LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS/POSTERS FOR WETLANDS 2008

Please note, the list of accepted papers below are in alphabetical order by presenter. (Last Updated on 8/6/08.)

Paul Adamus, Oregon State University Mitigating Global Climate Change: Which Kinds of Wetlands Help, Hurt, Have Minimal Effect?

Changwoo Ahn, George Mason University Soil Carbon and Organic Matter in Mitigation Bank Wetlands Created in the Piedmont Region of Virginia

Akhtar Alam, University of Kashmir Urban Sprawl Is a Threat to Wetlands: A Case Study Using Geo- IT Approach

Allison Aldous, The Nature Conservancy-Oregon A Framework for Building Climate Change Into Freshwater Conservation

Jill Aspinwall, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Regionalized Water Budget Manual for Compensatory Wetland Mitigation Sites in New Jersey

Jane Awl, Tennessee Valley Authority Detection and Mapping of Rare and Sensitive Wetlands: Development of Rapid Field Identification Methods and GIS Models

Jane Awl, Tennessee Valley Authority Panel Discussion on Identifying Environmental Thresholds for Use in Assessing Cumulative Impacts to Wetlands

Robert J. Bailey, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development Planning and Policy Implications of Sea Level Rise in Oregon Estuaries

Jason T. Berner, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 Alternative Futures of Headwater Stream and Wetland Landscapes: Landscape Analysis of Ecological and Hydrologic Functions. Upper Delaware Basin, New York, USA

Mary E. Bohling, Michigan Sea Grant Reshaping the Detroit River Shoreline: Lessons Learned from Freshwater Wetland Restoration in Southeast Michigan

Mason Bowles, King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks Reestablishing a Riverine Wetland: Using Integrated Pest Management to Control Reed Canarygrass and Reference Wetlands Design Criteria to Restore Structure, Functions, and Habitat Forming Processes

Bill Bradbury, Oregon Secretary of State Plenary Presentation: Global Warming and Its Impacts in the Pacific Northwest

Scott Bridgham, University of Oregon Vulnerability, Feedbacks, and Adaptations of Peatlands to Climate Change

Matthew Briggs, World Wildlife Fund Climate Adaptation in the Chihuahuan Desert

Robert Brooks, USDA Forest Service (POSTER) Potential Impacts of Global Climate Change on the Hydrology and Ecology of Ephemeral Freshwater Systems of the Forests of the Northeastern United States

Laura Brophy, Green Point Consulting and College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University Site-Scale Monitoring for Tidal Wetland Restoration and Conservation

Donald R. Cahoon, U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Restoring Coastal Wetlands in a Changing Climate

Laura Casey, King County DDES Regulating a Moving Target: Protecting Wetlands as the Climate Changes

John A. Christy, Oregon State University Oregon Wetland Explorer: Information Portal for Wetland Conservation and Management

Brittany B. Cline, Oregon State University Assessing Shorebird Use of Seasonal Wetlands From Telemetry Data: Implications for Wetland Type and Connectivity in Response to Changes in Climate

Tracy Collin, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Controlling Phragmites in Great Lakes Wetlands: Development of a Public Outreach Program

Kim Diana Connolly, University of South Carolina School of Law Why the Corps' Permitting Process Must Assess Climate Change Through the Public Interest Review

Juanita Constible, National Wildlife Federation Training Community Leaders to Speak to Their Peers About Climate Change and Its Impacts to Wetlands

Kevin G. Coulton, Watershed Concepts Comparisons Between a Proposed Natural Floodway and the FEMA Regulatory Floodway

Brian Czech, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System Planning for Sea-Level Rise on the National Wildlife Refuge System With the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model

Grace deHaro, M.A. Environmental Risks Management and Protection of the Small Urban Wetland Known as 'MALLIN DEL KM. 12' Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina

Randal Dell, Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Technical, Regulatory, and Economic Feasibility of Wetlands As a Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Strategy

Shewaye Deribe, Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Community Based Integrated Wetland-Watershed Management in the Fringes of Remnant Tropical Forest Areas of Ethiopia

John Dorney, North Carolina Division of Water Quality Wetland Functional Assessment and Local Watershed Planning: Two Examples From North Carolina

John Dorney, North Carolina Division of Water Quality Calculating Stream Mitigation Credit for Wooded Buffers of Varying Widths in North Carolina

Donna Downing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wetlands Division Navigating the Clean Water Act After Rapanos:  Implementation Experiences With the Interagency Guidance

Jeff Ehman, Image Matters LLC and Bill Wilen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service SLAMM-View:  A Tool for Visualizing SLAMM Simulation Results

M. Hany S. Elwany, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography Impacts of Sea Level Rise on the San Dieguito Wetlands Restoration Project in Del Mar, California

Kevin Erwin, Kevin L. Erwin Consulting Ecologist, Inc. Wetlands and Global Climate Change: The Role of Wetland Restoration in a Changing World

Stephen Faulkner, U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center Potential Effects of Climate Change on Forested Wetlands in the Lower Mississippi Valley

Roger Fuller, The Nature Conservancy Coastal Wetland Adaptation: Conservation and Measuring Success in the Face of an Uncertain Future

Jorge H. Garcia, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/ORD Does Encouraging the Use of Wetlands in Water Quality Trading Programs Make Economic Sense?

Susan Garland, Portland State University Variability in Carbon Storage of Alpine Wetland Soils, Niwot Ridge, Front Range, Colorado, USA

Patty Glick, National Wildlife Federation Modeling the Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Habitats: Case Studies for the Pacific Northwest and the Chesapeake Bay Region

David Gorman, ICF Jones & Stokes Predicting Climate Change Impacts to Precipitation Dependent Wetland Hydrology

Kate L. Graves, World Wildlife Fund Creating Outreach and Communication Strategies for Adaptation Projects: A Case Study of the WWF Allianz Southeast Climate Witness Program

Jeff Greenwald, Olsson Associates Preserving Saline Wetlands on the Urban Fringe

Noel P. Gurwick, Carnegie Institution Continent-scale Responses of Riparian Zones to Climate Change, and Implications for Adaptation

Angela Gustavson, Restore America's Estuaries A National Perspective on Climate Change Legislation Estuaries

Yutaka Hagimoto, Oregon State University The Potential Role of Hydrologic Models in Wetland Managements in Anticipation of Climate Change

Kevin Halsey, Parametrix, Inc. Ecosystem Markets – Taking the Lead, Reaping the Benefits

Lara Hansen, EcoAdapt Developing the Practice, Science and Field of Adaptation for Wetlands and Beyond: Getting a There There

Margarete Heber, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FGDC Wetland Mapping Standard Implementation Panel Discussion

Nate Herold, NOAA Coastal Services Center Monitoring Coastal Change - NOAA's Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP)

Becky Hill, Oregon State University (POSTER) Mechanisms Behind the Successful Invasion of Bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) in the Northwest United States

Thomas Hruby, Washington State Department of Ecology  20 Years of Assessing Functions: How Far Have We Come and Where Are We Going?

Thomas Hruby, Washington State Department of Ecology Wetland Mitigation: Is Our No-Net-Loss Policy Part of the Problem?

Rachel Hutchinson, University of California, Davis Invasive Seed Banks in Alluvial Floodplains and the Eradication of Perennial Pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) at the Cosumnes River Preserve

Jack Kerns, San Francisco District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Take Me to the River:  Significant Nexus and the Ninth Circuit in the Post-Rapanos World

William Kirchner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Assessment of Cumulative Impacts Utilizing National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) Data for Functional Assessment: California’s Ventura River Watershed and Delaware’s Nanticoke River Watershed

Victor Klemas, University of Delaware Coastal Wetlands and Sea Level Rise: A Remote Sensing Perspective

Tonja L. Koob, Gaea Consultants, LLC and Nina Reins, University of New Orleans Wasted Resources: How Iowa Could Help Louisiana's Wetlands

Jon Kusler, Association of Wetland Managers, Inc. Overview: Wetlands and Climate Change; Adjusting to an Uncertain Climate

Kathleen Kutschenreuter, Rachel Fertik, Paul Bunje, and Dave Evans, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wetlands and Climate Change:  Facing Policy and Management Implications

Ruth M. Ladd, New England District Corps of Engineers Mitigation Compliance in New England

Greg Larson, Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources Managing Wetlands to Sequester Carbon

Esther Lev, The Wetlands Conservancy Satisfying New Wetland Mitigation Banking Rule-How to Find a Land Trust Partner "Working with Land Trusts and Easement 101"

Jay Lorenz, CH2MHILL Delineating Wetlands on Agricultural Land: A Case Study in the Mid-Willamette Valley

Betsy MacWhinney, King County DDES Critical Areas Compliance

Bob Martinson, Minerals Management Service The Coastal Impact Assistance Program: A Challenge to Do the Right Thing

John Matthews, World Wildlife Fund Emerging Trends in Wetland Climate Adaptation: Tromping Through the Global Muck

Celeste A. Mazzacano, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation Developing an Invertebrate Index of Biological Integrity for Pacific Northwest Wetlands

Tate McAlpin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Numerical Modeling of a Floating Marsh System

Niall McCarten, University of California, Davis Climate Change and its Potential Effect on Vernal Pool Ecosystems

Kacy McDonnell, USKH, Inc. Accelerating Vegetation Change in the Kenai Peninsula Lowlands, South-Central Alaska: Woody Invasion of Herbaceous Wetlands

Mike McNutt, Tinkers Creek Watershed Partners Economics of Wetlands As a Conservation Tool in the Tinkers Creek Watershed

Robin Miller, U.S. Geological Survey Factors Influencing Carbon Storage Rates in Re-Established Wetlands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California

Robin Miller, U.S. Geological Survey Wetland Re-Establishment Changes Gaseous Carbon Fluxes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California

JoAnn Mills, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Climate Change and the National Wetlands Inventory:  Moving from Data Producer to Data Steward?

Philip Mote, CSES Climate Impacts Group Changes in Climate and Sea Level Relevant to the Wetlands of the Pacific Northwest

Breda Munoz, RTI International Using Intensive Sampling Wetland Data to Evaluate the Agreement of Two Rapid Wetland Assessment Method for Headwater Wetlands in North Carolina

Jim Murphy, National Wildlife Federation Synopsis of Global Warming and Wetlands Presentation

Kenneth Muema Mavuti, University of Nairobi Evidence of Slow Recovery of Mangrove Associated Benthic Macrofauna After Restoration of Rizophora Mucronata Mangrove Wetland in Gazi Bay-Kenya

Kenneth Muema Mavuti, University of Nairobi How Does 25 Years of Research Guide a Monitoring System for Wetland Ecosystem Health and Management? Lake Naivasha, Kenya as an Example

Tracie-Lynn Nadeau, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Development of an Indicator-Based Method for Evaluating the Duration of Streamflow in Oregon

Delissa Padilla Nieves, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System Projected Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: An Application of the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model

Anna Pakenham, Oregon State University A Review of Oregon's Statewide Planning Goal 16: Estuarine Resources

Pat Parenteau, Vermont Law School The Role of Wetlands Conservation in Climate Change Mitigation

Kristina Peterson, University of New Orleans, Center for Hazards Assessment and Response and Rosina Philippe, American Wetlands- AmeriCorp Participatory Action of Grassroots Communities in Addressing Wetlands and Climate Change

Jim Powell, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Alaskan Wetlands and Climate Change: A Summary of Research, Mitigation and Adaptation

Alfredo Quarto, Mangrove Action Project Mangrove Forests Loss and Climate Change--A Global Perspective

Elijah Ramsey, III, U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center Spectral Definition of Saltwater Macro Algae Ulva and Gracilaria and Inter-Tidal Microbial Mats in Marshes and Backbarrier Bays of the Delmarva Peninsula, USA

Frederic A. Reid, San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Coordinating Partnerships to Address Sea Level Rise and Wetlands Restoration on a Local and Regional Scale

Nina Reins and Alison Sleath, University of New Orleans Coastal Protection in Louisiana

Clark Row, Row Associates Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Peat and Wetland Fires in the Tropics

John Rybczyk, Western Washington University Sea Level Rise and Intertidal Eelgrass Productivity in Padilla Bay, Washington: A Field and Modeling Study

Neil Saintilan, Department of Environment and Climate Change Sea-level Rise and Coastal Wetlands of South-Eastern Australia

Neil Saintilan, NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change Predicting and Managing Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Wetlands in Semi-Arid Australia

Ken Sargent, Headwaters Environmental Consultant, Inc. Big Picture Mitigation Design:  Using Watershed Analysis and Landscape Ecology for Mitigation Success

Lynda Saul, Montana Department of Environmental Quality Developing a State Wetland Conservation Strategy

John Schneider, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes National Program Office Status and Trends of Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Health: A Basinwide Monitoring Plan

Karen Schneller-McDonald, Hickory Creek Consulting LLC Habitat Assessment Guidelines for Wetland Habitat Protection

Karen Schneller-McDonald, Hickory Creek Consulting LLC Effective Watershed and Wetland Protection: Development of Local Laws

Chabungbam R. Singh, University College London Hydrological Modeling of Climate Change Impacts on Loktak Lake, India

Kendra Smith, Clean Water Services Floodplain Wetland Enhancement to Mitigate Natural Hazard Impacts of Climate Change Clean Water Services, Watershed Management Department

William A. “Skip” Stiles, Jr.,  Wetlands Watch Wetlands Protection in the Face of Sea Level Rise: Developing a Local Land Use Tool Kit

Julian R. Thompson, University College London Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on the Elmley Marshes, UK Using the MIKE SHE / MIKE 11 Modeling System

Mark Tompkins, University of South Carolina, Department of Political Science Happy “Customers” in the Corps Permitting Process? Examining the Data

Thomas A. Tremblay, John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geoscience Wetland Habitat Change as a Result of Relative Sea-Level Rise, South-Central Texas Coast

C.C. Trettin, U.S. Forest Service Assessing Changes of Soil Carbon Pools in Forested Wetlands

David VanLuven, The Nature Conservancy-Eastern New York Chapter Rising Waters:  Taking Climate Change Adaptation from Talk to Action

Joshua H. Viers, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California Sierra Nevada Mountain Meadows and a Warming Planet: Implications for Future Rehabilitation

Maryann Welsch, Windward Environmental LLD (POSTER) The Effects of Wastewater Effluent from Cheese Manufacturing on Wetland Function: A Success Story in Tilamook, Oregon

Joe Whitworth Ecosystem Markets - Leveraging in Action

Bart Wickel, World Wildlife Fund Hydrologic Considerations in Climate Adaptation Strategies

Jill Wiese Martin, Wilcox Professional Services LLC Using GIS for Landscape Level Functional Wetland Assessment Supports A Small Northern Michigan Community’s Planning and Public Education About Their Wetland Resources

Doug Williams, Saint Louis University School of Law Planning for Development, Wetlands Protection, and Agency Discretion: The Scope of the Corps of Engineers' Authority to Issue General Permits on a National, State, and Regional Scale

Karen M. Wise, Davey Resource Group Quantifying Environmental and Economic Benefits of Forested Wetlands Within Urban Areas

Larry A. Wise, Moffatt & Nichol Pine Gully Restoration, Seabrook, Texas – The Intersection between Relative Sea Level Rise, Residential and Industrial Development, and Wetland Restoration

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