Schedule & Agenda
Subject to change without notice.
| May 25 | ||
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| 7:30 am | Sign-in | |
| 8:00 | Welcome | Joan Dukes (NPCC) |
| 8:10 | The Importance of LCRE Ecosystem Restoration (tentative) | Bill Iyall and Taylor Aalvik (Cowlitz Tribe) |
| 8:30 | Introduction | Gary Johnson (PNNL) |
| Session 1: Agency Practices to Adaptively Manage Ecosystem Restoration in the Lower Columbia River and Estuary | ||
| 8:45 | Panel Presentations and Discussion | Jeff Breckel (LCRFB); Joyce Casey (USACE); Greg Delwiche (BPA); Glen Lamb (CLT); Debrah Marriott (LCREP); Bruce McIntosh (ODFW); Guy Norman (WDFW); Micah Russell (CREST) |
| 9:45 | Speakers/Audience Discussion | |
| 10:00 | BREAK | |
| Session 2: Strategy and Prioritization | ||
| 10:30 | Adaptive Management of Ecosystem Restoration in the Columbia River Basin (tentative) | Peter Paquet (NPCC) |
| 10:50 | Toward an Integrated Ecosystem Restoration Adaptive Management Program in the Columbia River Estuary | Ron Thom (PNNL) |
| 11:10 | Development of an Ecosystem Restoration Strategy for the lower Columbia River using a Multiple Lines of Evidence Approach | Catherine Corbett (LCREP) |
| 11:30 | Strategic Restoration/Preservation Planning of Juvenile Salmon Habitat Based on the Columbia River Estuary Ecosystem Classifcation | Si Simenstad (Univ. of Washington) |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| Session 3: Other Adaptive Management Programs | ||
| 1:30 | Adaptive Management of Ecosystem Restoration in the Mississippi River Delta (tentative) | Tomma Barnes (USACE) |
| 1:50 | Adaptive Management of Ecosystem Restoration in the Missouri River Basin | Drew Tyre (Univ. of Nebraska) |
| 2:10 | Implementation and Adaptation of the Caspian Tern Management Plan for the Columbia River Estuary: Will it reduce mortality of juvenile salmoids in the estuary? | Dan Roby (OSU) |
| 2:30 | Columbia River Estuary Double-crested Cormorants: Adaptive Research for Adaptive Management? | Donald Lyons (OSU) |
| 2:50 | Adaptive Management of Ecosystem Restoration in the South Slough, Coos Bay, Oregon (tentative) | Steve Rumrill (South Slough Refuge) |
| 3:10 | BREAK | |
| 3:30 | Speaker/Audience Discussion | |
| 4:30 | Poster Session and Evening Social - MacTavish Room | |
| 7:00 | ADJOURN | |
| May 26 | ||
| Session 4: Uncertainties Research | ||
| 8:00 am | Resource Partitioning, Habitat Connectivity, and Foraging Variation Among Salmonids in the Estuarine Habitat Mosaic | Chris Eaton (Univ. of Washington) |
| 8:20 | Juvenile Salmon in Open Waters of the Columbia River Estuary: Dispelling Uncertainty about Salmon Estuarine Ecology | Laura Weitkamp (NOAA) |
| 8:40 | Wetland Habitat Inundation Patterns in the Tidally Influenced Columbia River and Estuary | Amy Borde (PNNL) |
| 9:00 | Life History Variation and Growth of Juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Columbia River Estuary | Lance Campbell (WDFW) |
| 9:20 | BREAK | |
| 10:00 | Results of Multi-Year Coordinated Fish, Fish Prey, Habitat and Water Quality Data Collection under the Ecosystem Monitoring Project | Lyndal Johnson (NOAA) |
| 10:20 | Juvenile Salmon Ecology and Restoration of Tidal Freshwater Habitats | Nichole Sather (PNNL) |
| 10:40 | The ISAB Food Web Review: Understanding the Biological Basis for Fish Production and Restoration in the Columbia River Basin | Bob Naiman (ISAB) |
| 11:00 | Speaker/Audience Discussion | |
| 11:30 | LUNCH | |
| Session 5: Lessons from Ecological Restoration Projects | ||
| 1:00 | Implementing Salmon Recovery: Lessons Learned | Amy Ammer (CREST) |
| 1:20 | Progress in Habitat Restoration and Protection in the Columbia River Estuary: An Analysis of Historic and Projected Rates and Types of Projects | Chris Collins (LCREP) |
| 1:40 | Riparian Wetland Response to Livestock Exclusion in the Lower Columbia River Basin, USA | Sarah Holmen-Shewell (PSU) |
| 2:00 | Initial Evaluation of Ecosystem Restoration Sites within Levee'd Systems: An Empirical Methodology | Michael Ott (USACE) |
| 2:20 | Lessons Learned on LCRE Ecosystem Restoration from the Persepctive of the Expert Regional Technical Group | TBD |
| 2:40 | Speakers/Audience Discussion | |
| 3:00 | BREAK | |
| Session 6: Conclusions and Recommendations | ||
| 3;30 | Session 1 Panelists | Conclusions and Recommendations |
| 4:00 | Speakers/Audience Discussion | |
| 4:25 | Closing Remarks | Gary Johnson (PNNL) |
| 4:30 | ADJOURN | |
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