Preliminary
Program
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome
and Opening Remarks
David Reckhow, TEI Director
and Interim Director, Massachusetts Water Resources Research
Center
Chancellor John V. Lombardi, University of Massachusetts Amherst
9:20 - 9:50 Keynote
Congressman John
Olver, 1st Congressional District, Massachusetts
9:50 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 11:30 Concurrent
Sessions AM
Session 1: Directions
in Watershed Management Policy and Practices in the Northeast
Chair: Jerry Schoen, University
of Massachusetts Amherst
EPA’s Approach to Water Quality
and Watershed Policy: New Directions and Programs
David Webster, EPA New England
Developing Massachusetts Water Policy
Karl Honkonen, MA Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
Raising Watershed Awareness through
Education and Recreation
Dave Small, Millers River
Watershed Council
Session 2: Pollutant
Loading and Source Tracking
Chair: Sharon Long, University of Massachusetts Amherst Microbial Source Tracking - An Overview
Sharon Long, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Source Tracking Studies in the New York City Watersheds
Kerri Ann Alderisio, New York City Department of Environmental
Protection
Microbial Source Tracking Panel Discussion
Pat Austin, MA Department of Conservation and Recreation,
Oscar Pancorbo, MA Department of
Environmental Protection, Stephen Jones, University of New
Hampshire
Session 3: Impacts
of Climate Change on Water Resources
Chair: David Ahlfeld, University of Massachusetts
Amherst
A Perspective on Recent
Climate Change
Raymond S. Bradley,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Climate Change and New England Water Resources
S. Lawrence Dingman,
University of New Hampshire
Importance of State and Local Policy Efforts
in Addressing Climate Change
William R. Moomaw,
The Fletcher
School, Tufts University
11:30 - 12:00 Poster
Session
12:00 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:45 Concurrent
Sessions PM - Part 1
Session 1: GIS and Watershed Models
Chair: Richard Taupier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Landscape Ecology for Watersheds
Jack Ahern, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The MDCR Water Assets Study
Sara Cohen, MA Department of Conservation and Recreation
Watershed-scale Assessment of Environmental Impacts
and Hazards of Dams
Karen Pelto, Riverways, MA Department of Fish and Game Session 2: Pollutant Loading and Source Tracking
Chair: Sharon Long, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Transport of Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Source-specific
Indicator Organisms and Standard Water Quality Constituents
in Massachusetts
Watersheds During
Storm
Events
Paula Sturdevant-Rees, University of Massachusetts
Amherst
Use of Artificial Neural Networks for Modeling
Indicator Organisms in a Watershed
Diane Mas, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Use of Remotely Sensed Data in Monitoring
Water Quality in Lake George, New York
Scott H. Stoodley, Environmental Water Quality Programs,
Applied Analysis Inc.
Session 3: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences
on Water Chemistry
Chair: Richard Yuretich, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Field
Flow Fractionation Method as Related to Size of Humics in Water
Metal Binding Characteristics (tentative title)
Dula Amarasiriwardena, Hampshire College
Efficacy of Wood Fibers for Removal of Pollutants
from Roadways
Tom Boving, University of Rhode Island
Potential Movement of Pesticides Related to
Dissolved Organic Matter from Fertilizer Application on Turf
Kun Li and Baoshan Xing, University of Massachusetts
Amherst 2:45 - 3:00 Coffee
Break
3:00 - 4:30 Concurrent Sessions PM - Part 2
Session 1: Sustainability
of the Connecticut River Watershed
Chair: Marie-Françoise Walk, University of Massachusetts
Amherst
Water Quality Trends in the Connecticut
River Watershed in Connecticut
John Mullaney, U.S. Geological
Survey
Influence of Land Use on Water Quality of a Diverse
Northeast Watershed - the Mill River
Amy Rhodes, Smith College
Connecticut River Watershed Initiative
Craig Nicolson, University of Massachusetts Amherst and
Stephen Rideout, U.S. Geological Survey Session 2: Water Resources Modeling: Groundwater-Surface
Water Interaction
Chair: David Ahlfeld, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hydrologic Models for Land
Surfaces (tentative title)
Fred Ogden, University of Connecticut
Nitrogen Dynamics in a Suburban Coastal
Watershed - Effects of Population Density, Land Use,
and
Soil Characteristics
Michelle Daley, University of New Hampshire
Ipswich River: Surface Water - Groundwater
Interactions
Sara Cohen and Vicki Gartland, MA Department of
Conservation and Recreation Session 3: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences
on Water Chemistry
Chair: Richard Yuretich, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Biogeochemistry and
Natural Attenuation of Acid-mine Drainage
at Davis Pyrite Mine, Rowe, MA
Richard Yuretich, University of Massachusetts
Amherst
Land-use
and Water Quality in Jamestown, Rhode Island: A Fractured-Bedrock
Case Study
Anne Veeger, University of Rhode Island
Arsenic Contamination
Caused by Groundwater Remediation
Carl Renshaw, Dartmouth College |
