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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)

 

 

Tuesday

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Tuesday

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Wednesday AM

Wednesday PM

Thursday

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Thursday

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Friday AM and early PM

Opening Plenary Session

Symposium #1 – Global Change and the Function and Distribution of Wetlands

Symposium #5 – Disassembly of Coastal Ecosystems in the Face of Global Change

FIELD TRIPS!!

Plenary Session - Organized by ASWM

Symposium #7A – The USDA Conservation Effects Assessment Program – Wetlands Component

Symposium #7B – The USDA Conservation Effects Assessment Program – Wetlands Component

 

Symposium #2 – USEPA’s National Wetland Condition Assessment

Symposium #6 – Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes

 

 

Symposium #8 – Advancing Floristic Quality Assessment in Wetland Plant Assemblages

Symposium #9 – The Role of Ecosystem Restoration in Mitigating Climate Change

 

Symposium #3 – Wetlands as Sentinels of Climate Change: Effects on Goods and Services

Contributed Paper Session #7 – Wildlife Ecology and Management

 

 

Contributed Paper Session #11 – Biogeochemistry and Wetland Plants

Symposium #10 – Integrated Wetland, Stream, and Floodplain Restoration – A Focus on Water Resources

 

Symposium #4 – Perceptions, Problems, and Plans for Wetland Reclamation in the Canadian Oil Sands

Contributed Paper Session #8 – Wetland Capital, Economics, and Valuation

 

 

Contributed Paper Session #12 – Peatlands

Contributed Paper Session #15 – Sustainability of Wetland Restoration

 

Contributed Paper Session #1 – Implications of Sea-level Rise

Contributed Paper Session #9 – Wetland Biogeochemistry II

 

 

Contributed Paper Session #13 – Wetland Assessment I

Contributed Paper Session #16 – Wetland Assessment II

 

Contributed Paper Session #2 – Everglades: Wetlands and Watershed Management

Contributed Paper Session #10 – Wetland Importance to the Chesapeake Bay

 

 

Contributed Paper Session #14 – Climate Change

Contributed Paper Session #17 – Wetland Mitigation

 

Contributed Paper Session #3 – Traditional Resource Management and Ethnoecology of Wetland and Riparian Areas

Panel Discussion – Revisiting the 1995 NAS Wetlands Characterization Report

 

 

ASWM State/Federal Coordination Session 3: Carabell/Rapanos and Clean Water Act Jurisdiction

Contributed Paper Session #18 – Constructed Wetlands

 

Contributed Paper Session #4 – Management of Invasive Species

ASWM State/Federal Coordination Session 1: State Wetland Programs Status Report and Roundtable Discussion

 

 

ASWM State/Federal Coordination Session 4 - Wetlands and Water Resources  Mapping in a GIS Environment

Contributed Paper Session #19 – Wetlands and Watershed Management

 

Contributed Paper Session #5 – Wetland Biogeochemistry I

 ASWM State/Federal Coordination Session 2: Changes in Federal Wetland and Water Programs

 

 

ASWM State/Federal Coordination Session 5 - Streamlining Wetland Permitting Programs

Panel Discussion – Coastal Habitat Restoration and Climate Change

 

Contributed Paper Session #6 – Wetland Hydrology

 

 

 

ASWM State/Federal Coordination Session 6 - Improving Wetland Delineations

Panel Discussion – Forum on Ethics: The Role of Ethics and the Professional Wetland Scientist

 

Panel Discussion – Global Climate Change and the Future of Wetland Restoration – New Perspectives from SER

 

 

 

AIBS Workshop – Congress 101 – Talking to your Member of Congress

ASWM State/Federal Coordination Session 7  – Strengthening the State’s Role in Implementing Section 404 of the Clean Water Act

 

Poster Session and Reception

 

 

 

 

AIBS Workshop #2 – Techniques and Tips for Communicating your Science to the Media

ASWM State/Federal Coordination Session 8 – Improving State Programmatic General Permits

 

 

 

 

 

Poster Session and Reception

 Workshop #3 – Translating Wetland Science: Preparation of Non-technical Publications for General Audiences

 

 

Tuesday Morning, May 27, 2008


SWS OPENING PLENARY SESSION

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8:00-8:20

Pat Megonigal, President of SWS
Opening remarks

8:20-9:00

Grace Bottitta

9:00-9:45

John Acorn
Wetlands: The view from the boardwalk

9:45-10:15

BREAK

10:15-11:00

Francesca Grifo

11:00-12:00

Carl Hiaasen
A conversation with Carl Hiaasen


 


Tuesday Afternoon, May 27, 2008

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

1:30-2:00

H. Kang
Global patterns of biogeochemistry in wetlands

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

2:30-3:00

B. LePage
Global warming and the return of forested wetlands to the polar landscape

3:00-3:30

BREAK

3:30-4:00

D. Birch
Effects of climate change at Blackwater NWR (a RAMSAR site)

4:00-4:30

A. Nyman
Four scenarios of the spatial extent of coastal marsh to global sea-level rise

4:30-5:00

K, McKee
Impacts of sea-level rise on coastal wetlands: Will elevated CO2 make a difference?

5:00-5:30

E. Hartig
Salt marsh submergence and sea-level rise in New York City

 

symposium #2 – USEPA’s NATIONAL WETLAND CONDITION ASSESSMENT – Ballroom East
Moderators: Elizabeth Riley, Michael Scozzafava, Chris Faulkner, Mary Kentula, Virginia Engle and Janet Nestlerode

1:30-2:00

M. Scozzafava
EPA’s National Aquatic Resource Surveys: Introduction to the National Wetland Condition Assessment (2011)

2:00-2:30

T.E. Dahl; Coordination of the FWS Status and Trends with the EPA National Wetland Condition Assessment

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

3:00-3:30

BREAK

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

4:00-4:30

L.K. Vance
Wetland assessment in the Rocky Mountains

4:30-5:00

J.N. Collins and M. Sutula
Building state capacity to monitor wetlands, riparian areas, and related projects: The California experience

5:00-5:30

M.E. Kentula and V.D. Engle
Next steps for the National Wetlands Condition Assessment

 

symposium #3 – wetlands as sentinels of climate change: effects on goods and services – Ballroom West
Moderators: Colleen Charles and Steve Faulkner

1:30-2:00

D.R. Cahoon
Coastal wetlands as sentinels of climate change

2:00-2:30

W.K. Duffy and S.K. Kahara
Climate change and future wetlands in California’s Central Valley

2:30-3:00

G. Guntenspergen
Vulnerability of central North American wetlands to climate change

3:00-3:30

BREAK

3:30-4:00

S. Faulkner and B. Chiviou
Potential effects of climate change on forested wetlands in the Lower Mississippi Valley

4:00-4:30

B. Warner
Climate impacts on wetland services in Canada

4:30-5:00

R.T. Brooks
Potential impacts of global climate change on the hydrology and ecology of ephemeral pools of northern forests

5:00-5:30

F.A. Reid
North American boreal wetlands under changing climatic conditions

 

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

1:30-2:00

D.H. Vitt, R. Bloise and R.K. Wieder
The distribution and importance of wetlands on the northern Alberta landscape

2:00-2:30

Jon Hornung
The view from industry

2:30-3:00

C.E. Fitzpatrick and C. Jones
The importance of muskeg reclamation to an aboriginal community in the Athabasca Oil Sands

3:00-3:30

BREAK

3:30-4:00

L. Foote and C. Wytrykush
The science: An overview of wetland research in the oil sands area

4:00-4:30

M. Trites and S.E. Bayley
Vegetation and peat accumulation in boreal saline wetlands: Implications for oil sands reclamation

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

5:00-5:30

K. DeVito, C.A. Mendoza, U. Petrone and U. Silins
The science: Hydrologic surprises from the natural landscape

 

CoNtributed paper session #1 – implications of sea level rise – Lincoln 4
Moderator: Julie Whitbeck

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

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

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?

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

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

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

3:00-3:30

BREAK

3:30-3:45

M.P. Kumara, M. Huxham and K. Krauss
The effects of density on sediment accretion and soil elevation in mangroves

 

 

SWS INTERNATIONAL FELLOW PRESENTATION

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