WWA 2012 Conference Program

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2012 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Events by Day:

Tuesday, February 21
Wednesday, February 22
Thursday, February 23

Concurrent Sessions
Poster Session

Program Details:

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Map of Conference:

Map of The Lodge Main Level and Conference Center

Tuesday, February 21

7:00 pm Pre-Conference Social and Pre-registration
Location: Lobby Lounge in the Lodge and Conference Center at Grand Geneva Resort
view map of building
Catch up with your wetland colleagues over a beer. Attendees can pick up registration materials, review presentation abstracts and plan your conference schedule ahead of time. Presenters are encouraged to load their presentations to conference laptops during this event.

Concurrent Session Speakers and Titles

Wednesday Morning, Concurrent Sessions 1
	Wetland Restoration Techniques Moderator: Art Kitchen Location: Maple Lawn C		Management Planning for Wetlands Moderator: Nick Miller Location: Maple Lawn B		Working Group: Economics & Ecosystem Services Moderator: TBA Location: Maple Lawn A
10:40 am	Matthews	Obstacles to defining and achieving success in compensatory wetland mitigation	Salas	Habitat management planning along large riverine systems of the Midwest	An exploration and discussion of opportunities to better measure, understand, and promote the economic value of wetlands with keynote speaker David Batker. For more information click here.
11:00 am	Jensen	Factors affecting degradation and recovery of aquatic ecological integrity in urbanizing watersheds	Rossler	Status of Wisconsin's Beaver Management Plan
11:20 am	Melchior	Eel River: A model for the restoration of retired cranberry bogs	Glenzinski	Big Muskego Lake: Preventing the forward switch
11:40 am	Thompson, M.	The Walk Away System: A multi-benefit planting regime for wetland sites	Thompson, A.	Design features and adaptive management for restoring structure and function in an urban floodplain (Pike River II)
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Wednesday Early Afternoon, Concurrent Sessions 2
	Strategies for Prioritizing Restoration Moderator: Eric Parker Location: Maple Lawn C		Approaches to Wetland Mapping and Assessment Moderator: Dreux Watermolen Location: Maple Lawn B		History as a Factor in Wetland Restoration Moderator: Joy Wolf Location: Maple Lawn A
1:00 pm	Parker	Recognizing and understanding natural area remnants in urban wetland systems	Bernthal	Sorting out wetland change: What's really happening to wetlands on the landscape?	Wolf	Ephemeral pond diversity across varying basin attributes and land ownership
1:20 pm	Miller	Thinking like a watershed: A framework to align wetland mitigation actions and watershed conservation priorities	Griffin	Characterization and analysis of wetland restoration sites in Wisconsin	Bart	Land-use legacies and fen recovery after intensive agriculture
1:40 pm	Brown	Using a GIS model to systematically prioritize potential wetland mitigation banks in Wisconsin	Powell	On the edge: Assessing vegetation for wetland delineation purposes in diverse urban wetlands in Minnesota	Johnson	Contrasting changes in urban and rural floodplain forests: A 55-year view from the understory
2:00 pm	Smith	Potentially Restorable Wetlands Version 2.1: A revised methodology for finding potentially restorable wetlands	Chappelle	Ephemeral pond identification using remote sensing techniques in southeastern Wisconsin's varied landscape	McLeester	Valuing wetlands: An archaeological perspective on the past and present use of wetlands
2:20 pm	Wernerehl	EPA's National Wetland Condition Assessment in Wisconsin	Martin	Wetland forests in Wisconsin: Trends and restoration possibilities	Scherer	Marine diatoms in upper Midwest wetlands? Yes, it�s true!
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Wednesday Late Afternoon, Concurrent Sessions 3
	Wetland Invasive Plants Moderator: Kelly Kearns Location: Maple Lawn C		Involving the Human Community Moderator: Travis Olson Location: Maple Lawn B		Working Group: Mining Wisconsin's Penokee Range Moderator: Erin O'Brien Location: Maple Lawn A
3:10 pm	Little	Riparian soil, reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea), and plant species richness in trout stream restorations	Ehlinger	Human-environmental history and establishing a framework for ecological restoration in an urbanizing watershed	A panel presentation and group discussion of mining in Wisconsin�s Penokee Range. For more information click here.
3:30 pm	Link	The potential for non-native Phragmites australis to spread via cut stem fragments	Simpson	A weekend of restoration: Restoring a wetland and building community
3:50 pm	Geddes	Effects of native and exotic strains of Phragmites australis on freshwater wetlands	Grunert	Restoring an urban wetland: Lessons on strategy
4:10 pm	Springborn	A multi-partnered, landscape level approach to Phragmites control along Lake Michigan shores	Schwartz	Bird City Wisconsin: Communities win recognition for protecting urban wetlands and their inhabitants
4:30 pm	Zacharias	Economic and ecological trade-offs over six years of a long-term buckthorn removal experiment	Joyce-Krieg	Integrating natural areas into your community: Using mitigation for "out of the box" funding
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Wednesday Evening Poster Session, 5:00 - 6:30 PM (Grand Ballroom & Ballroom Foyer) We invite attendees to join us before the banquet presentation to learn about the latest wetland research from over 25 science posters, mingle over a cash bar, and network with exhibiting organizations, agencies, and companies. We are also thrilled to have members from the Redhorse band play during this reception. Their acoustic set will include folk-rock covers, as well as several environmentally-inspired original songs. Poster Titles are listed in alaphabetical order by the primary author's last name.
AUTHORS	TITLE
Aten	A participatory 100-year plan for a wild place in Milwaukee�s Menomonee Valley
Baum	Embracing Wisconsin wetlands for wellness
Belby	Mapping the vertical distribution of lead in the La Crosse River Marsh using X-ray image analysis and X-ray fluorescence
Brandt	Analysis of Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans) overwintering ecology in Southwest Wisconsin
Brotkowski	Conservation genetics of Hine's Emerald Dragonfly (Somatochlora nineana) in heavily urbanized and minimally affected areas
Carson	Late Pleistocene - Holocene lakes in the lower Wisconsin River valley, southcentral Wisconsin
Casper	Midwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
Erickson	Measuring the spatial distribution of lead contaminants in the La Crosse River Marsh
Geddes	Use of microsatellites in the identification of hybridizing cattail species in the Typha genus
Greene	Effects of Typha x glauca on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in Northern Lake Huron Coastal Wetlands
Isenring	Biological inventory of forested ephemeral ponds in northern Wisconsin
Knapp	Hika Park concept designs
Korb	Salamander occurrence in the urban wetlands of Madison and Green Bay, Wisconsin
Linton	Pheasant Branch Conservancy Blanding�s Turtle research by Middleton, Wisconsin, citizens: Many eyes and hands
Magyera	WWA's local outreach program: integrating lake and wetland conservation
Miller	Explaining the differences in urban stormwater flow attenuation capabilities between adjacent constructed wetland swales
Montgomery	Phosphorus release from a restored farmed wetland in northeastern Illinois
Parker	Potentially mis-categorized wetland plant species of the NE-NC and Midwest Land Resource Regions of the U.S.
Patti, PWS	Control effort summaries for hairy willow herb (Epilobium hirsutum) and reed manna grass (Glyceria maxima)
Shackelford	Comparison of herbicide efficacy and damage to non-target plants in a SE Wisconsin sedge meadow
Slowinski	Re-meandering/relocating approximately 3 miles of Spring Creek through Hadley Valley Preserve
Smith	Typha domingensis (southern cattail) New to Wisconsin
Stock	The effects of soil temperature on belowground amphibian hibernation in an urban versus rural environment
Strohl	Bureau of Land Management's islands in Wisconsin's big rivers
Trewartha	Japanese hops in the Platte River Watershed
von Ende	Highly plastic response in morphological and physiological traits to light, soil-N and moisture in the model invasive plant, Phalaris arundinacea
Woods	Wisconsin�s comprehensive wetland invasive species strategy formulated
Zedler	Learning to manage urban runoff that reaches the UW-Madison Arboretum
Zellmer	Blanding's Turtle conservation and educational efforts in a portion of Wisconsin affected by suburbanization
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Thursday Morning, Concurrent Sessions 4
	Biologists Without Borders - Ideas and Plans Moderator: Jim Anderson Location: Maple Lawn C		Habitat Needs for Wetland Wildlife 1 Moderator: Josh Kapfer Location: Maple Lawn B		Stormwater Management and Wetlands Moderator: Vince Mosca Location: Maple Lawn A
9:30 am	Anderson	Biologists Across Borders: An Overview of Chicago Wilderness	Rossler	Status of beaver in Wisconsin	Prellwitz	Soil stability and water quality within wetland treatment swales for urban runoff
9:50 am	Mengler	The Chicago Wilderness Green Infrastructure Vision	Glisson	Determining habitat requirements and restoration targets for secretive marshbirds	Doherty	Urban stormwater appears to increase productivity and decrease diversity in natural and engineered wetlands
10:10 am	Rogner	Millenium Reserve	Sloss	Genetic integrity and hybridization of Wisconsin gartersnakes	Somers	Permeable paver systems: Sustainable storm water management with permeable paving units
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Thursday Late Morning, Concurrent Sessions 5
	Biologists Without Borders in Action Moderator: Jim Anderson Location: Maple Lawn C		Habitat Needs for Wetland Wildlife 2 Moderator: Mary Linton Location: Maple Lawn B		Wetland Restoration Case Studies Moderator: Alice Thompson Location: Maple Lawn A
11:00 am	Maurer	Strategies for Invasive Plant Management in the Chiwaukee Illinois Beach Lake Plain	Jensen	City of Middleton, Wisconsin, Harbor Village Northern Pike spawning habitat and streambank stabilization	Salas	Eco-engineering on the edge: Stream restoration, stabilization, and evaluation of risk and approach alternatives
11:20 am	Werner	Developing a Restoration and Management Plan for a Watershed with One Creek in Two States	Casper	Adventures in urban wetlands: a new crayfish for Wisconsin	Roth	Remeandering/relocating approximately 3 miles of Spring Creek through Hadley Valley Preserve
11:40 am	Martinka	Collaborating for water quality in the greater Milwaukee watersheds: The Sweet Water partnership	Van Dyke	Amphibian biodiversity in vernal pools: Does clustering affect community diversity?	Quartucci	Indiana toll road mitigation and urban restoration in Gary, Indiana
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