Coordinating Conservation in the St. Clair-Detroit River System
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
Eastern Michigan University – Student Center
Draft Schedule
8:00-8:50
Registration, Continental breakfast buffet
8:50-9:00
Welcome (Steve Francoeur, US co-chair)
9:00-9:30
Blue Accounting Framework
Steve Cole, Great Lakes Commission
9:30-9:50
Lake Erie Biodiversity Conservation Strategy
Luca Cargnelli, Environment Canada
9:50-10:10
The St Clair Detroit River System Initiative: The Collective Impact, the Common Agenda and
a Thriving Ecosystem
Rich Drouin, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
10:10-10:30 Developing a Shared Vision for Coastal Conservation in Western Lake Erie
Douglas Pearsall, The Nature Conservancy
Katherine Kahl, The Nature Conservancy
Gust Annis, The Nature Conservancy
Patrick Doran, The Nature Conservancy
Chris May, The Nature Conservancy
Dave Ewart, The Nature Conservancy
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:10 The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative and Coastal
Wetland Landscape Conservation Design
Bradly Potter, Upper Midwest & Great Lakes LCC
11:10-11:30 GLNPO-sponsored Nutrient/Eutrophication Dynamics Research in Western L. Erie
Sandra Kosek-Sills, Ohio Lake Erie Commission
11:30-11:50 EPA National Coastal Condition Assessment
Beth Hinchy-Malloy, Lake Erie LAMP
11:50-1:30
Lunch & poster session
1:30-1:50
Linking biological inventories to wetland management in the Strait.
Dennis Albert, Oregon State University
Donald Uzarski, Central Michigan University
Shane Lishawa, Loyola Chicago
Joshua Cohen, MNFI - Michigan State University
1:50-2:10
An Update on the American and Canadian Status of Beneficial Use Impairments in the
Detroit and St. Clair River Areas of Concern.
Melanie Foose, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Claire Sanders, Detroit River Canadian Cleanup
Donna Strang, St. Clair Region Conservation Authority
2:10-2:30
Water Quality
Ken Drouillard, University of Windsor
Kerry McPhedran, University of Saskatchewan
Alice Grgicak-Mannion, University of Windsor
Joseph Lafontaine, University of Windsor
Gord Paterson, SUNY
Ted Briggs, Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Jan Ciborowski, University of Windsor
G. Douglas Haffner, University of Windsor
2:30-2:50
Coffee Break
2:50-3:10
Fish Habitat in the Detroit River
Jim Boase, USFWS
3:10-3:30
Habitat Suitability and Potential Threat of Grass Carp and Other Selected Invasives in the St.
Clair-Detroit River Corridor
Ed Rutherford, NOAA GLERL
Nick Mandrak, University of Toronto
Marion Wittmann, UN-Reno
Andrew Kramer, University of Georgia
Rochelle Sturtevant, Michigan Sea Grant
3:30-4:50
Panel Discussion: “What story do we want to be able to tell in five years?”
Regional approaches to advancing focused, measurable conservation implementation in the
St. Clair-Detroit River System and Western Lake Erie.
Facilitator: Katie Kahl, The Nature Conservancy
Confirmed Panelists:
Dave Dempsey, IJC
Patrick Doran, The Nature Conservancy
Sandra Kok, Environment Canada
Russ Kreis, EPA
Heather Stirratt, NOAA
4:50-5:00
Concluding remarks (Steve Francoeur, US co-chair)
5:00-6:00
Reception