SYMPOSIUM

The USDA Conservation Effects Assessment Project – Wetlands Component: Developing the Scientific Framework to Improve Decisions Affecting Wetland Ecosystems in U.S. Agricultural Landscapes

     Organized by S. Diane Eckles (diane.eckles@wdc.usda.gov), USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Beltsville, MD

Confirmed Speakers

Diane Eckles, USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Beltsville, MD (diane.eckles@wdc.usda.gov); CEAP-Wetlands: Using science to improve decisions affecting wetlands conservation in agricultural landscapes

Robert Gleason and N.H. Euliss Jr., USGS, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND (rgleason@usgs.gov); The Prairie Pothole Regional Assessment: Results of a survey to estimate ecosystem services derived from USDA Conservation Reserve (CRP) and Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) Lands

Ray Finocchiaro and R.A. Gleason, USGS, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND (rfinocchiaro@usgs.gov); Characterization of prairie pothole catchment soils: Implications for delivery of ecosystem services

Caleb J. Balas, USGS, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND (cbalas@usgs.gov), N.H. Euliss Jr. and D.M. Mushet; Effects of conservation programs on amphibian species richness of seasonal wetlands in the prairie pothole region 

Loren Smith, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK  (loren.smith@okstate.edu), D.A. Haukos, S.M. McMurray, K. Rainwater, K. Mulligan, L. Barbato and D. Gitz; Influence of conservation practices on ecosystem services provided by playas in the high plains

Walter Duffy, USGS, California Cooperative Fish Research Unit, Arcata, CA (wgd7001@humboldt.edu) and S.K. Kahara; Response of freshwater wetland ecosystems to USDA farm conservation practices in California's Central Valley

Stephen Faulkner, USGS, National Wetlands Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA (sfaulkner@usgs,gov), W. Barrow, B. Keeland, S. Walls and T. Moorman; Conservation practice effects on wetland ecosystem services in the Lower Mississippi Valley

Mark R. Walbridge, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD (mark.walbridge@ars.usda.gov); Documenting the effects of conservation practices and programs on wetland ecosystem services in the mid-Atlantic region

Diane DeSteven, USDA, Forest Service, Stoneville, MS (ddesteven@fs.fed.us) and R. Lowrance; Implementing wetland conservation practices in the Piedmont-Coastal Plain Region: The state of the science

Siobhan Fennessy, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (fennessys@kenyon.edu) and C. Craft; Effects of agricultural conservation practices on wetland ecosystem services in the interior glaciated plains: Documenting water quality benefits in agricultural landscapes

Denice Wardrop, Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center, University Park, PA (dhw110@psu.edu), A.K. Glasmeier, J. Peterson-Smith and R.P. Brooks; Conservation practices, ecological services, economics and Appalachian wetlands: Right time, right place, right outcome?

Brian C. Murray, Duke University School of the Environment, Durham, NC (bcmurray@duke.edu), W.A. Jenkins, R.A. Kramer and S.P, Faulkner; Valuing ecosystem services from wetlands restoration in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley

Ned Euliss, USGS, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND (ceuliss@usgs.gov), L.M. Smith, W.G. Duffy and S.P. Faulkner; Beyond CEAP: Integrating delivery of concurrent goods and services attributable to conservation programs into models for decision makers to evaluate ecological change

Megan W. Lang, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD (megan.lang@ars.usda.gov), G. McCarty, M. Walbridge, M. Palmer, O. McDonough, A. Gustafson, T. Fisher, D. Eckles, J. Denver and S. Ator; The Choptank Watershed Wetland Conservation Effects Assessment Project: Monitoring the delivery of wetland services across the landscape