MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25
10:00
am
to
Registration - Victoria Ballroom, Howard Johnson
5:00
pm
12:30
pm Welcome
and Workshop Logistics: Ralph J. Spagnolo
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III
12:40
pm Opening
Remarks:
Jon Capacasa, Director
Water
Protection Division
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region III
John
R. Pomponio, Director
Environmental
Assessment and Innovation Division
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region III
SESSION I: PLANNING AT THE WATERSHED LEVEL
Moderator: Dominique Lueckenhoff, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region III
1:00 pm Josephine Axt, Northern Ecological Associates, Inc., Ecosystem
Restoration Site Screening Analysis for the Upper Rockaway River Watershed,
Morris County, New Jersey
1:15 pm Nancy Palmstrom, ENSR International, Screening Level Ecological Risk
Assessment of Contamination in Wetlands Considered for Restoration in Hackensack
Meadowland District.
1:30 pm Kelly P. Neff, Maryland Department of the Environment, Priority Areas
for Wetland Restoration, Preservation, and Mitigation in Maryland's Coastal Bays
1:45 pm Christina Gray, Army Research and Development Center Environmental
TechnologyDivision, Watershed Planning and Decision Making
2:00 pm Sarah Watts, Northern Ecological Associates, Inc., Passaic River
Analysis of Environmental and Economic Benefits for the Passaic River Flood
Damage Reduction Project, Preservation of Natural Flood Storage Areas, New
Jersey
2:15 pm Questions and Answers
2:30 pm Break
SESSION II: ECOLOGY AND WATERSHED-SCALE PROCESSES
Moderator: Jay Springer, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
3:00 pm M.R. Williams, University of Maryland, Evidence for a Significant
Effect of Intertidal Marshes on the Biogeochemistry of N and P in the Patuxent
River Estuary
3:15 pm Kirk R. Barrett, Montclair State University, Chemical and Biological
Assessment of a Brackish Tidal Marsh in the Hackensack Meadowlands
3:30 pm Andrew Stephen Rogers, AOT, Inc., The Influence of Landscape Position
on Coastal Marsh Loss
3:45 pm James McNair, Academy of Natural Sciences, A Watershed Approach to
Determine the Benefits of Riparian Reforestation
4:00 pm Questions and Answers
SESSION III:
COASTAL MARSH PROTECTION
Moderator: Frank Reilly, Watersheds and WetlandsWorkgroup
4:15 pm The Swamp Gemstone Team, A Survey to Explore Landowners' Experiences
in Installing Shoreline Erosion Control Projects
4:30 pm Christine Hobble, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission/Meadowlands
Environmental Research Institute, Spatially Integrated Coastal Permitting
Assistant System (SICOP) for the Hackensack Meadowlands District, New Jersey
4:45 pm Questions and Answers
5:00 pm Social Hour - Scribbles Café, Holiday Inn
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26
SESSION IV: WATERSHED RESTORATION - INITIATIVES AND CASE STUDIES
Moderator: Gene McColligan, New Jersy Department of Environmental Protection
9:00 am Stephen Williams, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control, Delaware's Ecological Restoration Initiative
9:15 am Richard Mogensen, EarthMark Companies' Mid-Atlantic Mitigation, North
Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program - A Private Mitigation Providers
Perspective
9:30 am Sally Brown, University of Washington, Restoration of a Metal
Contaminated Wetland Using Biosolids Compost and Wood Ash
9:45 am Don Dorfman, Monmouth University, Dam Construction on the Senegal,
and Mitigation: a Case History
10:00 am Questions and Answers
10:15 am Break
SESSION V: REMOTE SENSING OF NATURAL SYSTEMS
Moderator: Karl Szekielda, City University of New York
11:00 am Vic Klemas, University of Delaware, Remote Sensing of Coastal
Marshlands
11:15 am Nancy B. Rendall, Blue Moon Environmental, Inc., Use of GIS Data to
Identify Significant Wetlands in the Moose Mountains Regional Greenway
11:30 am Jin Ahn, The Graduate School and University Center, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, Recognition of Ditches in Coastal Wetlands with Aerial
Photography
11:45 am Al Modjeski, ENSR International, Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Aerial
Hyperspectral Imaging and Ground-Truthing Survey,Manahawkin Bay, Ocean County,
New Jersey
12:00 pm Karl Szekielda, City University of New York, Eutrophication in
Coastal Marshlands and Estuaries of New York
12:15 pm Questions and Answers
12:30 pm Lunch Speaker
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
SESSION VI: TOOLS FOR ANALYZING WETLANDS I
Moderator: Jeff Lapp, U.S. Environmetal Protection Agency, Region III
2:00 pm Phil Zurheide, University of Maryland, A Field Indicator for
Anomalous Bright Loamy Hydric Soils of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
2:15 pm R. P. Szuch, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc., Mapping Clay Aquitards
Using Ground-Penetrating Radar - A Tool for Assessing Wetland Restoration Sites
2:30 pm Lenore Vasilas, Natural Resources Conservation Service, The Use of
Electronic Soil Surveys for Wetlands and Watershed Planning
2:45 pm Questions and Answers
3:00 pm Break
SESSION VII: BREAKOUT SESSIONS - DEVELOPING STRATEGIES FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF MITIGATION BANKS
3:30 pm A selected panel, including representatives from various disciplines,
will lead a discussion on compensatory mitigation. The audience will be divided
into groups to participate in formulating recommendations in response to
questions relating to wetland mitigation.
TOPIC I: How can we better define "success" in compensatory
mitigation projects? Howard Johnson-Victoria Room-1
TOPIC II: How do we develop and incorporate flexible conditions which allow
for adaptive management during construction of wetland restoration, creation,
and enhancement programs? Howard Johnson-Victoria Room-2
TOPIC III: What do we mean when we talk about "taking a watershed
approach" to mitigation? (Size of watershed, watershed level,
prioritization of mitigation needs, greenways and conservation corridors,
riparian buffers?) Howard Johnson-Crystal Ballroom
5:00 pm Adjourn
5:15 pm Social Hour - Scribbles Café, Holiday Inn
7:00 pm to Evening Social, Dinner and Musical Entertainment - Constitution
Ballroom, 11:00 pm Holiday Inn
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27
SESSION VII: TOOLS FOR ANALYZING WETLANDS II
Moderator: Lenore Vasilas, Natural Resources Conservation Service
9:00 am Martin C. Rabenhorst, University of Maryland, Indicator of Reduction
in Soil (IRIS): Evaluation of a New Approach for the Assessment of Reduced
Conditions in Soil
9:15 am Martin C. Rabenhorst, University of Maryland, Use of Indicator of
Reduction in Soils (IRIS) Tubes to Assess Hydric Soil Conditions: Seasonal
Effects
9:30 am Peg McBrien, The Louis Berger Group, Inc., Hydrogeomorphic (HGM)
Functional Assessment Model and Guidebook for Tidal Fringe Wetlands in the New
Jersey Meadowlands
9:45 am Questions and Answers
10:00 am Break
SESSION VIII: IMPROVING WETLAND MITIGATION & RESTORATION SUCCESS
Moderator: Tom Slenkamp, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III
10:30 am Balci Pinar, Ecology & Environment, Inc. and Boyd Gunsalus,
South Florida Water Management District, Development of Performance Measures for
Watershed Wetland Restoration: Loxahatchee Watershed
10:45 am Eugene McColligan, New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection, Exotic Species Management Issues in an Urbanizing Watershed:
Establishing a Linkage Between Stressors and Impairments
11:00 am Robert E. Meadows, Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife, The
Native Reserve Program, a Landscape Approach to Controlling Introduced
Populations of Phragmites in Mid-Atlantic Tidal Marsh Systems.
11:15 am Bruce J. French, Gannett Fleming, Inc., Salinity Control as a
Mitigation Strategy for Habitat Improvement of Impacted Estuaries
11:30 am Questions and Answers
11:45 am Lunch Speaker: Bill Sheehan, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Turning the
Tide in the Meadowlands: How Science Effects Change
SESSION IX: IMPROVING COMPENSATION AND RESTORATION SUCCESS
Moderator:
1:30 pm Peter R. Taylor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II,
Factors Affecting Wetland Habitat Restoration Outcomes in the Lake Ontario Basin
and Recommendations for the Future: a Watershed Level Analysis
1:45 pm Mary Anne Thiesing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II,
When Does Mitigation in the Mid-Atlantic Work? And If Not, Why Not?
2:00 pm Mary Anne Thiesing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II,
Improving the Success of Wetland Mitigation in the Mid-Atlantic: Improving the
Odds and Improving the Process
2:15 pm Questions and Answers
2:30 pm Break
SESSION X: RESTORATION: LANDOWNERS' PERSPECTIVE
Moderator: Tom Barthelmeh, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control
Presenters are private landowners who have implemented restoration projects
on their properties and have contributed to restoring aquatic systems in their
watersheds. Panelists include:
1:15 pm David Smith, Seaford, Delaware
1:30 pm Latte Hoch, Ellendale, Delaware
1:45 pm Joyce Webber, Kenton, Delaware
2:00 pm William Battista, MaryDel, Delaware
2:15 pm Questions and Answers
2:30 pm Break
SESSION XI: WAYS TO IMPROVE THE SUCCESS OF COMPENSATORY MITIGATION
Moderator: Jeff Thompson, Maryland Department of the Environment
3:00 pm Peter R. Taylor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II,
Factors Affecting Wetland Habitat Restoration Outcomes in the Lake Ontario Basin
and Recommendations for the Future: a Watershed Level Analysis
3:15 pm Mary Anne Thiesing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II,
When Does Mitigation in the Mid-Atlantic Work? And If Not, Why Not?
3:30 pm Mary Anne Thiesing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region II,
Improving the Success of Wetland Mitigation in the Mid-Atlantic: Improving the
Odds and Improving the Process
3:45 pm Questions and Answers
4:00 Questions and Answers
SESSION XI: ROVER REPORTS
Moderator: Rich Pepino, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III
4:00 pm A panel of four "rovers" will critically review the
presentations of the Workshop in light of their own interests and disciplines.
Rovers will be selected to ensure representation of resource managers,
regulators, non-governmental organizations, the regulated public, resource
users, and researchers. This session should be of great interest, as the rovers
will comment on information gaps and needed scientific information; as well as
help to focus subsequent research and efforts in the fields needed to adequately
protect and manage the watersheds and wetlands.
5:00 pm Closing Remarks
5:15 pm Adjourn
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
T. Barthelmeh, M. Biddle, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control A. Rizzo, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service T. Canfield, C.
Rhodes, and R. Landy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Effectiveness of
Restored Wetlands for the Treatment of Agricultural Runoff
Don Dorfman, Monmouth University, Wheat for Roads, Bangladesh: A Case History
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28
8:30 am to 4:00 pm Field Trip: Wetlands of the N.J. Pine Barrens
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