Apendix A - Conference Agenda

TUESDAY, July 7
8:00 - 8:45 am		Registration/Coffee
8:45 - 9:00 am		Welcome to the first National Monitoring Conference Mark Schaefer, USGS
9:00 - 9:30 am		Overview of National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC) Elizabeth Fellows, U.S. EPA, and John Klein, USGS
9:30 - 9:45 am		Overview of Conference Goals & Structure Rodney DeHan, FL DEP
9:45 - 11:45 am		Monitoring: A New Paradigm (Panel Discussion) Moderator: Herb Brass, U.S. EPA Panelists: Ellen McCarron, Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Robbie Savage, Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators; George Ice, National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc.; Robert Ward, Colorado State University; Steve Paulsen, U.S. EPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab; Barbara Erickson, Arizona Department of Health Services
11:45 am - 1:00 pm		LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 pm		Concurrent Workshop Session a
a1/A	Room 1	Monitoring Design I (Track A) Moderator: Tom Sanders, CSU $ Facilitator: Chris Victoria, Tt A Locally Designed Watershed Monitoring Program, John Cavese, Ottawa River Coalition Design of Stream Sampling Networks and a GIS Method for Assessing Spatial Bias, Alison C. Simcox, Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng, Tufts U. Mid-Atlantic Regional Pilot for Integrated Monitoring and Research, Pixie Hamilton, USGS
a2/B	Room 2	Data Comparability & Collection Methods I (Track B) Moderator: Fred Banach, CT DEP $ Facilitator: Paul Jehn, GWPC Collecting Nationally Comparable and Defensible Water-Quality Data, Franceska Wilde, USGS A Comparison of Water-Quality Sample Collection Methods Used by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Herbert Garn, USGS Quantification of Dioxin Concentrations in the Ohio River Using High Volume Water Sampling, Samuel A. Dinkins, ORSANCO
a3/C	Room 3	Biological Indicators and Reference Condition Development I (Track C) Moderator: Chris Yoder, OH EPA $ Facilitator: Sam Stribling, Tt Biological Criteria Development for the Ohio River, USA, Erich B. Emery, ORSANCO Rapid Bioassessment of Benthic Macroinvertebrates Illustrates the Degradation of Water Quality in Small Order Urban Streams in a North Carolina Piedmont City, Kimberly Yandora, City of Greensboro Bioassessments in Arizona: What Is Different about Biomonitoring in Southwestern Streams?, Patti Spindler, AZ DEQ Developing Stream Reference Conditions for Maryland Using a Benthic Index of Biological Integrity, Sam Stribling, Tt
a4/D	Room 4	Vulnerability Assessment (Track D) Moderator: Dennis Helsel, USGS $ Facilitator: Steve Roy, Tt Aquifer Vulnerability: Now You See It; Now You Don't, Dennis Helsel, USGS Nitrate in Ground Waters of the United States, Bernard T. Nolan, USGS Use of a Numerical Rating Model to Determine the Vulnerability of Community Water-Supply Wells in New Jersey to Contamination by Pesticides, Eric F. Vowinkel, USGS A "DRASTIC" Improvement to Ground-Water Vulnerability Mapping, Michael G. Rupert, USGS Assessing Ground Water Vulnerability to Nitrate in the Puget Sound Basin Using Logistic Regression, Anthony J. Tesoriero, USGS
a5/D	Room 5	Monitoring Partnerships Lead to Success I (Track D) Moderator: Linda Green, URI $ Facilitator: Sue Laufer, Tt Eutrophication and Recovery of Yawgoo and Barber Ponds, Linda Green, URI, Watershed Watch Organizing Regional Citizen Volunteer Monitoring Networks, Geoff Dates, RWN The Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program - Case Study of Coordinated Regional/State Monitoring, Scott Redman, Puget Sound Ambient Mon. Pro.
2:30 - 3:00 pm		BREAK
3:00 - 4:30 pm		Concurrent Workshop Session b
b1/A	Room 1	Monitoring Design II (Track A) Moderator: Rodney DeHan, FL DEP $ Facilitator: Paul Jehn, GWPC Sampling Designs for Pesticides During Stable and Unstable Hydrologic Conditions in the San Joaquin River Basin, California, Charles R. Kratzer, USGS Interagency Binational Monitoring Program for Toxic Substances in the New River and Lower Colorado Rivers along the U.S./Mexico Border, Edwin H. Liu, U.S. EPA Designing a Comprehensive, Integrated Water Resources Monitoring Program for Florida, Rick Copeland, FL DEP
b2/B	Room 2	Data Comparability and Collection Methods II (Track B) Moderator: Michal Harthill, USGS $ Facilitator: Jerry Diamond, Tt An Alternative Regression Method for Constituent Loads From Streams, Ping Wang, MD DNR Determining Comparability of Bioassessment Methods and Their Results, Jerry Diamond, Tt Performance Based Methods System, Ann B. Strong, US ACE Comparison of Temporal Trends in Ambient and Compliance Trace Element and PCB Data in Pool 2 of the Mississippi River, 1985-95, Jesse Anderson, USGS
b3/C	Room 3	Biological Indicators And Reference Condition Development II (Track C) Moderator: Mike O=Neil, Utah SU $ Facilitator: Chris Victoria, Tt Regional Scale Results and Utilization of a Probability-Based Monitoring Design and Ecological Indicators in Regional and State Environmental Assessments, Lyle Cowles, U.S. EPA The Influence of Land Use and Stream Morphology on Urban Stream Water Quality, Judith A. Gerlach Okay, VA Dept. Forestry The Development of Environmental Indicators in Support of State Water Quality Management Program Objectives, Chris O. Yoder, OH EPA
b4/D	Room 4	Monitoring Partnerships Lead to Success II (Track D) Moderator: Fred Van Alstyne, NY DEC $ Facilitator: Steve Roy, Tt Integrating Ambient and Compliance Monitoring in the Kennebec River Basin, Maine, Keith Robinson, USGS Evaluation of Nutrient Loads and Sources in the Ohio River Basin, Samuel Dinkins, ORSANCO Institutional Challenges in Monitoring - Stream Gaging as an Example, Emery T. Cleaves, MD GS
b5/A	Room 5	Monitoring Coastal Systems I (Track A) Moderator: Chuck Spooner, U.S. EPA $ Facilitator: Mike Paque, GWPC Southern California Bight Regional Monitoring, Janet Y. Hashimoto, U.S. EPA, and Stephen Weisburg, SCCWRP NOAA's Mussel Watch Project: 11 Years of Coastal Monitoring for Chemical Contaminants, Gunnar Lauenstein, NOAA/NOS/ORCA Prioritizing Coastal Watersheds to Support USGS Fall Line Monitoring Results from a Federal/State Working Group, S. Paul Orlando, Jr., NOAA/ORCA
6:00 - 8:00 pm		Reception and Social Hour
WEDNESDAY, July 8
8:30 - 10:00 am		Concurrent Workshop Session c
c1/A	Room 1	Monitoring Coastal Systems II (Track A) Moderator: Paul Orlando, NOAA/ORCA $ Facilitator: Mike Paque, GWPC Trends in Water and Bottom-Sediment Quality in the San Juan Bay Estuary System, Puerto Rico, 1925-95, Richard M.T. Webb, USGS Warm Season Algal Populations in Four Long Island Sound Harbors, Steven Yergeau, Save The Sound Inc. Performance-based Quality AssuranceCthe NOAA National Status and Trends Program Experience, Gunnar Lauenstein, NOAA/NOS/ORCA
c2/B	Room 2	Data Comparability and Collection Methods III (Track B) Moderator: Linda Green, URI $ Facilitator: Paul Jehn, GWPC Real Time Automated Biomonitoring for the Rapid Detection of Waterborne Toxicants, Jason Ezratty, PA State U. High Resolution Water-Column Profiles at Payette Lake, Idaho, Paul F. Woods, USGS
c3/A	Room 3	Nonpoint Source Monitoring I (Track A) Moderator: Dan Smith, USDA $ Facilitator: Jerry Diamond, Tt Trend Detection in Land Treatment and Water Quality Data for the Herrings Marsh Run Watershed, Jean Spooner, NC State U. Water Quality Monitoring Group Pesticides in Surface Waters in the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment Region, Scott Ator, USGS Alternatives for Evaluating Water Quality and BMP Effectiveness at the Watershed Scale, George Ice, National Council of the Paper Industry
c4/C	Room 4	Wetlands Indicators (Track C) Moderator: Michal Harthill, USGS $ Facilitator: Sam Stribling, Tt C Developing Indicators of Biological Condition for Montana Wetlands, R. Apfelbeck, Montana DEQ C Bioassessment of Wetlands, Thomas J. Danielson, U.S. EPA-Wetlands Division
c5/D	Room 5	Monitoring Partnerships Lead to Success III (Track D) Moderator: Chuck Spooner, U.S. EPA $ Facilitator: Sue Laufer, Tt C Integrating Upland and In-Channel Monitoring Results to Improve Ecosystem Condition at Heavenly Ski Resort, Sherry Hazelhurst, USDA C Collaborative Efforts in Regional Environmental Assessment Among Federal Agencies in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Joel Blomquist, USGS C Water Quality Monitoring: "Back to the Future", Robert C. Ward, CSU C Northwest Biological Assessment Workgroup, Gretchen Hayslip, U.S. EPA
10:00 - 10: 30 am		BREAK
10:30 am - 12:00 pm		Concurrent Workshop Session d
d1/A	Room 1	Monitoring Wetlands (Track A) Moderator: Ellen McCarron, FL DEP $ Facilitator: Chris Victoria, Tt Water Quality Monitoring in a Developing Coastal Region: Fear and Loathing in Calabash, North Carolina, Janice Nearhoof, UNC Spatial and Temporal Trace Level Monitoring Study of South San Francisco Bay, Daniel Watson, City of San Jose, Environ. Services Dept. Water Quality Assessment Program in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida: II. Redesigning of Monitoring Network, Gilbert C. Sigua, St. John=s Water Management Dis.
d2/B	Room 2	Quality Assurance/Quality Control for Monitoring Programs I (Track B) Moderator: Elizabeth Herron, URI $ Facilitator: Paul Jehn, GWPC Tailoring of Field-Methods Data Quality Objectives to Specific Monitoring Questions, Revital Katznelson, Woodward Clyde Pollutant Databases and Data Gathering for Effluent Guidelines Development, William A. Telliard, USGS Quality Assurance/Quality Control Plan for Monitoring Agricultural Non-point Source Pollution, Tamim Younos, Virginia Tech
d3/D	Room 3	Monitoring for TMDLs (Track D) Moderator: Don Brady, U.S. EPA $ Facilitator: Sue Laufer, Tt TMDLs, Don Brady, U.S. EPA USGS Role in TMDL Monitoring, Allison A. Shipp, USGS Data and Information in TMDL Development, Fred Andes State Perspectives on TMDL Monitoring,
d4/C	Room 4	Biological Indicators and Reference Condition Development III (Track C) Moderator: Don Dycus, TVA $ Facilitator: Sam Stribling, Tt Indicators of Reservoir Ecological Condition, Don Dycus, TVA The Evaluation of Wet Weather Sources of Pollution on Large Rivers Utilizing Biological Communities, Erich Emery, ORSANCO Evaluation Monitoring as an Alternative to Conventional Water Quality Monitoring for Assessing the Water Quality Characteristics of a Waterbody, Fred Lee, G.Fred Lee & Associates
d5/D	Room 5	305(b) (Track D) Moderator: Emery Cleaves, MD GS $ Facilitator: Steve Roy, Tt QA/QC Assessment of Lay Monitoring in Rhode Island, Elizabeth M. Herron, URI Watershed Watch Monitoring Ground Water Quality Within the 305(b) Program, A. Roger Anzzolin, U.S. EPA Developing a Multi-Agency 305(b) Monitoring Program for the Surface and Coastal Waters of Alabama, Kevin Summers, U.S. EPA Important Concepts and Elements of an Adequate State Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Framework, Chris O. Yoder, OH EPA
12:00 - 1:00 pm		LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 pm		Concurrent Workshop Session e
e1/A	Room 1	Monitoring Urban Stormwater and Sewer Discharges I (Track A) Moderator: Lynn Singleton, WA Dept. Ecol. $ Facilitator: Jerry Diamond, Tt Improving Indicator Selection for Regional Stormwater Monitoring, Broch Bernstein, Ecoanalysis, Inc. Storm Water Metals - Issues and Historical Trends, Erich R. Brandstetter, Lawrence Livermore National Lab Stormwater Monitoring, Sarah Meyland, NY Institute of Technology A Comprehensive Approach to Urban Storm Water Impact Assessment, Scott Bryant, City of Greensboro
e2/B	Room 2	Quality Assurance/Quality Control for Monitoring Programs II (Track B) Moderator: Herb Brass, U.S. EPA $ Facilitator: Sue Laufer, Tt Calabazas Creek Pilot Sediment Sampling Study, Terrence D. Cooke, Woodward-Clyde Binational Water Quality Monitoring Activities Along the Arizona/Sonora Border Region, Mario Castaneda, AZ DEQ
e3/B	Room 3	Tools for Communicating Monitoring Results I (Track B) Moderator: Nancy Lopez, USGS $ Facilitator: Paul Jehn, GWPC Using Data from Existing Monitoring Programs for National Assessment of Volatile Organic Compounds in Ground Water: Enhancements for an Improved Understanding of Occurrence and Spatial Distribution, Wayne Lapham, USGS Middle Gila River Watershed Assessment Study, Phoenix, Arizona, Juliet Johnson Environmental Monitoring Program to Support the Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project, Louis C. Regenmorter, Camp, Dresser and McKee
e4/A	Room 4	Nonpoint Source Monitoring II (Track A) Moderator: Bob Ward, CSU $ Facilitator: Mike Paque, GWPC Change on the Range - Water and Habitat Monitoring for Management Practice Effectiveness, Morro Bay National Monitoring Program, Karen R. Worcester, Regional Water Quality Control Board Nitrate Loads Contributed by Springs Along the Suwannee River, John R. Pittman, USGS Identifying the Potential for Nitrate Contamination of Shallow Ground Water and Streams in Agricultural Areas of the United States, David K. Mueller, USGS
e5/C	Room 5	Watershed Indicators (Track C) Moderator: Carol Keppy, CTIC $ Facilitator: Sam Stribling, Tt The Index of Watershed Indicators - An Evolving National Tool, Sarah Lehmann, U.S. EPA Great All American Secchi Dip-In, Bob Carlson, Kent State U. Long Term Surface-Water Quality Trends in Virginia, Carl Zipper, Virginia Tech Daily Loads and Yields of Suspended Sediment and Nutrients for Watersheds in Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada, Timothy Rowe, USGS
2:30 - 3:30 pm		Poster Session (with authors present)
3:30 - 5:00 pm		Concurrent Workshop Session f
f1/A	Room 1	Multidimensional Watershed Monitoring (Track A) Moderator: Rodney De Han, FL DEP $ Facilitator: Chris Victoria, Tt Key Monitoring Questions: Designing Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Systems to Meet Multiple Objectives, James E. Harrison, U.S. EPA Monitoring the Collective Human "Footprint" on Water Quality, Adrienne Greve, CSU Quantifying Interactions Between Ground Water and Surface Water in Karst Systems, Florida, Brian G. Katz, USGS Contamination Sources and Restoration Method for a Polluted Stream in a Karst-Water Environment, Tamim Younos, Virginia Tech
f2/A	Room 2	Monitoring Urban Stormwater and Sewer Discharges II (Track A) Moderator: Geoff Dates, RWN $ Facilitator: Jerry Diamond, Tt Water Quality Monitoring for Integrated Wastewater and Stormwater Management, Lawrence B. Cahoon, UNC Wilmington Monitoring the Beneficial Impacts of CSO Control Implementation, Carol L. Hufnagel, Mcnamee, Porter & Seely, Inc.
f3/A	Room 3	Nonpoint Source Monitoring III (Track A) Moderator: Tony Wagner, CMA $ Facilitator: Mike Paque, GWPC Evaluating Nonpoint-Source-Pollution Loading from Ground to Surface Water Using Shallow Monitoring-Well Networks, Michael E. Serfes, NJ GS A Reconnaissance for New, Low-Application Rate Herbicides in Surface and Ground Water in the Midwestern United States, 1998, William A. Battaglin, USGS Nitrate and Selected Pesticides in Ground Water of the Mid-Atlantic Region, Joel Blomquist, USGS
f4/B	Room 4	Tools for Communicating Monitoring Results II (Track B) Moderator: Fred Banach, CT DEP $ Facilitator: Sue Laufer, Tt Road Map for Consensus in Watershed Management of Catawba River, Carl W. Chen, Systech Engineering, Inc. Environmental Indicators for Evaluating Progress: Using Historical Data for Comparisons or Baselines?, Jon Harcum, Tt
f5/D	Room 5	Source Water Issues, Both Surface and Ground Water (Track D) Moderator: Dave Denig-Chakroff, AMWA $ Facilitator: Steve Roy, Tt Linking Water Quality Data for Source Water Assessments, Steven P. Roy, Tt The U.S. Geological Survey's Drinking Water Initiative: Science, Policy, and Management, Mike Focazio, USGS
6:00 - 8:00 pm		Reception and Social Hour
8:00 - 10:00 pm		Track Meetings/Work Sessions (These work sessions will involve track coordinators, workshop facilitators/moderators and others interested in developing the presentations for the Track Reports on Thursday morning.)
THURSDAY, July 9
8:30 - 9:00 am		Final Announcements and Introduction of Track Reports
9:00 - 9:45 am		Reports from Tracks A and B Paul OrlandoCTrack A $ Nancy LopezCTrack B
9:45 - 10:15 am		BREAK
10:15 -11 :00 am		Reports from Tracks C and D Michal HarthillCTrack C $ Dave Denig-ChakroffCTrack D
11:00 am - 12:00 pm		Open Mike SessionCDiscussion of Track Reports and Conference Moderator: Linda Green, URI
12:00 - 12:30 pm		Next Steps and Adjournment John Klein, USGS, and Chuck Spooner, U.S. EPA