Sunday
– September 24, 2006
| 11:00 am - 5:00 pm |
Pre-workshop Event
Explore the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers
Board a Mississippi River boat for a trip along the rivers between
Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Click here
for more information |
|
5:00 - 7:00 pm |
Registration |
Monday – September 25, 2006
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7:30 - 8:30 am
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Registration and Continental Breakfast |
|
8:30 am |
Opening
Comments/Introductions
- Sheryl Corrigan, Commissioner, Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency (MPCA)
- Faye Sleeper, Manager, Watershed Section, Regional
Division, MPCA |
|
9:15 - 10:00 am |
Plenary Session - Keynote Speaker
- Use of Lake Sediment Records to Understand
Long-term Environmental Change - Dr. Daniel
Engstrom, Director, St. Croix Watershed Research
Station, Science Museum of Minnesota (invited) |
|
10:00 - 10:30 am |
Break |
|
10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Plenary Session |
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• 10:30 - 11:15 am |
-
Sustainability of the Corn-Soybean Rotation in
Agriculture - Dr. Gyles Randall, Professor, Southern
Research and Outreach Center, University of
Minnesota |
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• 11:15 am - 12:00 pm |
- Lessons Learned
from the National Nonpoint
Source Monitoring Program
- Don Meals, Tetra Tech |
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12:00 - 1:30 pm
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Luncheon with speaker
- The Clean Water Legacy Act: Minnesota’s Approach to
Impaired Waters Restoration - Representative Dennis
Ozment, Minnesota House of Representatives |
|
1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Concurrent Sessions |
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CONCURRENT
SESSIONS |
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Detecting Change in Water Quality from BMP Implementation
Moderator: |
Modeling Applications for Nonpoint Source Pollution and Control
Strategies
Moderator: |
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1:30 pm
|
Reductions
in Phosphorus Loading to Agricultural Watersheds through
Implementation of Best Management Practices - Shanon Phillips,
Oklahoma Conservation Commission |
Modeling Surface and Subsurface Flows in the
Whitewater "Paired Watershed" Monitoring Project - Brennon
Schaefer, University of Minnesota |
|
2:00 pm
|
Effects of Best-Management
Practices in Otter Creek in the Sheboygan River Priority Watershed,
Wisconsin, 1990-2002 - Steven Corsi, U.S. Geological Survey
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A Nutrient and Sediment Mass-Balance Model for
Evaluating Progress towards Regional Water Quality Goals - Steve
Kloiber, Metropolitan Council-Water Resource Assessment Section |
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2:30 pm
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Detecting Changes in Suspended
Sediment and Nitrate Concentrations at the Walnut Creek, Iowa, NMP
Project - Keith Schilling, Iowa DNR Geological Survey
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Modeling In-Stream Nutrient Concentration Reductions
from Riparian Buffers and Cover Crops in the Choptank River
Watershed - Carrie Graff, USDA ARS |
| 3:00 - 3:30 pm
3:30 - 5:00
pm |
Break Concurrent Sessions |
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CONCURRENT
SESSIONS |
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Detecting Change in Water Quality from BMP Implementation
Moderator: |
Innovative Monitoring in Agricultural and Urban
Landscapes
Moderator:
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|
3:30 pm
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Stormwater Runoff Quality and Quantity from a
Traditional and Low Impact Development - John Clausen, University
of Connecticut |
Building Capacity for E. Coli Bateria Monitoring
Through Volunteer Networks - Barbara Liukkonen, University of Minnesota
Water Resources Center |
|
4:00 pm
|
Impacts Of Infiltration Based Stormwater Best
Management Practices - Rob Traver, Villanova University |
QA/QC Issues with Screening-Level Monitoring Methods
- Joe Rathbun, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality |
|
4:30 pm
|
Assessing the Benefits of a Residential Rainwater
Garden Retrofit Project-Results of a Paired Watershed Study -
Greg Wilson, Barr Engineering Company |
Use of a Probability Design by the California NPS
Program to Assess the Biotic Condition of Wadeable Streams in
Agricultural, Urbanized and Forested Watersheds - Peter Ode,
California Dept. of Fish and Game |
| 6:00 - 8:00
pm
|
Reception (sponsored by Tetra Tech)
Music provided by
Clearwater, a
Twin Cities based trio that plays well known acoustic, folk, and
bluegrass as well as original songs with an environmental theme.
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Tuesday
–
September 26, 2006
| 7:30 - 8:30 am
|
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Stream Restoration
Research at the National Center for
Earth-surface Dynamics
(NCED)
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Demonstrations from the web-based
NCED stream restoration toolbox
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Presentations
on on-going stream restoration research
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Demonstration and discussion of
stream restoration training challenges and options
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Tour of the indoor and outdoor
restoration research facilities at the St. Anthony Falls
Laboratory
For
information about NCED, go to:
http://www.nced.umn.edu/
or
Training Workshop
Managing the Use of Deicing Chemicals for Water Quality Protection
(Presented by Fortin Consulting Inc.)
Click
here for more information |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Luncheon |
|
1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Concurrent Sessions |
|
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS |
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Detecting Change in Water Quality from BMP Implementation
Moderator: |
Innovative Monitoring and
Management Strategies in Agricultural and Urban Landscapes
Moderator:
|
|
1:30 pm
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Stroud Preserve National Monitoring Project: Water
Quality Benefits of a Three-Zone Riparian Forest Buffer System on
Mid-Atlantic Piedmont Farm - Denis Newbold, Stroud Water Research
Center |
Erosion From Flat Agricultural Landscapes
Demonstrated With The Interactive Hydrograph - Patrick Baskfield,
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |
|
2:00 pm |
Integrated Management Strategy for the Development
and Implementation of an Atrazine TMDL for Aquilla Lake - Monty
Dozier, Texas Cooperative Extension |
Impact of Suburban Landscape Types on Surface Water
Quality - Martin Petrovic, Cornell
University |
|
2:30 pm
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A Comparison of Watershed and Field Scale Nitrogen,
Phosphorus and Pesticide Losses from Intensively Drained
Agricultural Lands - William VanRyswyk, Minnesota Dept. of
Agriculture |
National Monitoring Program (NMP) Overview: Long-Term
Monitoring Projects Documenting Water Quality Improvements from Best
Management Practices - Jean Spooner, North Carolina State
University |
|
3:00 - 3:30 pm
3:30 - 5:00 pm |
Break
Concurrent Sessions |
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CONCURRENT
SESSIONS |
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Design and Calibration for Detecting Change in
Water Quality
Moderator: |
Innovative Monitoring -
Groundwater and Surface Water Interactions
Moderator:
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3:30 pm
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Monitoring the Corsica River Watershed Water Quality
from Field to Estuary - Documenting Progress Towards Meeting Water
Use and Quality Criteria Goals of a Maryland TMDL - Niles
Primrose, Maryland Dept of the Environment |
Influence of Feedlot Runoff on Filter Strip Soil
Chemistry: Evidence for Groundwater Contamination? - Dennis
Busch, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Pioneer Farm |
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4:00 pm
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Pre-harvest Calibration of a Paired and Nested
Watershed Study to Evaluate Event-Based Suspended Sediment Export -
Brian Dietterick, Cal Poly State University |
Monitoring of Ground Water Interactions in the
Vermillion River - Jennifer Olson, Emmons and Olivier Resources |
|
4:30 pm |
Effect of Historical Logging in the Little Rock River and Big Fork
River Watersheds in Northern Minnesota - A Paired Watershed Approach
- Jesse Anderson, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |
Identification and Quantification of Source Waters in
a Paired Watershed Setting - Helga Madrigal, University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities |
Wednesday
–
September 27, 2006
| 7:00 - 7:45 am |
Breakfast |
| 7:45 am |
Board tour bus for field trip |
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm |
Field Trips - choose one of the three field
trips offered
Click here for more details on each
tour
Rural Tour
Travel to
the St. Peter, Minnesota, area to visit water quality monitoring,
restoration, and protection efforts undertaken by multiple
organizations.
Urban-Rural
Transition Tour
Travel to
the Dakota County, Minnesota, area to visit water quality monitoring,
restoration, and protection efforts undertaken by multiple organizations
Urban Walking Tour
Rather
than board a bus for a tour, join a walking tour of the Mississippi
River riverfront and downtown Minneapolis.
|
| 6:00 - 9:00 pm |
Dinner
Upon
completion of the workshop tours, workshop participants will return to
the Mississippi River; this time in St. Paul for dinner and
entertainment on the Minnesota Centennial Showboat. The Showboat is
permanently moored at the Harriet Island Regional Park across the river
from downtown St. Paul.
Music and entertainment
provided by the Yard Buzzard String Band and Wild Goose Chase Cloggers. |
Thursday
–
September 28, 2006
| 7:30 - 8:30 am
|
Breakfast |
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CONCURRENT
SESSIONS |
|
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Riparian Area and Stream Protection/Restoration and Monitoring
the Long Term Impact of 319 Projects
Moderator: |
Nonpoint Source Pollution TMDLs
Moderator:
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|
8:30 am
|
Stream BMP Assessment - Don Roseboom, USGS
Illinois Science Center |
Turbidity and Fecal Material in Streams Associated
with Conventional Grazing and Managed Intensive Grazing in
Southeastern Minnesota - Jason Ewert, Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency |
|
9:00 am
|
Stream Stability Assessment for NPS BMP Selection -
Joe Rathbun, Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality |
Development of a Nutrient Management BMP to Address
TMDLs in the Tri-County Agricultural Area of North East Florida -
Pam Livingston Way, St. Johns River Water Management District |
|
9:30 am
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Watershed Management in Delaware County, Indiana -
Jarka Popovicova, Ball State University |
A Regional Stream Monitoring Network for TMDL
Development and Implementation - D. Kent Johnson, Environmental
Monitoring Section |
|
| 10:00 am |
Break |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Plenary Session |
| • 10:30 - 11:15 am |
- Dov Weitman, U.S. EPA Nonpoint Source
Control Branch |
| • 11:15 am - 12:00 pm |
- Tom Davenport, U.S. EPA Region 5 |
12:00 - 1:30 pm
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Luncheon (workshop end)
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Poster Presentations
Stormwater Wetland Installation at The North Carolina Arboretum,
Asheville, NC - Jon Calabria, NCSU Water Quality Group
Bent Creek Stabilization Project- Jon Calabria, NCSU Water
Quality Group
The French Broad River Watershed Training Center- Jon
Calabria, NCSU Water Quality Group
Rain Garden Construction- Jon Calabria, NCSU Water Quality
Group
Cane Creek Stabilization Project- Jon Calabria, NCSU Water
Quality Group
A Farmer's Guide to Agriculture and Water Quality Issues-
Laura Lombardo Szpir, NCSU Water Quality Group
The Rock Creek (Ohio) Conservation Effects Assessment Project:
Plans and Preliminary Results- Pete Richards, Heidelberg College
Assessing Rain Garden Effectiveness- Brooke Asleson, Water
Resource Science
Rain Garden Stormwater Infiltration Rates-Measuring Change
Related to Sediment Deposition- Chris Bonick, Barr Enginerring
Company
Dissolved Oxygen (Do) Interpolation and Extrapolation- Omar I.
Abdul Azia, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Southeast Minnesota's Logan Creek Subwatershed Project,
1999-2004: Implementation, Assessment, Landowner Surveys, and
Monitoring - Lessons Learned and Future Options- Bill Thompson,
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Implementation Strategies in the Stroubles Creek Watershed-
Gene Yagow, Virginia Tech
Modeling In-Stream Nutrient Concentration Reductions from
Riparian Buffers and Cover Crops in the Choptank River Watershed-
Carrie Graff, USDA ARS
An Environmental and Economic Gain for Pennsylvania Livestock
Producers-Project Grass Pasture Improvement- Carl Rohr,
Pennsylvania Dept of Environmental Protection
Thermal Pollution of Trout Streams from Stormwater Runoff-
William Herb, University of Minnesota
The Lower Cannon River Turbidity TMDL- Elizabeth Kallestad,
Cannon River Watershed Partnership
Assessing the Effectiveness of Proprietary Stormwater Treatment
Devices- Matt Wilson, University of Minnesota
Multicompartment Ecosystem Models For Managing Nutrient
Pollution- Lawrence Baker, University of Minnesota
Road Salt Reduction- Connie Fortin, Fortin Consulting Inc
Reclamation Of Water Quality Function Through Wetland
Restoration: The Role Of Monitoring- Gary Oberts, Emmons and
Olivier Resources, Inc
Lessons Learned From The National Non Point Source Monitoring
Program- Don Meals, Tetra Tech Inc
Modeling Of Non-point Source TSS Loads In Bluff Creek Watershed,
USA, Using GIS And SWAT- Hong Wang, Metropolitan Council
Rapid Stream Assessment In Illinois TMDL Watersheds- Don
Roseboom, USGS Illinois Science Center
Sequential Dam Notching - A Very Cost Effective Stream
Restoration BMP- Don Roseboom, USGS Illinois Science Center |
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