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Short Courses
Welcome
Will Conley – President, RRNW
Opening Address
Robert Newbury – Shaping Water To Create Habitats… How Can You See If You Have It Right
Session 1: Evaluation And Adaptive Management
- A Morphological Diversity Index for Measuring River Restoration Performance – Phillip Soar
- Sprague River Basin Restoration Post Project Evaluations: Lessons Learned and Future Applications – Mark Tompkins
- Quantified Conservation in Practice on the John Day – Christy Meyer
Session 2: Sediment Management In Stream Restoration
- Sediment Transport Rates During Unsteady Flow Events – Joanna Curran
- Using RFID and Accelerometer – Embedded Gravel and Cobble Tracers To Constrain Transport and Bed Stability During Floods in Reynolds Creek, Idaho – Joel Johnson
- Quantifying Stream Bed Erosion – Deposition Using Temperature Time Series Data – Timothy DeWeese
- A Watershed Based Approach to Address Sediment TMDL Targets in Los Penasquitos Lagoon, San Diego, California – Habib Matin, Ph.D., P.E.
Session 3: Floodplain Connectivity And Riparian Restoration
- Prioritizing Comprehensive River Restoration Projects Through Levee Setbacks: Lessons Learned in the First Decade – Mary Ann Reinhart
- Reach Scale Floodplain Reconnection and Enhancement: Achieving The Objectives of the Columbia River BiOp – Tracy Drury
- Quantifying the Risk of Floodplain Mine Pit Capture Along Gravel Bedded Streams of the PNW – Andrew Nelson
- Seeing the Forest and the Trees with LiDAR and Multi- spectral Imagery: A GIS Method for Evaluating Effectiveness of Riparian Restoration Projects – Chad Tinsley
Session 4: Artificial Structures And Large Wood
- Timescales of Response on Streams Treated with Artificial Beaver Dams, Silvies River, OR – Caroline Nash
- SR20 MP100.7 Dolor-Ballasted Engineered Log Jam Project – Jim Park
- Hydraulic and Morphodynamic Responses of Experimental River Corridors to Engineered Log Jams – Seyed Mohammed Ghaneeizad
- Protecting Elk & Fish Habitats with Engineered Log Jams – Pad Smith
Invited Speaker
Brett Eaton – Is Complex Channel Behavior Predictable? Steady States, Thresholds And Disturbances
Session 5: Mt St. Helens Sediment In The Toutle And Cowlitz Rivers: Sources, Trends, Risks And Management
- Hydrogeomorphic Disturbances and Responses at Mount St. Helens – Jon Major
- Sediment Sources and Loads from Mount St. Helens: Past, Present, and Future – Andrew Simon
- Building Islands with Engineered Log Jams – Colin Thorne
- The Legacy of Massive Volcanic Sediment Input to Fluvial Systems: An Example from the Sandy River, Mount Hood, Oregon – Thomas Pierson
Session 6: Poster Session
| Mousa Diabat | Assessing the Results of Restoration Projects: Using Airborne Thermal Infrared Imagery of Streams and Rivers |
| Skyler Doak | Evaluation of Salmonid Swimming Energetics and Methods to Calculate Swimming Speed |
| Chad Krofta | What’s Soil Got to Do With It? Assessing the Role of Terra Frirma in Achieving Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Goals |
| Sherrie Duncan | Billy’s Pond Off-Channel Habitat Restoration |
| Trish Heekin | Recruiting Restoration Beavers: How to Invite, Host, and Translocate |
| Lu Saechao, Heather Thurston & Katie Mozes | Designing Stream Crossings in Highly Modified Systems |
| Christine Adelsberger | Case Study: Adapting Restoration Design to Maximize Habitat Benefit in a Spring-Fed Stream |
| Gregory Benge | A Landscape Perspective of Restoration Effects: Case Study in the Upper Grande Ronde River and Catherine Creek, Northeast Oregon |
| Dan Elefant | Assessing Benefits and Risks for Estuary Restoration: The Intersection of Large Scale Fluvial and Coastal Processes |
| Brian Fisher | M2-Restoration in the Difficult Places: Reconnecting Floodplains and Improving Complexity in Recreational Reaches |
| Kaitlyn Hammond | Quantifying River Corridor Ecosystem Services |
| Seyed Mohammad Ghaneeizad | Experimental Study of Erosion Driving Forces in Jet Erosion Test |
| Scott McKinney & Michelle Gilbert | Floodplains by Design: A New Paradigm for Multi-Benefit Floodplain Management in WA State |
| Kealie Goodwin | Modeling the Role of Extreme Events on Riverbed Grain Size Sorting |
| Jared McKee | Reconnecting for Resiliency: Restoring Connectivity Between Two Bull Trout Populations in the Klamath Basin |
| Ian Mostrenko | Immediate Results from Installation of Valley Spanning Log Jams to Reestablish Natural Channel and Floodplain Processes in the Clearwater River |
| Darrell Sofield | Using Data Loggers to Monitor a Project Designed to Reconnect Floodplain Functions using Engineered Log Structures to Restore Salmon Habitat |
| Luke Swan | River Restoration at the Heart of Disaster Recovery: A Case Study from a Flood Ravaged Colorado Mountain Town |
Session 7: Stream Restoration Planning And Policy
- Political and Economic Geomorphology: The Effect of Market Forces on Stream Restoration Designs – Jai Singh
- Stream Restoration: A Story of Partial Successes, Partial Failures, and How We React – Ellen McClure
- US EPA’s National Efforts on Stream Restoration: Is it Time to Pivot West? – Brian Topping
Session 8: Marsh, Meadow, Estuary, And Wetland Restoration
- Long Term Performance of Two Intertidal Marsh Habitat Construction Projects on the Northern Coast of British Columbia – Eric White
- Lower Red River Meadow Restoration Project: Results of Long-Term Monitoring of Physical Responses to Restoration – Steve Clayton
- Design and Implementation Lessons From a Successful Salmon Stream and Estuary Relocation in Southeast Alaska – Michelle Havey
- Wetland Rehabilitation in Reservoir Setting – Joshua Butler
Invited Speaker
Dan Bottom – Case Studies In Salmon Restoration: Re-Thinking The Narrative Of Resource Management
Session 9: Fisheries And Habitat Studies
- Improving State and Federal Fish Passage Design Guidelines for Water Crossings in Tidal Environments – How Does the Stream Simulation Approach Work in Estuaries? – Curtis Loeb
- Improving the Evaluation and Design Process for Fish Passage Restoration Projects Through Application of Two Dimensional Numerical Models – Michael Sherwood
- Effect of Spring-Flood Pulse on the Composition of Juvenile Salmonids in an Off-Channel Habitat of the Fraser River at Hope, British Columbia – Jacqueline Huard
Session 10: Stream Restoration Methods And Tools
- 2D hydrodynamic Based Logic Modeling Tool for River Restoration Decision Analysis: A Quantitative Approach to Project Prioritization – David Bandrowski
- FACStream: A Forensic Method for Assessing Streams in CO – Mark Beardsley
- Application of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler for River Restoration Monitoring and Appraisal – Jennifer Cox
- Utility of Fish Salvage Data from Pre-Restoration Stream Channels as Baseline Aquatic Community Census – Kim Gould
Session 11: Still-Water Species And Salmon Restoration: Issues And Case Studies
- Natural History of Turtles and Still-Water Amphibians – Katie Holzer
- BMPs for Conserving Oregon’s Native Turtles: An Overview – Susan Barnes
- Case Study: River Island Restoration – Elaine Stewart
Closing Speaker
Mary Lou Soscia – Reducing Toxics In Fish And Wildlife Through Watershed Restoration
Closing Remarks
Sue Niezgoda, Incoming RRNW President