2020 UMSRS Technical Program

The following is the program of the 2020 UMSRS.  Links are posted to presentations with the speaker's permission. Also check out available 2020 UMSRS posters here.

Sunday, February 23rd

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Time End

Event/Title

6:00 pm

7:00 pm

Kickoff Dinner - Jx Event Venue

7:00 pm

8:00 pm

Invited Talk: Building partnerships with tribal communities to support manoomin (wild rice) ecosystems, tribal natural resource sovereignty, and integrated research. - Michael Dockry, University of Minnesota

Monday, February 24th

Time Start

Time End

Event/Title

7:30 am

8:20 am

Breakfast

Technical Session 1: Tracking Flow and Sediment Dynamics

8:30 am

8:40 am

UMSRS Welcome and Session Introduction

8:40 am

9:05 am

Channel storage: a significant contributor to annual phosphorus loads within a central Iowa watershedWilliam Beck, Iowa State University

9:05 am

9:30 am

Channel adjustments over 15 years following re-introduction of large wood to Whittlesey CreekBen Lee, Fish Creek Restoration LLC

9:30 am

9:55 am

Beaver dam impact to low flow hydrology in Northern Minnesota streams – Emma Burgeson, University of Minnesota Duluth

9:55 am

10:20 am

Measuring bank erosion in a large(-ish) Midwestern watershed: efficient methods and applications to sediment and nutrient budgetingPete Moore, Iowa State University

10:20 am

10:35 am

Break

Technical Session 2: Fauna, Fish, and Floods

10:35 am

11:00 am

Comparison of microbial functional diversity associated with artificial wetlands in an urbanized river systemPhil Nicodemus, Urban Rivers

11:00 am

11:25 am

Integrating a sound/light deterrent and dam gate operations at Lock and Dam 8, Mississippi River to reduce upstream migration of Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) – Jeff Whitty, University of Minnesota

11:25 am

11:50 am

"The Fargo Project" a stormwater basin retrofit – Stephanie DayNorth Dakota State University

11:50 am

1 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

2:00 pm

Invited Speaker: Promoting successful stream restorations in the Upper MidwestGina Quiram and Wade Johnson, Minnesota DNR

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

Poster Session

Technical Session 3: Stream Restoration in Built Environments

3:00 pm

3:25 pm

Renaturalization of concrete-lined urban river systems – Jonathan Kusa, Inter-Fluve, Inc.

3:25 pm

3:50 pm

History of managing a watershed to restore an urban trout stream in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Karen Kill, Brown's Creek Watershed District

3:50 pm

4:15 pm

Brown’s Creek Riparian Shading Study  - project highlight for BCWD Monitoring ProgramOlivia Sparrow, EOR, Inc.

4:15 pm

4:40 pm

Meander Restoration in a Ditched Urban CreekMatt Kocian, Rice Creek Watershed District

6:00 pm

7:00 pm

Dinner at Portside Restaurant 

Tuesday, February 25th

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Time End

Event/Title

7:30 am

8:20 am

Breakfast

8:30 am

9:50 am

Invited Talk: Global perspectives in river and stream restoration, Matt Kondolf, Fluvial Geomorphologist, Professor of Environmental Planning, Co-Director of the Global Metropolitan Studies program at the University of California Berkeley (USA)

9:50 am

10:10 am

Break

Technical Session 4: Stream Restoration Methods and Practice

10:10 am

10:35 am

Getting to “Yes!” Tips on How to Obtain Disaster Recovery Funding for EcosystemsPaige Baker, Stantec

10:35 am

11:00 am

Streamflow Response to climate over years to decades: Implications for habitat and channel stabilityJim Almendinger, St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota

11:00 am

11:25 am

Applications of 2D modeling in stream restoration: when, why, and how to use it Craig Taylor, LimnoTech

11:25 am

11:50 am

EnviroDIY open-source IoT technologies for cost-effective, real-time water monitoring, Anthony Aufdenkampe, LimnoTech

11:50 am

1 pm

Lunch

  Technical Session 5: Restoring Fish Habitat and Connectivity

1:00 pm

1:25 pm

Assessing and prioritizing stream crossings for fish passageAmanda Hillman, Minnesota DNR

1:25 pm

1:50 pm

Minnesota guide to stream connectivity and aquatic organism passage through culvertsNicole Bartelt, Minnesota Department of Transportation

1:50 pm

2:15 pm

An index of oxbow restoration quality for Topeka Shiners (Notropis topeka) based on the fish assemblageDylan Osterhaus, Iowa State University

2:15 pm

2:40 pm

Turbulence generated by simulated instream restoration structures offers fish swimming and energetic advantages at high flow velocities – Katherine Strailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2:40 pm

3:40 pm

Break

Technical Session 6: Removing Barriers in Stream Restoration

3:40 pm

4:05 pm

The effects of dams on native fish communitiesAmy Childers, Minnesota DNR

4:05 pm

4:30 pm

Large scale fish passage and river restoration on the Boardman RiverMarty Melchior, Inter-Fluve, Inc.

4:30 pm

4:55 pm

Reconnecting fish habitat on the Sand Hill River – Michelle Larson, US Army Corps of Engineers

6:00 pm

7:00 pm

Dinner at The Grand

Wednesday, February 26

Time Start

Time End

Event/Title

7:30 am

8:20 am

Breakfast

8:30 am

12:00 pm

Local Site Visit – Browns Creek Restoration Site Visit, led by the Browns Creek Watershed District and EOR. Learn more about Brown’s Creek here.  

12:00 pm

 

Adjourn