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STANDARD FORM 330 (REV. 312013) PAGE 2 Coastal Environmental Assessment Surveys for Winter Shorebirds and Seabirds Associated with the Hillsboro Beach Renourishment Truck Haul Project Town of Hillsboro Beach, Florida PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Shorebird and Protected Species Monitoring CONSTRUCTION (If Applicable) N/A (3) BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief Scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE Check if project performed with current firm Senior Marine Scientist – Mr. Lopez Padierna conducted environmental assessment surveys (pre-construction, during construction, and post-construction) for beach jacquemontia (Jacquemontia reclinata) and winter shorebirds and seabirds associated with the Hillsboro Beach Renourishment 2018 Truck Haul Project (Project). The surveys were performed in partial support of environmental resource permit requirements (US Army Corps of Engineers Permit No.: SAJ-1997-02355(SP-LCK). Winter shorebird and seabird surveys were conducted according to the Florida Shorebird Alliance’s Winter Shorebird Survey and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) protocols, on a 2 kilometer stretch of beach that was to be renourished as part of an emergency nourishment project after the passing of Hurricane Matthew. Additionally, surveys were conducted to identify and map the location of J. reclinata which is a flowering plant endemic to southeastern Florida and is listed as Endangered in the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). The surveys were conducted along the beach and dunes (where present), the upland beach access corridor, and the Project staging area. The J. reclinata observed during the surveys consisted of 5-7 stems with 1 or 2 white flowers each. A 25-foot wide buffer area was marked around the plant to prevent it being trampled. Upon the second survey, the buffer area had been reduced to 10-feet to accommodate trucks needing to turn towards the beach to deliver sand. Some of the J. reclinata stems were dry and the plants were no longer flowering. Size: 2 kilometers of beach and dune habitat Cost: $17,000 c. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) Marine Biological Monitoring Broward County, Florida (2) YEAR COMPLETED 2017 (ongoing) PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Benthic Assessment CONSTRUCTION (If Applicable) N/A (3) BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief Scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE Check if project performed with current firm Research Assistant – Mr. Lopez Padierna served as research assistant on long-term biological monitoring of Broward County’s offshore benthic resources through the design and implementation of permanent transects along the county’s reef line to monitor the state of marine resources including sedimentation rates and movement through the use of sediment traps and maps, changes in bottom cover through in situ data collection and image analysis using point count methods. The project was designed to allow monitoring of the effects of beach nourishment projects long-term, without being specifically tied to specific nourishment projects. A 20 m by 2 m belt transect was surveyed annually at 25 sites throughout Broward County. Forty 1 m by 0.75 m quadrats were surveyed at each site to assess stony coral abundance and cover and, sponge and octocoral abundance. Each quadrat was also photographed so that percent cover of coral, octocoral, sponge, algae and substrate types could be determined by point-count image analysis in the lab. Mr. Lopez participated in all aspects of the field data collection methods, including boat navigation, photo quadrat acquisition, identification of stony coral species, sponge and octocoral counts, image processing, and point-count activities, as well as data management and analysis. Size: 25 permanent reef monitoring sites along 23 miles of coastline Cost: $75,000 (estimated) d. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) Beach Nourishment Mitigation, Coral Relocation and Monitoring Broward County, Florida (2) YEAR COMPLETED 2017 (ongoing) PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Coral Relocation and Monitoring CONSTRUCTION (If Applicable) N/A (3) BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief Scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE Check if project performed with current firm Research Assistant. In preparation for Segment II beach nourishment project in Broward County a total of 2,000 stony coral and octocoral colonies ranging from 10 cm to 1.5 m in diameter/height were removed from the area within the Equilibrium Toe of Fill (ETOF), covering approximately 20 acres of nearshore hardbottom habitat, and moved to two relocation sites east of the ETOF. All colonies were mapped and 25% of each species were tagged for subsequent monitoring. Mr. Lopez Padierna was involved in all field and data processing aspects of the project, from boat navigation, to coral removal and movement and reattachment, colony mapping, and tagging. Size: 20 acres of hardbottom and reef habitat Cost: $135,000 (estimated) e. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) Broward County Sea Turtle Conservation Program Broward County, Florida (2) YEAR COMPLETED 2009 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring CONSTRUCTION (If Applicable) N/A 103