17th Annual Review of Research
14 February 2007
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
HUB West Ballroom
University of Washington

Free— No registration required.
The public is invited.

Agenda

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Session 1

8:00 am Coffee and sign-in
8:40 am Opening Remarks
8:50 am Place matters: where conifers succeed on river flood plains in Olympic National Park
Scott Stolnack, Graduate Student, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, sastol@u.washington.edu
9:10 am Assessing and mitigating drought in Washington State
Matthew Fontaine, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, mfontain@u.washington.edu
9:30 am The other part of flow regime: how sediment redistribution shapes riparian environments
Scott Bechtold, Graduate Student, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, sbech@u.washington.edu
9:50 am Geology, network topology, and spatial scaling of trout distribution in headwater catchments
Christian Torgersen, Assistant Professor, College of Forest Resources, Research Landscape Ecologist, USGS, cet6@u.washington.edu
10:10 am Break

Session 2

10:30 am The underpinnings of riparian tree production
Robert Naiman, Professor, and Joshua Latterell, Postdoctoral Associate, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, naiman@u.washington.edu and latterel@u.washington.edu
10:50 am Climate variation and natural selection in salmon: Simon and Garfunkel were right
Thomas Quinn, Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, tquinn@u.washington.edu
11:10 am Protecting society from itself: reconnecting ecology and economy
James R. Karr, Professor Emeritus, jrkarr@u.washington.edu
11:30 am Just when we were getting it right—PNW stormwater management for the 21st century
Derek Booth, Affiliate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Senior Geologist, Stillwater Sciences, Inc., dbooth@u.washington.edu
11:50 am Lunch Break

Session 3

1:30 pm Developing a consensus on the impacts of climate change on water resources: a Puget Sound, tri-county perspective
Richard Palmer, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Principal, Climate Impacts Group, palmer@u.washington.edu
1:50 pm Puget Sound: sunk by law, salvaged by law
William Rodgers, Professor, School of Law, whr@u.washington.edu
2:10 pm Pacific Northwest climate change: do global models tell the whole story?
Eric Salathé, Research Scientist, Center for Science in the Earth System; Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, salathe@atmos.washington.edu
2:30 pm Break

Session 4

2:50 pm Indian water rights: litigation and settlements
Robert Anderson, Associate Professor, School of Law; Director, Native American Law Center, boba@u.washington.edu
3:10 pm Recolonization of the Cedar River, Washington, by anadromous fish: build it and they will come
Peter Kiffney, Affiliate Associate Professor, College of Forest Resources; Research Ecologist, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Peter.Kiffney@noaa.gov
3:30 pm Headwater streams: how much protection do they need?
Robert Edmonds, Professor, College of Forest Resources, bobe@u.washington.edu
3:50 pm Closing remarks and reception

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