Program

Four Concurrent Tracks of Three 1 ½ Hour Sessions Each

Water Quality Monitoring and Enforcement

• DEP's Regional Bacteria Source Tracking Program - From Search to Solution - Duerring
• Seagrass Monitoring as a Complement to Water Quality Monitoring in Coastal Embayments of Southern Massachusetts - Costello
• Modeling Hydrodynamics and Water Quality Modeling for Wachusett Reservoir - Tobiason

Fishery Concerns

• Northeast Regional Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load - King
• Characterizing and Interpreting Fish Consumption Rates for Developing Human Health Water Quality Criteria -Gwinn
• Wild Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) Density as an Indicator of Stream Flow Condition and Applicability Towards Streamflow Classification in Connecticut - Bellucci
  

Low Impact Development

• Silver Lake Low Impact Development Demonstration Project - Braga
• Protecting Our Wetlands and Water Resources Through Innovative Stormwater Management "Cohasset Rain Garden Project" - Bartlett
• Relationship Between Watershed Impervious Cover Estimates and Peak Streamflow - Gerstner

Surface/Ground Water Interactions

• Implications of Anthropogenically Driven Surface Water Fluctuations on Ground Water Surface Water Exchange Zones - Boutt
• Fate and Transport of Road Salt During Snowmelt through Calcareous Fen: Kampoosa Bog, Stockbridge, MA - Rhodes
• The Effect of Precipitation Variability on Root Depth and the Partitioning of Hydrologic Fluxes - Guswa

Effective Water Management Regulations

• Sustainable Water Resources Management in Massachusetts - Pillsbury
• Using Water Budgets to Assess Impacts on Streamflow - Pickering
• Use of Streamflow and Habitat Studies in Massachusetts Water Management Act Permitting Policy - LeVangie

Water Research and Climate Change

• Proteins as Important Reactive Compounds in Drinking Water Treatment - Reckhow
• Examine the Distribution and Transport of dissolved Organic Carbon in Watersheds and Adjacent Coastal Waters Using Swat Model - Tian
• Rethinking Water Resources Design Under Climate Change - Kirshen

Best Management Practices

• Use of Bioretention Systems to Control Non-Point Sources of Nitrogen - Ergas
• Analysis of Long Term Rainfall to Develop Stormwater Quality Flow Rate Design Criteria - Nason
• The Nuts and Bolts of Manufactured Treatment Systems: An In-Depth Look at Critical Design Variables - Berg

Emerging Contaminants

• A First Pass at Evaluating Potential Human Health Risks from Estrogens in Surface Water - Anderson
• The Measurement and Fate of Trace Organic Compounds in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents - Groff
• Defining Abiotic and biotic Contributions to Metal Sequestration within Acidic Mine Drainage in Appalachia - Hansel

Water Resources Planning

• Defining Ecological Sustainable Yields for Water Supply Reservoirs -Smith
• Integrating Ecosystem Costs and Benefits into Water Resources Planning - Kirshen
• Development of a Dynamic Reservoir Flow Model: Sensitivity of Policy Impacts to Changing Hydrologic Conditions - Bresnahan

Water Reseach in Higher Education

• A Dozen Undergraduate Research Projects on the Westfield River: A Meta-Analysis of Student Findings about Human Impacts on the Westfield River Ecosystem - Vorwerk
• Integrating Hydrogeology Field Training with Real World Applications - Cole
• The Undergraduate Component of The Arsenic Project - Tyson

Stormwater Monitoring and Management

• 15 Reasons You Should Think Twice Before Using % Removal to Assess BMP Performance - Quigley
• Total Maximum Daily Loads and Future Storm Water Management Challenges, Issues, and Opportunities: Case Example – The Lower Charles River Nutrient TMDL - Vorhees
• Panel Discussion

Wastewater Issues

• VOC Emission Reduction and Water Reuse in Chemical Manufacturing Using MBR - Ergas
• NH Seacoast Wastewater Management - Weieneth
• Impact of Wastewater Metals on Bioflocculation of Activated Sludge and Its Effect on Wastewater Effluent Quality - Park