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MONDAY - JULY 20, 2009 |
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8:30-12:00 |
CLIMATE CHANGE
WORKSHOP
Developing Restoration and
Management Strategies in the Context of Climate Change: G. Ronnie Best,
U.S.
Geological Survey,
Gregory Eckert, National Park Service, Glenn Landers,
U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers and Laura
Stroup,
Texas
State
University
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8:30-12:00 |
CAMNet ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
WORKSHOP
Kent Loftin, Hydroplan LLC.,
Jennifer Pratt-Miles and Barbara Stinson, Meridian Institute, Chad Smith,
Headwaters Corporation and Tom St. Clair, PBS&J
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1:00-3:00 |
WELCOMING PLENARY SESSION
PART I
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Moderator Introduction –
David Koran, NCER
Chair
,
U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
Welcome to the City of Los
Angeles – Michael Krouse, CHME, CMP,
Senior Vice
President of Sales for LA
INC.,
Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau
Col. Thomas Magness III, Los Angeles District Commander,
U.S.
Army Corps of
Engineers
Col. Janice L. Dombi, Commander, South Pacific Division,
U.S.
Army Corps of
Engineers
LTG Robert L. Van Antwerp,
Chief of Engineers and
Commander of the
U.S.
Army
Corps of Engineers
Suzette Kimball, Director,
U.S.
Geological
Survey
Mike Hubbs, Director, Ecological Sciences Division, Natural Resources Conservation
Service
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3:30-5:30 |
WELCOMING PLENARY SESSION
PART II
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Moderator Introduction – G.
Ronnie Best,
U.S.
Geological
Survey
Terrence “Rock” Salt,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary
of the Army (Civil Works)
Bill Leary, Former Director
for Natural Resources, Council for Environmental Quality
(CEQ)
Question & Answer /
Discussion Period
Sponsor Recognition and
Closing Comments
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TUESDAY - JULY 21, 2009 |
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8:30-9:35 |
Plenary Session - Integrating
Ecosystem Services into Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration
This session will address the
emerging challenge of incorporating ecosystem services
into large-scale
ecosystem restoration.
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Moderator Introduction - Carl
Shapiro,
U.S.
Geological
Survey
David
Brookshire, Professor of Economics, University
of New Mexico
Greg Biddinger,
Natural
Land
Management Program Coordinator,
ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc.
Carl Lucero, Acting Deputy
Director, USDA’s
Office of Ecosystem Services
and Markets
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10:00-12:10 |
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS AM
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SESSION 1: Large-Scale
Ecosystem Restoration Program Comparison and
Contrast
Panel Session:
Large Ecosystem Restoration Program Comparison and
Contrast
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SESSION 2: The Appropriate
Role for Ecosystem Services
in Ecosystem Restoration and Environmental
Decision Making |
SESSION 3: Stream Corridor
Conservation Actions to
Restore Riverine Processes on Private Lands
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SESSION 4: Restoration of an
Urbanized Estuary:
San
Francisco
Bay
Shoreline
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SESSION 5: Ecological History
Relevance for Ecosystem Management
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SESSION 6: Biogeochemistry,
Water Quality and Contaminants
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Moderator:
Brad Thompson
[Presentation] |
Moderator:
Kevin Summers
|
Moderator:
Kathryn Boyer
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Moderator:
Steven Ritchie
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Moderator:
Deb Williard
|
Moderator:
G. Ronnie Best
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Troy Constance -
Louisiana
Coastal
Area
[Presentation] |
Kevin Summers - The Relationships among
Ecosystem Services, Restoration and Human Well Being and the Construction
of an Index of Well-Being
[Presentation] |
Kathryn Boyer
- Moderator
[Presentation] |
Dilip Trivedi -
San
Francisco
Bay
: Its Past, Present, and
Prospective Future
[Presentation] |
G. Lynn Wingard - Paleoecological Tools for Restoration -
Setting Performance Measures In
South
Florida
's Estuaries
[Presentation] |
Billy Johnson - Demonstration of a Physically
Based Distributed Watershed Water Quality Model (
Galle
Watershed,
WI)
[Presentation] |
Stu Appelbaum -
Everglades
[Presentation] |
Curtis Tanner - Why Care About
Impacts to Natural Systems? Using Ecosystem Functions, Goods, and Services
to Scale Changes to Nearshore Ecosystems in
Puget Sound
[Presentation] |
Thomas Moore - A Planner's
Perspective on Stream Corridor Restoration |
Michelle Orr - The Key
Challenges Confronting Habitat Restoration in
San Francisco
Bay
: Are They
Manageable?
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Akira Tsujimoto - The Effect of Anthropogenic Eutrophication on a Shallow Marine Benthic
Ecosystem: Microfossil Records over the Last 200 Years in
Osaka Bay
,
Japan
[Presentation] |
Kevin O'Donnell - A Hydrologic
Event-Based Evaluation of Water Quality Trends in Goodwater Creek
Experimental Watershed,
Missouri
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Mike Olson -
Missouri
River
Recovery
[Presentation] |
Stephanie Pincetl - Implementing a Nature’s Services
Infrastructure: The Case of a Million Trees Los
Angeles |
Howard Hankin - Utilizing Farm Bill
Conservation Programs to Implement Stream Corridor Restoration Projects on Private Lands |
Betsy Wilson - Successes
and Lessons Learned in
San
Pablo
Bay
Wetland
Restoration
[Presentation] |
Anna Wachnicka - Diatom-Based Assessment of
Past Water Quality in
Biscayne
Bay
,
Florida
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Kenneth Wagner - Phosphorus
Inactivation as a
Lake
Restoration
Technique |
Ken
Barr - Upper
Mississippi River
[Presentation] |
Carl Lucero/Mark Nechodom - USDA's
Approach to Ecosystem Services and Environmental
Markets
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Stan Gregory - Floodplain
Dynamics and Thermal Refuges for Native Fish Communities in the
Willamette
River
[Presentation] |
Steve Ritchie - Successes
and Lessons Learned in
South
San Francisco
Bay
Wetland
Restoration
[Presentation] |
Scott Starratt - Too Cunning to be Understood:
The Record of Late Holocene Central California Climate Change from San
Francisco Bay Marsh Sediments
[Presentation] |
William James - Understanding Phosphorus
Dynamics and Controls to Better Manage the Turbid
Minnesota River
System
[Presentation] |
Carl Wilcox/Dave Zezulak
-
California
Delta
[Presentation] |
Kelly
Burks-Copes - Capturing the
Human Dimension of Ecosystem Restoration: Using GIS and Multi-Criteria
Decision Analysis to Measure Ecosystem Services - the Middle
Rio
Grande
|
Natasha Bankhead - Stream
Corridor Modeling Tools for Adaptive Management of the
Upper
Truckee
River
,
Lake Tahoe
,
CA
[Presentation] |
John Callaway - Biological
Diversity in
San
Francisco
Bay
and the Effects of Climate
Change |
Debra Willard - Hydrologic
Variability in the
Florida
Everglades
: A Paleoecological Perspective |
Mark Krupka - Use of Bioremediation in the
Treatment of Natural and Man-made Bodies of Water to Improve Water Quality
and Reduction of Organic Sediments |
Marci Cook -
Columbia
River
[Presentation] |
Mark Judson - Integration
of Ecosystem Services into a Decision Support
Platform
[Presentation] |
Richard Zembal - Recovery of an Endangered
Bird and Riparian Habitat by Restoration and Management on the
Santa Ana
River
,
CA |
Peter Downs - Making Urban
Ecosystem Restoration Real: Addressing Factors Limiting Threatened
Steelhead in the
San
Francisco
Bay
Area
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Stephen Davis - Restoring
Raised Bog in
Ireland
: Prospects and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives
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Shelly Anghera - Contaminated Sediments: The
Balance Between a Functioning Ecosystem and the Desire for Contaminant
Removal |
| Discussion Period: FACILITATOR: David Galat, USGS4
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Casey Burns - Streambank Bioengineering and Riparian
Habitat Restoration and Enhancement at Adobe Ranch,
Mono County
,
CA
[Presentation] |
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1:30-3:40 |
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS PM
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SESSION 1: Lessons Learned
from Restoration Programs at the Watershed
Scale
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SESSION 2: Measuring
Restoration Success: Tools &
Partnerships
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SESSION 3: River Restoration:
Integrating Science and Engineering |
SESSION 4: Urban Ecosystem
Restoration
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SESSION 5: Linking Monitoring
Results with Management Decision Making
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SESSION 6: Ecological
Restoration on Public and
Working
Lands
in the
U.S. |
Moderator:
Eric Bush |
Moderator:
Ruth Villalobos |
Moderator:
Kameran Onley |
Moderator:
Deborah Lamb |
Moderator:
Casey Kruse |
Moderator:
Steve Brady |
Donald Boesch - Independent Scientific
Evaluations of Major Ecosystem Restoration
Programs
[Presentation] |
Shaun
McKinney - Water Quality Trading - Providing the
Tools to Trade Nutrients |
David Galat - Establishing System-Wide
Goals and Objectives for Restoring the
Upper
Mississippi River
within an Adaptive Management
Framework
[Presentation] |
Derek Booth - Management,
Monitoring, and Restoring Urban Streams
[Presentation] |
Gregory Steyer -
Louisiana
’s Coastwide Reference Monitoring System: Using Web
Services to Integrate and Visualize Data to Assess Restoration
Effectiveness
[Presentation] |
Pete Heard - The Role of the Agricultural
Wildlife
Conservation
Center
in Ecological Restoration
Efforts
[Presentation] |
| Russell Reed -
Contemporary Planning Issues for Large Scale
Ecosystem Restoration Programs |
S. Kyle McKay - Establishing
Metrics for Environmental Benefits Analysis
[Presentation] |
Brent Knights - Fish
Assemblages in Off-Channel Areas of the Upper Mississippi and
Illinois
Rivers
: Implications for
Restoration
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Timothy Brick - Case
Study-Central Arroyo Seco Stream Restoration
Near Downtown
Los
Angeles
[Presentation] |
Pamela Neubert - West Falmouth Harbor-Baseline
Monitoring for Management Decisions and Future Restoration (Cape Cod,
Massachusetts)
[Presentation] |
Wendell Gilgert - The Development and Use of
Ecological Site Descriptions for Ecosystem Restoration on Agricultural
Working Lands in the
US
[Presentation] |
|
Lawrence
Skaggs - Applying Lessons Learned in
Planning for USACE Ecosystem Restoration Projects: Reasons for Effective
Stakeholder Participation |
Daniel McGrath
- An Estimation
of the Social Value of Municipal Government Investment in Natural
Capital
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Oliver Soong - Coupling of
Riparian Tree Recruitment and River Hydrology along a Recently Restored
Reach of the
Merced River
,
CA
[Presentation] |
Brendan Belby - Restoring
Floodplain Connectivity and Re-Meandering a River Constrained by Urban
Infrastructure:
Upper
Truckee
River
in
South Lake Tahoe
[Presentation] |
Craig Fischenich - How Do We Measure Ecological
Restoration Success?
[Presentation] |
William Hohman - Restoration of Biological
Functions to Conservation Buffers in Intensive Agriculture Regions of the
Upper
Midwest |
Chemine Jackels - The
Green
River Basin
Wide Ecosystem
Restoration Project : US Army Corps of Engineers - Seattle
District
[Presentation] |
Michele Mahoney - Ecological
Revitalization: Turning Contaminated Properties Into Community
Assets |
Chris Budai -
Willamette
River
Floodplain Restoration Study – Coast Fork
and
Middle
Fork
Willamette
River
Subbasins |
Nicholas Garrity - Ballona Wetlands
Restoration: Recreating Estuarine Habitats in
Los
Angeles |
Sean Anderson - The Value of
Phased, Experimental Approaches to Wetland and Grassland Restoration:
Lessons from Southern California to
Central
Asia
[Presentation] |
Ellen Starr - Hydrologic
Restoration Provides Immediate Benefits for Wetland Dependent
Species
[Presentation] |
Andreas Krause - A 25-Year
Retrospective on Evolving Restoration Construction Philosophies for the
Trinity River,
CA
[Presentation] |
Mitch West - National Environmental
Information Exchange Network: Sharing Data for Better Watershed
Management |
Scott McBain - River Corridor Design
Considerations to Facilitate Salmon Reintroduction to the
San Joaquin
River
[Presentation] |
Kimberly Garvey
- Restoring the
Colorado
Lagoon – The Little Lagoon That Could!
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Ondrea Hummel - Evaluating Restoration
Success and Applying Adaptive Management in the Middle
Rio Grande
Bosque |
John Pitre - Utilization of USDA Farm Bill
Conservation Programs to
Restore
Bottomland
Hardwood
Forest
Habitat for a Federally Threatened
Species in
Louisiana
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| Nate Nichols - Establishing
the Legacy Nature Preserve – Restoration in Urban/
Lake
Fringe
of the
Great Salt
Lake
Ecosystem through Collaborative Planning and Adaptive
Management
|
Lindsay Teunis - Use of Hydrogeomorphic Assessment Method (HGM) and the
California
Rapid Assessment Method
(CRAM) in Guiding Adaptive Management
Decisions
[Presentation] |
Chad
Smith - Land, Water, and Adaptive
Management – Science and Engineering for Species Recovery on the
Platte
River
[Presentation] |
Teresa Doss
& Carl Alderson - Analysis and
Assessment of Thirty Years of Wetland Restoration within the New York/New
Jersey
Harbor Estuary
[Presentation 1]
[Presentation 2] |
Robert Doren - Ecological Indicators for
Assessing
Everglades
Restoration
[Presentation] |
Karen Fullen - Restoring
Utah
Prairie Dogs
to Working Lands
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4:10-6:00 |
RESTORATION COFFEE HOUSE
Ecosystem Restoration
Success: Challenges of Coordination and Governance
MODERATOR: Martin
Goebel, Director of Sustainable Northwest
PANELISTS: Lynn Scarlett,
John Ogden, Barbara Stinson and Don Boesch
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WEDNESDAY
- JULY 22,
2009 |
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8:00-9:30 |
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS Early AM
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SESSION 1: Issues in Dam
Decommissioning
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SESSION 2: Fish
Passage
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SESSION 3: Analysis of
Historic and Future Change
to Inform Ecosystem
Restoration
|
SESSION 4: Urban Ecosystem
Restoration |
SESSION 5:
Federal
Conflict Resolution Centers: Managing Everyday
Challenges
PANEL
SESSION:
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SESSION 6: International
Ecosystem Restoration
|
Moderator:
Bud Abbott |
Moderator:
Wendi Goldsmith |
Moderator:
Charles "Si" Simenstad |
Moderator:
Patricia Matthews |
Moderator:
Brian Manwaring
[Presentation] |
Moderator:
Rob Daoust |
| Keith Admire - Issues
Respective to the Natural Resources Conservation Service in
Decommissioning Dams Pursuant to Public Law
83-566
|
Brian Zettle - Restoring Migratory
Pathways in the
Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint
River Basin
Through Fish Passage
Operations
[Presentation] |
Gregory Hood - Be Like
Janus: The Need for a Two-faced Perspective on Ecosystem
Restoration
[Presentation] |
Leslie Carrere
- Urban Forestry
Restoration Case Studies – Human Dimensions and Technical
Approaches
[Presentation] |
David Emmerson (DOI)
|
Francisco
Zamora-Arroyo - Local and Bi-National
Restoration Efforts in the Colorado River Delta in
Mexico
[Presentation] |
Timothy Randle - Progress on
Guidelines for Assessing Physical Dam Removal
Impacts
[Presentation] |
Lee Becker -
Acushnet
River
Fish Passage Restoration
Project
[Presentation] |
Charles Simenstad - Assessing Nearshore Change in Pudget Sound
[Presentation] |
Mark Tompkins - Restoring Urban
Ecosystems: The Trinity River Corridor Program,
Dallas
,
Texas
[Presentation] |
Patricia Orr (USIECR) |
Greg Eckert/Dave Koran - Best Practices for
Ecological Restoration in Protected Areas: Foundation for the IUCN
Restoration Guidelines
[Presentation] |
Jason Weiss - Economic and
NED Account Considerations During Dam Decommissioning Plan
Formulation
[Presentation] |
Heather Schwar - Evaluating Fish Passage
Effectiveness for Alternatives at the
Belvidere
Dam (
Belvidere
,
IL
)
[Presentation] |
Aundrea McBride - Fragmentation and Loss of
Pocket Estuary Habitat in the
Whidbey
Basin
of
Puget
Sound
|
Chris Webb
-
Fairview
Park
Wetland
Restoration Project
[Presentation] |
Hal Cardwell (USACE)
|
Florentina Zurita - Causes and Impacts of Zula River Pollution: Is it Possible it's
Restoration?
|
Jock Conyngham - Frequently Asked Questions in
Dam Decommissioning - Guidance for Data Collection, Analytic Needs and
Project Implementation
[Presentation] |
Jason Farmer - Balancing
Restoration Goals with Design and Function - The Melvin Price Locks and
Dam Fish Passage Project
[Presentation] |
William Brandau - Restoration Efforts on the
Upper Gila
:
1918-2009 |
Rob Sloop/Chris
Webb - Restoration of
Relic Wetlands - In Construction – A Grassroots Vision Finally
Realized
[Presentation] |
Kerry Redican (USACE)
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DISCUSSION
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9:50-11:00 |
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS Late AM
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SESSION 1: Ecosystem
Restoration Program Management
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SESSION 2: Wildlife Habitat
Restoration |
SESSION 3:
Missouri River
Recovery
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SESSION 4: Urban Ecosystem
Restoration (continued)
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SESSION 5: Predictive
Performance Measures |
SESSION 6: Linking Monitoring
Results with Decision-making
|
Moderator:
Tony Buitrago |
Moderator:
Sara Simrell |
Moderator:
Wayne Nelson-Stastny |
Moderator:
Scott Bell |
Moderator:
Tomma Barnes |
Moderator:
Eric Hughes |
Mike Rogalski - The Herbert Hoover Dike Major
Rehabilitation Project - Program Management Strategies and
Challenges
[Presentation] |
Jutta Burger - Scaling up Restoration of
Nesting Habitat for Cactus Wrens in
Orange County,
California
[Presentation] |
Mike George - Challenges
in Building Basin-Wide Consensus on
Missouri
River
Recovery Activities
[Presentation] |
Timothy Dekker
- Integrating
Hydrology, Ecology and River Geomorphology into Urban Landscape Design:
The
Lower
Don
Lands
Naturalization
Project
[Presentation] |
Jed Redwine - Performance Measures are
Essential for Planning, Operation and Validation of Landscape
Restoration
[Presentation] |
Eliza Hines - CERP
Monitoring and Assessment Plan System Status Reports: The Evolution from
2006-2009
[Presentation] |
Karen Tippett - The
South Florida
Ecosystem Restoration Program
Integrated Delivery Schedule
[Presentation] |
Allison Bremner - Caspian Tern Relocation from
the Columbia River Estuary: A Mitigation Strategy for the Recovery of the
Endangered
Columbia River
Salmonids
|
Suzanne Boltz - Using Adaptive Management to
Address Uncertainty in the Management of
Missouri
River
Cottonwoods
[Presentation] |
Steven Apfelbaum - An Ecologist's Perspective on
the Don River Naturalization:
Toronto,
Canada
[Presentation] |
Chad
Praul - A Restoration Program
Planning and Evaluation System: Selecting Performance Measures and
Relating Them to Environmental Status
[Presentation] |
Tisa
Shostik - NOAA’s Open Rivers
Initiative: Effectiveness Monitoring That Supports Decision
Making |
Mike George -
Missouri
River
Recovery Program Governance
Structure
[Presentation] |
Peter Frederick - Use of an
Unmanned Aircraft System for Monitoring Nesting Responses of Wading Birds
to Restoration of the
Florida
Everglades |
Carol Hale - Development of an Adaptive
Management (AM) Program to Support Recovery of the
Missouri River
: Creating Functional Shallow Water
and Emergent Sandbar Habitat
[Presentation] |
Michael Van Valkenburgh - Towards an
Ecological Agenda for Landscape Urbanism
[Presentation] |
Lauren Hastings - Conceptual
Models, Monitoring, Assessment and Performance
Measures in Support of
Adaptive Management in the California
Bay-Delta
System
[Presentation] |
Daniel Liebau - Passive Treatment and
Adaptive Management: Approaching an Endpoint for Ecosystem Restoration and
Watershed Protection at the Buck Mine Discharge
Site
[Presentation] |
THURSDAY - JULY 23,
2009
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|
8:30-9:30 |
Plenary Session – Global
Climate Change |
|
MODERATOR INTRODUCTION: G. Ronnie Best, US Geological
Survey
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Impacts
of Climate Change on Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration
Jean Brennan,
Senior Climate Change Scientist, Defenders of
Wildlife
[Presentation] |
|
10:00-12:10 |
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS AM
|
SESSION 1: Impacts of Climate
Change on Ecosystem Restoration
|
SESSION 2: Comparison of Adaptive Management
Programs
Panel Session |
SESSION 3:
Restoration
and Rehabilitation in the
Mississippi
River
System
|
SESSION 4: New Planning
Approaches and Methodologies |
SESSION 5: Aquatic Habitat
Restoration: Integrating Science &
Engineering
|
SESSION 6: Ecosystem
Modeling
|
Moderator:
Don Boesch |
Moderator:
Tom St. Clair |
Moderator:
Roger Perk |
Moderator:
Dave Tipple |
Moderator:
Cheryl Ulrich |
Moderator:
Kevin MacKay |
| Denise Reed - Restoring
Coastal Ecosystems in the Face of Climate Change: Using What We
Know |
Part 1 - Governance and Lessons
Learned
Panelists:
|
Paul DuBowy - Navigation, Flood Management
and the
Mississippi River
Ecosystem
[Presentation] |
Doug Lamont - Revisions to
the Principles and Guidelines – Water Resources Planning for the
21st Century
|
Andrew Albaugh - NMFS and Ecoinformatics: Using Technology and Databases to Help
Restore Endangered and Threatened Salmon
Populations
|
David Gorman - Application
of Computer Models for Ecosystem
Restoration
|
John Henz - Climate Change: Dealing with
Potential Impacts on Ecosystem Restoration
[Presentation] |
Andy Loschiavo -
Everglades
[Presentation] |
Marvin Hubbell - Environmental Restoration on
the
Upper Mississippi River
– A Look Back
and to the Future at Pioneering Programs
[Presentation] |
Ana Toline/M. Harrell - A Practical
Approach for Assessing the Benefits of Innovative Ecosystem Restoration
Projects
[Presentation] |
Noah Hume - Salmonid and Predator Use of Nearshore Habitat Enhancement Features Throughout the
Lower Sacramento River
Levee
System
[Presentation] |
Tim Hanrahan - Quantifying Large River
Habitat Restoration Potential Through Hydrodynamic Modeling and Geomorphic
Analysis
[Presentation] |
Jon Porthouse - Achieving Sustainable
Ecosystems in the Future: A Framework for Today’s Restoration Planning
Programs
[Presentation] |
Dennis Kubly -
Glen
Canyon
[Presentation] |
Marshall Plumley -
Illinois
River Basin
Restoration Program –
Comprehensive Plan Lessons Learned
[Presentation] |
Chuck Padera - The Values Triangle:
Balancing the Science, Accountability and Fair
Processes
[Presentation] |
Meagan Montgomery - Restoring
River-floodplain Connectivity for Fish Spawning and Nursery in the
Lower Missouri River
: Use of a
Constructed Fish Passage Facility
[Presentation]
|
Joel Darnell - Numerical Modeling: A Tool
for Urban Conservation and Restoration at Ormond
Lagoon
[Presentation] |
Glenn Landers - Climate
Change Concerns for
Everglades
Restoration Planning
[Presentation] |
Chad
Smith -
Platte
River
[Presentation] |
Brian Johnson - The Middle
Mississippi River
Regional Corridor Study
– An Example of Collaborative Watershed
Planning
|
Joseph DePinto - Modeling the
Relationship between Water Flows/Levels and Ecological
Endpoints
[Presentation] |
Christopher Collins - Removal or
Enhancement of Pilings and Pile Dikes as Potential Habitat Restoration
Techniques for Pacific Salmon Recovery
[Presentation] |
Andrew Casper - Envirofish: A HEC-Compatible Floodplain
Habitat Model for Evaluating Mitigation or Restoration
Scenarios
[Presentation] |
Michael Flaxman
and Steve Traxler - Exploring the Consequences of
Global Warming on the Greater Everglades: A Stakeholder-based
Approach
[Presentation] |
Part 2 - Linking Science to Decision
Making
Panelists:
|
Jack Killgore - Restoration of Secondary
Channels in the Free-flowing
Mississippi
River
[Presentation] |
Herry Utomo - Accomplishments
and Challenges in Genetic Enhancement and Aerial Planting Applications for
Restoration in Highly Eroded Intertidal Marshes
|
Mike Dietl - Collaboration and Designing
for Endangered Fish Species in a Floodway
|
Lisa Rabbe - Modeling Cottonwood Habitat
and Forecasting Landscape Changes along the
Missouri
River
[Presentation] |
| Brian Bergamaschi/Roger Fujii - A Large-Scale Carbon Biosequestration Demonstration Project in the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta |
Matt Harwell -
Everglades
[Presentation] |
Barry Johnson - Monitoring
on the
Upper Mississippi River
System:
Working Toward Adaptive Management
|
Jessica Clement - The Role of
Place-based Values to Ecosystem Governance in
Western
U.S. |
Sarah Miller - Stability
Thresholds and Performance Standards for Stream Restoration Materials and
Methods |
John Hickey - New Software Tools (HEC-EFM
and GeoEFM) for Ecosystem Restoration and
Management
[Presentation] |
Ted Melis -
Glen
Canyon
[Presentation] |
Jim Jenniges -
Platte
River
[Presentation] |
|
1:30-3:40 |
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS PM
|
|
SESSION 1: Impacts of Climate Change on
Ecosystem Restoration
|
SESSION 2: Assessing
Cumulative Effects of Multiple Restoration Projects
on an
Ecosystem
|
SESSION 3:
Restoration
and Rehabilitation in the
Mississippi
River
System
|
SESSION 4: Effective
Partnering for Setting and
Achieving Habitat Conservation
Goals
|
SESSION 5: Coastal
Restoration
|
SESSION 6: SCS/NRCS Watershed
Planning and Effects of
Upland
Conservation
on Coastal Ecosystems |
Moderator:
Laura Stroup |
Moderator:
Ron Thom |
Moderator:
Paul DuBowy |
Moderator:
Sandra Scoggin |
Moderator:
Dave Tazik |
Moderator:
Howard Hankin |
Richard Fischer - Future
Habitat and Population Viability of Shore-line dependent Birds in
Florida
:
Assessing Risk and Uncertainty under Climate
Change
[Presentation] |
Ron Thom
- Moderator
[Presentation] |
Leighann Gipson - Conservation – The Other
Economy
[Presentation] |
Fred Reid - Effective Partnering for
Setting and Achieving Habitat Conservation
Goals
|
Jana Davis - Living
Shoreline Restoration: Evaluation of Ecological
Benefits and Connections to Policy and Management |
Andrew Lipsky - Ridgetop to Reef- Tapping the
Potential of the
US
Farmbill
[Presentation] |
Burton
Suedel - A Risk-Informed Decision
Framework for Hurricane Protection and Coastal
Planning
[Presentation] |
Gary Johnson - Cumulative
Effects Evaluation of Ecosystem Restoration in the
Columbia River
Estuary |
Leighann Gipson - Overview of the
Lower Mississippi River
Resource
Assessment
[Presentation] |
Beth Huning - The
San Francisco
Bay
Joint
Venture
|
Deborah Shafer/J. Jarvis
- Large-Scale
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Restoration in
Chesapeake Bay
:
2003-2008 |
Jan Surface - The Future
of the Watershed Approach – Rapid Watershed
Assessments
[Presentation] |
Tom Kendall - Planning for Future Sea
Level Rise in the USACE
[Presentation] |
Curtis Roegner - Linking Juvenile Salmon Use
to Habitat Restoration
[Presentation] |
Barbara Kleiss - The Utilization of the
Mississippi River in the Restoration of Coastal
Louisiana
[Presentation] |
John Brosnan - Partnerships at Work
Delivering Cutting-edge Wetland Restoration in
North
San Francisco
Bay
Estuary
[Presentation] |
Anitra Thorhaug - Comparison of Resilience of
Restoration of the Seagrass Genus Halodule in Subtropical to Tropical Atlantic,
Pacific, Gulf of Mexico and
Caribbean
|
Douglas
Helms - Heritage of the SCS
Demonstration and Watershed Projects: Lessons for Conservation,
Rehabilitation and Restoration Projects
|
| Jeremy Lowe/Nick Garrity - Rip-rap or
Realignment? Wetland Restoration and Sea-Level Rise Adaptation
Strategies |
Heida Diefenderfer - Evaluation of Synergistic and
Linear Processes in the Cumulative Effects of Ecosystem
Restoration |
Glenn Constant
-
Atchafalaya
River
Restoration and
Its Role in Coastal Processes
[Presentation] |
Lorraine
Parsons - Using Partnerships to Restore
Our National Legacies
|
Charles Rowney/Vicki Lehr - Regaining
Overland
Flow: Spreader Canals as an Adaptable and
Secure Alternative for Flow Control and Habitat
Recovery
[Presentation] |
Lisa Duriancik - Opportunities to Enhance
Conservation Implementation and Watershed Planning: Conservation Effects Assessment
Project
[Presentation] |
Rudolph Rosen - Building
Practical On-the-Ground Responses to the Effect of Climate Change on West
Coast Wetlands Restoration and Protection
[Presentation] |
Ron Thom - Linking Site Restoration to
Ecosystem Recovery: Scaling
and Applications of Results from the
Columbia
River
Estuary
[Presentation] |
Dave Vigh - Collaboration and
Interdependence – Two Keys to
Mississippi
Valley
Regionalization and
Partnerships
[Presentation] |
Renee Spenst - The Role of Ducks Unlimited
in Developing Strategic Partnerships for Restoration Planning and
Implementation in the
San
Francisco
Bay |
Jeffrey Corbino - Coastal Restoration Efforts
in
Louisiana
Using Dredged Material from
Federal Navigation Channels
[Presentation] |
Questions & Answers |
Susan Colley - Adaptations
of Corals and Coral Reefs to Climate
Change
[Presentation] |
Catherine Corbett - Preliminary Meta-Analysis of Data from Multiple Monitoring Programs –
Effectiveness Monitoring, Reference Sites and Ecosystem
Condition
[Presentation] |
DISCUSSION
|
Nadav Nur - Guiding Wetland Restoration
in the
San
Francisco
Estuary through Monitoring, Evaluation
and Research: A Multi-partner
Approach
|
Brannon Ketcham - Returning Natural Hydrologic
Process through the Giacomini Wetland
Restoration,
Tomales Bay
,
CA
[Presentation] |
Bob Snieckus - Visualization Techniques for
Watershed Planning and Restoration Design
[Presentation] |
| |
Blaine
Ebberts - Adaptive Management of
Restoration in the
Columbia River
Estuary: From the Ecosystem to the
Organization
[Presentation] |
|
|
|
|
|
4:10-5:30 |
RESTORATION COFFEE HOUSE
“Climate Change: The
800-Pound Gorilla” — This session will focus on emerging challenges
relevant
to
integrating climate change and sea-level rise into
large-scale ecosystem restoration.
MODERATOR: G. Ronnie Best, U.S.
Geological Survey
Jean Brennan, Senior Climate Change
Scientist, Defenders of Wildlife;
[Presentation]
Courtney Hackney,
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL;
Lauren Hastings, CALFED Bay-Delta
Program;
[Presentation]
Denise Reed, Department of Geology and Geophysics,
University of New Orleans;
[Presentation]
Laura Stroup, Assistant Professor,
Department of Geography, Texas State University-San
Marcos;
[Presentation]
Si Simenstad, Research Professor at the School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of
Washington
[Presentation] |
FRIDAY - JULY 24,
2009
|
|
8:00-10:30 |
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS AM
|
SESSION 1: New Planning
Approaches for Large-scale Ecosystem
Restoration
|
SESSION 2: Multi-party
Stakeholder Involvement
|
SESSION 3: Habitat
Restoration and Enhancement on Working
Landscapes
|
SESSION 4:
Chesapeake Bay
Ecosystem
Restoration
|
SESSION
5: Desert Aquatic Habitat Restoration
|
SESSION 6: Ponds and Marsh
Restoration |
Moderator:
Sara Pauley |
Moderator:
Beverly Getzen |
Moderator:
Alyson Aquino |
Moderator:
Liana Vitali |
Moderator:
David Koran |
Moderator:
Greg Shellenbarger |
Zooey Diggory - Balancing the Uncertainties:
Approaches to Large-Scale River Corridor Restoration Planning in a
Semi-Arid
California
Landscape
[Presentation] |
Dennis Canty - Building a Successful Funding
Strategy for Ecosystem Restoration: The
Puget
Sound
Experience |
Carlos de la Rosa - Restoring
Habitat in an Agricultural System on
Catalina Island
,
CA
[Presentation] |
Brenton McCloskey - Restoration of the
Chesapeake Bay
from a Watershed-wide and
State-specific Perspective
[Presentation] |
Robert Andress - Rehabilitation of School
Spring, Ash Meadows
Nevada
to Improve Habitat Quality for
Warm Springs Pupfish and Thermal Endemic
Invertebrates
[Presentation] |
Douglas Barnum - Design,
Construction and Management of Saline Ponds at the
Salton Sea
, CA
|
Steve Ashby - Planning and
Assessment Tools for Watershed
Studies
[Presentation] |
Doris Washington &
Jeannette Baker - Partnering for Ecosystem
Restoration: NRCS and the
U.S.
Army Corps of
Engineers
[Presentation] |
Leslie Koenig - Livestock
Pond Restoration and Habitat Management for
California
's
Red-legged Frog and Tiger Salamander
[Presentation] |
Kristen Fleming -
Maryland
's Ecosystem Enhancement
Program - A Better Model for Mitigation
[Presentation] |
Valer Austin - Stream
Restoration |
Michael Anderson - The Water
Quality, Geochemistry and Physics of Shallow Pond Habitat at the
Salton Sea
,
CA
[Presentation] |
John White
- Restoration of
Coastal
Louisiana
Wetlands Using Large Surface
Water Diversions
[Presentation] |
Patrick Kelly - Challenges and
Opportunities in Restoration of Retired Agricultural Lands in
Fresno County,
California
[Presentation] |
Jessica Groves - Wetland
Restoration on Private Lands Through NRCS
Programs |
Jennifer Raulin - Putting Resources to the
Level Where the Work Gets Done:
Chesapeake
Bay
Restoration
[Presentation] |
Boris Poff - Spring Restoration in the
Mojave National Preserve
[Presentation] |
Nicole Athearn - Monitoring to Better
Understand Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics in Managed Salt
Ponds
|
Kim Gavigan -
Virgin
River
and Tributaries: Watershed
and Floodplain Management Strategies
[Presentation] |
Ann George - Partnerships with Industry to
Achieve Ecosystem Restoration
[Presentation] |
David Hubbard -
Restoration of Vernal Pools on Urban Fragments in Coastal
Southern California |
Lewis Linker - Integrated
Chesapeake Bay
Computer Models of the
Watershed, Airshed, Estuary, Living Resources,
and Climate Change
[Presentation] |
Jack Williams - Potential
Impacts of
Nevada
Groundwater Diversions to
Regional Spring Restoration
[Presentation] |
Cheryl Strong - Biological
Considerations in Managed Pond Design for Waterbirds
[Presentation] |
Victoria Lehr
- Picayune
Strand
Restoration Project – Partnering
to Achieve Success
[Presentation] |
Michael Garello - Consensus Based Approaches to
Unite Landowners, Irrigators, Special Districts, Resource Agencies and NGO's
[Presentation] |
Mace
Vaughan
- Restoring
Pollinator Habitat on Agricultural Lands
|
Lewis Linker - Development and Application
of the
Chesapeake Bay
Program Watershed
Model
[Presentation] |
Carla Scheidlinger - Restoration of Desert
Riparian, Wash, and Marsh Wetland Communities Affected by the Lining of
the
Coachella
Canal
[Presentation] |
Peg McBrien - Restoring Urban Salt Marshes
- Ten Years of Lessons Learned
[Presentation] |
| Vechere Lampley - Challenges and Opportunities
of implementing Estuary Restoration Act
Projects
|
Ann Bleed - Necessary Measures for
Insuring Sustainable Long-term Success of Large-scale Ecosystem
Restoration Management Projects
[Presentation] |
Shea O'Keefe - Restoring
the San Dieguito Watershed for Sensitive Species
Habitat and the Prevention of Catastrophic Wildlire Using a Multi-entity
Approach
[Presentation] |
Carl Cerco - Restoring
Chesapeake Bay
from the Top
Down
[Presentation] |
Kathryn Boyer - The Desert
Fish Habitat Partnership: Striving for No More
Extinctions
[Presentation] |
Barry Dubinski - Optimizing Long-Term
Ecosystem Success in Freshwater and Saltwater Habitats at the Altas Tack Corporation Superfund
Site |
Gregory Biddinger -
Natural
Land
Management: A Property
Management Strategy to Enhance Ecological
Value
[Presentation] |
Richard Sparks - Connecting
Science, Policy and Projects for Renewal of Rivers: The Great Rivers
Partnership - Second Generation
[Presentation] |
Kevin MacKay - Restoring Physical and
Ecological Processes in an Agricultural
Setting
[Presentation] |
P. Soupy Dalyander - Integration of an
Individual-Based Fish Bioenergetics Model into a Spatially Explicit Water
Quality Model:
Chesapeake Bay
|
DISCUSSION
|
Wendi Goldsmith - Urban Pond
and Marsh Restoration, a Cost-Saving
Paradigm
[Presentation] |
|
11:00-12:00 |
CLOSING PLENARY: Taking NCER
to the Next Level - A "National Coalition" for Ecosystem Restoration?
Tom St. Clair, PBS&J
Cheryl Ulrich, Weston
Solutions
[Presentation] |
