Pacific Northwest Chapter – Society for Freshwater Science
Nov. 5-7, 2014 Bellingham, Washington
Draft Agenda
Wednesday November 5th
1:00 – 1:30
Welcome, logistics, etc.
Gretchen Hayslip, EPA
Topic 1: Collaborative Monitoring
1:30 – 2:00
Collaborative Reference Site Approach
Nick Haxton, Oregon DEQ
2:00 – 2:30
New O/E and Modeled MMI Indices for AREMP
Chuck Hawkins, Utah State University
2:30 – 3:00
BREAK
3:00 – 3:30
National Lakes Assessment
Amina Pollard, U.S. EPA
3:30 – 4:00
Evaluating the Status of Aquatic Biological Resources and Associated Habitats in the Wood River
Valley, Idaho
Dorene MacCoy, USGS
4:00 – 4:30
Quantifying the Ecosystem Effects of Salmon Recolonization of the Cedar River, WA above Landsburg
Dam
Peter Kiffney, NOAA
Pacific Northwest Chapter – Society for Freshwater Science
Nov. 5-7, 2014 Bellingham, Washington
Draft Agenda
Thursday, November 6th
Topic 2: Effectiveness and Restoration Monitoring
8:30 – 9:00
Effectiveness Monitoring Strategy for TMDLs in WA State
Scott Collyard, Ecology
9:00 – 9:30
Channel Evolution and Habitat Formation Following the Removal of the Rainbow Bend Levee on the
Cedar River
Josh Latterell, King County
9:30 – 10:00
Puget Sound Watershed Characterization Project
Colin Hume, Ecology
10:00 – 10:30 Using B-IBI to Identify Puget Sound Watersheds for Restoration and Protection
Jo Wilhelm, King County
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 11:30 Macroinvertebrates and Excessive Fine Sediment Conditions in Oregon Coastal Streams
Patrick Edwards, Portland State University
11:30 – 12:00 PNW SFS Business
Gretchen Hayslip
12:00 – 1:30
LUNCH
1:30 – 2:00
Update of Long-term Biological Monitoring in the North Coast and Cascades Network
Carmen Welch, National Park Service
2:00 – 3:00
Regional Roundtable – this where everyone who attends give a very short introduction to who they are
and their current work.
3:00 – 3:30
BREAK
Topic 3:
Urbanization/Stormwater
3:30 – 3:45
Designing a Hyporheic Monitoring Plan for Urban Floodplain Restoration
Sarah Morley, NOAA
Pacific Northwest Chapter – Society for Freshwater Science
Nov. 5-7, 2014 Bellingham, Washington
Draft Agenda
Thursday, November 6th - Continued
3:45 – 4:15
B-IBI scores, Species Accumulation and Beta Diversity of Macroinvertebrate Communities Decrease
with Impervious Cover in Puget Lowland Streams
Chad Larson, Ecology
4:15 – 4:45
Identification of Stressors to Stream Benthic Communities Related to Stormwater Impacts
Rob Plotnikoff, Tetra Tech
Pacific Northwest Chapter – Society for Freshwater Science
Nov. 5-7, 2014 Bellingham, Washington
Draft Agenda
Friday, November 7th
8:30 – 9:00
Postglacial Dispersal of Freshwater Snails into the Puget Sound
Edward J. Johannes, Deixis Consultants
9:00 – 9:30
IDEQ Updates to the Water Body Assessment Guidance and Other Indices
Jason Pappani, IDEQ
9:30 – 10:30
Updates:
Update on BioData
Scott Grotheer, USGS
Update on Brownlee Mercury Monitoring (need title)
Dorene MacCoy, USGS
Whole Watershed LWD Restoration and Effectiveness Monitoring in Mill Creek (Siletz River basin)
Shannon Hubler, Oregon DEQ
Update on National Rivers and Stream Assessment projects – Gretchen Hayslip, EPA
Northwest Standard Taxonomic Effort Update - Amy Puls, PNAMP/Sean Sullivan, Rhithron
10:30 – 11:00 Canadian Bioassessment Issues
Stephanie Strachan, Environment Canada (Tentative)
11:00 – 11:30 Limitations in the application of bioassessment methods for macroinvertebrate ecological studies:
issues of design, variability, composition, and standard unit effort
Brett Marshall, River Continuum Concepts