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Monday, August 27
8:30 a.m-11:30 a.m.	Wetland Prediction Workshop for Beginning GIS Practitioners (morning only)
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.	Wetland Prediction Workshop/Shirley Plantation Tour
12:00 noon-5:30 p.m.	Shirley Plantation History, Hydric Soils, and Created Wetlands - 400 Years of History
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.	Combined Rice Center/Shirley Plantation Wetlands Field Trip
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.	History, Wetlands and the Shorelines of Jamestown and Yorktown Field Trip
5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.	Registration Opens

Tuesday, August 28
7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast, Registration
8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.	Welcome
9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.	Life on the James River
9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.	Wetlands and Natural Hazards
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.-11:00 p.m.	Wetlands and Climate Change
	Addressing Jurisdiction Issues Under the Clean Water Act
11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m.-12:00 noon	Integrated Solutions for Sustaining Water Resources
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.	Global Climate Change I	Headwaters Streams I	Regulatory Federal Programs
3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.	Break

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Wetlands and Natural Hazards I

Global Climate Change II

Headwaters Streams II

Regulatory Local Programs

Wednesday, August 29
7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast, Registration Continued
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.	Natural Hazards II - Integrating Wetlands into Floodplain Management	Remote Sensing Marsh Dieback	Monitoring and Assessment Assessing Condition	Carabell/ Rapanos and the Courts
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon	Natural Hazards III - Coastal Wetland Affects on Hydraulics of Coastal Storms	Remote Sensing in Wetland Management	Monitoring and Assessment - Assessing Benefits of Farm Bill Wetland Programs	Carabell/ Rapanos in the Field
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.	Natural Hazards IV - Storm Effects on Coastal and Upstream Wetlands and Implications for Management	Advances in Remote Sensing	Regulatory Federal/State Mitigation	Carabell/ Rapanos Using the Best Science
3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.	Natural Hazards V - Policy Implications of Wetlands and Hazards -Application of New ASCE Policies?	Remote Sensing and Modeling Wetland Change	Regulatory - Mitigation and Stormwater Management	Is a Legislative Remedy Required? Ideas Before Congress to Fix the Clean Water Act

Thursday, August 30
7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast, Registration Continued
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.	Regulatory - State Mitigation	Wetland Mapping I	Monitoring and Assessment - Site Specific
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon	Restoration Case Studies	Wetland Mapping II	Monitoring and Assessment - Applications
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.	Plenary Talks and Wrap-Up
12:00 noon-12:45 p.m	The World Outside: Issues and Trends in Public Support for Wetlands Conservation
12:45 p.m.-1:00 p.m.	Wrap-Up

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