PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

PUBLICATIONS
 

• Choquette, A.F., and Sepulveda, A.A., 2000, Design of a shallow ground water network to monitor agricultural chemicals, Lake Wales Ridge, Central Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4134, 35 p. [http://fl.water.usgs.gov/Abstracts/wri00_4134_choquette.html]

• Choquette, A.F., Moore, D.K, Dehaven, E.C., Haber, J.D.,and Turner, R.M., 2003, A litmus area for transport of agricultural chemicals into ground water and lakes, central Florida: May 12-14, 2003, American Water Resources Association,  2003 Spring Specialty Conference - Agricultural Hydrology and Water Quality, Kansas City, MO., Proceedings, AWRA Technical Publication Series No. TPS-03-01. [Abstract]

• Choquette, A.F., Turner, R.D., Haber, J.D., Lucas, P.A., Daiker, D.H., and DeHaven, E.C., 2005, Temporal variability of agricultural chemicals in ground water and implications for water-quality sampling: The 15th Tennessee Water Resources Symposium, April 13-15, 2005, Burns, TN., American Water Resources Association, Proceedings, p. 2B-6 - 2B-14. [Acrobat PDF File]

• Choquette, A.F., and Kroening, S.E., 2005, Elevated nitrate, pesticides, and pesticide degradates in ground water and lakes on the Lake Wales Ridge, a unique hydrologic and biologic region in central Florida in U.S. Geological Survey Science in Florida: USGS Open-File Report 2005-1213, Florida Integrated Science Center Meeting, May 2005, Orlando, Fl., Proceedings. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1213/PDF_Files/Session_4-Abstracts/Choquette-Elevated_Nitrate.pdf]

• Choquette, A.F., and Kroening, S.E., 2006, Pesticide and pesticide degradates in a closely linked ground-water/surface-water system in a sand aquifer system: Initial comparisons:  in Proceedings of the 16th Tennessee Water Resources Symposium, American Water Resources Association, April 19-21, 2006, Burns, Tn., pp. 1B-1 (abstract), 229 p.

• Choquette, A.F., Moore, D., DeHaven, E., Haber, J., and Turner, R., in review, Agricultural chemicals in ground water underlying citrus groves, central Florida: spatial and temporal variability: Invited paper to be submitted to the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.

• Regional evaluation of pesticides and nitrate in shallow ground water underlying citrus areas, Lake Wales Ridge, Central Florida, in preparation, to be published as a U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report.

PRESENTATIONS
 

Liaison meetings with the public and citrus industry representatives have been ongoing since the conceptual stages of the project. Project staff have presented updates and data reviews at the Highlands County Agricultural Extension Office in Sebring, Florida, for citrus industry representatives, the public, and scientists. Technical staff has also met periodically with agricultural chemical industry staff.

Project results have been also been presented at meetings and forums which have included the Florida Pesticide Review Council (http://www.flaes.org/Pesticide/BoP_PRC.htm); the University of Florida Institute and Food and Agricultural Sciences (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/); Federal Tribal Ground Water and Pesticide Management Plan Workshop, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Integrated Water Resource Monitoring (IWRM) Program (http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/monitoring/index.htm).