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Short Courses
Welcome
Terril Stevenson, President RRNW
Opening Address
Gary Brierley – Experiences gained in applying the River Styles framework as an integrating tool for river management practice
Session 1: River Assessment and Classification
- A more functions-based stream assessment and classification system in Oregon – Dana Hicks
- Recognizing beaver-mediated anastomosed stream morphology in common stream classification systems – Mark Beardsley
- Novel Streams: Reference Systems for Generalizing from Natural Analogs to Improve Stream Restoration Practices – Joe Berg
Session 2: Restoration Efforts in the Upper Columbia Region
- Bonaparte Creek Relocation: Natural channel and floodplain stabilization and evolution – Gina McCoy
- Converging lines of evidence – evaluating progress toward recovery in the Upper Columbia using data and information – Greer Maier
- Watershed Rehabilitation Efforts to Re-establish Summer Steelhead in Omak Creek, Okanogan River Basin, Washington – Chris Fisher
- Think Big – the Evolution of a Reach Based Approach in the Upper Columbia Region – Rob Richardson
Session 3: How Floodplain Reconnection and Valley Scale Restoration Has Changed the Way We Restore River Processes
- Making the case for valley scale restoration – Leif Embertson
- Go big or go home: A decade of lessons learned on the Nooksack River – Treva Coe
- Wood loading and sediment supply in restoration of the Lower Elwha River floodplain – Mike McHenry
- Restoring Process and Function to a Freshwater Tidal Floodplain Constrained by Partial Levee Removal – Ian Sinks
Session 4: Tools for Restoration Decision Making and Design
- Innovative computational tool for evaluating the stability of large wood structures proposed for stream enhancement – Michael Rafferty
- Making stream restoration decisions – Peter Wilcock
- Analysis of cost-effective rehabilitation: Principles and tools for reducing uncertainty in design – Andrew Simon
- Feasibility analysis of restoration projects at migrating channels – Peter Klingeman
Invited Speaker
Jack Schmidt – Challenges and Opportunities for Rehabilitating the Colorado River system
Session 5: Watershed Scale Restoration
- Basin-Scale Metrics for Environmental Flows and Riparian Habitat Restoration – Peter Skidmore
- Achieving Watershed Resilience in Working Landscapes: How Do We Get There? – Dan Calvert
- Large-Scale Restoration of Salmonid Habitats Via Grazing Cessation on Public Lands Needed to Reduce Extirpation Risks to Salmonids under Ongoing Climate Change – Jonathan Rhodes
Session 6: Poster Session
| Bret Jordan | Design and implementation of a large scale river restoration project: Case Study (upper Arkansas River restoration project) Leadville, CO |
| Caroline Nash | Mapping channel planform adjustments in response to pond-and-plug channel restoration on the Silvies River, OR |
| Casey Kramer | Prediction of Scour Depth in Gravel Bed Rivers Using Radio Frequency IDs: Application to the Skagit River |
| Catherine Wiechmann | The role Howellia Aquatilis, a rare aquatic plant, to identify floodplain management strategies in Northern Idaho |
| Chad Smith | City of Portland Culvert Replacement/Abandonment on Crystal Springs Creek for Unimpeded Fish Passage |
| Chris Brummer | Using 2-D hydraulic modeling and geomorphic response scenarios to design a habitat-enhancement and levee setback project in a sediment-rich environment |
| Christine Adelsberger | The importance of partnerships and working relationships for successful restoration projects |
| David Polster | Natural processes for the restoration of alluvial systems |
| Drew Porter | Taking design to reality: Innovation solutions to construction challenges in tidal floodplain restoration |
| Ellen McClure | Restoration of Lizardhill Sandmine using sand seepage wetlands |
| Erica Capuana | Implementation of Reach-Scale Restoration Projects in the Nooksack River Watershed |
| Helmut Schmidt | Restoration or Infrastructure: Can We Do Both? |
| Honda Sondossi | Recovery of a post-mazama river ecosystem over several decades: Implications on management and restoration strategies |
| Hunter White | Lower Columbia River Tidal Habitat Restoration at Colewort Creek |
| Lara Heitmeyer | Mapping Vegetation Patterns at Former Small Dam Sites |
| Mousa Diabat | Comparison between restoring stream meanders and replanting riparian vegetation on stream temperature in the Middle Fork John Day River, Oregon |
| Nell Kolden | Case Study: Stream Restoration within an Uncertain Water Management Future |
| Patricia McDowell | Five years of monitoring restoration effectiveness in the Middle Fork John Day IMW |
| Piotr Cienciala | Channel morphology in a small mountain stream as a control on foraging habitat quality for resident cutthroat trout |
| Robert Emanuel | A Decade of Shading the Tualatin Watershed: How a Utility takes an Ecosystem Services Approach to Riparian and Stream Enhancement |
| Sage Jensen | Restoration Underdogs; Considering Underutilized Native Plants on Restoration Sites in the Pacific Northwest |
| Shawn Higgins | Geomorphic Response to Changes in Tidal Exchange within Estuarine Floodplains of the Pacific Northwest |
| Stephanie Bransford | Restoring Newsome Creek Floodplain Using An Adaptive Management Strategy |
| Steve Taylor | Geomorphic Perspectives on Watershed Assessment in the Oregon Coast Range: Results from collaborative service-learning projects at Western Oregon University |
| Vaugh Collins | Necanicum Wetland Mitigation Bank: Meeting Flood hazard reduction, Land Conservancy & Highway Mitigation Goals |
Session 7: Let the River Run Free: Strategic Land Acquisition to Facilitate Large Scale Process-Based Restoration
- Tolt River: Setting the stage for process-based restoration through long-term strategic acquisition – Sally King
- Prioritizing strategic acquisitions in the Skagit watershed for large scale restoration actions – Denise Krownbell
- Strategic acquisitions: Lessons learned and community reflections – Janne Kaje
- Designing effective stream and watershed restoration: guidance based on three decades of restoration science – Phil Roni
Session 8: Case Studies
Alluvial fan restoration on Lower Boise Creek – Mason Bowles
- Cumulative watershed impacts of small-scale hydroelectric projects in irrigation delivery systems: A case study – Les Perkins
- The Bear River estuary restoration project: Good things don’t always come easy – Cleve Steward
- Successful Floodplain Reconnection, Monitoring, and Adaptive Management on the Upper Truckee River, Lake Tahoe, California – Michael Rudd
- Restoring Newsome Creek Floodplain Using an Adaptive Management Strategy – Stephanie Bransford
Invited Speaker
Celeste Mazzacano – Aquatic Macroinvertebrates: Ecosystem Services and Implications for River Restoration
Session 9: Habitat Modeling and Monitoring
- Linking fish and fluid behavior: Results from a physical model of turbulence and bioenergetics around large wood in rivers – Desiree Tullos
- Innovative hybrid design of Issaquah Creek hatchery intake replacement using physical scale modeling as a collaborative tool – Edwin Zapal
- Monitoring shows that mechanical approaches to trout habitat enhancement on C-type streams in South Park Colorado have been largely ineffective – Jessica Doran
Session 10: Restoring Watershed and Channel Processes
- How big is big? Redistribution of energy in a plane bed channel through profile and roughness adjustment – Anne MacDonald
- Levee reconfiguration and removal on the Yakima and Naches Rivers conceptual basis, activities and effects – Joel Freudenthal
- Stream Restoration as a Cost-Effective Technique to Meet TMDL Water Quality Goals – Vince Sortman
- Evolution of salmonid rearing habitat through time at a rehabilitation site, Trinity River, CA – Aaron Martin
Session 11: Dam Removal and Monitoring
- Monitoring adult salmon populations in the Elwha river with SONAR before and during dam removal – Keith Denton
- Elwha river restoration sediment effects during first two years of dam removal – Jennifer Bountry
- Condit dam decommissioning: What Happens when you blow a big hole in a dam? – Stephen Caruana
Closing Speaker
George Pess – Ecosystem response during removal of the Elwha River dams