GSARP Spring 2025 Meeting

[All times stated in the agenda are in Eastern Daylight Time. * Indicates virtual presentation]

TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2025

8:30 Call to Order – Matt Phillips, Panel Chair
• Introductions
• Public Comment
8:45 Review and Adoption of Agenda – Matt Phillips
8:50 Review and Approval of Minutes from Fall GSARP Meeting [Austin, TX November 19
20, 2024] – Matt Phillips
9:00 Status of GSARP Executive/Steering Committee (UPDATES) – Jim Page, GA DNR
9:10 Statewide Aquatic Invasive Species Management in Florida – Alex Dew, Sarah Funck,
FWC
9:40 USACE Invasive Species Program in Florida – Jon Lane, USACE Jacksonville District
10:00 BREAK
10:15 Research and Outreach Program, Opportunity to Collaborate – Mariah McInnis, FWC
10:40 Swamp Eel Control Update – Nick Trippel, FWC
11:00 Red Swamp Crayfish – Kelly Gestring, FWC
11:20 Technology Talk (Drone, Spray Tracker) – Alex Dew, FWC
11:40 LUNCH (on your own)
1:10 *Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force (ANSTF) Update – Susan Pasko, USFWS
1:30 Overview of FWS AIS Activities and Upcoming High Priority Projects – James Ballard,
USFWS
1:50 Update on New ANS Introductions – Cayla Morningstar, USGS
2:10 New USGS Aquatic Disease and Pathogen Database Update – Wesley Daniel, USGS
2:30 Rapid response Fund Update and Discussion – Charlie Robertson, GSMFC
2:50 BREAK
3:05 Halophila sipulacea Life History, Identification and Worldwide Occurrence – Dr. Demian
Willette, LMU
3:25 Halophila stipulacea In Florida and implications to the SE – Dr. Justin Campbell, FIU
3:45 Long-term Removal of Invasive Caiman – Eric Suarez, UF
4:05 Tropical Clawed Frog Biocontrol – Quenton Tuckett, UF
4:25 Inundative Biocontrol project – Mariah McInnis, FWC
4:45 Public Comment
RECESS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2025

8:30 Call to Order – Matt Phillips
• Public Comment
8:45 Aquatic Invasive Species Risk Screenings – Jeff Hill, UF
9:05 Hydrilla Update (Yale, Apopka, Toho) – Alex Dew & Ed Harris, FWC
9:25 Evaluating the Use of a Commercial Haul Seine as a Management Tool for Tilapia in
Upper St Johns River Lakes – Arthur Bernhardt, FWC
9:45 Tangled Tales of Vallisneria Spiralis: Knot your Average Tape Grass – Kristen Peterson,
FWC
10:05 BREAK
10:20 Lionfish Control in Florida – Sarah Funck, FWC
10:40 Consumptive Use of Invasive Lionfish – Christine Raininger, Lionfish Huntress
11:00 Caecilians in Florida – Coleman Sheehy, UF
11:20 eDNA Assay Development for AIS – Brian Bahder, UF
LUNCH (on your own)
1:00 State Reports / Members Forum
3:00 BREAK
3:15 Other Business – Matt Phillips
• Next Meeting, Dates, and Place (South Carolina?)
3:30 Public Comment
ADJOURN

Thursday April 24, 2025 – FIELD TRIP DAY

8:00 Leave for West Lake Toho Tours- All
8:40 Arrive at lakefront and divide into groups for Hydrilla tour and bio blitz (Asian Swamp
eel).
11:30 Arrive back at Lakefront Park
12:00 Lunch in Kissimmee
1:30 Back to Hotel and Adjourn