MONDAY - May 8, 2006
Short Courses & Workshops
WORKSHOP: Words and Water Quality: Effective Communication Through Better Publications
Facilitators: Eleanor Ely, The Volunteer Monitor; Abby Markowitz, Tetra Tech, Inc.
WORKSHOP: Critical Elements of a Bioassessment Program for State and Tribal Monitoring
Facilitators: Michael T. Barbour, Tetra Tech, Inc; Chris Yoder, Midwest Biodiversity Institute
Data to Action: Empowering Citizens Through the Acquisition and Understanding of Monitoring Data
Facilitators: Candie Wilderman and Lauren Imgrund, ALLARM; Faith Zerbe, Delaware Riverkeeper
SHORT COURSE : Assessing Ground Water Vulnerability through Statistical and Mechanistic Methods
Trainers: Sandy Eberts, Leon Kauffman, Bernard Nolan, Matthew Landon, and Jeffrey Starn, USGS; Stephen Kraemer and Mike Muse, USEPA; Rob Malone, USDA
WORKSHOP: Using U.S. Geological Survey Spatial Daa to Analyze Water Quality
WORKSHOP: Probability Survey Design for Aquatic Resources Using R Statistical Software
Facilitator: Tony Olsen, USEPA
OPENING PLENARY
Welcome to the 2006 National Monitoring Conference - David Tucker, Conference Chair
Welcome to San Jose: Capital of Silicon Valley - John Stufflebean, Director, Environmental Services, City of San Jose
Introduction to the 2006 - Conference Linda Green, Conference Chair
The National Water Quality Monitoring Network for U.S. Coastal Waters and their Tributaries - Charles Spooner & Gail Mallard, NWQMC Co-Chairs
Keynote Speaker - Monitoring Networks: Connecting for Clean Water, Mr. Terry Tamminen, Special Assistant to the Governor of California
CONCURRENT SESSION BLOCK B
MEASUREMENT PERFORMANCE I: PROGRAM-WIDE CONSIDERATIONS
Moderator: Karen Blocksom
Associated Posters:
Elements for a Successful Low-Level National Scale VOC Assessment - David Bender, USGS
Lessons Learned in National Park Service Vital Signs Long Term Monitoring Program - Roy Irwin, National Park Service
Meeting Programatic Data Quality Objectives through a Standardized Verification and Validation System and Data Management - Beverly van Buren, San Jose State University Foundation, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Challenges of Conducting Analytical Chemistry in Environmental Matrices or Why is my Blank not Blank? - Meg Sedlak, San Francisco Estuary Institute
PERSPECTIVES ON THE NATION'S WATER QUALITY: FINDINGS, IMPLICATIONS, & FUTURE DIRECTIONS I
Moderator: Robin O'Malley
Pesticides in the Nation's Streams and Groundwater, 1992-2001 - Robert Gilliom, USGS
Nutrients in the Nation's Streams and Groundwater, 1992-2001 - Neil Dubrovsky, USGS
The National Coastal Assessment: Results, Lessons Learned and Future Directions - Kevin Summers, USEPA
Perspectives on the State of the Nation's Waters - Robin O'Malley, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
MONITORING & MANAGING GROUND WATER RESOURCES AT MULTIPLE SCALES
Moderator: David Wunsch
Associated Posters:
The Fall and Rise of an Aquifer - Stakeholders Unite to Conserve and Monitor the Sparta Aquifer in South Arkansas, David Friewald, USGS
Proposed National Ground Water Monitoring Program - Beverly Herzog, Illinois State Geological Survey
The Need for Renewed Emphasis on State, Tribal, and Federal Ground-Water Protection Programs - Mike Wireman, USEPA Region 8
Developing a Ground Water Monitoring Strategy for Half the Cost - Literally - David Wunsch, New Hampshire Geological Survey
USE OF ANCILLARY DATA AND GIS TOOLS TO INTERPRET WATER QUALITY
Moderator: Curtis Price
Characterizing the Landscape for Water-Quality Data Anaysis: Methods and Implementation - Curtis Price, USGS
The use of remotely-sensed and GIS-serived variables to characterize urbanization in the National Water Quality Assessment program - James Falcone, USGS
StreamStats: A Web-based application for estimating basin characteristics and streamflows - Alan Rea, USGS
MONITORING IN THE SHADOW OF THE GOLDEN GATE
Moderator: Jessie Denver
Associated Posters:
Sustaining a Regional Water Quality Monitoring Program: The Lessons from San Francisco Bay - Michael Connor, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Monitoring metals in San Francisco Bay: Quantification of temporal variations from hours to decades - Arthur Flegal, University of CA, Santa Cruz
Science, consensus and monitoring strategies: the art of revising a long-term benthic monitoring program - Heather Peterson, CA Dept. of Water Resources
Adapting an Ambient Monitoring Program to the Challenge of Managing Emerging Pollutants in the San Francisco Estuary - Rainer Hoenicke, San Francisco Estuary Institute
PESTICIDES IN MIDWESTERN STREAMS: MONITORING STRATEGIES & RECENT RESULTS
Moderator: Lyle Cowles
Associated Posters:
Glyphosphate concentrations in various hydrological compartments of a small watershed in east-central Indiana - Nancy Baker, USGS
Monitoring Pesticides in Iowa's Waters - Mary Skopec, IA Dept. of Natural Resources
Assessment of Nutrients and Selected Organic contaminants in Small Streams in the Midwestern United States, 2004 - James Stark, USGS
Trends in diazinon and other urban pesticides in stream samples from the northeastern United States, 1993-2004 - Patrick Phillips, USGS
USING & DEVELOPING WQ INDICES
Moderator: Curtis Cude
Creative Outreach: Solving the Conundrum of Using Volunteer Water Quality Data as a Meaningful Source of Information - Amanda Ross, Lower Colorado River Authority, Colorado River Watch Network
Anthropogenic Impacts to Fish Assemblages in Northern New Jersey Streams - Leslie McGeorge, NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection
Effects of hydrologic factors on ecological conditions of streams in the northeastern United States - Jonathan Kennen, USGS
Assessment of Aquatic Biological Communities along a Gradient of Urbanization in the Willamette Valley Ecoregion and a Predictive Application to Unsampled Sites - Ian Waite, USGS Oregon Water Science Center
WORKSHOP: Getting Started in Volunteer Monitoring
Facilitators: Linda Green, URI Watershed Watch; Danielle Donkersloot, NJ Watershed Watch Network
MONDAY - May 8, 2006
CONCURRENT SESSION BLOCK C
MEASUREMENT PERFORMANCE II: FIELD & ANALYTICAL ASSESSMENT
Moderator: TamimYounos
Associated Posters:
Uncertainty in Measured Streamflow and Water Quality Data for Small Watersheds - Daren Harmel, USDA ARS
Automated Validation and Grading of Aquatic Time Series Using a Probabilistic Parity Space Method - Touraj Faramand, Aquatic Informatics, Inc.
Pre-mobilization Error Checks of Multi-parameter Field Instruments: One Way of Promoting Service-wide Consistency in a Water Quality Monitoring Program - Peter Penoyer, National Park Service
RPD Between Successive Measurement: A Simple But Neglected Tool for Assessing Monitoring Well Data Quality - Bruce Castle, Erler & Kalinowski, Inc.
PERSPECTIVES ON THE NATION'S WATER QUALITY: FINDINGS, IMPLICATIONS, & FUTURE DIRECTIONS II
Moderator: Donna Myers
Associated Posters:
A National Surveillance Study on Priority Pesticides in Canadian Aquatic Ecosystems - Janine Murray, Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute
Trends in Metals and Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants in Urban and Reference Lake Sediments Across the United States, 1970 to 2001 - Peter Van Metre, USGS
Volatile Organic Compounds in Ground Water and Drinking-Water Supply Wells - John Zogorski, USGS
Assessing the Ecological Conditions of the Great Rivers of the Central United States - Brian Hill, USEPA
MONITORING DRINKING WATER & SOURCES OF SUPPLY
Moderator: Gil Dichter
Associated Posters:
Water quality monitoring of the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system in Iowa and Illinois - Kimberlee Barnes, USGS
Assessment of Shallow Ground-Water Quality in Agricultural and Urban Areas Within Arid and Semiarid Western United States - Angela Paul, NV Water Science Center
Development of a Source Water Quality Monitoring Protocol for First Nations in Canada - Rob Phillips, Environment Canada
Application of filtration-based luminescence method for rapid monitoring of microbial contamination in water - Carmen Dumas, Ann Arbor Water Treatment Service Unit
DESIGNING WATERSHED ASSESSMENTS
Moderator: LeAnne Astin
Associated Posters:
Critical Evaluation of Waterbody Assessment Processes - Lindsay Griffith, Brown and Caldwell
Whatever Happened to Pollution Surveys? The Case for Intensive River Segment Survey Designs - Chris Yoder, Midwest Biodiversity Institute
Combining Dynamic Assessments with Traditional Monitoring Approaches to Improve Understanding of NPS Pollution Impacts - William Stringfellow, University of the Pacific
Introducing NHDPlus! - A Tool for Watershed Planning - Richard Moore, USGS
INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR DEVELOPING NUTRIENT TMDLS
Moderator: Jim Laine
Associated Posters:
The Northeast AVG-WLF: A Watershed Scale Model to predict Sediment and Nutrient Transport - Rebecca Weidman, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission
Modeling to Support the Development of Nutrient TMDLs in Baltimore Harbor - Miao-Li Chang, MD Dept. of the Environment
Nutrient TMDLs for the Cahaba River Watershed - Chris Johnson, AL Dept. of Environmental Management
Supporting nutrient criteria development nationwide: Web application & Technical REQuest System (T-REQS) - Jeroen Gerritsen, Tetra Tech, Inc.
MAKING IT WORK: DESIGNING YOUR VOLUNTEER MONITORING STRATEGY
Moderator: Bridget Hoover
Associated Posters:
Designing Your Monitoring Plan: Linking Citizen Monitoring and Data Use - Angie Becker Kudelka, Minnesota Waters
The Nuts and Bolts of a Volunteer Monitoring Day - Diane Cross, South Yuba River Citizens League
The Study Design - The Game Plan Behind Successful Monitoring Strategies and Effective Data Use - Cheryl Snyder, PA Dept. of Environmental Protection
Monitoring - Just Do IT, Baywatchers: 14 years, QA data, Improved understanding, Being creative. The Coalition for Buzzards Bay Citizen's Water Quality Monitoring Program - Tony Williams, The Coalition for Buzzards Bay
SEEING YOUR WAY THROUGH TURBIDITY MONITORING
Moderator: Faith Zerbe
Associated Posters:
Water Quaity Impairment from Roadway Run-off: Characterizing Fine Particles - Peter Green, University of California, Davis
A Comparison of Ocular Turbidity Insturments for Shallow Waters - Robert Carlson, Kent State University
Transparency tube as a surrogate for turbidity and suspend solids in rivers and reservoirs - Nicole Reid, Michigan State University Extension
Gaining Clarity on Transparency Measurements - Jeffrey Schloss, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
SHORT COURSE : Statistical Tools for Supporting the Development of a Multi Metric Index (MMI) for Macroinvertebrate Communities
Facilitators: John Stoddard, USEPA
THE NATIONAL WATER QUALITY MONITORING NETWORK FOR U.S. COASTAL WATERS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES
Session Topic: Integrating Atmospheric Deposition
Connecting atmospheric deposition to coastal water quality - Hans Paerl, UNC Chapel Hill
Strategy for linking the atmospheric deposition network to the proposed national water quality monitoring network - Mark Nilles, USGS
Atmospheric mercury monitoring: existing framework and technical challenges - TBN
Open discussion facilitated by David Whitall, NOAA
TIERED AQUATIC LIFE USES: CONCEPTUAL MODELS & DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
Moderator: Susan Jackson
The Biological Condition Gradient and Tiered Aquatic Life Uses - Susan Davies, State of Maine
Rule-based models for uniform assessments on the Biological Condition Gradient - Jeroen Gerritsen, Tetra Tech, INc.
ADEM's Monitoring Strategy for Streams and Rivers: Development and Testing of a Human Disturbance Gradient in the Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa River Basins - Lisa Huff, AL Dept. of Environmental Management
Key Issues and Underlying Concepts in Use Attainability Analyses for Aquatic Life Designated Uses - Chris Yoder, Midwest Biodiversity Institute
MAKING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SURFACE AND GROUND WATER
Moderator: Gil Dichter
Making the Connections Between Surface and Ground Water - Pixie Hamilton, USGS
Importance of ground-water flow and travel time on nitrogen loading from an agricultural basin in Connecticut - John Mullaney, USGS
Predicting the Occurence of Nutrients and Pesticides during Base Flow in Nontidal Headwater Streams of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain - Anne Neale, USEPA ORD NERL
Hydrologic controls on nutrient and pesticide transport through a small agricultural watershed, Morgan Creek, Maryland, USA - Michael Brayton, USGS
MONITORING TO MEET MANY OBJECTIVES
Moderator: Joan Warren
South Carolina Surface Water Monitoring: Different Designs for Different Objectives - David Chestnut, SC Dept. of Health and Environmental Control
Key Considerations in Monitoring Design - Lyle Cowles, USEPS Region 7
Water quality monitoring designs for multiple objectives and spatial scales: an evaluation based on detection of expected and actual impairment - John Hunt, University of California, Davis
Essentials of specification of information needs - Jos G. Timmerman, Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment (RIZA)
EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURE ON WATER QUALITY I
Moderator: Paul Capel
Transport of Agricultural Chemicals: Mass Budget Approach - Kathleen McCarthy, USGS
Transport of Agricultural Chemicals: Atmosphere to Land Surface - Michael Majewski, USGS
Transport of Agricultural Chemicals: Tile drains to surface water - Wesley Stone, USGS Water Resources Division
Pesticide and nutrient behavior in a karst watershed located in southeastern Minnesota - Paul Wotzka, MN Dept. of Agriculture
MAKING IT WORK: STARTING & SUSTAINING VOLUNTEER MONITORING PROGRAMS
Moderator: Erick Burres
What the Heron Sees - Jean-Ann Moon, Marshall County Retired and Senior Volunteer Program
Communication is Key to Sustaining Long-Term Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Programs - Jacob Apodaca, Lower Colorado River Authority
Involving Volunteers Beyond Water Monitoring - Gayla Stock, Houston-Galveston Area Council
Capture, care and feeding of volunteers - Dwight Holford, Upper Putah Creek Stewardship
MONITORING BMPS: BASELINES & STRATEGIES TO ASSESS RESTORATION EFFORTS
Moderator: Lester McKee
Effects of Multiscale Environmental Characteristics on Agricultural Stream Biota in the Midwestern USA - Julie Berkman, USGS
Protocols for the Evaluating the Effects of Land-use Patterns and Runoff Management on Urban Streams - Christine Rohrer, Colorado State University
Assessing Rain Garden Effectiveness - Brooke Asleson, University of Minnesota
SHORT COURSE : Uses of Real-Time Data: Capabilities, Limitations, Applications, Costs, & Benefits
Facilitators: Andy Ziegler, Trudy Bennett, and Teresa Rasmussen, USGS
TUESDAY MAY 9, 2006
CONCURRENT SESSION E
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: MONITORING COUNCILS AT WORK
Moderator: Charlie Peters
The Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership: A Forum For Regional Coordination - Jennifer Bayer, USGS
Interagency Monitoring Coordination: The Oregon Plan Monitoring Team - Gregory Pettit, OR Dept. of Environmental Quality
Development of the Florida Water Resource Monitoring Atlas - Joe King, FL Dept. of Environmental Protection
Sustaining Long Term Regional Coordinated Monitoring Programs - Todd Running, Houston-Galveston Area Council
AN OVERVIEW OF THE NATIONAL WADEABLE STREAMS ASSESSMENT
Moderator: Susan Holdsworth
National Stream and River Assessment Monitoring Design - Anthony Olsen, USEPA NHEERL
Defining Least-Impacted Reference Condition for the National Wadeable Streams Assessment - Alan Herlihy, Oregon State University
Process for developing a Macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity for the Wadeable Streams Assessment - John Stoddard, USEPA
National Assessment of the Condition of Wadeable Streams in the Conterminous U.S. - Steven Paulsen, USEPA
ASSESSING GROUND WATER VULNERABILITY THROUGH MECHANISTIC METHODS I
Moderator: Wayne Lapham
Proposed Tools and Approach for Ground-Water Vulnerability Assessment Using a Geographic Information System and Simulation Modeling - Jack Barbash, USGS
Basin-scale assessment of transport of water and agricultural chemicals through the unsaturated zone - Richard Webb, USGS
Conceptual Framework for evaluating the impact of inactive wells on community water supplies - Rick Johnson, Oregon Health & Science University
Comparison of intrinsic susceptibility of public-supply wells to contamination among selected regional aquifer systems - Leon Kauffman, USGS
REMOTE SENSING & GIS-ENHANCED MONITORING & ANALYSIS
Moderator: Jim Harrison
Using the Naitonal Hydrography Dataset Plus for drainage area delineation and site matching - Kirsten Cassingham, USGS NC Water Science Center
New NHD Tools for the Evaluation of Watershed Condition and Management Performance - William Cooter, RTI International
GIS and Remote Sensing Applications In The Hydropolitics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Multinational Management of River Niger Basin of West Africa - Edmund Merem, Jackson State University
Incorporating remote sensing into an ambient monitoring strategy - Mary Anne Nelson, ID Dept. of Environmental Quality
EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURE ON WATER QUALITY II
Moderator: Paul Capel
Transport of Agricultural Chemicals: Unsaturated Zone to Ground Water to Surface Water, San Joaquin Valley, California - Joseph Domagalski, USGS
Linking Ground Water Age and Chemistry Data Along Flow Paths: Implications for Trends and Transformations of Nutrients and Pesticides - Anthony Tesoriero, USGS
Transport of Agricultural Chemicals: Estimating Lag Times in Different Hydrologic Environments - David Wolock, USGS
Effective Policy Based on Sparse Data: TMDLs in the San Joaquin River Basin, California - Leslie Grober, CA Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region
ASSESSING COASTAL WATERSHEDS
Moderator: Mike McDonald
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loadings to the Neuse and Pamlico River Estuaries, North Carolina - Jerad Bales, USGS
Monitoring Wetlands in California - Joshua Collins, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Assessing the Health of National Park Service Southeast Coastal Waters Using the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Coastal Assessment Protocols - Joe DeVivo, National Park Service
NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve's System Wide-Monitoring Program: Over 10 years of developing capabilities, applications, and expansions - Susan White, NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve
E. COLI: COMPARABILITY OF METHODS & RAPID DETECTION
Moderator: Eleanor Ely
Comparing E. coli Results Analyzed by Colilert and Membrane Filtration Techniques - Samuel Dinkins, Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
Volunteer Monitoring of E. coli in Upper Midwest Streams: A Comparison of Methods and Preferences - Kristine Stepenuck, University of WI-Extension, WI Dept. of Natural Resources
Development of Rapid QPCR Approaches for Measurement of E. coli and Enterococcus in Environmental Waters: The Future for Routine Monitoring? - Rachel Noble, UNC Chapel Hill
IMS/ATP rapid method for the determination of E. coli concentrations in recreational waters - Rebecca Bushon, USGS
WORKSHOP:Building Credibility: Quality Assurance & Quality Control for Volunteer Monitoring Programs
Facilitators: Elizabeth Herron, URI Watershed Watch; Ingrid Harrald, Cook Inlet Keeper
TUESDAY MAY 9, 2006
CONCURRENT BLOCK SESSION F
THE NATIONAL WATER QUALITY MONITORING NETWORK FOR U.S. COASTAL WATERS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES
Session Topic: Estuarines - Water Quality Monitoring in San Francisco Bay
Estuaries component of the Network - Jawed Hameedi, NOAA
Lessons from three decades of monitoring in San Francisco Bay - James Cloern, USGS
San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program - Jay Davis, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Open discussion
EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION ON WATER QUALITY I
Moderator: Ian Waite
Effects of Urbanization on Stream Ecosystems: Overview and Study Design of the U.S. Geological Survey's Urban Stream Studies - Cathy Tate, USGS
Ecological responses of streams to urbanization: A review of results from the U.S. Geological Survey's urban streams studies - Thomas Cuffney, USGS
Identifying the changes to stream condition caused by urbanization, and how modeling the responses can be used to improve ecological risk characterizations - James Coles, USGS
Modeling Urban Landscape Patterns and their Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems - Marina Alberti, University of Washington
ASSESSING GROUND WATER VULNERABILITY THROUGH MECHANISTIC METHODS II
Moderator: Wayne Lapham
Application of Ground Water Dating Techniques for Evaluating the Susceptibility of Aquifers and Public-Supply Wells to Contamination - Sandra Eberts, USGS
Evaluating uncertainty in areas contributing recharge to wells for water-quality network design - Jeffrey Starn, USGS
Use of Multiple Tracers and Geochemical Modeling to Assess Vulnerability of a Public Supply Well in the Karstic Upper Floridan Aquifer - Brian Katz, USGS
Depth-Dependent Sampling to Determine Source Areas and Short-Circuit Pathways for Contaminants to Reach Public Supply Wells, High Plains Aquifer, York, Nebraska - Matthew Landon, USGS
REAL-TIME MONITORING I: APPLICATIONS & PROGRAM CASE STUDIES
Moderator: Tamim Younos
Integrating a Continuous Water Quality Monitoring Network into Texas' Surface Water Quality Monitoring Program - Jill Csekitz, TX Commission on Environmental Quality
Continuous in-stream monitoring to measure and estimate water-quality concentrations, densities, and loads - Andrew Ziegler, USGS
A Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Network for Investigating the Strengths and Weaknesses of Existing Monitoring Techniques - David Stevens, Utah State University
Monitoring Surface-Water-Quality in the Tongue River Watershed of Montana and Wyoming - Stacy Kinsey, USGS
STATE EXPERIENCES IN PROBABILISTIC MONITORING
Moderator: Art Garceau
Pennsylvania's Application of Probability-Based Sampling - Tony Shaw, PA Dept. of Environmental Protection
Probabilistic Monitoring in Virginia: Experiences from the First Five Years - Lawrence Willis, VA Dept. of Environmental Quality
Idaho's experience with random design using NHD: intermittent streams and other considerations - Mary Anne Nelson, ID Dept. of Environmental Quality
Utility Of Probability-Based Survey Design for Tracking Fish Species of Interest - Matt Combes, MO Dept. of Conservation
ASSURING CREDIBLE VOLUNTEER DATA
Moderator: Jim Harrington
QA/QC and QAPP: How to get professional quality data from a volunteer program - Ingrid Harrald, Cook Inlet Keeper
What is Representativeness, and Why are We Confused? - Revital Katznelson, CA State Water Resources Control Board
Evaluation of the New York City Watershed Hudson Basin River Watch Volunteer Monitoring Pilot Project - Heather Clark Dantzker, The Community Science Institute, Inc., Cornell University
Experiences in monitoring - Eric Russell, Surfrider Foundation
STORMWATER MONITORING: WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS
Moderator: Dan Radulescu
First Flush Volunteers Do it in the Dark - Bridget Hoover, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Monitoring of priority toxic pollutants in Highway Stormwater Runoff - Peter Green, University of California, Davis
Monitoring and Analytical Issues For BMP Performance Evaluation - Hong Lin, CDS Technologies
Evaluation of water quality monitoring data at the local level, a reality check - Jeff Hieronymus, Charlotte Storm Water Services
WORKSHOP: Bioassessment Method Performance and Comparability, Part 1
Facilitators: Laura Gabanski, USEPA; Jerry Diamond, Tetra Tech, Inc.
TUESDAY MAY 9, 2006
CONCURRENT BLOCK SESSION G
MONITORING FOR THE PREVENTION & CLEANUP OF TOXICS
Moderator: Ed Santoro
Monitoring mercury in biosentinel fish in San Francisco Bay - Ben Greenfield, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Recovery and Monitoring Challenges with Water Quality Issues in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina Recovery Operations - William Roper, George Mason University
The Regional Bypass WorkGroup - A Successful Application of Water Quality Predictions and Interagency Communication - Charles Dujardin, Hydro-Qual, Inc.
Combining prediction and monitoring for reduction of toxics: the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Study - Glenn Warren, USEPA
EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION ON WATER QUALITY II
Moderator: Cathy Tate
You're standing on it! Parking Lot Sealcoat and urban PAHs - Barbara Mahler, USGS
City of Austin biological studies on the toxicity and effects of coal tar sealants on stream communities - Mateo Scoggins, City of Austin
Assessing the Effects of Urban Land Use on Stream Ecosystems: Integrating Chemistry, Toxicity Test, and CYP1A1 Gene Activation Data from Extracts of Semipermeable Membrane Devices - Wade Bryant, USGS
Pesticides in urban settings - Use of a Pesticide Toxicity Index to evaluate potential toxicity of stream water samples to macroinvertebrates - Karen Riva-Murray, USGS
ASSESSING GROUND WATER VULNERABILITY THROUGH MECHANISTIC METHODS III
Moderator: Ryan Dupont
Groundwater Age as a Predictive Tool for Water Quality Monitoring - Jean Moran, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Simulation of Short Circuit Flow Paths and Transient Conditions to Understand Vulnerability of Public Supply Wells to Contamination in the High Plains Aquifer, York, Nebraska - Brian Clark - USGS
GAMA Special Studies on Nitrate in California Groundwater - Bradley Esser, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Understanding agriculture-related trends in ground-water quality in the Western Lake Michigan Drainages, Wisconsin - David Saad, USGS
HARNESSING THE BEAST: MANAGING COMPLEX DATA SETS
Moderator: Ellen McCarron
Arkansas Monitoring Data Assessment Program (AMDAP) Using the Segment Evaluation Spreadsheet (SEGEVAL.XLS) - Jessica Franks, USEPA Region 6
Managing Monitoring Data from Many Sources: A New Hampshire Experience - Deb Soule, NH Dept. of Environmental Services
Expanding Water Quality Assessments beyond the Realm of "Impairments" and into a Tool Useful to Watershed Managers at the Local Level - Ken Edwardson, State of New Hampshire
Vital Signs Water Quality Data Management in the National Park Service - Dean Tucker, National Park Service
MONITORING FOR TRENDS
Moderator: Tony Olsen
The Regional Kendall Test for Trend - Dennis Helsel, USGS
Water Quality Trends Along the Central Coast of California - Marc Los Huertos, University of CA, Santa Cruz
Lessons Learned from Monitoring Compliance with a Phosphorus Standard in the Florida Everglades and Assessing the Linkage between Phosphorus Control and Marsh Water Quality - Garth Redfield, South FL Water Management District
Wisconsin's Surface Water Quality Monitoring Program - Kenneth Schreiber, WI Dept. of Natural Resources
STATES & VOLUNTEERS: PARTNERSHIPS THAT WORK
Moderator: Alice Mayio
The Vermont Lay Monitoring Program: Afloat for 26 Years! - Amy Picotte, VT Agency of Natural Resources
Using Citizen Monitoring Bioassessment and Water Quality Data to Obtain Impaired Watershed Status - Joanne Hild, Friends of Deer Creek
The Oregon DEQ Volunteer Monitoring Program: Managing and Applying Data Generated Within a Grassroots Framework - Steve Hanson, OR Dept. of Environmental Quality
New Jersey's Answer to Multiple Volunteer Data Sources - Danielle Donkersloot, NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection
MONITORING ALGAE: TRACKING TRENDS, TOXINS, & FOOD WEB DYNAMICS
Moderator: Fred Leslie
Spatial and temporal trends of algal biomass in small and large streams in Indiana, 2001-04 - Jeffrey Frey, USGS
Influences of Stream Size in Determining Nutrient Criteria for Streams in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains Ecoregion - Brian Caskey, USGS
Algal pigments in benthic organisms and fish: development of biomarkers to trace food-web relationships - Katherine Alben, NY State Dept. of Health
Screening for Algal Toxins in Volunteer-Monitored Lakes - Gene Williams, Snohomish County Public Works Dept.
WORKSHOP: Bioassessment Method Performance and Comparability, Part 2
Facilitators: Laura Gabanski, USEPA; Jerry Diamond, Tetra Tech, Inc.
WEDNESDAY MAY 10, 2006
CONCURRENT SESSION H
THE NATIONAL WATER QUALITY MONITORING NETWORK FOR U.S. COASTAL WATERS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES
Session Topic: Large Rivers Monitoring Network
Rivers Component of the Monitoring Network - Jerad Bales, USGS
Upper Mississippi River monitoring - Mary Skopec, IA Dept. of Natural Resources
Monitoring networks in Alabama - Fred Leslie, AL Dept. of Environmental Management
Open discussion facilitated by Gail Mallard, USGS
IMPROVING DATA MANAGEMENT AND EXCHANGE
Moderator: Rob Kent
Water Quality Data Elements (WQDE): Enhancing comparability of monitoring information - LeAnne Astin, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
Water Quality Data Exchange WQX: EPA's new look at Water Quality Data Management - Kristen Gunthardt, USEPA Office of Water
Compiling a baseline water quality database from heterogeneous data sources: lessons learned - Nenad Iricanin, South Florida Water Management District
Data Comparability and Modernization of Environment Canada's Water Quality Information Holdings - Chris Lochner, Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute
COOPERATIVE REGIONAL MONITORING IN CALIFORNIA
Moderator: Ken Schiff
Inventory of Ocean Monitoring in the Southern California Bight - Stephen Weisburg, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Southern California Bight Regional Marine Monitoring Program - Kenneth Schiff, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
MARINe: A Long-term Monitoring Program for Detecting Change in Rocky Intertidal Environments - Steve Murray, California State University, Fullerton
The Value of Communication, Collaboration and Coordination for Statewide Decision Making: The Example of the Beach Water Quality Workgroup - Robin McGraw - CA State Water Resources Control Board
PERSPECTIVES ON THE NATION'S WATER QUALITY: FINDINGS, IMPLICATIONS, & FUTURE DIRECTIONS III
Moderator: Ellen Tarquinio
Water quality monitoring and assessment of global change - Richard Robarts, UNEP GEMS/Water Programme
Evaluating the Potential Human-Health Relevance of Volatile Organic Compounds in Samples form Domestic and Public Wells in the United States - Patricia Toccalino, USGS
Preliminary Findings of Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in Source and Finished Waters of Community Water Systems - Gregory Delzer, USGS
Are environmental contaminant concentrations in U.S. waters harmful to fish-eating wildlife? - Jo Ellen Hinck, USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center
EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION ON WATER QUALITY: CASE STUDIES
Moderator: James Moring
Comparing flow variability in urban streams in urban streams across environmental settings - Elise Giddings, USGS NC Water Science Center
A tale of two streams: Chemical and physical characteristics of secondary tributaries in an arid urban watershed and potential impacts on a main stem river - Philip Russell, Littleton Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant
An evaluation of aquatic communities in urbanized Mediterranean climate streams: a guide to more effective stream restoration techniques in the Santa Clara Basin - San Jose, California - Alison Purcell, University of CA, Berkeley
Physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of streams in urbanizing areas near Denver, Colorado - Lori Sprague, USGS
MAKING IT WORK: EFFECTIVELY TRAINING VOLUNTEER MONITORS
Moderator: Paula Zevin
Georgia Adopt A Stream Coastal Region Training Center at Savannah State University - Joseph Richardson, Savannah State University
The Importance of Professionally Training Citizen Monitors in Building, Promoting and Implementing a State-Wide Bioassessment Program in California - James Harrington, CA Dept. of Fish and Game
Evaluation of Volunteer-based Water Quality Monitoring Training for SCORE (South Carolina Oyster Restoration and Enhancement) - Steven O'Shields, I.S. Systems Group, Inc.
A Participatory, Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Curbing Urban Sprawl - Andrew Kett, Citizens' Environment Watch
BIOASSESSMENT METHOD COMPARABILITY & PERFORMANCE
Moderators: Jerry Diamond, Lara Gabanski
Comparable Biological Assessments From Differenct Methods and Analyses - David Herbst, University of CA
Pacific Northwest side-by-side protocol comparison test - Steve Lanigan, USFS/BLM
National Wadeable Stream Survey Comparability Study - Mark Southerland, Versar, Inc.
Determining the Comparability of Six Bioassessments Methodologies in New England - Rebecca Weidman, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission - Rebecca Weidman, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission
WORKSHOP: Statistical Analysis of Probability Survey Data Using R Statistical Software, Part 1
Facilitators: Tony Olsen, USEPA
WEDNESDAY MAY 10, 2006
CONCURRENT BLOCK SESSION I
REAL-TIME MONITORING II: SAFEGUARDING DRINKING WATER & PUBLIC HEALTH
Moderator: Peter Tennant
BacteriALERT: A Cooperative Program for Water-quality Monitoring and Prediction of Escherichia coli Bacteria in the Chattahoochee River, Georgia - Stephen Lawrence, USGS
AquaSentinel: An Advanced Real-Time Biosensor System for Source Water Protection - Elias Greenbaum, Oak Ridge Naitonal Laboratory
Variability in Responses of Multi-Parameter Sensors in a Prototype Real-Time Early Warning System to Monitor Water Quality - Eric Vowinkel, USGS
Real Time Monitoring - The Installation and Continuous Operation of Organic Carbon and Liquid Chromatography Analyzers at Remote Field Stations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta - David Gonzalez, CA Dept. of Water Resources
COLLABORATING FOR IMPROVED MONITORING I
Moderator: Toni Johnson
Monitoring Environmental Stressors and Evaluating the Existing and Potential Designated Uses of Hardies Creek, Galesville, Wisconsin - Daniel Helsel, WI Dept. of Natural Resources
Water Quality Indicators and Monitoring Design to Support the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program: A Progress Report - Dean Carpenter, Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program
Development of a Collaborative Multi-Jurisdictional Stream-Monitoring Network to Support Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay - Stephen Preston, USGS Chesapeake Bay Program Office
Water Quality Monitoring Among Local Agencies in the Red River of the North Basin - Robert Hearne, North Dakota State University
COOPERATIVE REGIONAL MONITORING IN CALIFORNIA - LESSONS LEARNED
Moderator: Val Connor
Cooperative Agricultural Monitoring on California's Central Coast: An integrated, Innovative Approach - Karen Worcester, Central Coast Water Board
A Regional Approach to Research/Monitoring in Southern California - Chris Crompton, Orange County, California
Southern California Laboratory Intercalibration Exercises: A Demonstration Regarding the Comparability of Monitoring Programs Using Multiple Laboratories - Rich Gossett, CRG Marine Laboratories, Inc.
Information management in a multi-agency cooperative monitoring program - Larry Cooper, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
EVALUATING KEY STRESSORS TO THE NATION'S AQUATIC RESOURCES
Moderator: Katherine Alben
Monitoring Implications of the Updated Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Copper and the Copper Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) - Lauren Wisniewski, USEPA
Characterizing and Interpreting Physical Habitat in the National Wadeable Stream Assessment - Philip Kaufmann, USEPA
Nutrient and Acidity Status of Wadeable Streams in the Contiguous United States - Results from EPA's Wadeable Streams Assessment - Ellen Tarquinio, USEPA
Evaluating the extent and realtive risk of aquatic stressors in wadeable streams throughout the U.S.A. - John Van Sickle, USEPA NHEERL
APPROACHES TO NATIONAL WATER QUALITY MONITORING & ASSESSMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES
Moderator: Chuck Spooner
Europe-wide monitoring obligations under the EU Water Framework Directive - Jos G. Timmerman, Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment (RIZA)
Designing a National Water Quality Monitoring Network to support the Canadian Freshwater Quality Indicator - Rob Kent, Environment Canada
Biological Assessment of Water Quality: Delivery of a National System in Australia - Richard Norris, University of Canberra
Water monitoring and utilization: surveillance, struggle or symbol? - Dennis Kool, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Centre for Public Governance)
VOLUNTEER MONITORING: RAISING THE BAR:
Moderator: Jacob Apodaca
Stream Waders and the Maryland Biological Stream Survey: Comparing Volunteer and Professional Stream Quality Data - Chris Millard, MD Dept. of Natural Resources
Evaluation of Volunteer Data - The Lakes of Missouri Volunteer Program Review - Daniel Obrecht, University of Missouri, Lakes of Missouri Volunteer Program
Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Data Enhancing Lake Chatuge Watershed Study - Callie Dobson, Hiwassee River Watershed Coalition, Inc.
QA/QC Assessment of Volunteer Monitoring in Rhode Island - Elizabeth Herron, URI, Cooperative Extension
CHARACTERIZING & INTERPRETING HABITAT DATA
Moderator: Dan Sullivan
Watershed Stewardship Utilizing GPS Habitat and Bioassessment Surveys - Aspen Madrone, Contra Costa County
Great Lakes Aquatic Gap: A Regional Approach to Identifying Gaps in Species and Habitat Conservation for Great Lake Streams - Jana Stewart, USGS
An Overview of the National Park Service's Vital Signs Water Quality Monitoring Program: A National Framework for Land Management Agencies - Gary Rosenlieb, National Park Service
Moving the National Water-Quality Assessment habitat data through time - Jeffrey Steuer, USGS
WORKSHOP: Statistical Analysis of Probability Survey Data Using R Statistical Software, Part 2
Facilitators: Tony Olsen, USEPA
WEDNESDAY MAY 10, 2006
CONCURRENT BLOCK SESSION J
THE NATIONAL WATER QUALITY MONITORING NETWORK FOR U.S. COASTAL WATERS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES
Session Topic: Great Lakes Monitoring Networks
The Great Lakes National Program's Multi-Media Monitoring Program - Paul Horvatin, Great Lakes National Program Office
National Monitoring Network Design for the Great Lakes - Jack Kelly, USEPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
Collaborative Monitoring in the Great Lakes: Revisiting the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Project - Charlie Peters, USGS
COLLABORATING FOR IMPROVED MONITORING III
Moderator: Gayle Rominger
Collaborative Monitoring in the Great Lakes: Revisiting the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Project - John Hummer, Great Lakes Commission
Collaboration on EMAP Stream Condition Assessments in EPA Region 8 - Thomas Johsnon, USEPA Region 8
A Collaborative Approach to Assessing Watershed Conditions in Coastal National Parks - Kristen Keteles, National Park Service
A Multi-scale Collaborative Approach For Linking Terrestrial and Aquatic Long-Term Monitoring: Lessons Learned in the Delaware River Basin and Proposed New Directions - Peter Murdoch, USGS
ASSESSING GOUND WATER VULNERABILITY THROUGH STATISTICAL METHODS I
Moderator: Tom Nolan
Regression model for national assessment of nitrate in ground water - Bernard Nolan, USGS
Using Logistic Regression to Assess Regional Ground-Water Vulnerability: High Plains Aquifer - Jason Gurdak, USGS Colorado Water Science Center
Empirical modeling of nitrate loading and crop yield for corn-soybean rotations in Iowa - Robert Malone, USDA ARS
Using logistic regression to predict the probability of occurrence of volatile organic compounds in ground water - Michael Moran, USGS
CHALLENGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUTRIENT CRITERIA FOR STREAMS & RIVERS I
Moderator: Jeff Frey
Overview of the National Nutrient Criteria Program - Amy Parker, USEPA
Nutrient-Biota Interactions in Agriculturally Dominated Landscapes: Lessons from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program - Mark Munn, USGS
Response of benthic algal and invertebrate communities to nutrient enrichment in agricultural streams: Implications for establishing nutrient criteria - Robert Black, USGS
The Use of Calculated Stream Metabolism in Understanding Nutrients in Agricultural Streams - Jill Frankforter, USGS
MERCURY CONTAMINATION: SOURCES, TRANSPORT & FATE I
Moderator: Mark Brigham
Statewide Monitoring of Mercury in Surface Water, Precipitation, and Fish in Indiana - Martin Risch, USGS
Mercury monitoring in California sport fish: Past, present, and future - Jay Davis, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Mercury in northeastern North America: A synthesis of existing databases - David Evers, BioDiversity Research Institute
A Framework for Monitoring the Response to Changing Mercury Releases - Michael Murray, National Wildlife Federation
Florida Mercury Science Program - Tom Atkeson, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
NATIONAL WADEABLE STREAMS ASSESSMENT: STATE EXPERIENCES
Moderator: Leslie McGeorge
Texas' Contributions to the National Wadeable Streams Assessment and Future Direction of the State's Biological Monitoring Program - Anne Rogers, TX Commission on Environmental Quality
Validation of a Multimetric Index Using Probablilistic Monitoring Data - Jason Hill, VA Dept. of Environmental Quality
A comparison of biological methods for macroinvertebrate collection in Missouri streams - Shane Dunnaway, MO Cept. of Conservation
Comparability of Habitat and Macroinvertebrate Collection Methods in Oklahoma's Low Gradient Streams - Monty Porter, OK Water Resources Board
NEW TECHNOLOGIES & APPROACHES
Moderator: Bob Carlson
The SWAMP Advisor - a New Tool for Producing Consistent and Comprehensive Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs) - Lawrence Keith, Instant Reference Sources, Inc.
Continuous nitrate concentration data from a small agricultural ditch in Indiana: Relationship to streamflow and inferences to biological processes affecting nitrogen cycling - Timothy Lathrop, USGS
Use of Trace-Level Cyanide Method to Determine Attenuation of Discharged Cyanide in Lower South San Francisco Bay - Peter Schafer, City of San Jose, CA
Identifying Greener Analytical Methods in NEMI for More Environmentally Friendly Monitoring - Jennifer Young, ACS Green Chemistry Institute
SHORT COURSE : Data Management and Databases: Capturing, Storing, and Managing Data for Success in Monitoring
Trainers: Kristine Stepenuck, University of Wisconsin Extension and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Lynette Seigley, Iowa Department of Natural Resources; Revital Katznelson, California State Water Resources Control Board
WEDNESDAY MAY 10, 2006
CONCURRENT BLOCK SESSION K
BITS & BYTES IN CYBERSPACE: SHARING DATA VIA THE INTERNET
ACWA (Alaska Clean Water Action) Program and Web-based Tool for Managing Alaska's Waters - Dianne Denson, State of Alaska
Integrating Historical and Real-Time Monitoring Data into an Internet-Based Watershed Information System fo rthe Bear River Basin - David Stevens, Utah State University
Web-based Data Sharing for Small Watersheds - Lisa Walling, Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant
Displaying Water Quality Data on Internet Maps - Sandy Williamson, USGS
STATE & TRIBAL MONITORING APPROACHES
Moderator: Paul Currier
Oklahoma's Beneficial Use Monitoring Program (BUMP), Results, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions - Julie Chambers, OK Water Resources Board
Lock 'um in a Room, Hawaii's attempt to achieve comparability - Linda Koch, Hawaii State Department of Health
Data-Driven Decision-making: Enhanced use of Data Quality Objectives in New Hampshire's Comprehensive Water Monitoring Strategy - Paul Currier, State of New Hampshire
Navajo Nation EPA Water Quality Sampling Activities - Eric Rich, Navajo Nation EPA
ASSESSING GROUND WATER VULNERABILITY THROUGH STATISTICAL METHODS II
Moderator: Tom Nolan
Screening-Level Assessments of Public Water Supply Well Vulnerability to Natural Contaminants - Stephen Hinkle, USGs
Probability of Detecting Atrazine/Desethylatrazine and Elevated Concentrations of Nitrate in Ground Water in Colorado - Michael Rupert, USGS
Development and Application of a regression model for estimating the occurrence of Atrazine in shallow ground water beneath agricultural areas of the United States - Paul Stackelberg, USGS
Development of Spatial Probablility Models to Estimate Gound-Water Vulnerability to Nitrate Contamination in the Mid-Atlantic Region - Earl Greene, USGS
CHALLENGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUTRIENT CRITERIA FOR STREAMS & RIVERS II
Moderator: Mark Munn
Addressing California's Nutrient Issues - Dena McCann, CA State Water Resources Control Board
Algal Metric Approaches for Assessing Trophic Condition and Organic Enrichment in U.S. Streams and Rivers - Stephen Porter, USGS
Impacts of Nutrients on the Biological Integrity of Wadeable Streams in Wisconsin - Dale Robertson, USGS
Control of nitrogen-cycling processes in the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) - William Richardson, USGS Biological Resources Division
MERCURY CONTAMINATION: SOURCES, TRANSPORT, & FATE II
Moderator: Jay Davis
Mercury cycling and bioaccumulation in streams in Oregon, Wisconsin, and Florida - Mark Brigham, USGS
EMMA: A Web-based System for Environmental Mercury Mapping, Modeling, and Analysis - Stephen Wente, USGS
Reconnaissance survey of mercury in water, sediment, and fish from U.S. streams - Barbara Scudder, USGS
Modeling Mercury in Stream Ecosystems - Robert Ambrose, USEPA
VOLUNTEER MONITORING DATABASES
Moderator: Kristine Stepenuck
Development of an Internet Database for WV Save Our Streams Volunteer Monitors - Timothy Craddock, WV Save Our Streams Program
Westchester County Citizen's Volunteer Monitoring Program - Susan Darling, Westchester County Department of Planning
Open Source Citizen Volunteer Water Monitoring Database - Andrew Alm, Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement
In-stream Monitoring Database - Gretchen Peterson, PetersonGIS
PREDICTIVE BIOASSESSMENT MODELS
Moderator: Gretchen Hayslip
Assessing the biological quality of the Nation's streams with an indicator of taxonomic completeness - Charles Hawkins, Utah State University
Comparability of Biological Assessments Derived from National-, Regional-, State-, and Provincial-Scale Predictive Models - Peter Ode, CA Dept. of Fish and Game
Using biomonitoring data to assess possible causes of biological impairment: Combining predictive models and taxon tolerance values - Daren Carlisle, USGS
Biological Assessment of Water Quality: Delivery of a National System in Australia - Richard Norris, Univeristy of Canberra
SHORT COURSE : Developing Habitat Condition Metrics
Trainers: Phil Kaufmann, USEPA
THURSDAY MAY 17, 2006
CONCURRENT BLOCK SESSION L
MONITORING ACROSS NATIONAL BORDERS
Moderator: James Stribling
Monitoring of transboundary waters in Europe: lessons learnt from the UNECE pilot projects - John Chilton, British Geological Survey
Global Water Watch, a Worldwide Network of Community-Based Water Monitoring Groups - William Deutsch, Auburn University
Improving Binational Coordination of Monitoring in the Great Lakes - Melanie Neilson, Environment Canada
The JA JAN Coalition a Binational Collaborative Network for Water Quality Monitoring in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region - Hiram Sarabia-Ramirez, San Diego Baykeeper
MONITORING FOR COMPOUNDS OF EMERGING CONCERN I
Moderator: Akin Babatola
Occurrence of Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in Ground Water and Finished Water of Community Water Systems - Jessica Hopple, USGS
Monitoring Synthetic Musk compounds in Municipal Wastewater and Estimating Biota Exposure in the Receiving Waters - Lantis Osemwengie, USEPA
Chemical markers of human waste contamination in source waters: A simplified analytical approach - Tammy Jones-Lepp, USEPA
Occurrence of Radium-224, Radium-226, and Radium-228 in Aquifers Used Primarily for Drinking Water in the United States: Retrospective Survey of Results from 1987 to 2004 - Jeffrey Fischer, USGS
INTEGRATING MONITORING & PREDICTION: THE QUALITY OF THE NATION'S SYSTEMS I
Moderator: Dave Wolock
SPARROW: A Hybrid Statistical-Deterministic Approach to Modeling Surface-Water Quality - Richard Smith, USGS
New England Sparrow Model and Example Applications of Model Results - Richard Moore, USGS
Regional scale point-source nutrient load estimation in support of SPARROW nutrient modeling - Gerard McMahon, USGS
Effect of Stream-Network Resolution on the Calibration of a Nutrient SPARROW Model for the Southeastern United States - Anne Hoos, USGS
EVALUATION OF TRENDS IN GROUND WATER QUALITY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM LOCAL TO NATIONAL-SCALE STUDIES
Moderator: Mary Ambrose
Evaluation of Ground-Water-Quality Trends Design as Part of the USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program - Michael Rosen, USGS
Trends in Pesticide Detections and Concentrations in Ground Water of the United States, 1993-2003 - Laura Bexfield, USGS
Trends in shallow ground-water quality of the Delmarva Peninsula, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia: Results from local-scale and regional study - Linda Debrewer, USGS
Ground-water quality trends of the South Platte River alluvial aquifer, Colorado - Suzanne Paschke, USGS
MERCURY CONTAMINATION: SOURCES, TRANSPORT, & FATE III
Moderator: Don Dycus
Wet Deposition of Mercury In the U.S. and Canada, 1996-2004: Results from the NADP Mercury Deposition Network - David Gay, Illinois State Water Survey
Mercury concentrations in stream fish throughout 12 western states in the USA - Alan Herlihy, Oregon State University
The roles of biogeochemistry and aquatic biota in mercury cycling in stream ecosystems - Lia Chasar, USGS, Florida A&M University
Mercury in ground water, soils, and septage, New Jersey Coastal Plain - Julia Barringer, USGS
VOLUNTEER MONITORING GETS RESULTS
Moderator: Danielle Donkersloot
Connection before Protection - Cheryl Cheadle, OK Conservation Commission
How to get the Public Active in Water Quality Issues - Ginger North, DE Nature Society
Breaking the Code: Training Volunteers to Convert Data to Information - Candie Wilderman, ALLARM
Data Tell Part of the Story, Actions Write the Rest - Brian Soenen, IA Dept. of Natural Resources
DETERMINANTS & INDICATORS OF STRESS IN AQUATIC SYSTEMS
Moderator: Jerry Diamond
Integrated indicators of contaminant response in resident species: making a new generation of indicators feasible for management - Susan Anderson, University of California, Davis
Using simulation to evaluate the comparability of different bioassessment methods - Yong Cao, Utah State University
Quantifying tolerance indicator values for common stream fish species of the United States - Michael Meador, USGS
Relation between urbanization and relative toxicity of semipermeable membrane device extracts from the Lake Tahoe Basin and Truckee River watershed, Nevada and California, 2002-2004 - Timothy Rowe, USGS NV Water Science Center
SHORT COURSE : Developing O/E (Observed-to-Expected) Models for Assessing Biological Condition
Trainers: Chuck Hawkins, Utah State University
THURSDAY MAY 17, 2006
CONCURRENT BLOCK SESSION M
CONVEYING RESULTS: TRANSLATING DATA INTO UNDERSTANDING
Moderator: Jessica Franks
A graphical presentation of water quality data in time and space - Peter Stoks, Association of Rhine Water Works, RIWA
Designing a National Water Quality Monitoring Network to support the Canadian Freshwater Quality Indicator - Rob Kent, Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute
Watershed Assessment: A Template for Assessing Water Quality Conditions at Watershed Level - Anitra Pawley, University of California, Davis
LakeSuperiorStreams.org: Making stormwater and stream data come alive for citizens, students, teachers, contractors, resource agencies, decision-makers and scientists - Richard Axler, University of Minnesota - Duluth
MONITORING FOR COMPOUNDS OF EMERGING CONCERN II
Moderator: Akin Babatola
Monitoring perchlorate in shallow ground water in the Central United States - Stephen Kalkhoff, USGS
Perchlorate Monitoring in Llagas Groundwater Sub-basin - Michael Taraszki, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.
Occurrence of Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in Surface Water and Finished Water of Community Water Systems - James Kingsbury, USGS
Concentrations of organic compounds in wastewater at five sites in New York State, 2003-04 - Patrick Phillips, USGS
INTEGRATING MONITORING & PREDICTION: THE QUALITY OF THE NATION'S STREAMS II
Moderator: Dave Wolock
Biologically based urban response models for the South Atlantic gulf and Tennessee River basins - Thomas Cuffney, USGS
Estimating pesticide concentrations in U.S. streams from watershed characteristics and pesticide properties - Charles Crawford, USGS
Regression models for explaining and predicting concentrations of organochlorine pesticides in whole fish from U.S. streams - Lisa Nowell, USGS
Use of WARP to Design a Monitoring Program to Identify Waters Potentially at Risk from Pesticides - Nelson Thurman, USEPA
BACTERIA MONITORING: FROM SOURCE TO SEA
Moderator: Chris Coburn
Skokomish River Fecal Coliform TMDL Attainment Monitoring in Washington State - George Onwumere, Washington State Department of Ecology
Volunteer/State Partnerships Inspire Grassroots Action - Cheryl Snyder, PA Dept. of Environmental Protection
Volunteer Monitoring for Bacteria in San Francisco Bay Area Creeks - Amy Wagner, USEPA
Surfrider Foundation's Blue Water Task Force Program - Volunteer Monitoring that Leads to Change - Rick Wilson, Surfrider Foundation
MERCURY TMDLS: LESSONS LEARNED FORM LOCAL & REGIONAL STUDIES
Moderator: Ruth Chemerys
The Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta Mercury TMDL: Reducing Methylmercury in Fish and Water - Michelle Wood, CA Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region
Guadalupe River Watershed Mercury TMDL - Carrie Austin, SFBay Water Board
Use of multi-media monitoring to develop a statewide mercury TMDL - Bruce Monson, MN Pollution Control Agency
Mercury Emission Trends and Biota Response in Florida: Case Study - Thomas Atkeson, FL Dept. of Environmental Protection
PROGRAM EVALUATION & EVOLUTION
Moderator: Ross Clark
Water Quality Monitoring in Michigan, 1996-2006: A Decade of Program Evolution - Gary Kohlhepp, MI Dept. of Environmental Quality
A cooperative State and USGS statewide water quality monitoring network: accomplishments and lessons learned after 15 years - Christopher Mebane, USGS
Can you teach a long-term benthic monitoring program new tricks? Assessment and redesign to address different scales - Marc Vayssieres, CA Dept. of Water Resources
Optimization of a Large-scale Water Quality Monitoring Network in South Florida - Patricia Burke, South FL Water Management District
TAXONOMIC DATA QUALITY, COMPARABILITY, & PERFORMANCE
Moderator: Andy Rehn
Effect of taxonomic resolution on the performance characteristics of a new macroinvertebrate field sampling protocol for large rivers - Karen Blocksom, USEPA
A national autecology list for benthic macroinvertebrates - Erik Leppo, Tetra Tech, Inc.
Enhancing the Credibility of Taxonomic Data: the National Wadeable Streams Assessment - James Stribling, Tetra Tech, Inc.
How often are we wrong? A Bayesian assessment of taxonomic identifications for the National Wadeable Streams Assessment - Lester Yuan, USEPA
WORKSHOP: Wetlands Bioassessment
Trainers: Chris Faulkner, USEPA; John Mack, Ohio EPA
