Agenda (tentative)
12th Annual American Ecological Engineering Society Meeting

Plenary Session

• Dr. Charles Hall, Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY-ESF
• Dr. Pat Kangas, Associate Professor of Natural Resources Management in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park
• Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation, Council of North American Aboriginal Nations member, award-winning activist and speaker

Wolfgang Wolter: Climate Change Adaption and Adaptive Environmental Management - An Integration Process in the Design of Natural Channels

Anand Jayakaran: Managing Modified Coastal Plain Streams in South Carolina

Catherine Landis: Cedars, Samphire, Sassafras: An Ecocultural Approach to Developing Plant Community Templates for Restoration of Onondaga Lake

Bryan Dick: Living Rosion Pins - Dendrogeomorphic Evaluation of Riverbank Erosion Rates

Myrna Hall: From Habitat 67 to Habitat 2067: What Have We Learned and How Do We Design For a Future of Declining Resources?

Klaus Doelle: Minoa's Alternative Natural Approach Generates Electricity (MANAGE)

Amy Hudson: Addressing Uncertainty in Emergy Analyses with Monte Carlo Simulations

Michael Amadori: From Food Waste to Fresh Food: Using Aquaponics in a Closed Loop System for Campus Sustainability

John Day:What is the Appropriate Role of Ecological Engineering in the 21st Century?

W. Cully Hession: Dynamics of Water and Societal Systems - An Interdisciplinary NSF-REU at the Virginia Tech StREAM Lab

Whitney Marshall: A Review of Social-ecological Systems Theory and Practice

Jessica D'Ambrosia: Land, Water, and Community: Promoting and Protecting Ecosystems Services in Modified Channel Systems

Daniel Hitchcock: Green Infrastructure in Coastal Landscapes: Ecological Design, Hydrological Function, and Sustainable Land Use Goals

Douglas Daley: Using Natural Plan Communities as a Template for Green Roof Design

Lee Hyung Kim: Application of LID Technology in Pollutant Mass and Flow Volume Reduction of Urban Stormwater Runoff

Alea Tuttle: Geomorphic Controls on Nitrate Removal in Restored Urban Southeastern Piedmont Streams

Mark Tompkins: Hydraulic and Habitat Modeling Supporting Water Resource Management Decisions in the San Francisco Bay Delta

John Nolan: Controlling Methylmercury Formation and Release from Sediments by Modifying Redox Conditions

Eddie Gomez: Biodegradation of Bioplastics and Natural Fibers During Composting, Anaerobic Digestion and in Soil

Tsai-Ming Lee: Economic and Environmental Analysis of Using Constructed Riparian Wetlands to Support Urbanized Municipal Wastewater Treatment

Jesse Caputo: Understanding System Resilience, an Engineering vs. an Ecological Perspective

Colin Beier: Landscape Assessment of Ecosystem Services for Adaptive Management of Resource Systems

Thomas Decker: Appropriate Technologies in Developing Countries

Colby Fisher: It Goes Both Ways: Evaluating Trends in "Standard" and "Reverse" Technology Transfer

Tom Franti: Hydrologic Evaluation of Established Rain Gardens Using a Storm Runoff Simulator

Zeno Levy: Developing Monitoring Protocols and Baseline Data for Assessment of a Novel, Full-scale Combined Sewer Overflow Treatment Wetland Pilot Project in Syracuse, NY

Khristopher Dodson: Education, Awareness and Action: How an Entire Community is "Saving the Rain"

David Blersch: Net Community Metabolism Measurement in Streams as a Preditor of Groundwater Influx and its Implications for Restoration

Bangshuai Han: Interactions of River and Groundwater with Meander Evolution

Fouad Jaber: Stream Restoration: An Educational Collaboration Between Municipal and Academic Agencies

Greg Jennings: Challenges and Solutions for Restoring Stream Ecosystem Functions

Tyler Kreider: Using Rare Earth Element Labeled Sediment to Understand Sediment Transport: A Field Study

Waverly Parks: Effect of Water Temperature on Cohesive Soil Erosion

William Stringfellow: Integration of Seasonal Wetlands into Agricultural Watersheds to Reduce Pollutant Loads to Surface Waters

Robert Nairn: Reversing the Irreversible: passive Treatment of Mine Waters in a Drastically Disturbed Watershed

Paul Frank: Treatment Wetlands for Improving Water Quality in the Litani River Basin, Lebanon

Marc Beutel: Phosphorus, Nitrate and Fecal Coliform Removalin Constructed Wetlands Treating Irrigation Runoff

Peter Black: The US Flood Control Program at 75

Rafael Vazquez-Burney: Ecological Solutions to TMDL Limitations Within the Pasco County Master Reuse System

Caitlin Eger: Nutrient Retention in Retrofitted Residential Rain Gardens

Erin Reynolds: An Introduction to Porous Pavements

Xiangrong Wang: Studies on Ecosystem Services of Urban Forest Based on Remote Sensing and Ground Data

Gordon Heisler: Land-cover, Weather, and Topographic Effects on Air-temperature Differences Across Syracuse, NY

Jesse Robinson: Assessment of Residence Time as a Metric of Water Quality Improvement in Stream Restoration at Multiple Scales: How Refinement of This Metric May Improve Nutrient Uptake Models

Charles Walburn: Quantifying Near-streambank Turbulence Through a Storm Event

Stacey Sloan Blersch: The Disconnect Between Ecosystem Services Concept and Ecosystem Function in Stream Restoration: Where Do We Go From Here?

Ted Endreny: Quantifying Vertical Hyporheic Exchange Around Rock Vanes with Laboratory Flumes

Huang Juan: Influence of Root Exudates on Soil Urease Activity in Wetland Plant Rhizosphere

John Pries: Shepard Wetland - The Largest Constructed Stormwater Treatment Wetland in Canada

Peter May: Oxygen Production in an Algae Based Water Treatment System

James Rosenblum: Influence of Seasons and Loading Rates on the Level of Fecal Indicator Organisms During Continuous Style

Russell Daniels: Nitrous Oxide Emissions of Fungal Mycelium Under Various Nutrient Conditions

Leanne Mulvihill: Farm Hack: Farmers Collaborating with Designers

Thomas Herlihy: Large Scale Earthworm Composting System - Sustainably Linking Animal and Plant Agriculture

Surrenda Suthar: Utilization of On-farm Resources for Organic FarmingPractices and Socioeconomic Sustainability: A Case From Rural

Emily Ayers: Harvesting Rainwater for Food Production: A Review of Potential Safety Concerns

Shiny Mathews: Accumulation of Antimicrobials by Food Crops

Stephanie Lewis: Water Budget for a Short Rotation Willow Crop on a Former Industrial Waste Disposal Site

Timothy Volk: Development and Implementation of an Alternative Cover System Using Shrub Willow

Leslie Hopkinson: Using Fluvial Geomorphic Landform Design for Surface Mining Reclamation in West Virginia

David Austin: Designing End Pit Lakes in the Mine Reclamation Landscape of the Alberta Oil Sands

Vivienne Wilson: Bridging the Restoration Gap: Uniting Mine Engineering and Restoration of Forests and Wetlands in the Alberta Oil Sands

Adrienne Cizek: Defining Pre-Development Hydrology in Order to Mimic Pre-Development Water Quality

Ryan Davis: Geddes Brook Channel and Floodplain Restoration

Steven Hall: Ecologically Engineered Reefs for Sustainable Coastal Restoration

Jay Martin: Co-Evolution of Upstream Human Behavior and Downstream Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate

Seyoum Yami Gebremariam: Modeling Hydrologic and Ecological Factors Impacting Phosphorus Movement from Agricultural Fields to Rivers in NW Ohio

Alex Horne: The POP Wetland: A New Kind of Wetland for Removing Pharmaceuticals

Paul Frank: The Fusina Treatment Wetlands: Treatment, Habitat, and Water Reuse by the Largest Constructed Wetland System in Europe

Shun Shi: Numberical Modeling of Nitrogen Removal in Barch-fed Anammox Enhancing Biofilters

Miguel Pena: Ecosystem Services From Constructed Wetlands in the Tropics

Abigail Tamkin: Comparing Recovery in Psychrophilic Lab-Scale Biodigesters of Different Organic Loading Rates

Reception with local beer and Sophistafunk band

Student Design Competition Presentations and Awards

Peter May: The Use of Natural Algae to Clean Wastewater, Reduce Estuarine Biofouling and Create a Biofuel in New York City

Christopher Streb: Floating Wetlands: A Feedback Technology to Restore

Anthony Eallonardo, Jr.: Evapotranspiration From a Unique Wetland Restoration Site

Martha Lucia Burbano Garces: Fluxes of N-NO32-, N-NH4+, and N-NH3 in the Throughfall and Stemflow in the Tropical Forest Associated with a High-Altitude Andean Wetland

Molly Farrell: Using Native Species to Restore Ecological Function and Reduce Invasibility at an Industrial Waste Restoration Site

Bardhyl Bajrami: A New Environmentally Friendly Bleaching Method for Kraft Pulp

David Austin: A Rapid Assessment Protocol (RAP) to Determine Stormwater Pond Nutrient Removal Performance

Bobby Tucker: GIS-Based Approaches for Watershed-Scale Planning and Implementation of Distributed Wastewater Systems

Richard Bates: Converting Sewage Sludge and MSW to Electricity for Small Municipalities

Juan Castano: Effects of the Begetation and Operational Hydraulic Retention Time on Pathogens Reduction in Subsurface Constructed Wetlands

James Arrigoni: Reversing Amphibian Population Declines with Ecological Engineering

John Lloyd-Reilley: Design, Implementation and Five Year Assessment of an Ecological Engineering Approach to Coastal Restoration at Loyola Beach, Kleberg County, Texas

Elizabeth Hunter: Deploying Four-legged Engineers: Giant Tortoises on Pinta Island, Galapagos

Peter Connell: The Environmental Impact of Andean Coca Cultivation: Past, Present, Future

Mansoor Leh: Quantifying Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Change at the Watershed Scale of the Cocoa Growing Regions in West Africa

Bobby Tucker: Waste Not, Want Not: Pioneering Source-Separation and Integrated Management of "Bionutrients" on a North Carolina Educational Farm