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Monday, November 15, 2010 |
Pre-Conference Workshops Note: There is an additional cost for attending a pre-conference workshop: $85 per person ($45 for full-time students). Workshop #1 - Innovations in Stream Restoration Structures for Habitat and Bank Stabilization NOTE: Dr. Rosgen's handout is available for download by clicking the link above. If using this handout in any way, please make sure to provide the proper source reference. Workshop #2 - Invasive Plant Management in the Riparian Setting |
| 5:00 - 6:30 pm | Social sponsored by our Sponsors at Raleigh Times Bar, 14 E. Hargett St. From the Marriott, walk 2 blocks north on Fayetteville St.; turn right on Hargett. |
| Tuesday, November 16 8:00 am - 12:00 pm |
General Session (Click on the presenter's name to view their biographical sketch) Moderator: Greg Jennings, NC State University
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| 12:00 - 1:30 pm | Lunch sponsored by Stonefly Sponsors |
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session 1
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Communities and Streams Stormwater facilities as community spaces - Ted Brown, Biohabitats, Inc. Explorations in community and environmental enhancement - Jon Calabria, University of Georgia Regenerating urban ecosystems - Matt Tobolski, Susan Hatchell Landscape Architecture Integrating urban communities with stream restoration - innovations in technical and social paradigms - Joshua Gilman, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc. B. Aquatic Ecosystem Functions The functional lift pyramid: a conceptual model for evaluating the benefits of stream restoration - Will Harman, Stream Mechanics Use of fish functional traits for ecosystem restoration assessment: a focus on impairment due to suspended sediment - John Schwartz, University of Tennessee Knoxville The re-introduction of the federally threatened Cherokee darter at the Bannister Creek Mitigation Bank - Shane Keebaugh, Wildlands Engineering Impacts of stream restoration on fish and macroinvertebrate communities in five western North Carolina streams - David Gillette, UNC Asheville C. Restoration Planning NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program watershed planning and the new federal mitigation rule - Nancy Daly, NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources wetland and stream mitigation program - Tom Van Arsdall, KY Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources SARA Stream Restoration, a program approach - James Boenig, San Antonio River Authority The Ecosystem Enhancement Program's local watershed planning approach to project implementation - Michael McDonald, NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program |
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Concurrent Session 2 |
A. Community Engagement Natural form and function versus aesthetics, flooding concerns and public opinion in urban restoration projects - Greg Phillips, GMBc & Associates Good streams make good neighbors - Eve Brantley, Auburn University The Friday funnies are back! Implementing stream restoration projects on private property - Joel Tillery, CH2M Hill Stream daylighting at the Dell - Vince Sortman, Biohabitats, Inc. B. Water Quality Is stream restoration enough? Linking restoration with watershed-based stormwater management in urban streams - Sara McMillan, UNC Charlotte Linking microbes and ecosystem processes in restored urban streams: An analysis of denitrifier diversity - Sandra Clinton, UNC Charlotte Water quality impacts of Coastal Plain stream restoration - Kris Bass, NC State University Restoring streams for reduced suspended sediment loads in the Triassic Basin: Time to re-evaluate our expectations - Melanie Small, UNC Chapel Hill C. Dam Removal Connecting communities with rivers through dam removals and blue trails - Lynnette Batt, American Rivers Buckhorn Creek restoration - Nathan Jean, Stantec Consulting Fish passage at lock and dam #1 on Cape Fear River - Phillip Todd, SEPI Engineering & Construction Low head dams - By sky and paddle - Benjamin Leatherland, Env Services & Consulting |
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Poster Presentations and Reception Sponsored by Stonefly, Mayfly, and Caddisfly Sponsors. After Hours: Cherry Bomb Grill, 301 W Martin St. |
Wednesday, Nov. 17 Concurrent Session 3 |
A. Urban Stream Challenges Restoring function to an intensely urbanized stream - Mill Creek in Cincinnati, Ohio - Warren High, MACTEC She loves me, she loves me not: Charlotte's love affair with Little Sugar Creek rekindled - Emily Reinicker, Wildlands Engineering, Inc., Beth Poovey, LandDesign Restoration of Neabsco Creek, Prince William County, Virginia - Robert Siegfried, Whitman Requardt & Associates, LLP Making stream restoration work for the community and environment - Todd St. John, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. B. Riparian Restoration The effects of stream restoration on woody riparian vegetation in the northwestern North Carolina mountain region - Christopher Kaase, Appalachian State University A five-year study of container and bareroot vegetation survival on an NCSU stream mitigation project - Karen Hall, NC State University Small scale stream mitigation within a highly urbanized watershed - Joshua Rogers, City of Chattanooga Biology and control of porcelain berry (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata), and invasive Vitaceae in North Carolina - Sherrie Emerine, NC State University C. Coastal Stream Restoration Restoration of Coastal Plain headwater systems: Lessons learned and performance monitoring - Jeff Furness, PotashCorp New stream mitigation requirements in coastal South Carolina - Providing mitigation in an atmosphere of dynamic policy and emerging science - Joshua Gilman, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc. A NC Sandhills headwater stream and wetland restoration project: Background and monitoring strategy - Tracy Stapleton, NC DENR Ecosystem Enhancement Program and Amber Coleman, Stantec Applying geomorphology and two-dimensional hydraulic modeling to the management of municipal Coastal Plain canals - Joshua Robinson, BurnsRobinson, PC |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Break Sponsored by Mayfly Sponsors |
10:00 am - 11:30 am Concurrent Session 4 |
A. Community Restoration Case Studies Designing stream stabilization measures for short stream segments in urban areas - Becky Ward, Ward Consulting Engineers, P.C. Powhatan Plantation stream restoration project - Travis Crayosky, Williamsburg Environmental Group, Inc. Challenges and constraints of urban stream restoration - Case Study: Roanoke Rapids reach 2 & 5 - Amit Sachan, Dewberry The Ararat River project - Restoring a large river for a small community - Joshua White, Michael Baker Engineering, Inc. Case studies in urban stream restoration - William Wilhelm, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. B. Riparian Monitoring A comparison of vegetation surveying methods for mitigation projects - Daniel Ingram, WK Dickson Evaluating stream restoration: A need to tailor goals, monitoring, and success - Zack Mondry, NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program Advantages of monitoring vegetation restoration with the Carolina Vegetation Survey protocol - Forbes Boyle, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Use of survival data for planted woody stems to refine a vegetation monitoring protocol for restoration sites - Thomas Wentworth, NC State University Are you losing credits in the dirt? The value of a proper and comprehensive soil investigation - Michael Wood, Catena Group C. Rural Stream Restoration Multi-agency and stakeholder collaboration on a stream and Southern Appalachian Bog wetland restoration project in the New River basin of North Carolina - Harry Tsomides, NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program, Chris McGrath, NC Wildlife Resources Commission An innovative, low cost stream restoration and mitigation in the Flint Hill Prairie region of North Central Oklahoma - Michael Geenen, NC State University Rural stream restoration: Lessons learned in design and implementation - Suzanne Hoehne, Biohabitats, Inc. and Nick Ozburn, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Stream and wetland restoration at Rendezvous Mountain Educational State Forest - Greg Jennings, NC State University Innovative habitat structures in mountain streams - Darrell Westmoreland, North State Environmental |
| 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch Sponsored by Stonefly Sponsors |
| 1:00 - 2:30 pm Concurrent Session 5 |
A. Community Partners Economics of urban stream restoration - Realizing benefits and optimizing funding - Warren High, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc. Restoring streams in a community park setting: Lessons learned in public perception - Kayne Van Stell, Michael Baker Engineering Cane Run watershed assessment and restoration project: Improving community awareness and education - Carmen Agouridis, University of Kentucky Parkerson Mill Creek: Replacing problem with opportunity - Jess Roberts, Auburn University B. Planning and Technology Spatially tracking statewide stream restoration - Colleen Kiley, NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program The implementation of five diverse watershed plans in the Upper Neuse: Measures of effort and success - Michele Drostin, NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program The evolution of stream assessments in the context of watershed planning - Jason Doll, Moffat and Nichol Southern Regional Watershed Education efforts to improve stormwater management and elevate ecological function of streams - Frank Henning, Region IV Land Grant Universities Water Liaison C. Ecosystem Modeling NCD 2010: A model for predicting river geometry using hydrodynamics and particle separation technology - Brian Belcher, Beaver Creek Hydrology, LLC Restoring pool-riffle habitat in Beaver Creek, Knox County, Tennessee: Lessons learned in a planform-constrained urban stream - Keil Neff, University of Tennessee The applicability of 2D and 3D models in evaluating stream restoration designs - Michael Chelminski, Stantec Consulting Designing scour, putting research into practice - Christopher J. Estes, Estes Design, Inc. |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Break Sponsored by Mayfly Sponsors |
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Concurrent Session 6 |
A. Stream Design Innovations Application of the FLOWSED and POWERSED models in river stability, bridge design and river restoration - George Athanasakes, Stantec Geomorphic lessons learned from floodplain interactions and urban stream natural channel restoration - David Bidelspach, Stantec Refining Data Collection for Urban Stream Restoration Projects: Use of Acoustic Doppler Current Meter and Traditionally Collected Velocity Data - Dani Wise-Johnson, VHB, Inc. Evaluation of NRCS stream work in southwest Virginia - Kelly Ramsey, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service B. Riparian Restoration Tools Development and application of headwater stream models in North Carolina - Periann Russell, NC Division of Water Quality Developing a Piedmont stream conceptual model - Kyle McKay, US Army Corps of Engineers Application of Carolina Vegetation Survey inventory data for generation and evaluation of restoration targets - Robert Peet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill An expert system for generating restoration targets for Carolina Piedmont riparian vegetation - Elizabeth Matthews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill C. Monitoring and Evaluation Streambank erosion monitoring in Gwinnett County, Georgia - Elisa Aylin Lewallen, Brown and Caldwell Watershed improvement planning and project implementation to target sediment load reductions in Gwinnett County Georgia streams - A case study of improvements at a County park - Jill Stachura, Brown and Caldwell Application of the Watershed Assessment of River Stability and Sediment Supply (WARSSS) Model to a transportation planning project - Scott Peyton, Stantec Compensatory stream and wetland mitigation in North Carolina: An evaluation of regulatory success - Eric Kulz and Tammy Hill, NC Division of Water Quality |
| Thursday, Nov. 18 8:00 am - 11:30 pm |
A half-day Field Tour of local stream projects. |
