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Agenda

8:00 am Registration

8:45 am Welcome & Plenary Session

Clean Water and the New Hampshire Economy (Linwood Pendleton)

9:45 am Governor Maggie Hassan (invited), introduction by Tom Burack, Commissioner of NH Department of Environmental Services

10:00 am Break & Vendor displays

10:45 am Concurrent sessions:

Watershed Planning, BMPs, Restoration, and Management

Great Bay Estuary Municipal Bioretention Program (Biopalooza) (James Houle)
Maintaining a Municipal Watershed for Multiple Uses: A Case Study of Concord, NH’s Penacook Lake Surface Water Supply (David Brennan)
Piecemeal Watershed Management: Tackling Large Watersheds with Small Bites (Al Pratt) – Canceled

Education and Outreach: Citizen Science and Environmental Monitoring

The Coastal Research Volunteer Program: Engaging the Community and Empowering Research (Alyson Eberhardt and Steven Jones)
LoVoTECS Teacher Research Experience (Doug Earick, Steve Hale, and Sally Jean)
The Squam Conservation Internship: Training the Next Generation of Conservation Professionals (Rebecca Hanson and Brett Durham)

Ecosystem Services of Lakes, Rivers, & Watersheds

Stakeholder values, ecosystem services, and scientific modeling (Mark Borsuk)
Modeling Nitrogen Processing in New Hampshire River Networks (Kyle A. Whittinghill and Madeleine M. Mineau)
Evaluating Watershed Ecosystem Services in New Hampshire (Shannon Rogers)

Coordinating a Response to Climate Change in New Hampshire: Assessing Drought and Flooding Impacts

Climate Change and Land Use Impacts in New Hampshire: An Opportunity to Coordinate Management (Chris Skoglund)
Updating New Hampshire’s Drought Assessment and Response Plan (Brandon Kernen and Matt Davis)
Results of a 2010 Flood Impact Survey for NH Community Water Systems (Stephen Roy and Johnna McKenna)

Water Quality and Quantity- Data, Trends and Forecasts

State of Our Estuaries 2013 (Philip Trowbridge)
Non-Point Nitrogen Sources and Transport Pathways in the Great Bay Watershed (Michelle Daley)
Web- based Decision Support System to Access SPARROW Nutrient Model Results and Support Model Applications (Richard Moore)

12:15 pm Lunch & Networking

12:30-1:30 pm Poster Session (posters will be displayed in the room where lunch is served)

Using Specific Electrical Conductance to Compare Rainfall Runoff in NH Urban and Rural Catchments (Ashley Hyde)

1:30 pm Concurrent sessions on:

Watershed BMPs, Restoration, and Approaches to Watershed Management

Assessing conservation and ecological benefit of dam restorations in the Northeast (Doug Bechtel)
If we build it, they will come or will they? Upstream passage for the American eel, Anguillid rostrata, in Manchester, NH (Helen Dalbeck)
Case Study in Low Impact Riverbank Stabilization (Sean Sweeney)
How Green Is Your Artificial Turf? (Thomas Ballestero)

Education and Outreach: Scenario Planning, Public Engagement, and Behavior Change

Generating News You Can Use: Building Scenarios of Future Land Cover/Land Use in New Hampshire (Cameron Wake)
Buildout Analyses as a Motivational Tool for Watershed Restoration (Jennifer Jespersen)
Using Community Based Social Marketing (CBSM) to Foster Conservation through Fishing License Sales: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior (Matt Bartley and Brian Eisenhauer)
Collaborating to Minimize Exposure to Arsenic and Other Natural Contaminants in Groundwater (Steve Wingate, Michael Paul, and Pierce Rigrod)

Using New Technology to Address Data Needs, Monitor Our Water Resources, and Improve Infrastructure

Using in-stream boron concentrations to explain phosphorus dynamics in urbanizing river networks (Nathaniel Morse)
New sensors for year-round ‘real-time’ water quality data collection on the Lamprey River (Thor Smith)
Is Mapping Water Quality via Satellite Viable? (Bill Gassman)
A study of lake recreationists’ perceptions of crowding using Public Participation GIS (Andrew Veilleux)

Collaboration, Methods, and Questions of Legal Authority: Lessons on Climate Adaptation from the Coastal Watershed

Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Watershed Communities: Models, Methods, and Measures of Success (Sherry Godlewski and Steve Miller)
Methods for Exploring Vulnerabilities to Climate Change: Economic Analysis, Coastal Flood Mapping, and Stakeholder Engagement (Julie LaBranche and Chris Keeley)
Tips for Reducing Risks to People and Property Within Projected Floodplain Areas While Minimizing Legal Challenges (Julia Peterson and Julie LaBranche)

Water Quality and Quantity- Data, Trends and Forecasts

Long-term cloud, rain, and surface water chemistry from Mount Washington (Georgia Murray)
Statewide Electrical Conductance and Temperature Patterns in Rivers and Streams of New Hampshire (Errin Volitis)
An Analysis of the Sublimation at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (Joe Molloy)

3:30 pm Adjourn

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