8:30 to 9:00      Check-in    Coffee & Muffins

9:00 to 9:05        Kipp Frohlich, Section Leader, Imperiled Species Management, FWC

9:05 to 9:10        Welcome, Nick Wiley, Executive Director, FWC

9:10 to 9:30        Results of the 2009 Marine Turtle Nesting Season in Florida, Anne Meylan and Blair Witherington, FWC

9:30 to 9:50        Update on Florida’s Sea Turtle Stranding Trends, Allen Foley, FWC

9:50 to 10:10      Florida’s Shorebird Alliance, Nancy Douglass, FWC
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10:10 to 10:25   Break

10:25 to 10:40    Florida’s Black Bear Program, David Telesco, FWC
 

10:40 to 11:00    Northwest Florida Marine Turtle Programs, Lorna Patrick, FWS-Panama City
 Presentation is photo intensive - separated into 4 pieces
 Part 1
 Part 2
 Part 3
 Part 4
 

11:00 to 11:15    Update on Status of Florida’s Statewide Beaches HCP, Kat Diersen, FWC

11:15 to 11:45    Managing Florida’s Beaches, Michael Barnett, Department of Environmental Protection,
                             Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Systems
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11:45 to 12:00    Question Session for Morning Talks

12:00 to 1:30     Lunch

1:30 to 1:55        St. Joseph Peninsula, Florida: Ecology and Conservation Lessons from Loggerheads, Landform Change
                             and Long-term tagging, Ray Carthy and Margaret Lamont, University of Florida USGS Coop Unit

1:55 to 2:15        A Glimmer of Hope from the Sunshine State: Encouraging Results from SCDNR-managed
                             In-water Sea Turtle Research in FL Waters, Mike Arendt¹, A. Segars¹, J. Byrd¹, L. Parker²,
                             D. Owens³, G. Blanvillain³ and J. Whitaker¹, 
                             ¹South Carolina DNR, ²UGA, ³College of Charleston

2:15 to 2:35        Reducing Sea Turtle Bycatch in Bottom Longlines Targeting Reef Fish through Fisheries Management,
                             Jennifer Lee, National Marine Fisheries Service

2:35 to 2:50        Amendment 31 and Gulf of Mexico Sea Turtles:  Do Biological Data Support Proposed Regulations?
                             Tony Tucker, Mote Marine Laboratory

2:50 to 3:15        Satellite Tracking Neonate Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Sea Turtles, Kate Mansfield¹,
                             Jeanette Wyneken² and Dan Rittschof³,  (NOT AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD)
                              ¹ National Marine Fisheries Service, ²FAU,³Duke University
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3:15 to 3:45       Break

3:45 to 3:55        David Godfrey, CCC
3:55 to 4:00        Issues Update, Gary Appelson, CCC

4:00 to 5:00        Marine Turtle Grant Presentations

  4:00 to 4:15   Determining Long-term Movements of
    Juvenile Green Turtles in the Indian River
    Lagoon System, Bill Redfoot, UCF

  4:15 to 4:30   Sarasota County Sea Turtle Education and
    Conservation Materials, Keri Ferenc Nelson,
    Sarasota County

  4:30 to 4:45   Nest Site Fidelity and Clutch Frequency of
    Loggerhead Turtles are Better Elucidated by
    Satellite Telemetry than by Nocturnal Tagging
    Efforts: Implications for Stock Estimation,
    Tony Tucker, Mote Marine Laboratory

  4:45 to 5:00   Population Structure of the Florida Green Turtle
    Nesting Aggregation Inferred from Mitochondrial  DNA.
    Brian M. Shamblin¹, Dean A. Bagley², Llewellyn M. Ehrhart²,
    Niki Desjardin³, R. Erik Martin³, John C. Stiner⁴, Kirt Rusenko⁵,
    Deborah Sobel⁶, Chris Johnson⁷, Laura J. Wright⁸, and Campbell J. Nairn¹,
¹University of Georgia, ²UCF, ³EAI, ⁴Canaveral National Seashore, ⁵Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, ⁶Sea Turtle Conservation League of Singer Island, ⁷Loggerhead Marine Life Center of Juno Beach, ⁸Nova Southeastern University

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