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2009 Maine Water Conference
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Holiday Inn, Portland
2009 Sponsors:
- Senator Geroge J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Maine Drinking Water Program
- Aqua Maine
- Maine Department of Environmental Protection
- Maine Geological Survey
- University of Maine Cooperative Extension
- Maine Waste Water Control Association
- Maine Congress of Lake Associations
Following is the theme session list for the 2009 Maine Water Conference. The conference will be run jointly with the NEGSA and additional information on NEGSA sessions is available at the NEGSA web site.
Session Titles
T10. Habitat Restoration in North Atlantic Watersheds
T12. Land Conservation and Management Strategies for Protecting Water Quality
T14. Using Monitoring Data to Influence Management and Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems
T15. Competitive Demands for Groundwater Resources in the Northeast
T16. State of Maine’s Environment
T18. Chemical, biological, hydrological, and geochemical aspects of surface and ground waters, and their policy and economic implications. (Posters)
T10. Habitat Restoration in North Atlantic Watersheds
Session Chairs: Karen Wilson, Univ. of Southern Maine; Noah P. Snyder, Boston College; Ellen M. Douglas, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston Introduction: Stream restoration projects, ranging from bank protection to dam removals to watershed-scale regional planning efforts, are common throughout eastern North America. Many of these projects are motivated by the need to restore migration pathways and habitat for diadromous fish species. In 2008, the University of Maine and USM received NSF funding to create the Diadromous Species Restoration Research Network (DSRRN), a research coordination network designed to develop and sustain facilitated interactions of multiple research, government and stakeholder entities focused on restoring diadromous fish populations throughout the North Atlantic region. The strength of this network is in its connection to and integration with the Penobscot River Restoration Project. This session will explore current research and management efforts in stream and river restoration across the North Atlantic region, with the goal of fostering the interdisciplinary dialogue central to the DSRRN. Topics may include: relationships between stream physical processes and habitat, research lessons learned from individual restoration projects, the effects of dam removals and woody debris additions on water and sediment flow, the role of diadromous fish in marine-freshwater linkages, the interdependency of co-evolved diadromous species, interactions between diadromous species and resident flora and fauna, multi-species interactions in a restoration context, and the effects of multiple stressors on restoration results. Session participants should strive make their presentations (poster or oral) accessible to an interdisciplinary audience of scientists, resource managers and practitioners.
8:00 AM: Freshwater - Marine Linkages: The role of small coastal river systems as a source of fall forage fish (river herring) in the nearshore marine environment in Maine
WILSON, Karen A., Department of Environmental Science, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME and WILLIS, Theodore V., Aquatic Systems Group, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
8:20 AM: Geomorphic comparison of two Atlantic coastal streams: toward a better understanding of anthropegenic impacts on Atlantic salmon spawning and rearing habitat
WILKINS, Benjamin C. and SNYDER, Noah P., Geology and Geophysics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
8:40 AM: Dam removal and rock ramp fish passage to restore Sedgeunkedunk Stream alewife and Atlantic salmon populations
SHEPARD, Steve, Aquatic Science Associates Inc, Brewer, ME and BERNIER, Matt, NOAA Fisheries, Maine Field Station, Orono, ME
9:00 AM: Restoration of fluvial process and aquatic habitat in the Sandy River and tributaries to the Kennebec River, Maine
HAYES, Benjamin R., Environmental Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, FIELD, John, Field Geology Services, Farmington, ME and RICHTER, Robert C. III, FPL Energy Maine Hydro LLC, Lewiston, ME
9:20 AM: A restoration framework for optimizing habitat connectivity in Gulf of Maine watersheds
WRIGHT, Jed R., Gulf of Maine Coastal Program, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Falmouth, ME and HANLEY, Jesse O., Kent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
9:40 AM: Hudson River floodplain change over the 20th Century
COLLINS, Mathias J., NOAA Restoration Center, Gloucester, MA and MILLER, Daniel, Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Staatsburg, NY
10:00 AM: Break
10:20 AM: The simulation of pool-riffle morphologies in northeast channels with different densities of large woody debris and boulders
THOMPSON, Douglas M., Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics, Connecticut College, New London, CT
10:40 AM: Cascade Brook salt marsh restoration project
RIVARD, Linda and WATTS, Sarah C., Tetra Tech, Inc, Portland, ME
11:00 AM: River response to dam removal: Initial results from the Souhegan River and the Merrimack Village dam, Merrimack, New Hampshire
PEARSON, Adam Jeffrey 1, SNYDER, Noah P. 1, and COLLINS, Mathias J. 2, (1) Geology and Geophysics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, (2) NOAA Restoration Center, Gloucester, MA
11:20 AM: Modeling the hydrological impacts of stream restoration in Red Brook, a small coastal stream in southeastern Massachusetts
FRADKIN, Barry 1, DOUGLAS, Ellen M. 1, LAMBERT, Beth C. 2, and PURINTON, Tim A. 2, (1) Environmental, Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, (2) Massachusetts Riverways Program, Department of Fish & Game, Boston, MA
11:40 AM: Including beavers in the river restoration baseline
BURCHSTED, Denise, Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, DANIELS, Melinda, Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS and THORSON, Robert, Geoscience, Univ of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
T12. Land Conservation and Management Strategies for Protecting Water Quality
Session Chair: David Hart, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, University of Maine.
Introduction: Water quality depends upon both unique physical and social settings and in order to protect this resource, the two must be integrated. This session will explore a wide range of approaches to protect or improve water quality, from bottom-up community action to top-down watershed-scale policy. This session starts with applications of community-based conservation models as management tools. Community-based research describes a continuum that ranges from a citizen-scientist as participant model to a consensus driven collaboration between community members and a variety of stakeholders. Speakers will address how these programs affect the environment, the stakeholders, the community, local governments, and future policy decisions. In particular speakers will seek to: define what makes a program successful; determine how success is defined; and outline how programs can be replicated and sustained. This session then moves to a larger landscape scale- watershed level strategies to protect water quality. In New England water quality and (non)point-source protection is generally pursued by three distinct constituencies: water district professionals, NGO's, and government. A proliferation of sometimes-competing state mandates and an absence of uniform information and expectations has resulted in a patchwork of protection and management strategies that may lack watershed-wide cohesion. This session will cover a broad spectrum of issues relevant to disparate physical and social expectations that must be integrated to achieve the goal of water quality protection.
10:40 AM: Collaboration and local natural resource planning
JANSUJWICZ, Jessica. Department of Wildife Ecology, School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME
11:00 AM: Community based research alternatives for water quality monitoring in the Northeast
THORNTON, Teresa 1, Straub, Crista 1, Leahy, Jessica 1, Peckenham, John 2, Wilson, Laura 3, Jemison John 3, MacRae Jean 4. 1 Dept. of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 2 George J. Mitchell Cntr for Environmental and Watershed Research, Orono, ME, 3 University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Orono, ME, 4 Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME.
11:20 AM: Using Watershed-Based Management Planning to Restore the Water Quality of Dudley Brook in Aroostook County, Maine
JESPERSON, Jennifer 1, Evers, Melissa 2, Tricia Rouleau 1, Kailee Mullen 1, Forrest Bell 1. 1 FB Environmental Associates, Portland ME and 2 Maine DEP, Augusta, ME
11:40 AM: If you remove it, will they come? Diadromous fish restoration efforts in a coastal Maine watershed
WILLIS, Theodore V., Aquatic Systems Group University of Southern Maine and Jeff Reardon, Trout Unlimited
1:00 PM:
From the Headwaters to the Sea, Implementing a Watershed Approach in Southern Maine
FEURT, Christine, SMITH, Tin, and STEELE, Zack. Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Wells, ME
1:20 PM: Alternative land use futures in the lower Penobscot River Watershed: Implications for Surface Water Quality and Aquatic Biota
CRONAN, Christopher S., School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, LILIEHOLM, Robert J., School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME, and TREMBLAY, Jill, Department of Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, ME
1:40 PM:
Maine YardScaping Partnership - a Successful Model in Public-Private Cooperation
FISH, Gary, Maine Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Board of Pesticides Control, Augusta, ME
2:00 PM: No Discharge Areas (NDAs): Eliminating the Last Major Sources of Sewage During Dry Weather
LYONS, Regina, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1, Boston, MA
2:20 PM: Sunday River Outward Bound Project and Mill Brook Stream Bank Stabilization & Habitat Enhancement Project: A New Approach for Controlling Riverbank Erosion in Maine
STERN, Jeff, Fiddlehead Environmental Consulting, Harrison, ME; WILLIAMS, Betty, Cumberland County Soil & Water Conservation District, Windham, ME; FIELD, John, Field Geology Services, Farmington, ME; MILOT, Jay, Caribou Springs, LLC, Gilead, ME; and SYSKO, Jim, Town of Newry, Newry, ME
T14. Using Monitoring Data to Influence Management and Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems
Session Chair: Tom Danielson, Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Land and Water Quality
Introduction: This session will focus on the importance of using monitoring data to inform and improve the management and conservation of aquatic ecosystems. This session will provide examples of well-designed integration of sound science into management decisions leading to tangible improvements in aquatic ecosystems. Large or long-term studies, in particular, can be difficult to sustain, but can provide invaluable information to base difficult management decisions. In other cases, discrete datasets can be the basis of good management decisions or can be used to determine if previous decisions led to desired environmental results.
1:00 PM: Seneca Lake, An Ideal Natural Laboratory for Research, Education and Outreach
HALFMAN, John D. 1, O'NEILL, Kerry 1, BRIDGEMAN, Stina 2, VAN STEEN, William 2, and BROWN, Meghan 3, (1) Department of Geoscience, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY (2) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 3 Geneva, NY (3) Department of Biology, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
1:20 PM: The Finger Lakes of New York: An Ideal Natural Laboratory for Research, Education and Outreach
O'NEILL, Kerry and HALFMAN, John D., Department of Geoscience, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
1:40 PM: Relationship Between Changes in Urban Land Cover and Trends in Water Clarity in Four Time Periods for Maine's Great Ponds
TYLKA, Megan, Ecology and Environmental Science Program, University of Maine, Orono, ME and VAUX, Peter, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, University of Maine, Orono, ME
2:00 PM: Does Paleolimnological Evidence Support the Fish Removal Project in East Pond?
LAKE, Bjorn, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, AMIRBAHMAN, Aria, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, and SAROS, Jasmine, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME
2:20 PM: Relationships Between Cladoceran Size Structure and Hydrogeomorphic and Trophic Features of Maine Lakes
WHITMORE, Elizabeth A., School of Biology and Ecology, University of Southern Maine, Orono, ME, WEBSTER, Katherine E., Antrim, United Kingdom, and BACON, Linda C., Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection, Augusta, ME
2:40 PM Break
3:00 PM: Application of Long-Term Biological Monitoring Data in Managing Water Quality of Maine's Streams and Rivers
DANIELSON, Thomas J., Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Land and Water Quality, Augusta, ME
3:20 PM: Recreation Trails and Water Quality: Are Recreation Trails Degrading Stream Quality?
WILKERSON, Ethel, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Brunswick, ME
3:40 PM: Inventorying and Prioritizing Fish Passage Barrier Replacements
KANOTI, Keith, Maine Forest Service, Augusta, ME and ABBOTT, Alex, Gulf of Maine Costal Program, Falmouth, ME
4:00 PM: Water Quality Information for Decision Support: A Tale of Two Datasets
PECKENHAM, John, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, University of Maine, Orono, ME
T15. Competitive Demands for Groundwater Resources in the Northeast
Session Chair: Martha Nielsen, USGS–Maine Water Science Center
Introduction: Groundwater issues have increased in scope and complexity as competing demands on the resource have grown. As these demands continue to increase in the Northeastern US and Eastern Canada, water managers, regulators, and municipalities are under increasing pressure to provide equitable management strategies for these resources. Increasingly important to effective management is the analysis of cumulative withdrawals of ground water within a watershed or regional aquifer system, and the balancing of these withdrawals with instream flow needs, for aquatic life and the dilution of point and nonpoint pollution sources. This session will focus on the analysis of cumulative withdrawals within a watershed or aquifer system, particularly in complex hydrogeologic environments, and the development of tools and strategies for the management of competing ground-water uses.
8:00 AM: Groundwater Management in the Live Free and Die State
KERNEN, Brandon M., New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Concord, NH
8:20 AM: Empirical Methods for Estimating and Projecting Water Use in the Seacoast Region, Southeastern New Hampshire
HORN, Marilee A., US Geological Survey, Pembroke, NH
8:40 AM: A Decision-Support Tool to Assess Water Availability at Ungaged Sites in Massachusetts.
ARCHFIELD, Stacey A. 1, VOGEL, Richard M. 2, STEEVES, Peter A. 1, BRANDT, Sara L. 1, WEISKEL, Peter K. 1, and GARABEDIAN, Stephen P. 3. (1) Massachusetts-Rhode Island Water Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Northborough, MA, (2) Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, (3) Silvio O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, Turners Falls, MA
9:00 AM: Estimated Effects of Ground-Water Withdrawals on Stream-Water Levels of the Pleasant River Near Vrebo Flats, Maine, July 1 to September 30, 2005
DUDLEY, Robert W. and STEWART, Gregory J., U. S. Geological Survey, Augusta, ME
9:20 AM: Land Use Assessment of High Yield Sand and Gravel Aquifers in Maine
HOLDEN, Mark, Bureau of Land and Water Quality, Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection, Augusta, ME and HOPECK, John, Bureau of Land and Water Quality, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Augusta, ME
9:40 AM: Groundwater Flow Models as a Water Resource Management Tool
HOUSE, Jason, Woodard & Curran, Portland, ME
10:00 AM: FiPy for Hydrologists? A Flexible Tool for Computer Modeling of Hydrologic Processes
REEVE, A.S., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME , WHEELER, Daniel, Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD and GUYER, Jonathan E., Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science, National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD
T16. State of Maine’s Environment
Session Chair: John Peckenham, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, University of Maine
Introduction: This session highlights ongoing water-related research in Maine, including presentations on the consequences of climate change on water resources, practices for restoring the quality of Maine’s urban impaired streams, and a comparison of brook trout populations in Maine’s lakes and streams from a regional perspective.
10:20 AM: Climate Change and Practices at MaineDOT
GATES, Judy, Director, MaineDOT, Environmental Office, Augusta, ME and HEBSON, Charles, Manager, Surface Water Resources Division, MaineDOT, Environmental Office, Augusta, ME
10:40 AM: Planning for Climate Change in the Casco Bay Region
BOHLEN, Curtis, Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
11:00 AM: Impervious Surface Analysis for Select Urban Impaired Watersheds in Maine
CANNON, LaMarr, Maine NEMO Program, Partnership for Environmental Technology Education, South Portland, ME and HAZELTON, Eric L.G., Hazelton Ecological Associates, Portland, ME
11:20 AM: A Community-Based Collaborative Approach to Restoring Long Creek
DILLON, Fred, FB Environmental Associates, Portland, ME and HENDERSON, Zach, Woodard and Curran, Portland, ME
11:40 AM: Current Status of Natice/Wild Brook Trout in New England Freshwaters
HALLIWELL, David, Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection, Augusta, ME and GALLAGHER, Merry, ME Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Bangor, ME
T18. Chemical, biological, hydrological, and geochemical aspects of surface and ground waters, and their policy and economic implications. (Posters)
Session Chair: Ruth Hallsworth, Mitchell Center, UMaine Introduction: This session includes submission of abstracts for the Maine Water Conference juried student poster competitions. A student abstract should state clearly that it is a student submission and reference the judging category (high school, undergraduate, graduate). Abstracts for this session will address one or more aspects of water quality or quantity issues. These may include chemical, biological, hydrological, and geochemical aspects of surface and ground waters, and their policy and economic implications.
Board #1: Hydraulic and Geomorphic Effects of Large Woody Debris Additions to the Narraguagus River Watershed, Coastal Maine
JOHNSON, Elizabeth A., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, and SNYDER, Noah P., Geology and Geophysics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Board #2: Using "Legacy Sediments" to Determine Past Land Use Changes and Future Sediment Release Impacts on Downstream Ecosystems: Yellow Breeches Creel Watersjed. Cumberland Country, PA
HAYNES, Courtney E. and NIEMITZ, Jeffrey W., Dept. of Geology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Board #3: Zooplankton Population Analysis and Body Length Measurement in Damariscotta Lake, Maine in Relation to Alewife Populations
BLAIR-GLANTZ, Spencer, Department of Environmental Science, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, WILSON, Karen, Department of Environmental Science, Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland, ME and WILLIS, Theodore V., Aquatic Systems Group, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
Board #4: Mercury and Methylmercury Dynamics in the Sediments of the Great Bay (NH) and Penobscot River (ME) Estuaries
BROWN, Lauren E. 1, AMIRBAHMAN, Aria 1, VOYTEK, Mary A. 2, and CHEN, Celia Y. 3, (1) Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME (2) US Geological Survey, Reston, VA (3) Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Board #5: Investigating Human Influence on Nutrient Levels in the Machias River Estuary in Machias, ME
CORBETT, Jacqueline and OTTO, William, University of Maine at Machias, Machias, ME
Board #6: Detection of Arsenic in Ground Water Using Surface Plasmon Resonance: Field Verification of a New Analytical Technique for Arsenic
KING, Carin P., Waterville Senior High School, Waterville, ME
Board #7: Factors Influencing Lake Association Formation in Maine
SNELL, Margaret A. 1, BELL, Kathleen P. 1, and LEAHY, Jessica 2. (1) School of Economics, University of Maine, Orono, ME (2) School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME
Board #8: Distribution of Native and Introduced Crayfish in Maine: an Ongoing Effort to Develop Baseline Data Before New Species Invade
MARQUIS, Adam, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, WILSON, Karen, Department of Environmental Science, Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, and GALLAGHER, Merry, Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Bangor, ME
Board #9: Developing Non-Lethal Biomarkers for Waterborne Organic Contaminants
MEYERS, Jennifer C., School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, and ELSKUS, Adria, U.S. Geological Survey, University of Maine, Orono, ME
Board #10: Citizen Science: Solving Groundwater Issues in New England
STRAUB, Crista 1, THORNTON, Teresa 1, LEAHY, Jessica 1, PECKENHAM, John 2, WILSON, Laura 3, JEMISON, John 3, and MACRAE, Jean 4. (1) School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME, (2) Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, University of Maine, Orono, ME, (3) Cooperative Extension, University of Maine, Orono, ME, (4) Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME
Board #11: Groundwater Mapping and Analysis in a Coastal Environment Using GIS
WOOD, Eric, Geosciences, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
Board #12: Monitoring the Restoration of Red Brook, a Small Coastal Stream in Southeastern Massachusetts
KICHEFSKI, Steven L. 1, DOUGLAS, Ellen M. 1, LAMBERT, Beth C. 2, and PURINTON, Tim A. 2. (1) EEOS, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA 02125 (2) Massachusetts Riverways Program, Department of Fish and Game, Boston, MA
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