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

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.
• 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

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.
• Science Dissemination - chairing special sessions and oral preesntations at professional national and international meetings; publishing scientific manuscripts in high-impact international journals, and technical.
• 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.
• 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