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FINAL
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Symposia, Oral
Contributed Paper Sessions, Panel Discussions, Workshops,
and Poster Sessions
(click on a box
below for details on each session)
(any changes to the
program will be communicated as addendum sheets that will
be distributed at the meeting Registration Desk)
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Tuesday Morning, May 27, 2008
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SWS OPENING
PLENARY SESSION
(click
here for more information)
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8:00-8:20 |
Pat Megonigal,
President of SWS
Opening remarks
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8:20-9:00 |
Grace Bottitta |
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9:00-9:45 |
John Acorn
Wetlands: The view from the
boardwalk |
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9:45-10:15 |
BREAK |
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10:15-11:00 |
Francesca Grifo |
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11:00-12:00 |
Carl Hiaasen
A conversation with Carl Hiaasen |
Tuesday Afternoon, May 27, 2008
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symposium #1 global change and the function
and distribution of wetlands
Ballroom North
Sponsored by the Global Change Ecology Section
of SWS
Moderators: Beth Middleton |
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1:30-2:00 |
H. Kang
Global patterns of biogeochemistry in wetlands
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2:00-2:30 |
T. Kleinebecker
East/west gradients in peat chemistry and
vegetation patterns in ombrotrophic bogs in the
southernmost tip of South America |
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2:30-3:00 |
B. LePage
Global warming and the return of forested
wetlands to the polar landscape |
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3:00-3:30 |
BREAK |
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3:30-4:00 |
D. Birch
Effects of climate change at Blackwater NWR (a
RAMSAR site) |
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4:00-4:30 |
A. Nyman
Four scenarios of the spatial extent of coastal
marsh to global sea-level rise |
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4:30-5:00 |
K, McKee
Impacts of sea-level rise
on coastal wetlands: Will elevated CO2
make a difference? |
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5:00-5:30 |
E. Hartig
Salt marsh
submergence and sea-level rise in New York City |
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symposium #2 USEPAs
NATIONAL WETLAND CONDITION ASSESSMENT
Ballroom East
Moderators: Elizabeth Riley, Michael Scozzafava,
Chris Faulkner, Mary Kentula, Virginia Engle and
Janet Nestlerode |
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1:30-2:00 |
M. Scozzafava
EPAs National Aquatic Resource Surveys:
Introduction to the National Wetland Condition
Assessment (2011)
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2:00-2:30 |
T.E. Dahl;
Coordination of the FWS Status and Trends with
the EPA National Wetland Condition Assessment |
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2:30-3:00 |
J. Nestlerode,
Y. Allen, A. Almario, P. Bourgeois, V.D. Engle,
J. Harvey, L. Harwell, P.T. Heitmuller, J.
Macauley and S. Piazza
How do we assess wetland condition across broad
geographic scales? Lessons learned from the
Gulf of Mexico Coastal Wetlands Regional Pilot
Assessment |
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3:00-3:30 |
BREAK |
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3:30-4:00 |
D. Wardrop.
K. Havens, R. Poelske, M. Kentula, R.P. Brooks
and C. Hershner
The Mid-Atlantic Integrated Regional Wetland
Assessment |
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4:00-4:30 |
L.K. Vance
Wetland assessment in the Rocky Mountains |
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4:30-5:00 |
J.N. Collins
and M. Sutula
Building state capacity to monitor wetlands,
riparian areas, and related projects: The
California experience |
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5:00-5:30 |
M.E. Kentula
and V.D. Engle
Next steps for the National Wetlands Condition
Assessment |
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symposium #3
wetlands as sentinels of climate change: effects
on goods and services
Ballroom West
Moderators: Colleen Charles and Steve Faulkner |
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1:30-2:00 |
D.R. Cahoon
Coastal wetlands as sentinels of climate change
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2:00-2:30 |
W.K. Duffy
and S.K. Kahara
Climate change and future wetlands in
Californias Central Valley |
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2:30-3:00 |
G. Guntenspergen
Vulnerability of central North American wetlands
to climate change |
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3:00-3:30 |
BREAK |
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3:30-4:00 |
S. Faulkner
and B. Chiviou
Potential effects of climate change on forested
wetlands in the Lower Mississippi Valley |
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4:00-4:30 |
B. Warner
Climate impacts on wetland services in Canada |
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4:30-5:00 |
R.T. Brooks
Potential impacts of global climate change on
the hydrology and ecology of ephemeral pools of
northern forests |
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5:00-5:30 |
F.A. Reid
North American boreal wetlands under changing
climatic conditions |
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symposium #4
perceptions, problems, and plans for wetland
reclamation in the canadian oil sands
Lincoln 2
Sponsored by the Peatlands Section of SWS
and PeatNet
Moderators: Clara Qualizza, Dale Vitt, and Kel Wieder |
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1:30-2:00 |
D.H. Vitt,
R. Bloise and R.K. Wieder
The distribution and importance of wetlands
on the northern Alberta landscape
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2:00-2:30 |
Jon Hornung
The view from industry |
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2:30-3:00 |
C.E. Fitzpatrick
and C. Jones
The importance of muskeg reclamation to an
aboriginal community in the Athabasca Oil
Sands |
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3:00-3:30 |
BREAK |
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3:30-4:00 |
L. Foote
and C. Wytrykush
The science: An overview of wetland research
in the oil sands area |
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4:00-4:30 |
M. Trites
and S.E. Bayley
Vegetation and peat accumulation in boreal
saline wetlands: Implications for oil sands
reclamation |
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4:30-5:00 |
R.K. Wieder,
M. Burke-Scoll, M.A. Vile, K.D. Scott and
D.H. Vitt
Responses of continental bogs to enhanced
atmospheric N and S deposition in the
Alberta Oil Sands Region |
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5:00-5:30 |
K. DeVito,
C.A. Mendoza, U. Petrone and U. Silins
The science: Hydrologic surprises from the
natural landscape |
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CoNtributed paper session #1
implications of sea level rise
Lincoln 4
Moderator: Julie Whitbeck |
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1:30-1:45 |
J.A. Cherry
and K.L. McKee
Hurricane Katrina sediment slowed elevation loss in
two subsiding brackish marshes of the
Mississippi River Deltaic Plan |
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1:45-2:00 |
P.E. Marsh
and A.D. Cohen
The palynomorphic fingerprint of
Juncus roemerianus (high-level) salt
marshes as a method for tracking sea
level changes throughout the
Southeastern United States |
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2:00-2:15 |
J.L. Whitbeck and C.T. Truong
How does increasing tidal influence
shape patterns of fine root
distribution, morphology and production
in tidal cypress swamps?
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2:15-2:30 |
K. Jensen,
M. Hrach and G. Engels
Effects of sea level rise and channel
deepening on tidal marshes along the
Elbe Estuary |
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2:30-2:45 |
D. Kandalepas,
K.J. Stevens and W.J. Platt
Arbuscular mycorrihizal fungi and dark
septate endophytes in the vegetation of
a degrading coastal Louisiana marsh |
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2:45-3:00 |
D. Kim,
D.M. Cairns and J. Bartholdy
Climate variability associated with the
North Atlantic oscillation influences
dynamics of salt marsh vegetation |
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3:00-3:30 |
BREAK |
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3:30-3:45 |
M.P. Kumara,
M. Huxham and K. Krauss
The effects of density on sediment
accretion and soil elevation in
mangroves |
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SWS
INTERNATIONAL FELLOW PRESENTATION
Lincoln 4
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