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Short Courses
- RiverRAT — River Restoration Analysis Tools
- Principles Of Streambank Analysis & Stabilization
- Soil Bioengineering For Challenging Locations
Opening Address
Lorne Fitch –Changing the World One Community at a Time: The Alberta Cows and Fish Program
Session 1: Watershed Analysis and Assessment
- Patricia L. Olson – Applications of Airborne LiDAR as a practical tool for high resolution evaluation of restoration and other channel modifying projects under current and climate change conditions
- Kendra Smith – Retrospective Assessment of Select Watershed Council Revegetation Projects in Mid and Upper Willamette Basin Tributaries
- Lee Benda – Creating a Watershed to Landscape Scale Perspective for Restoration Planning
Session 2: Estuaries and Tidal Areas
- Celina Abercrombie, Jon Houghton and Keeley O’Connell – Union Slough Saltmarsh Restoration Project: An Example of Successful Restoration
- Matt Brennan – Tidal Marsh Restoration Design – Applying Lessons from San Francisco Bay to the Lower Columbia River
- Jon Houghton – Design and implementation lessons from a successful salmon stream and estuary relocation in Southeast Alaska
- Andrew Collison – Should we be Building Cadillacs or Subarus? Restoration Nodes Versus Rehabilitation Corridors On the Napa River and The San Francisco Bay Area
Session 3: Case Studies I
- Chris Brummer – Design, construction, and performance monitoring of engineered-placed wood in the Mashel River, Washington
- Charles J.P. Podolak – Tracking Changes in Oregon’s Sandy River following the Marmot Dam Removal – Lessons for modelling and monitoring
- Will Conley – Tepee Creek – Two Years Later
- Peter Frederiksen – Cheakamus River side channel re-watering
Session 4: Restoration Partnerships & Strategies
- Matthew Daniels – Kootenai River Habitat Restoration Project Master Plan: A Framework for Implementation of an Ecosystem-based Restoration Program
- Hans Ehlert – Spring Valley Restoration Project-Advances In Advance Mitigation and Stakeholder Collaboration
- Brett Golden – A Collaborative Approach to River Restoration in Whychus Creek
- Bryan Kahrohnyakdahdyeh Maracle – The Yukon River Basin Water Quaility Monitoring Program: Partnerships Between Governments and Grass Roots at the National and International Levels
Design Methods
Will Graf – Downstream Hydrologic & Geomorphic Effects of Large Dams on American Rivers
Session 5: Restoration Partnerships & Strategies
Bobby Cochran – Marketing Ecosystem Services Beyond an Idea
Session 6: Poster Session
| Frank Leonetti, Brett Gaddis, and Chris Nelson | Biological and habitat monitoring of floodplain side channel restoration at North Meander, Stillaguamish River – management and maintenance implications |
| Kavita Heyn | Using Restoration to Build Resilience: Opportunities to Adapt our River Systems to a Changing Climate |
| Aaron Kopp, Mike McHenry, and Tim Abbe | 2D Modeling of Engineered Logs Jams in the Anastomosing Lower Elwha River, WA |
| Michael Rotar and Demian Ebert | Sevenmile Creek Fish Passage |
| S.J.K. Mason, B.L. McGlynn, and G.C. Poole | Assessing stream function and groundwater-surface water connectivity in a restored streambed: science to inform the restoration process, Silver Bow Creek, Montana |
| Jon Houghton and Keeley O’Connell | Union Slough Saltmarsh Restoration Project – A Collaboration for Long-Term Success |
| S.J.K. Mason, B.L. McGlynn, and G.C. Poole | Assessing hydrologic response to channel reconfiguration: Science to inform the restoration process, Silver Bow Creek, Montana |
| Stephanie Yard and Allen Haden | Planning Riparian-Wetland Refugia In An Urban Setting Flagstaff, Arizona |
| Alex P. Levell and Tim P. Hanrahan | An Evaluation of Large Woody Debris Availability for River Restoration with Engineered Logjams |
| L. Jones, M. Logan, and J. Checketts | Whychus Creek stream temperatures during Oncorhynchus mykiss spawning, rearing, and migration and the subsequent Identification of restoration and conservation measures, Deschutes Basin, Oregon |
| Eric D. Hoverson and James G. Webster | Strategies For Improving Fisheries Habitat In a Columbia River Tributary |
| Phil Simpson | Restoration opportunities related to municipal and private water diversions |
| Aida Arik, Julie Gabrielli, Tara O‘Donnell, and John Selker | Distributed Temperature Sensing Fiber Optic Technology for Monitoring of Restoration in the Middle Fork John Day River |
| Cyrus Curry and Amy Charette | Value of Multiple Agency Partnerships in Restoration and Monitoring |
| W. Wente, M. Trask, B. Carson, D. Covington, and J. Ahmann | ODOT’S Biology and Wetland Monitoring: An Improved Approach to Data Collection and Reporting |
| Kevin Tabata and Paul Villard | Naturalization and Post-Construction Evaluation of a Tributary of Stouffville Creek, Ontario |
| Alex Amonette and James Webster | A Social Experience in the Development of a Fluvial Geomorphic Assessment and Restoration Design |
| Key McMurry | Mill Creek Restoration |
| Gary Watters | Innovative Technology for Stream Restoration Projects In Flood Prone Urban Areas |
| Janet Oatney and Stephen Cruise | Non Traditional Bridge Protection Bio-Engineering as a Successful Alternative to Bank Armoring |
| Raymond Wong, Matt Kondolf, Jennifer Natali, and Hsiao-Wen Wang | A Pioneering Alternative Flood Control Project: Two Decades on Wildcat Creek, California |
| Ian Mostrenko and Reinaldo Garcia | Application of numerical modeling tools to support alternative analysis for five riverine restoration projects in the Pacific Northwest |
Design Methods
Paul Heimowitz – Waiter, there’s a carp in my water! What’s the to-do…and what to do…with aquatic invasive species
Session 7: Invasion of the River Snatchers
- Tim Counihan, Jill M Hardiman, Amy Puls, and Christopher Walker – Assessing the effects of potentially invasive aquatic organisms: It’s hard to know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been
- Mark Sytsma – Aquatic Nonindigenous Species in the Columbia River: Potential Consequences for Ecosystem Restoration
- Mandy Tu – Overview of the Impacts of Invasive Riparian and Wetland Plants on Pacific Northwest Biodiversity, and the Best Approaches for Management
- Dave Ward – Non-native fish predators in the Columbia river basin
Session 8: Numerical Modeling Applications
- David Andres – Numerical Modelling of River Ice Processes – Opportunities and Limitations
- Paul Bakke – BAGS: a state-of-the-art gravel transport model, with applications to channel stability and climate change effects
- Yantao Cui, Ethan Bell, John Wooster, Jen Aspittle, Bruce Orr, Frank Ligon, Andrew Wilcox, and Jen Vick – Sediment Transport Following Dam Removal: Prediction, Interpretation, and Comparison between Observation and Prediction
Design Methods
Stephan J Peake – Fish Are Better Swimmers Than We Think: Implications for Water Velocity Criteria in Fishways and Culverts
Session 9: Biologic and Vegetation Monitoring
- Chris Hoag – 30 years of riparian restoration: Lessons learned
- Robert Sullivan, Pete Lawson, and Mark Stamey – Seasonal Variation in Salmonid use of Bioengineered Habitat Structures Incorporated into a Roadway Protection Bank Stabilization Project
- Mel Sheng, John Taylor, Margaret Wright – The Effect of Large-Scale Side Channel Restoration on Coho Smolt Production in the Englishman Watershed
Session 10: Case Studies II
- Michael Hibbard, Susan Lurie, and Lauren Senkyr – Socio-Economic Measures for Watershed Restoration: The Middle Fork John Day IMW Project
- Gary Wolff, Tim Kraft, Linda Small, Lisa Hemesath, and Karen Streeter, and Kozmo Ken Bates – Salmon Creek Channel Stabilization and Fish Passage Project
- Dan Axness – Elk Creek Dam Fish Passage Corridor Phase I and II
- Scott Wright – Fast Track Permit Process and Construction Solutions for Gold Hill Dam Removal
Session 11: Urban Streams
- Janet Corsale and Jennifer Antak – Urban Streams – Lessons Learned Through Design, Construction and Performance Monitoring of Enhancement Projects in Portland, OR
- Christopher Konrad – Going Beyond Structure: Addressing Hydrologic Functions in Urban Stream Restoration
- Paul Agrimis, Matt Brennan, Scott Clement – Urban Stream Restoration and Infrastructure Repair at Tideman Johnson Park on Johnson Creek, Portland, Oregon
- Peter Sturtevant, Randy Whitman and Fei Tang – Long-Term Monitoring of Engineered Log Jams in an Urbanized Creek
- Derek B. Booth and Stephen C. Ralph – Management, Monitoring, and Restoring Urban Streams