SIXTH WETLANDS WORKSHOP

OCTOBER 27 THRU OCTOBER 30, 2003

HOLIDAY  INN, BOARDWALK

ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY

 

AGENDA

                                                                       

MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 27

 

10:00 am

    to                             Registration - Victoria Ballroom, Howard Johnson

5:00 pm

 

12:30 pm          Welcome and Workshop Logistics:

 

12:40 pm          Opening Remarks: Donald S. Welsh, Regional Adminstrator

                      U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

                       

SESSION I: ISOLATED WETLANDS

 

Moderator:       John Forren, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

 

1:00 pm            Bruce R. Bodson, Weston Solutions, Inc., Post SWANCC Judicially Determined Federal Jurisdiction: Hydrologic Relations to Navigable Waters of the U.S.

 

1:15 pm            Art Spingarn, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, The Extent, Functions, and Values of Headwater Wetlands and Streams in the Mid-atlantic Region

 

1:30 pm                                                            Chandler C. Morse, National Association of Home Builders, SWANCC: The Home Builders Perspective    

 

1:45 pm            Questions and Answers

 

SPECIAL TOPIC PRESENTATION

 

2:00 pm            Katherine Trott, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Headquarters, Updating and Regionalizing the Corps 1987 Wetland Delineation Manual

 

2:15 pm            Questions and Answers

 

2:30 pm            Break

           

 

 

SESSION II: COMPENSATORY MITIGATION  EFFORTS

 

 

Moderator:       Jeff Thompson, Maryland Department of the Environment

 

3:00 pm            Gary Jellick, Coastal Resources, Inc., Integrating Wetland Mitigation for    Highway Construction with the Goals of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program

 

3:15 pm            Mary Ann Theising, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, The Use of Landscape Data to Improve the Success of Mitigation

 

3:30 pm            Harold Jones, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, The Status and Trends of Mitigation Banking in Virginia

 

3:45 pm            Ben Bloodworth, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, The Bureau of Mitigation Compliance:  Who We Are, What We Do, and Will It Really Matter?  (A Year One Review)    

4:00 pm            Questions and Answers

 

 

SESSION III: TIDAL WETLAND RESTORATION EFFORTS

 

Moderator:       Harold Jones, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District

                       

4:15 pm            Fred Mushacke, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Tidal Wetlands Loss in New York’s Marine District

 

4:30 pm            Laura Schwanof, EEA, Inc., Hempstead Harbor Tidal Wetland Restoration Project: Port Washington, Nassau County, Long Island, NY

 

4:45 pm            Laura Morales, Great Eastern Ecology, Inc., Restoring Tidal Influences to a Historically Impounded System in Westchester County, New York

 

5:00 pm            Edward Reiner, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region I, Coastal Wetland Restoration: Challenges and Opportunities in an Urban Estuary

              

5:15 pm            Questions and Answers

 

5:30 pm            Social Hour - Scribbles Café, Holiday Inn

 

 

 

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28

 

SESSION IV: NON-TIDAL WETLAND RESTORATION EFFORTS

 

Moderator:       Katherine Trott, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Headquarters

 

9:00 am            Claude M. Epstein, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Historic Example of Stream Channel Restoration: 18^th Century Creation and 19^th Century Destruction of the Dam at Martha, Nj on the Oswego River

 

9:15 am            Keith W. Carr, Illinois State Geological Survey, Restoring Flood plain Wetlands: Site Characteristics and Pitfalls to Watch for During the Site Selection Phase

                       

9:30 am            Lenore P. Tedesco, Purdue University, The Starling Fen Restoration Project

 

9:45 am            Questions and Answers

 

10:00 am          Break

 

 

SESSION V: TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING INVASIVE OR INHIBITORY                      SPECIES

 

Moderator:       Francis Reilly, The Reilly Group

 

10:30 am          Michael D. Byer, Gateway National Recreation Area, Inhibition of Re-growth of Phragmites australis and Other Herbaceous Plants by Transplanted Woody Plants

 

10:45 am       Theodore C. Nichols, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Integrated Damage Management Program Reduces Grazing Impacts of Resident Canada Geese on Wild Rice                   

 

11:00 am          Jim McNair, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, The Ecology and Control of Invasive Japanese Knotweed in Urban Parks of Philadelphia

                                   

11:15 am          Bruce Richards, Center for the Delaware Inland Bays, Delaware Invasive Species Council; A Multi-tiered Collaborative Approach to Managing Invasive Species

11:30 am          Questions and Answers

 

11:45 am          Lunch Speaker: Kent Mountford, Cove Corporation, Barnegat Bays: Genesis of an Estuarian Ecologist with a Historical Perspective

 

 

TUESDAY AFTERNOON

 

 SESSION VI: USING GIS TECHNIQUES FOR WETLAND IDENTIFICATION

 

Moderator:       Richard V. Pepino, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

 

1:15 pm            Richard G. Lathrop, Rutgers University, Identifying New Jersey’s Vernal Pools

                                                                       

1:30 pm            Geoffrey E. Pociask, Illinois State Geological Survey, Using GIS as a Tool for Identifying and Screening Potential Wetland Mitigation Sites

 

1:45 pm            Peter D. McKone, Carter & Burgess Inc., Using GIS to Identify Waters of the U.S. for Oil and Gas Development in North Central Texas

 

2:00 pm            Victor V. Klemas, University of Delaware, Wetland Remote Sensing: Recent Advances and Problems

 

2:15 pm            Questions and Answers

 

2:30 pm            Break

 

SESSION VII: WETLAND ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

 

Moderator:       Mary Anne Thiesing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II

 

3:00 pm            Donald E. Weller, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Landscape Indicators of Wetland Condition in the Nanticoke River Watershed

 

3:15 pm                        Thomas E. Jordan, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Comparing Functional Assessments and Measurements of Nitrogen Processing in Wetlands

 

3:30 pm            Dennis F. Whigham, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Wetland Remote Sensing: Recent Advances and Problems

                       

3:45 pm            Karl H. Szekielda, City University of New York, Eutrophication of an Estuarine Tidal Wetland: Jamaica Bay

           

4:00 pm            Questions and Answers

 

SESSION VIII: MONITORING AND MEASURING HYDROLOGY

 

Moderator:       Lenore Vasilas, Natural Resources Conservation Service

 

4:15 pm            Bruce Vasilas, University of Delaware, Wetland Hydrology Techniques: An Overview

 

4:30  pm           James Miner, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaigne, Construction and Use of Monitoring Wells

 

4:45 pm            Paul B. Rodrigue, Natural Resources Conservation Service Application of the Hydrology Tools for Wetland Determination and Restoration

 

5:00 pm            Questions and Answers

 

5:15 pm            Social Hour - Scribbles Café, Holiday Inn

 

 

7:00 pm-11:00 pm           

   

Evening Social, Dinner and Musical Entertainment - Constitution Ballroom, Holiday Inn

 

WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29

 

SESSION IX: HYDROLOGY AND HYDRIC SOILS

 

Moderator:       Bruce Vasilas, University of Delaware

 

9:00 am            Martin C. Rabenhorst, University of Maryland, Interpreting Hydrology from Soil Morphology

 

9:15 am            Carl Robinette, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Identifying Problematic Hydric Soils

 

9:30 am            Lenore Vasilas, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Hydric Soil Technical Standards

 

9:45 am            Al Rizzo, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Eh/pH Relationships Related to Soil Moisture

 

10:00 am          Kelly Smith, Virginia Tech, Methods for Indicating Reducing Conditions in Soil

 

10:15 am          Questions and Answers

 

10:30 am          Break

 

SESSION X: THE HYDROLOGY OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF WETLANDS

 

Moderator:       William Hoffman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

 

11:00 am          Adam W. Whelchel, University of Delaware, Predictive Indicators of Hydroperiod for Slope Wetlands of the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont

 

 

11:15 am          Martin C. Rabenhorst, University of Maryland, Water Table Dynamics in Soils Along Piedmont Flood Plain Landscapes

 

11:30 am          Mike Traynor, Amy S. Greene Environmental Consultants, Inc., Surface-Water/Ground-Water Dynamics in a Palustrine, Typha spp. Dominated Marsh

 

11:45 am          Bruce Vasilas, University of Delaware, Hydrology of Delmarva Coastal Plain Mineral Flats and Adjacent Uplands

 

12:00 pm          Charles Andrew Cole, Penn State University, Long-term Hydrologic Monitoring in Wetlands: BJP, Batteries, and Black Bears

 

12:15 pm          Questions and Answers

 

12:30 pm          Lunch Speaker:  Ken Hayes, Aqua Survey, Inc., Resurrecting the Lost “Sin Cities” of Egypt

 

SESSION XI: FACTORS IMPACTING WETLAND HYDROLOGY

 

Moderator:       Dave Fanz, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

                                                                                                           

2:00 pm            George Seaver, Cataumet Civic Associates, Fifteen Year Nitrate Time Series in Buzzards Bay Groundwater and Estuaries, and their Observed Low Frequency Periodicity

 

2:15 pm            Jason J. Traband, University of Maryland, Physical Forcing and Anthropogenic Impacts on an Oligohaline Marsh

 

2:30 pm            Francisco J. Artigas, Rutgers University, Influence of Hydroperiod and Salinity on Vegetative Distribution in Marshes of the Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey

 

2:45 pm            John M. Emery, Southwest Florida Water Management District, Effects of Public Supply Groundwater Withdrawals Upon Wetlands and Lakes

                       

3:00 pm            J. Peyton Doub, Tetra Tech, Use of Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA) to Assess Wetland Mitigation Requirements on Navy Installation Restoration Sites in Northern Virginia

 

3:15 pm            Questions and Answers

 

3:30 pm            Break

 

SESSION XII: ASSESSING HYDROLOGY FOR COMPENSATORY MITIGATION             PROJECTS

 

Moderator:       Andy Dinsmore, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III

 

4:00 pm            W. Lee Daniels, Virginia Tech, Calibrating Water Budgeting for Non-Tidal                         Mitigation Wetlands in Virginia

                       

4:15 pm            G. Richard Whittecar, Old Dominion University, Use of Effective Monthly Recharge Calculations to Evaluate Mitigation Wetland Sites in Eastern Virginia

 

 4:30 pm           Michael V. Miller, Illinois State Geological Survey, Hydrogeologic Based Site Evaluation

                                                                                                                                                              4:45pm            Robert Riberty, Montclair State University, Groundwater Flow at a Proposed Wetland Mitigation Site

4:45 pm               Questions and Answers

 

5:00 pm            Closing Remarks

 

5:15pm             Social Hour - Scribbles Café, Holiday Inn

 

THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30

 

9:00 am

    to                             Field Trip: Hydrology of the Pine Barrens

4:00 pm