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 |
Poster pdf version |
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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