Bringing Scientists, Resource Managers, Non-Governmental Organizations, Regulators and Consultants together.

THE SEVENTH ANNUAL MARINE AND ESTUARINE SHALLOW WATER SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE September 25-27, 2006 HOLIDAY INN ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY

MONDAY MORNING, September 25th

MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25

8:00 am to Registration - Howard Johnson - Victoria Ballroom (Foyer Area) 5:00 pm

10:00 am Opening Remarks: Dominique Lueckenhoff, Associate Director Office of Watersheds Water Protection Division U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

10:10 am Keynote Speaker: Frank Hamons, (Invited) Maryland Port Administration Executive Office Director, Harbor Development Department

SESSION I: WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING ESTUARINE SYSTEMS

Moderator: Tom Slenkamp, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

10:30 am Harriete Phelps, University of the District of Columbia, Locating Pollution Sources in the Anacostia River Watershed

10:45 am Jennifer R. Smith, East Carolina University, Water Quality Assessment of Proposed and Present Reverse Osmosis (RO) Water Quality Treatment Facility (WTP) Effluent into the Albemarle Sound, North Carolina

11:00 am Joy Jones, Potomac River Crossing Consultants, Water Quality Monitoring for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project

11:15 am Richard Pepino, Franklin and Marshall University, Will Establishing Water Quality Standards for Wetlands Afford Improved Protection under Section 404 of Clean Water Act

11:30 am Questions and Answers

SESSION II: EUTROPHICATION AND NUTRIENTS IN ESTAURINE ENVIRONMENTS

Moderator: Tiffany Crawford, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

11:45 am Jaroslaw Schellner, City University of New York, Eutrophication in New York’s Shallow Waters

12:00 noon Damian Brady, University of Delaware, Spatial and Temporal Variability in Diel-Cycling Hypoxia: Causes and Consequences

12:15 pm Joseph Beaman, Maryland Department of the Environment, Development of Water Quality Standards to Protect Shallow Water Habitats of the Chesapeake Bay and its Tidal Tributaries.

12:30 Robert Nuzzi, Suffolk County Department of Health Service, Nutrient Trends in the Peconic Estuary and Their Potential Impact on Phytoplankton Blooms

12:45 pm Questions and Answers

12:45 pm Lunch

MONDAY AFTERNOON, September 25th

SESSION III: REMOTE SENSING OF COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS

Moderator: Karl Szekielda, City University of New York

2:15 pm Karl Szekielda, City University of New York, Hyperspectral Imaging Spectroscopy for Eutrophication Monitoring: Spatial and Temporal Events

2: 30 pm T.F. Donato, Naval Research Laboratory, Spectral Characteristics of a Dispersing Microsystis Bloom

2:45 pm S.J Maness, Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Mapping of Water Quality Parameters During a Microsystis Bloom

3:00 pm Francisco Artigas, Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Assessing the Trophic Conditions of an Urban Estuary

3:15 pm Zhiming Yang, Delaware State University, Remote Sensing of Water Quality

3:30 pm Nicholas Munyei, Delaware State University, Use of Remote Sensing in the Estimation of Chlorophyll a in the St. Jones River Watershed (SJRW), Delaware

3:45 pm Questions and Answers

4:00 pm Break

SESSION IV: SHALLOW WATER AND TIDAL WETLAND HABITATS

Moderator: Frank Reilly, Wetlands Work Group

4:15 pm Danielle Kreeger, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Program, Tidal Freshwater Marsh: A Signature Trait of the Delaware Estuary

4:30 pm Joseph V. Letter, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Inundation Frequency Analysis for New Jersey Wetland Restoration Projects

4:45 pm Tara Goodrich, University of Maine, Tools for Measuring Changes in Eelgrass (Zostra marina) Distribution Over Time

5:00 pm Alison Banning, University of Delaware, The Effects of Long Piers on Marsh Birds in Worcester County, Maryland

5:15 pm Michael Sinnema, Birdsall Engineering, Assessment of Seagrass Restoration In Barnegat Bay, New Jersey

5:30 pm Questions and Answers

TUESDAY MORNING, September 26th

SESSION V: SUBAQUEOUS SOILS IN ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEMS

Moderator: Jeff Thompson, Maryland Department of the Enviornment

9:00 am Marty C. Rabenhorst, University of Maryland, From Sediment to Soils: Application of a Pedological Paradigm in Shallow Water Environments

9:15 am Laurie Osher, University of Maine, Soil Landform Relationships in Shallow Estuarine Ecosystems of Downeast Maine

9:30 am Danielle Balduff, University of Maryland, Subaqueous Investigations in Chincoteague Bay, Maryland

9:45 am Michael Bradley, University of Rhode Island, Subaqueous-Landscape Relationships In A Rhode Island Estuary

10:00 am Mark Stolt, University of Rhode Island, Partnering To Advance Subaqueous Soils Resource Inventories

10:15 am Questions and Answers

10:30 am Break

SESSION VI: THE FUNCTIONS, MANAGEMENT AND CONTAMINATION OF SOIL IN COASTAL AREAS

Moderator: Marty C. Rabenhorst, University of Maryland

11:00 am Jennifer C. Samson, Clean Ocean Action, A Proposed Coastal Sediment Action Plan for New Jersey

11:15 am Laurie Osher, University of Maine, Carbon Storage in Estuarine Soils of Downeast Maine and the Global C Cycle

11:30 am Jawed Hameedi, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Land Use Changes and Water Quality impacts: Copper Contamination in St. Lucie Estuary, Florid

11:45 am Questions and Answers

12:00 noon Lunch

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, September 26th

SESSION VII: NONPOINT SOURCE WATERSHED PROJECTS IN COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS

Moderator: Fred Suffian, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

1:30 pm Fred Suffian, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, An Overview of Section 319 Watershed Plans in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Zone

1:45 pm Lyle Jones, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Delaware’s Nonpoint Source Program: Making a Difference in the Coastal Zone

2:00 pm Sara Knies, AmeriCorps VISTA, Region III, Watershed Protection Education and Assistance Tool for Nonpoint Source Pollution

2:15 pm Thomas Belton, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Polychlorinated Biphenyls Source Trackdown in a Combined Sewer System on the Delaware Estuary

2:30 pm Questions and Answers

SESSION VIII: BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN COASTAL AREAS

Moderator: Darice Ellis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

2:45 pm Kevin Magerr, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III Stormwater Management Techniques in Coastal Areas

3:00 pm Frank Reilly, Wetlands Workgroup, Green Transportation in the Coastal Zone

3:15 pm William Skaradek, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Reclamation of a Superfund Site in Cape May County, NJ

3:30 pm Paul Jivoff, Rider University, Habitat Quality, Species Diversity And Secondary Production At Artificial Versus Natural Shorelines In Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey

3:45 pm Questions and Answers

SESSION IX: NATIONAL ESTUARY PROGRAMS: HOW TO BALANCE CONFLICTING USES IN THE COASTAL ZONE

Moderator: Ed Ambrogio, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

4:00 pm Paul Bologna, Montclair University, Barnegat Bay Estuary Program, Resolving Potential Conflicts Between Natural Resources And Shallow Watercraft

4:15 pm Roman Jeisen, Maryland Coastal Bays Estuary Program, Resolving Conflicts with the Coastal Bays Hard Clam Fishery

4:30 pm Danielle Kreeger, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Program, Use Conflicts and Science Needs in the Delaware Estuary: Highlights from a Recent White Paper

4:45 pm Questions and Answers

WEDNESDAY, September 27th

SESSION X: ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING IN COASTAL AREAS BASED ON ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS

Moderator: Andrew Seligman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III

9:00 am Andrew Seligman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III, The Concept of Water Quality Trading

9:15 am Kurt Stephenson, Virginia Tech, Nutrient Offsets: Can We Move from Practice to Performance

9:30 am Stan Laskowski, University of Pennsylvania, Water Quality Trading in the Lower Delaware River Basin: A Resource for Practitioners, A Report to the William Penn Foundation

10:00 am Questions and Answers

10:15 am Break

SESSION XI: ANACOSTIA RIVER RESTORATION EFFORTS: MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Moderator: Jonathan D. Essoka, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

10:45 am Jonathan D. Essoka, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, Building Collaborative Partnerships in the Anacostia Watershed

11:00 am Simeon Hahn, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Designing a Tidal Wetland Program on the Anacostia

11:15 am Questions and Answers

11:30 am Lunch

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, September 27th

SESSION XII: EPA’S TARGETED WATERSHED GRANTS PROGRAM: COASTAL CASE STUDIES

Moderator: Ralph Spagnolo, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

12:30 pm Stephen Williams, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Stream Restoration Techniques, Pike Creek, Delaware

12:45 pm Jerry Kauffman, University of Delaware, Christina Basin: Clean Water is Good Business

1:00 pm Jen Adkins, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Schuylkill Targeted Watershed Grant

1:15 pm Questions and Answers

SESSION XIII: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PLANS FOR DREDGED MATERIAL DISPOSAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNIQUES

Moderator: Tom Slenkamp, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

1:30 pm Alex Lechich, A Storm in the Port; Keeping the Port of NY & NJ Open

1:45 pm William Skaradek, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Roanoke Island Festival Park, NC Aquatic Habitat Restoration & Protection Project

2:00 pm Karim Abood, HDR/LMS, Shallow Water Dredging in New York Harbor: Sediment Characteristics and Environmental Protection Features

2:15 pm Mark Mendelsohn, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Popular Island Restoration, Chesapeake Bay

2:30 pm Jennifer C. Samson, Clean Ocean Action, Key Principles and Phases for the Development of a Regional Management Plan

2:45 pm Questions and Answers

3:00 pm Closing Remarks

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Ilene Kaplan, Union College, New York, Marine Development and Ecosystem Management/Policy in Shallow Water Environments: Marine Studies and Educational Approaches

Sima Bagheri, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Utility of Imaging Spectrometry in Estimation of Chlorophyll-a in New Jersey Nearshore Waters

Michael Gilman, Cedar Island Marina Research Lab, Subtidal Distribution of HEMIGRAPSUS SANGUINEUS in Clinton Harbor, Connecticut

Peter Tango, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Algal bloom response monitoring: Cyanobacteria and their toxins in Chesapeake Bay tidewaters.

Posters will be on display all three days in the main ballroom.

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