2012 NEAEB Conference
NEAEB 2012
March 21-23
SeaCrest Hotel & Conference Center
Falmouth, MA
Hosted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1
March 21-23
SeaCrest Hotel & Conference Center
Falmouth, MA
Hosted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1
The United States Environmental Protection Agency welcomes you to the 36th annual Meeting of the New England Association of Environmental Biologists (NEAEB). This three-day conference provides a forum for presenting current work and research on pressing environmental issues relevant to the region. NEAEB brings seasoned and emerging professionals together from State and Federal government, academia, non-governmental organizations, and from other public and private sector institutions. Join us to present and share your work experiences, and enter discussions and workshops for improving our roles in environmental protection, conservation, and water resource management. The 2012 NEAEB conference is a great place for networking and formal information sharing through presentations and technical workshops and enjoying informative plenary and poster sessions. We look forward to seeing you in March!
CONFERENCE TOPICS
- Rivers and Streams
- Lakes
- Coastal/Estuarine studies
- Water Resource Management and Policy
- Study Design, Data Management, and Statistics
- Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment
- Water Quality Standards and Criteria
- Emerging Contaminants/Invasive Species
- Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Projects
- Climate Change
- Biological Assessment
- GIS, New Monitoring Tools/Technologies
You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA's PDF page to learn more about PDF, and for a link to the free Acrobat Reader.
| # | Presentation Title | Session | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, March 21, 2012 | |||
| 1 | Factors Influencing Riverine Fish Assemblages in Massachusetts | 1A Fish | Dave Armstrong, USGS |
| 2 | Summer Thermal Regimes in NH Stream Types: Towards the Development of In-stream Water Temperature Criteria (PDF) (22 pp, 2MB) | 1A Fish | David E. Neils, NH DES |
| 3 | Patterns in Fish Assemblage Composition and Responses in the Lower Kennebec River, Maine 2002-2011 | 1A Fish | Chris Yoder, Midwest Biodiversity Institute |
| 4 | Determination of Water Quality Criteria Compliance for Certification of Low-Impact Hydropower Facilities (PDF) (28 pp, 5.1MB) | 1A Fish | Ted Walsh, NHDES |
| 5 | Determining if Maine's Shoreland Protection Act Standards are Effective at Protecting Aquatic Habitat (PDF) (24 pp, 2.9MB) | 1B Lakes/Wetlands | Kellie Merrell, VT DEC |
| 6 | Development of a Lake Nutrient Budget - Lessons Learned | 1B Lakes/Wetlands | Hilary Snook, EPA |
| 7 | P-Pod: A New Tool to Remove Contaminants and Nutrients from Aquatic Sediment and for Control of Invasive or Noxious Rooted Macrophytes (PDF) (18 pp, 936K) | 1B Lakes/Wetlands | Jonathan Higgins, Higgins Environmental Associates, Inc. |
| 8 | Use of Landscape-Based and Intensive Field Assessments for Development and Use of Wetland Indices of Biological Integrity (PDF) (59 pp, 10.2MB) | 1B Lakes/Wetlands | Scott Jackson, UMass Amherst |
| 9 | Commercial Integration of a pCO2 Sensor Into a Multi-parameter Sonde (PDF) (38 pp, 3.8MB) | 2A Monitoring | Kelly C Medeiros, National Park Service |
| 10 | Emerging Technologies for Biogeochemical Sensing in Coastal Waters | 2A Monitoring | Michael Twardowski, WET Labs |
| 11 | Proper Use and Maintenance of Water Quality Monitoring Instrumentation (PDF) (26 pp, 1.1MB) | 2A Monitoring | Barrett Gaylord, YSI, Inc. |
| 12 | Implications of Road Salt Stress: Diatom Community Structure Along a Chloride Gradient in Southern Ontario Streams (PDF) (21 pp, 1.5MB) | 2B Biological Effects of Urbanization | Emily Porter-Goff, Trent University, Ontario |
| 13 | Diatom Communities and Metrics as Indicators of Urbanization Effects on Streams and Potential Moderation by Landscape Green Infrastructure | 2B Biological Effects of Urbanization | Nathan J. Smucker, EPA-ORD |
| 14 | Impervious Cover Thresholds for Maine Stream Macroinvertebrates | 2B Biological Effects of Urbanization | Tom Danielson, Maine DEP |
| Thursday, March 22, 2012 | |||
| 15 | Exploring the Factors Contributing to Varying Enrichment Conditions to Support Nutrient Management in Connecticut Rivers and Streams (PDF) (38 pp, 2.1MB) | 3A Nutrients | Mary Becker, CT DEEP |
| 16 | Nutrient Management Policy for Massachusetts (PDF) (34 pp, 1.7MB) | 3A Nutrients | Warren Kimball, MassDEP |
| 17 | Massachusetts Nutrient Management Framework - Case Studies | 3A Nutrients | Kimberly Groff, MassDEP |
| 18 | Meeting the Nitrogen Wasteload Allocation in Connecticut: Connecticut's Nitrogen Credit Exchange After 10 Years of Operation as the Nation's Most Significant Water Quality Trading Program (PDF) (26 pp, 5.2MB) | 3A Nutrients | Paul Stacey, Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve |
| 19 | Using Stressor-response Relationships to Derive Numeric Nutrient Criteria in Coastal Massachusetts (PDF) (36 pp, 3.4MB) | 3B Coastal Studies | Matthew Liebman, EPA |
| 20 | Analyzing Trends in Water Quality to Assess the Health of Cape Cod Bay (PDF) (38 pp, 4.9MB) | 3B Coastal Studies | Amy Costa, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies |
| 21 | Invading Populations of Epiphytic Non-native and Native Tunicates on Sea grass at Martha's Vineyard (PDF) (24 pp, 5.1MB) | 3B Coastal Studies | Mary Carman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| 22 | Physical Impacts of Invasive Tunicates on Eelgrass (Zostera marina) (PDF) (16 pp, 1.2MB) | 3B Coastal Studies | Phil Colarusso, EPA |
| 23 | The Impact of Extreme High Stream Flows on Macro invertebrate Communities in Four Western Connecticut Wadeable Streams | 4A Hurricane Irene Impacts | Chris Bellucci, CT DEEP |
| 24 | Assessing the Effects of Hurricane Irene on Benthic Macro invertebrate Communities in the Upper Esopus Creek in New York State (PDF) (27 pp, 3.1MB) | 4A Hurricane Irene Impacts | Alexander J. Smith, NYSDEC |
| 25 | What's Left in Vermont's Streams after Tropical Storm Irene - Monitoring Results from Vermont Sentinel River Sites (PDF) (40 pp, 6MB) | 4A Hurricane Irene Impacts | Aaron Moore and Steve Fiske, VT DEC |
| 26 | Rumney Marsh Restoration: Status of Restorations Completed to Date and Potential Future Projects Involving Tide Gates (PDF) (54 pp, 7.1MB) | 4B Wetlands/Streamflow | Ed Reiner, EPA Region 1 |
| 27 | A Macro invertebrate Model to Predict Attainment of Tiered Aquatic Life Use Criteria for Maine Wetlands (PDF) (37 pp, 5.8MB) | 4B Wetlands/Streamflow | Jeanne DiFranco, MaineDEP |
| 28 | Potential Climate Change Impacts to Streamflow in the Northeast U.S. | 4B Wetlands/Streamflow | Neil Fennessey, University of Massachusetts |
| 29 | Knowledge and Beliefs about Climate: Results from New Survey Research (PDF) (32 pp, 2.2MB) | Plenary | Lawrence Hamilton, Dept of Sociology, University of New Hampshire |
| 30 | Vulnerable Stream Crossings: A Future Look at a Changing Landscape and Climate | Plenary | Michael Simpson, Antioch University New England, Keene, NH |
| 31 | Right Whales at the Brink | Plenary | Charles Mayo, Right Whale Habitat Studies, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies |
| Friday, March 23, 2012 | |||
| 32 | Ecological Site Descriptions: An Approach to Land Characterization and Evaluation | 5A Habitat Ecology | Nels Barrett and David Clausnitzer, NRCS |
| 33 | An Operational Research Platform to Enable Understanding of Regional and Continental-Scale Processes (PDF) (23 pp, 4.3MB) | 5A Habitat Ecology | Brian Wee, NEON, Inc |
| 34 | Habitat Model Affinity and Meaningful Regulatory Thresholds for New York State Streams (PDF) (18 pp, 1.4MB) | 5A Habitat Ecology | Patricia Shultis, SUNY Albany |
| 35 | Calibrating a Rhode Island Macro invertebrate Index to a Regional Biological Condition Gradient (PDF) (20 pp, 1.2MB) | 5A Habitat Ecology | Ben Jessup, Tetra Tech, Inc |
| 36 | A Risk Analysis for Emerging Contaminants in Massachusetts Coastal Waters | 5C Emerging Contaminants | Juliet Simpson, MIT Sea Grant College Program |
| 37 | An Investigation into the Extent and Biological Impacts of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) in a Highly Effluent-Dominated River in New England, | 5C Emerging Contaminants | Dave McDonald, EPA Region 1 |
| 38 | Azolla as a Potential Tool for Broad-Scale Freshwater Remediation | 5C Emerging Contaminants | Anne Roberts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 39 | Treatment of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products by Onsite Septic Systems - The Present State of Knowledge and Understanding (PDF) (56 pp, 4MB) | 5C Emerging Contaminants | George Heufelder, Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment |
| 40 | From Discharge-Compliance Monitoring to Waterbody-Beneficial Use Monitoring: A Collaborative Approach between Regulators and the Regulated Community (PDF) (28 pp, 272K) | 6B Rivers | Lilian Busse, San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board |
| 41 | Stream Responses to a Watershed-Scale Stormwater Retrofit | 6B Rivers | Allison H. Roy, USGS |
| 42 | Upper/Middle Charles Nutrient TMDL - From Monitoring to Completion (PDF) (44 pp, 2.5MB) | 6B Rivers | Nigel Pickering, Horsely Witten Group |
| 43 | Monitoring the Progress of TMDL Implementation on the Assabet River | 6B Rivers | Alice Rojko, MassDEP |
| 44 | An Educational and Technical Effort to Enhance Public Understanding of Water Quality Issues in Lewis Bay Undertaken by a Private Beach association and the Coastal Systems Program at SMAST, U-Mass-D (PDF) (77 pp, 3MB) | 6C Beaches & Bacteria | Thomas Durkin, Town of Yarmouth, MA |
| 45 | Strategies to identify, eliminate and prevent sources of bacterial pollution impacting coastal water quality (PDF) (32 pp, 5.2MB) | 6C Beaches & Bacteria | Keri Lindberg, Maine Healthy Beaches Program |
| 46 | Digging Into Dry-weather Bacterial Violations at Recreational Beaches (PDF) (22 pp, 922K) | 6C Beaches & Bacteria | Elizabeth Halliday, MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Biological Oceanography |
| 47 | Identifying Bacterial Sources in Maine Streams-Using Old School Methods | 6C Beaches & Bacteria | Melissa Evers, Maine DEP |