosion on mud banks
Sediment properties and transport
Groundwater seepage
Hydrogeology

**Turbidity**
**Bathymetry**
**Sediment accretion and erosion on mud banks**
**Sediment properties and transport**
**Groundwater seepage**
**Hydrogeology**

**Chronology and isotope geochemistry**
**Ecological Models**
**Nutrients and diagenesis of sediments**
**Landscape Model**
**Water Quality Model**

**Everglades Ecosystem Data**

## Everglades Ecosystem Data

**Landscape model of mangroves and global climate change**
**Response of mangroves to changes in hydrology**
**Freshwater Discharge to Florida Bay **

**Elevation data**
**Overland flow measurements**
**Hydrologic transport model**
**Geologic characterization**

**Everglades Ecosystem Data**

## Everglades Ecosystem Data

**Indicator species and ecological success criteria**
**Subsidence and accretion of organic soil**
**Spatial relationships among habitats and fauna**
**ATLSS model development**

**Population studies of endangered species**
**Ecology of major infaunal species**
**Effects of the fire regime on pinelands and cypress wetlands**
**Ecological Process Tasks**

**Everglades Ecosystem Data**

## Everglades Ecosystem Data

**Open Channel and Wetland Flow/Transport Interaction**
**Geophysical mapping of fresh/saltwater interface. **
**Hydrogeology of the surficial aquifer system in southwest**
**Fresh surface water discharge to the east coast**
**Freshwater and nutrient flows to the southwest coast**

**Internal surface-water flows**
**Ground-water seepage beneath Levee 30**
**Ground-water discharges to Biscayne Bay**
**High resolution elevation data**
**Evapotranspiration measurement and modeling**
**Vegetative resistance to flow**

**Everglades Ecosystem Data**

## Everglades Ecosystem Data

**Ecosystem History of Biscayne Bay and the SE coast**
**Ecosystem History of Florida Bay and the SW coast**

**Terrestrial and fresh water ecosystem history**
**Isotopic dating of cores**
**Trace element analyses of fossils**

**Everglades Ecosystem Data**

## Everglades Ecosystem Data

**Isotopic dating**
**Geochemical Processes in organic rich sediment **
**Carbon Cycling**
**Phosphate Sources and Cycling in South Florida Wetlands**
**Determination of Nutrient Loads to East Coast Canals**

**Microbial mercury degradation **
**Hg Cycling in the Everglades Nutrient Removal Areas**
**Interactions of Hg and DOC**
**Mercury Cycling**
**Cycling and speciation of Hg in the South Florida food chain**

**Everglades Ecosystem Data**

## Everglades Ecosystem Data

**Land characteristics from remote sensing**
** *****Remote Sensing of Turbidity and Sedimentation ***
**Revision of Geographic Base Map **
***Color Infrared Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles for the South Florida Ecosystem Area***

**Everglades Ecosystem Data**

## Sample Geospatial Web site

**Sample Geospatial Web site**

## SOFIA Map Server Home Page

## SOFIA Map Server Home Page

**Layer Controls**

**Print and Download**

**Tool Bar**

## Attribute Table by Feature

**Attribute Table by Feature**

## Links to Related Datafrom Attribute Table

**Links to Related Data****from Attribute Table**

## Real-time Data (NWISweb)(in new browser window)

**Real-time Data (NWISweb)****(in new browser window)**

## TIME data web site

**TIME data web site**

## Images

**Images**

## Data Button --

**Data Button --**
**Link to Data Exchange**
**and other pages on SOFIA**

## Data Button link --

**Data Button link --**
**Project Home Page**
**Metadata – Data – Publications -- Photos**

## Metadata link – 

**FAQ format**

## Metadata – FAQ format

**Metadata – FAQ format**

## Explanation of Symbols

**Explanation of Symbols**

## Layer Help Menu

**Layer Help Menu**

## Download GIS Layers

**Download GIS Layers**

## Create JPG image of map for printing

**Create JPG image of map for printing**

## Digital Library

- Provide an index of GEER related reports published by USGS/DOI staff
- Provide links to online reports
- Place selected USGS/DOI series reports online
- Historical reports not available in print
- All new reports

## SOFIA Team Leaders

- Webmaster**Heather Henkel**
- Geospatial Interface**Roy Sonenshein**
- Data**Roy Sonenshein**

- Database**Bruce Irvin**
- Metadata**Jo Anne Stapleton**
- Thesaurus/Gazetteer**Gail Clement**
- Digital Library**Roy Sonenshein**

**SOFIA Team Leaders**