Anna Wachnicka, Phd Email & Phone Number

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

• Lake Okeechobee Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiatives and Innovative Technologies Lead• Cyano-HAB Mitigation/Treatment Evaluations• Assessments of the Lake Guard® Oxy Treatment Efficacy at a Lake Okeechobee Outflow Structure and Canal under Flow/No-Flow Regimes, Prior to and During the Cyano-HAB Seasons• Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Science Plan Project Manager• Direct coastal canal inflows performance metric development Lead; Biscayne Bay Southeastern Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (BBSEER) project• Lake Okeechobee weekly ecological updates,inter-agency system operations • ASR long-term ecological monitoring of multiple eco-components along the C-38 Canal and northern Lake Okeechobee project manager• ASR Ecological risk assessment evaluations project manager• ECO and WQ Teams LOSOM, LOWRP, BBSEER

West Palm Beach, Florida

• Lake Okeechobee phosphorus removal using innovative technologies• Evaluation of effects of changing freshwater inflow regimes on downstream estuarine systems in Manatee Bay, Barnes Sound, and NE Florida Bay.” (study component of Incremental testing of G-3273 Constraint Relaxation/S-356 and S-357N Operations and Development of a Combined Operational Plan & Modified Water Deliveries) • Assessment of emergency freshwater releases from Biscayne Bay coastal structures related to Hurricane Irma on the Bay water quality • Evaluation of changing freshwater inflow regimes on water quality and phytoplankton dynamics in St. Lucie Estuary (designed and implemented the St. Lucie Phytoplankton/WQ Monitoring Program)• Lake Okeechobee HABs Research Initiatives and Innovative Technologies Lead • Weekly Operations/Ecological Conditions Updates for St. Lucie, Caloosahatchee, Lake Okeechobee • Federal & State Agency Initiatives (Water Quality and Eco Sub-Teams): • Direct Canal Discharge performance measure lead, Biscayne Bay and Southeastern Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (BBSEER)• Western Everglades Restoration Project (Original WERP PIR development and Eco Sub-team)• Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual (LOSOM) eco sub-team• Blue-Green Algae & Innovative Technologies - District Liaison to state and federal agencies on Lake Okeechobee HABs• Lead Editor and Organizer of the Estuaries and Coasts special issue on the 2017 Hurricane Season and the impact of H. Irma on the S. Florida estuarine and coastal ecosystems• RECOVER System Status Reporting• SFER Reporting• CISRERP St. Lucie, ASR, BBSEER Project Reporting - The National Academies Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Primary Investigator: A multi-proxy study of environmental change and ecological regime shift detection in Biscayne Bay and Florida Bay, Florida (USA) (USGS funded)  Ecosystem Dynamics in the Everglades White Zone (C-111 Basin and coastal wetlands of Everglades and Biscayne Bay): history, drivers, and restoration implications. (ENP funded)  Assessment of Hydro-Ecological Changes in Nearshore Areas of Biscayne Bay (NOAA funded) Mechanisms of HABs in Biscayne Bay (Florida, U.S.A.): links to climate warming and human activities (NRC-NAS/NOAA funded)  Effects of Sea Level Rise, Climate Variability & Humans on Coastal Everglades, and Estuarine Systems of South Florida (U.S.A.). (USGS funded)  Natural Resource Condition Assessment for Three Parks within the U.S. Virgin Islands. (DOI/NPS funded) Impact of the Recent Climate Change on Shallow Marine Ecosystems of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico -Dry Tortugas National Park and the Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary (NSC funded)• Science Dissemination - chairing special sessions and oral preesntations at professional national and international meetings; publishing scientific manuscripts in high-impact international journals, and technical reports development• Outreach - Organizing scientific exhibitions (The National Geographic, BioBlitz, BNP) • Leading scientific expeditions and mentoring of junior scientists in lab and field techniques

Miami, Fl

• Periphyton-based modeling of hydrology in Everglades National Park• Paleoecological analysis of historic climate- and human-driven changes based on sediment cores extracted from coastal and estuarine systems along the Ten Thousand Islands in SW Everglades

Miami, Florida, United States

• Developing salinity and nutrient prediction models for Biscayne Bay and Florida Bay - CERP-related project (part of PhD dissertation research)• Assisting in the development of the Biscayne Bay numeric nutrient criteria• Lab and field work associated with numerous Everglades restoration-related projects (e.g., CERP-MAP, LTER, S-322 Flows, Flumes, Dosing, C-111 canal levee removal and associated flow rate and direction changes, salt-water encroachment on coastal wetlands in Biscayne National Park and many other restoration-related projects)• Advanced statistical and mathematical data analyses• Leading field expedition to coastal and estuarine ecosystems (Florida Bay, Biscayne Bay, coastal Everglades)• Mentoring junior scientists in lab and field sampling and sample processing techniques

Miami, Florida

* Ecological assessment of nearshore habitats in Biscayne Bay related to NOAA Habitat Blueprint Initiative * Developing HAB models * Developing recommendations for better water resources management practices in Biscayne Bay coastal regions* Mentoring undergraduate & and graduate interns in lab and field methods

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Geosciences

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management

Education record

advanced statistical R programming

Bachelor & Master Of Science (B.S. & Msc.), Marine Sciences & Geography