RECOVER Monthly Meetings

RECOVER meets on the third Thursday of each month to provide updates and discuss pertinent topics related to the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Program (CERP). Meeting agendas are posted two weeks in advance.

Please email CESAJ-RECOVER@usace.army.mil for additional meeting materials including read-aheads, presentations, or summaries.

 


 

April 30, 2026: RECOVER Topic Workshop Series

Second Periodic Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Update (SPCU): RECOVER Scientific and Technical Evaluation

Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
Location: Microsoft Teams (Join the meeting now)
Meeting ID: 993 610 152 731
Passcode: zd6bb7Yr
Dial In: Phone: +1 503-207-9433
Conference ID: 195 139 340#

Agenda:

  • 9:00 AM: Welcome, Introductions, Review of Agenda (Gina Ralph, USACE)
  • 9:15 AM: SPCU Purpose, Goals, Objectives (Amanda Kahn, SFWMD) 
  • 9:45 AM: CERP Components Planning Process & Modeling Assumptions (Zulamet Vega-Liriano, USACE)
  • 10:15: BREAK
  • 10:30 AM: SPCU Modeling Results (Pierre Massena, USACE) 
  • 12:15 PM: RECOVER SPCU Scientific & Technical Evaluation Scope of Work (Gina Ralph, USACE)
  • 12:45 PM: Next Steps, Action Items (Gina Ralph, USACE)
  • 1:00 PM: ADJOURN

RECOVER members attended the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference in Coral Springs, Florida, 21-24 April 2025. Check out our photos below!

Congratulations to Jerry Lorenz on his retirement from Audubon Florida! Also pictured: Julie Hill Gabriel, Audubon Florida
RECOVER team members, Tasso Cocoves, Nate Dorn, Marisa Martinez, and Kiah Williams discuss Marisa's poster, Reducing uncertainty of wading bird colony size predictions with the Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA) tool at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference.
Kiah Williams presented a poster titled Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Adaptive Management: Integrating Science Across Projects to Increase Restoration Status at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference.
Gina Ralph presented a poster titled Updates to Conceptual Ecological Models Inform Science-Based Water Management Projects at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference.
Jessica Dell presented a poster titled Implementing an Applied Science Strategy to Restore, Protect, and Preserve Southwest Florida at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference.
RECOVER team members, Tasso Cocoves and Kiah Williams, discuss Asian Swamp Eel adaptive management at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference.
The System-Wide Summary of the 2024 System Status Report was provided at the US Army Corps of Engineers sponsor table at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference.

Points of Contact

Program Manager
Army Corps of Engineers

CESAJ-RECOVER@usace.army.mil

Program Manager
South Florida Water Management District

561-682-2051

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