The 2019 Symposium Presentation Slides are now available!
February 5thFebruary 6thFebruary 7th
Opening Address: Eric Quaempts – First Foods as an Aboriginal System
Session 1: Upland Meadow Restoration in the West
- Introduction: Upland Meadow Restoration in the West - Pollyanna Lind
- Ecological Approach to Design and Restoration of Mountain Meadows in the Sierra Nevada - Damion Ciotti
- Meadow Restoration Increased Baseflow and Groundwater Storage during California's Drought – Luke Hunt
- Yakama Nation Meadow Restoration Pilot Project – Dallas Reed
Session 2: Why Lamprey Matter
- Lamprey Importance and Current Conservation Efforts – Christina Wang
- A Different Perspective: Using Lamprey Biology To Inform Approaches To Habitat Restoration At Watershed And Continental Scales – Benjamin Clemens
- Pacific Lamprey -- Are you unknowingly harming them during your restoration activities? – Joe Skalicky
- Long-Term Monitoring of Larval Pacific Lamprey in the Methow River Watershed – John Crandall
- The Lamprey Toolbox: Recommendations for Restoration Actions – Ann Gray
Session 3: Just Enough Instability
- Breaking up with Lane: Rethinking the Role of stability and sediment dynamics in restoration design – Mark Beardsley
- Embracing (and Mitigating) Chaos in Abernathy Creek – Eli Asher
- Full Scale Sediment Augmentation on the Central Platte River – Tom Smrdel
- Development and Implementation of BMPs in River Restoration to Protect Declining Native Freshwater Mussels – Emilie Blevins
Invited Speaker: Gary Parker – Bankfull Discharge and Bankfull Channel Characteristics of Alluvial Rivers: Can We Get Beyond the 1.5 Year Flood?
Session 4: Streamflow and Sediment Controls
- Long-term Monitoring in the Big-Data Era: Using Fish-Flow Data to Create Regional Instream Flow Thresholds for the Nation – Robert George
- Experimental Investigation of Channel Curvature and Sediment Supply Controls on the Morphology and Surface Grain Sorting of Meandering Gravel-Bed Rivers – Ryan Brown
Invited Speaker: Ellen Wohl - Rivers of Carbon: River Management Strategies for Enhancing Carbon Sequestration
Session 5: Beavers, BDAs, and Beaver Ecology
- Riparian Resilience in the Face of Interacting Disturbances: Wildfire, Erosion and Beaver (Castor canadensis) in Grazed Riparian Systems of the Western United States. – Alexa Whipple
- Monitoring the Effectiveness of Beaver Dam Analogs to Reduce Downstream Sediment Loads: A Pilot Project in California Creek, Spokane, Washington, USA - Sue Niezgoda
- Festivus for the Rest of Us: Using Form Based Structures to Facilitate Process Based Restoration. – Garry Sanders
Session 6: Poster Session
2019 Poster Introduction Slides
| Poster Title | Author |
| Creating Resilience to a Floodplain-Wetland Complex in a Rapidly Developing Urban Setting Through Enhancement of Beaver-Habitat Processes. | Amy Baur |
| Upper Vernon Creek Flood Response and Recovery: From Concrete Flume to Naturalized Channel | Leif Burge |
| Removing Powerdale and Middle Fork Nooksack River Dams: Designing Riverbeds for Fish Passage in High Energy Environments | Paul DeVries |
| Restoring Wet Conditions to a Degraded Meadow System | Ben Davis |
| Localized Geomorphic Response to Implementation of Fish Passage at a Low Head Diversion Dam | Keith Binkley |
| Hydraulic Modeling of Large Wood Jams: Evaluating a Porous Plate Modeling Method | Roby Ventres-Pake |
| Integrated Biotic and Abiotic Urban Stream Monitoring in Ebright Creek | Bill Mavros |
| Effects of the Elwha River Dam Removals on the Us 101 Bridge | Casey Kramer |
| Remote Sensing as an Effective Tool for Streambank Erosion Assessment and Quantification | Forrest Williams |
| The Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Low-Cost Long-Term Monitoring of Fluvial Systems for Improved River Restoration | Aaron Zettler-Mann |
| Characterization of Suspended-Sediment Flux in a Large River Confluence with ADCP and LISST Measurements | Donald Jones |
| 2-D Bed Sediment Transport Modeling in a Reach of the Sagavanirktok River, Alaska | Isaac Ladines |
| Designing for Resiliency: A Case Study from Colorado's Front Range | Michael Rafferty |
| Effectiveness Monitoring at the Watershed Scale using Green LiDAR and 2D Hydrodynamic Modeling – Measurement of Large Wood and Habitat Units as Metrics of Project Success | Scott Katz |
| Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Structure-from-Motion Aerial Photogrammetry to Monitor Sediment Trapping by Beaver Dam Analogs in an Eastern Washington Tributary | Corey Johnson |
| Large-Scale Meadow Restoration Designs - Lower Log Springs Meadow | Cody Payne |
| Experimental Testing of a New Bank Erosion Mitigation Technique | Caitlin Tatham |
| Remote Geomorphic and Vegetation Monitoring | Tom Smrdel |
| Large Wood Helicopter Loading Project - Restoring Spring-Run Chinook in Northern California | Aaron Martin |
| Using Fluvial Geomorphology to Streamline Cultural Resources Studies. | Patrick Reed |
| Powell Butte Floodplain Anastomosing System Concept and 2D Hydrodynamic Modeling | Mason Lacy |
| Increasing Snake River Cutthroat Spawning Habitat Through Restoration and Effective Monitoring | Jason Chircop |
| Topo-bathymetric LiDAR for River Restoration: Tucannon River Case Study | Cassie Meigs |
| Using River Complexity Index to Inform Restoration Objectives on the Tucannon River | Zach Seilo |
| Design and Construction of Spawning and Off-Channel Rearing Habitat on a Flow Regulated River | Barry Tanaka |
Session 7: Implementation of Stage Zero Restoration
- Scaling Up: A Stage 0 Restoration Case Study on a Large River in the Western Cascades of Oregon – Kate Meyer
- Early Phases of Evolution, Monitoring and Lessons Learned on a Stage Zero Restoration Project at Whychus Canyon Preserve, Central Oregon – Lauren Mork
- Fivemile Bell Restoration Project: Vegetation Based Stage 0 Restoration in Coastal Oregon – Paul Burns
- Stage Zero Ecological Design, Implementation, and Results - Doty Ravine, Feather River Watershed –Jared McKee
Session 8: Turning the Tide – How Do We Effect Change?
- Restoration Perspectives - The Social Facet – Cynthia Carlstad
- Non-profit Collaborations to Leverage More Restoration – Jefferson Jacobs
- Integrating Climate Change Impacts into Conservation Reserve and Restoration Designs in the Lower Columbia River – Catherine Corbett
- Cascadia Collapse?-Saving endangered wild Chinook and the Southern Resident Killer Whale in the Face of Climate Change – Kendra Smith
Invited Speaker: Peter Tschaplinski – Carnation Creek Watershed Experiment: Carnation Creek watershed experiment – long-term effects of historic forestry practices on stream channels, aquatic habitats, and coho salmon smolt production
Session 9: Fish on the Move
- Salmon Superhighway: A Collaborative Pilot To Address Fish Migration Barriers - Leah Tai
- Fish Passage Barrier Removal in Washington State – Dan Eggers
- Effectiveness of habitat restoration in the Columbia River Basin: An update on BPA’s Action Effectiveness Monitoring (AEM) Program - Phil Roni
Session 10: Identifying Essential Fish Habitat
- Instream dynamics and reach-specific movement and survival of Sacramento River winter-run Chinook Salmon – Jason Hassrick
- Enhancing Process-based Habitat Restoration for Oregon Coho Salmon – Rob Walton
- Enhancement of cold water refugia in the lower Columbia River Gorge - Keith Marcoe
- Wildfire Smoke Cools Summer River and Stream Water Temperatures - Eli Asarian
Session 11: Shared Stakes, Manifold Benefits
- Restoring Channel Braiding Processes on Illabot Creek’s Alluvial Fan – Devin Smith
- Dream Big- How big ideas help overcome challenges in urban restoration – Analiese Burns
- Construction of the Multi-Benefit, Countyline Levee Setback Project, Lower White River (King County), Washington - Chris Brummer
- Countyline Levee Setback Effectiveness Monitoring: Measuring the Multiple Benefits of a Flood Protection Project Along the Lower White River, Washington – Stephanie Shelton