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2006 Water and Restoration Conference Planning Information Time Period: 3:00 pm Tuesday, January 24 to 12:00 pm Friday, January 27, 2006 Session Objectives: Our relatively
intact ecosystems offer many opportunities to preserve, prior to restoration.
When restoration is necessary, however, Alaska waters and restoration
practices are unique in many ways. This session provides a series of presentations
from local and national viewpoints that;
Successful Outcomes: include improved understanding of watershed processes and their incorporation into restoration activities and prioritization, the varied restoration activities going on in the State, the current and near-future state of knowledge, the improvements in collaborative efforts; and the methods to balance sustainable development with ecosystem preservation. Each Speaker is requested to provide an Abstract for publication on the Alaska Section website. Talks will be 30 minutes each including questions (a few talks are one hour in length). Below speaker information lists only potential presenting speakers, not full authorship. Special Session Chair,
Bill Rice, US Fish and Wildlife Service 12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH (provided) with North Slope Sessions and Discussion Tuesday Afternoon - Start at 3:00 pm Session Introduction, 5 minutes Alaska Water Resource Studies 3:00 - 3:30 Prathap Kodial, UAF. Geomorphologic Processes Associated with a Thermokarst Developing in a Sub-Arctic Watershed 3:30 - 4:00 Ed Neal, USGS. Channel Incision of Proglacial Mendenhall River and Implications to Mendenhall Valley Hydrology 4:00 - 4:30 Debasmita Misra, UAF. A Review of CBM Co-Produced Water Disposal Methods for Alaska 4:30 - 5:00 Dave Streubel and
Eric Holloway, NOAA Weather Forecast Center. An
evaluation of Alaska Precipitation Data Derived from the North American
Regional Reanalysis 7:30 - 8:00 Registration, Pastries, Coffee Restoration in the Landscape Context 8:00 - 9:00 Janine Castro, PhD. US Fish and Wildlife Service. Matching Channel Morphology to Landscape Context 9:00 - 9:30 Tschaplinski, Peter. B.C. Ministry of Forests and Range. Riparian Management Effectiveness Evaluation Pilot for the British Columbia Forest and Range Practices Act 9:30 - 10:00 Prichard, Don, BLM. Proper Functioning Condition, a Methodology for Assessing Riparian and Wetland Areas 10:00 - 10:30 BREAK 10:30 - 11:00 Jim Powell, ADEC. Wetland Functional Assessment Guidebooks Using the Hydrogeomorphic Approach: Applications -Wetland Mitigation Banking, Restoration, and Large Development Projects 11:00 - 11:30 Ann Puffer, US Forest Service. Integrating Assessments for Prioritizing Restoration Within a Watershed 11:30 - 12:00 Jeff Davis, Aquatic Restoration and Research Institute. Another Look at Design Criteria for Streambank Restoration Projects 12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH (provided) 1:00 - 1:30 Staats, Janice, et al. BLM Creeks and Communities: A Continuing Strategy for Accelerating Cooperative Riparian Restoration and Management 1:30 - 2:00 Mike Lilly, GW Scientific. Shaw Creek Watershed Assessment, Fairbanks, Alaska Case Studies
and Lessons Learned - Channel Restoration 2:00 - 2:30 Lee Koss, BLM. Nome Creek Restoration of Placer Mined Gravels 2:30 - 3:00 BREAK 3:00 - 3:30 Brian Bair and Dave Blanchet, US Forest Service. Large Scale Stream Channel and Flood Plain Rehabilitation of Resurrection Creek Near Hope, Alaska 3:30 - 4:00 Ken Karle, Hydraulic Mapping and Modeling. Long-term Monitoring Shows the Importance of Floodplain Reconstruction in Restoration of a Placer-mined Stream 4:00 - 4:30 Phil Brease, Denali NPS. Mine Land Restoration in Denali National Park and Preserve - A Fifteen Year Retrospective 4:30 - 4:45 Elaine Mayer, US Fish and Wildlife Service. A Quick Demonstration of the River Works Rapid Assessment System 4:45 - 5:00 Wrap-Up 5:15 - 6:30 pm AWRA ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Thursday, January 26, 2005 7:30 - 8:00 Registration, Pastries, Coffee Case Studies and Lessons Learned - Channels and Bioengineering 8:00 - 8:30 Janine Castro, PhD. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Brian Cluer, NMFS, California and K Koski, NMFS, Alaska. Stream Habitat Restoration Opportunities Through Reclamation of Instream Gravel Mines in Western North America: Examples 8:30 - 9:00 Dean Hughes, Alaska Fish and Game and Brie Darr, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Restoration Project Technique, Selection and Design Considerations: Differences Between Biologists, Hydrologists and Engineers - Lessons Learned 9:00 - 9:30 Elaine Mayer, US Fish and Wildlife Service. A Root Wad/Rock Vane Adventure on the North Fork Chena River 9:30 - 10:00 Alex Lai, Alyeska
Pipeline Company. Stream Restoration
of Lower Grey Creek 10:30 - 11:00 TBA Case Studies and Lessons Learned - Bioengineering 11:00 - 11:30 Jessica Dryden, Chickaloon Village. Channel Restoration in Moose Creek, Alaska 11:30 - 12:00 Chris Roach, P.E., P.H. Moose Creek Stream Restoration - Design and Construction 12:00 - 1:15 LUNCH (provided) Partnerships 1:15 - 1:45 John Payne, BLM. The Bering Glacier Partnership 1:45 - 2:15 George Taylor, Wasilla SWCD. Extending Conservation Education into Site Restorations 2:15 - 2:45 David Wigglesworth, Municipality of Anchorage. Salmon in the City - The Anchorage Sustainable Salmon Initiative 2:45 - 3:15 BREAK Research
and Assessments 3:15 - 3:45 Joe Connor, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Meadow Creek Geomorphic and Habitat Assessment near Big Lake, Alaska. 3:45 - 4:15 Roger Peters, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Preliminary Investigation of Seasonal Changes in the Diel Habitat Use of Juvenile Salmonids Near Engineered and Natural Logjams in Western Washington Rivers 4:15 - 4:45 Jason Mouw, AF&G. Plant Establishment and Community Succession in Relation to Geomorphic Change on Rivers with Multiple Channels 4:45 - 5:00 Wrap-Up Friday, January 27, 2006 Case Studies
and Lessons Learned - Fish Passage 8:00 - 8:30 Justin Marcum, HDR. Fish Passage Improvements at the Big Lake Dam (Fish Creek) 8:30 - 9:00 Chuck Kaucic, Mat-Su Public Works. Mat-Su "Breaks Trail" In Restoration Projects 9:00 - 9:30 William Rice, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Enhancing Fish Passage at Road Crossings in Mat-Su, Alaska Case Studies
and Lessons Learned - Channels and Bioengineering 9:30 - 10:00 Tamas Deak, KPB, Bob O'Neill, Venture Dev. LLC and Bill Rice, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Chester Creek Channel and Riparian Restoration, Anchorage 10:00 - 10:30 BREAK Monitoring
and Water Quality 10:30 - 11:00 Gino Graziano, Alaska Pacific University. The Use of Clostridium Perfringens as a Fecal Indicator to Detect Intertidal Disposal at Backcountry Marine Campsites in Prince William Sound, Alaska 11:00 - 12:00 Ben Kirkpatrik, AF&G. Results From Monitoring of Stream and Wetland Habitat Mitigation for the Haines Highway 1999 - 2005 Haines, Alaska |
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