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Personnel Profiles

Mark Rains

FCE Site Role
Project Collaborator

Affiliation
University of South Florida

Research
Ecohydrology of river and wetland ecosystems

FCE Working groups
Scenarios & Modeling, Hydrology & Water Policy

Contact
- Mailing address:
- School of Geosciences
- University of South Florida
- 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, NES 207
- Tampa, FL 33620
- Email: mrains@usf.edu

FCE Publications (5)
Journal Articles
Flower, H., M. Rains, H.C. Fitz, W.H. Orem, S. Newman, T.Z. Osborne, K.R. Reddy, and J. Obeysekera. 2019. Shifting ground: Landscape-scale modeling of biogeochemical processes under climate change in the Florida Everglades. Environmental Management 64: 416-435.

Flower, H., M. Rains, D.B. Lewis, J.Z. Zhang, and R.M. Price. 2017. Saltwater intrusion as potential driver of phosphorus release from limestone bedrock in a coastal aquifer. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 184: 166-176.

Flower, H., M. Rains, D.B. Lewis, and J.Z. Zhang. 2017. Rapid and intense phosphate desorption kinetics when saltwater intrudes into carbonate rock. Estuaries and Coasts 40: 1301-1313.

Flower, H., M. Rains, and H.C. Fitz. 2017. Visioning the future: Scenarios modeling of the Florida Coastal Everglades. Environmental Management 60: 989-1009.

Flower, H., M. Rains, D.B. Lewis, J.Z. Zhang, and R.M. Price. 2016. Control of phosphorus concentration through adsorption and desorption in shallow groundwater of subtropical carbonate estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 169: 238-247.

Datasets (1)
FCE Datasets
Subsurface Water Temperatures taken in Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, South Florida (FCE) from May 2010 to Present

Recent FCE Presentations
Fitz, H.C., M. Rains, H. Flower and E.E. Gaiser. 2019. Tortoise or hare? Landscape hydro-ecological interactions from presses (sea level rise) and pulses (freshwater flows) in the Coastal Everglades. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 25, 2019.