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MN Lake Superior Watershed Stream Science Symposium II


Stream Science Symposium II, 2016
 Proceedings (click link below)

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Presentations

Day One- Wednesday January 6, 2016

Keynotes: Tom Landwehr, DNR Commissioner, John Stine, MPCA Commissioner, Brian Shipley, Canadian Consulate- Shared, John Jaschke, BWSR Executive Director- The Significance of this Symposium 

The Forests of the Lake Superior Watershed and Climate Change: In Transition to What and When? Dr. John Pastor, Professor, Department of Biology, UMD

Managing climate change in the Superior North Shore Tributaries: Can we maintain the flow? Dr. William Herb, Research Associate, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory UM. Dr. Lucinda Johnson, Associate Director, Center for Water and the Environment, NRRI

Sustaining Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems in a Changing Climate: Understanding ecological relationships with flow, Dr. Kristen Blann, The Nature Conservancy 

Stream Resiliency in a Changing Climate, Dr. Karen Gran, Assoc. Professor, Department of Geology, UMD


How much sediment is too much, according to stream macro invertebrates? Dr. Valerie Brady, Natural ResourcesResearchInstitute, University of Minnesota Duluth

How cold is cold enough? Stream temperatures of Minnesota's North Shore streams today and in the future. Dr. Lucinda Johnson,
Associate Director, NRRI

A perspective on forest stream ecosystem services. Dr. Theodore Angradi, EPA

LiDAR Stream Shading Prediction. Tom Hollenhorst, EPA

Carbon Storage and Cycling in Riparian Environments: Considerations for Lake Superior’s Watershed. Dr. Kathryn Schreiner, Asst.
Professor, Large Lakes Observatory

Day Two- Thursday January 7, 2016

"Signals of Climate Change in Our Own Measurements", Dr. Mark Seeley, University of Minnesota Extension

Duluth Geomorphic Characterization of Streams - Post 2012 Flood, Dr. Chris Ellison, USGS

Sediment Investigation of Lake Superior Watersheds, Brad Hanson, UMN

Cutting Climate Change Down to Size Through Crowd sourcing, Collaborations, and Better Monitoring and Models, Dr. Danial Isaak, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Removing Roadblocks: Experiments on Culvert Design for Fish Passage, Dr. Jessica Kozarek St. Anthony Falls Laboratory University of Minnesota

"Trout Unlimited's Conservation Success Index, Land Management and Climate Impacts", Carl Haensel, Minnesota Trout Unlimited

The Science(s) Behind Managing Stream Fishery Resources, Cory Goldsworthy, MNDNR

Monitoring and Assessing of Water Quality in Lake Superior Basin Streams, John Sandberg, MPCA

Implementation of a Tiered Aquatic Life Use Framework for Lake Superior Basin Streams, Dr. William Bouchard, MPCA

The Surface Water – Groundwater Connection: Amity Creek Watershed, Jenny Jasperson, MPCA

Interplays of nutrients and light: effects of river & stream inputs in Western Lake Superior during the 2012 flood, Dr. Elizabeth Minor, Professor, Large Lakes Observatory

Use and evaluation of new genome techniques to understand microbes in waterways, Dr. Michael Sadowsky, Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, UMN

Mercury in Aquatic Food Webs of National Parks of Western Great Lakes Region, Dr. Kristofer Rolfhus, Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of WI- La Crosse

MN DNR Fisheries Easements, Anna Varian, MNDNR

 For social media posts about this event, please use #streamsym16

Workshop Planning: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota Sea Grant, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, USFS, USEPA, Lake Superior Coldwater Coalition, Trout Unlimited, and Laurentian Resource Conservation and Development Council

 This Symposium was funded in part by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) and NOAA under Award NA14NOS4190055 provided to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for Minnesota’s Lake Superior Coastal Program.


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