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

Time StartTime EndEvent/Title
6:00 pm7:00 pmKickoff Dinner - Jx Event Venue
7:00 pm8:00 pmInvited 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 StartTime EndEvent/Title
7:30 am8:20 amBreakfast
Technical Session 1: Tracking Flow and Sediment Dynamics
8:30 am8:40 amUMSRS Welcome and Session Introduction
8:40 am9:05 amChannel storage: a significant contributor to annual phosphorus loads within a central Iowa watershed – William Beck, Iowa State University
9:05 am9:30 amChannel adjustments over 15 years following re-introduction of large wood to Whittlesey Creek – Ben Lee, Fish Creek Restoration LLC
9:30 am9:55 amBeaver dam impact to low flow hydrology in Northern Minnesota streams – Emma Burgeson, University of Minnesota Duluth
9:55 am10:20 amMeasuring bank erosion in a large(-ish) Midwestern watershed: efficient methods and applications to sediment and nutrient budgeting – Pete Moore, Iowa State University
10:20 am10:35 amBreak
Technical Session 2: Fauna, Fish, and Floods
10:35 am11:00 amComparison of microbial functional diversity associated with artificial wetlands in an urbanized river system – Phil Nicodemus, Urban Rivers
11:00 am11:25 amIntegrating 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 am11:50 am"The Fargo Project" a stormwater basin retrofit – Stephanie Day, North Dakota State University
11:50 am1 pmLunch
1:00 pm2:00 pmInvited Speaker: Promoting successful stream restorations in the Upper Midwest – Gina Quiram and Wade Johnson, Minnesota DNR
2:00 pm3:00 pmPoster Session
Technical Session 3: Stream Restoration in Built Environments
3:00 pm3:25 pmRenaturalization of concrete-lined urban river systems – Jonathan Kusa, Inter-Fluve, Inc.
3:25 pm3:50 pmHistory 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 pm4:15 pmBrown’s Creek Riparian Shading Study  - project highlight for BCWD Monitoring Program – Olivia Sparrow, EOR, Inc.
4:15 pm4:40 pmMeander Restoration in a Ditched Urban Creek – Matt Kocian, Rice Creek Watershed District
6:00 pm7:00 pmDinner at Portside Restaurant 

Tuesday, February 25th

Time StartTime EndEvent/Title
7:30 am8:20 amBreakfast
8:30 am9:50 amInvited 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 am10:10 amBreak
Technical Session 4: Stream Restoration Methods and Practice
10:10 am10:35 amGetting to “Yes!” Tips on How to Obtain Disaster Recovery Funding for Ecosystems – Paige Baker, Stantec
10:35 am11:00 amStreamflow Response to climate over years to decades: Implications for habitat and channel stability – Jim Almendinger, St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota
11:00 am11:25 amApplications of 2D modeling in stream restoration: when, why, and how to use it – Craig Taylor, LimnoTech
11:25 am11:50 amEnviroDIY open-source IoT technologies for cost-effective, real-time water monitoring, Anthony Aufdenkampe, LimnoTech
11:50 am1 pmLunch
  Technical Session 5: Restoring Fish Habitat and Connectivity
1:00 pm1:25 pmAssessing and prioritizing stream crossings for fish passage – Amanda Hillman, Minnesota DNR
1:25 pm1:50 pmMinnesota guide to stream connectivity and aquatic organism passage through culverts – Nicole Bartelt, Minnesota Department of Transportation
1:50 pm2:15 pmAn index of oxbow restoration quality for Topeka Shiners (Notropis topeka) based on the fish assemblage – Dylan Osterhaus, Iowa State University
2:15 pm2:40 pmTurbulence 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 pm3:40 pmBreak
Technical Session 6: Removing Barriers in Stream Restoration
3:40 pm4:05 pmThe effects of dams on native fish communities – Amy Childers, Minnesota DNR
4:05 pm4:30 pmLarge scale fish passage and river restoration on the Boardman River – Marty Melchior, Inter-Fluve, Inc.
4:30 pm4:55 pmReconnecting fish habitat on the Sand Hill River – Michelle Larson, US Army Corps of Engineers
6:00 pm7:00 pmDinner at The Grand

Wednesday, February 26

Time StartTime EndEvent/Title
7:30 am8:20 amBreakfast
8:30 am12:00 pmLocal Site Visit – Browns Creek Restoration Site Visit, led by the Browns Creek Watershed District and EOR. Learn more about Brown’s Creek.
12:00 pm Adjourn