| Sunday | |
| Registration and Check-in | |
| Dinner, Welcome | |
| Invited Speaker: Prof. Peter Wilcock, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University | |
| Stream Restoration: Why do we do this and is it worth it? | |
| Monday | |
| Breakfast Invited Speaker: Luther Aadland, Research Scientist, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources |
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| Defining stream restoration: what does it mean? | |
| Session 1 | Sediment Management in Rivers and Streams |
| Karen Gran, University of Minnesota, Duluth Watershed-scale sediment budget in the LeSueur River, Minnesota, for turbidity management and future rehabilitation efforts |
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| Stephanie Day, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics Bluff erosion rates and processes on the LeSueur River in Southern Minnesota Tom Mac Donald, Barr Engineering |
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| Habitat Improvement on Valley Creek Benjamin Lee, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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| Fine-grained sedimentation analysis and channel design for stabilization of the lower Platte River, Wisconsin | |
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Session 2 |
Lunch Invited Speaker: Jeff Hastings, Trout Unlimited Accelerating toward maximum capacity!: Assessment of Trout Unlimited's Driftless Area Restoration Effort |
| Session 3 | Large River Restoration |
| Scott Jutila, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | |
| Periodic pool-scale drawdowns for habitat management in the Mississippi River | |
| Brock Freyer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte | |
| Effects of river management and sediment supply on island evolution in Pool 6 of the Upper Mississippi River | |
| Christian Lenhart, Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota | |
| Assessing the feasibility of rehabilitation and management actions on the Mississippi River within the Twin Cities, Minnesota | |
| Session 4 | Stream and River Structures |
| Anne Lightbody, University of New Hampshire Improving design guidelines for rock vanes and other flow training structures Martin Melchior, Interfluve |
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| Dam removal planning for the next decade Jeff Janvrin, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources |
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| Island construction – Rebuilding natural levees to restore connectivity in the northern reaches of the Upper Mississippi River | |
| Dinner Invited Speaker: Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota |
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| A Perspective on the Future of Driftless Area Coldwater Stream Restoration | |
| Tuesday | |
| Breakfast Invited Speaker: Charlie Peters, USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center |
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| The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative | |
| Session 5 | Habitat/Organism-Focused restoration |
| Matthew Diebel, The Cadmus Group, Inc. Prioritizing road crossing improvement to restore stream connectivity for stream-resident fish |
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| David Vetrano, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Driftless Area Restoration Effort Aquatic Riparian Corridor (ARC) Habitat Project |
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| Michele Wheeler, Bad River Watershed Association Providing meaningful monitoring data in a management context |
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| Session 6 (Poster Session) |
Lunch |
| Session 7 | Stream Restoration Monitoring |
| Kent Johnson, Metropolitan Council Environmental Services | |
| The role of monitoring in stream restoration | |
| Faith Fitzpatrick, U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Changing perspectives of monitoring stream restoration success Andy Selle, Interfluve |
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| The cost of stream projects: How to do more with less | |
| Session 8 | Channel-Floodplain Connection |
| Meredith Thomsen, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Kurt Brownell, USACE Control of reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) improves floodplain forest tree seedling establishment |
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| Robert Hansis, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wetlands exposed: Floodplain restoration along the East Branch of the Pecatonica River, Wisconsin |
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| Eric Booth, University of Wisconsin, Madison Monitoring and modeling the effects of floodplain restoration on the soil water regime and vegetation composition Suzanne Hoehne, Biohabitats, Inc. Integrating Stream and Wetland Restoration through an Innovative Approach Dinner, Symposium closing Invited Speaker: Prof. Jim Knox, University of Wisconsin, Madison Historical changes in erosion and sedimentation along Driftless Area channels and floodplains |
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Wednesday |
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| Optional Half-day Forum: Restoring the Channel-Floodplain Connection Breakfast Colin Belby, UW-La Crosse; Eric Strauss UW-La Crosse; William Richardson, USGS Large floodplain river restoration: Lessons from the Upper Mississippi River Tom Isenhart, Iowa State University Research on riparian buffers in agricultural stream systems Andy Ward, Ohio State University Benefits of establishing floodplains in agricultural ditches: Two-stage ditch approach Lunch Jason Beverlin, The Nature Conservancy An overview of The Nature Conservancy's Emiquon project Discussion/adjourn |
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