20^th Annual Review of Research
and Water Career Fair

17 February 2010
8:00 am to 5:30 pm
HUB West Ballroom
UW Seattle campus

Free—No registration required.
The public is welcome.

Please post and circulate the attached flyer.

Session 1 — Water Resources for the future

8:00 am	Coffee and sign-in
8:15 am	Welcome and opening remarks
8:25 am	Developing the historical context for understanding present day land use-water quality relationships Julia Michalak, Graduate Student, Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments
8:50 am	Strategic planning for water rights acquisitions in the Columbia Basin: An assessment of regional streamflow response to climate change Erin Donley, Graduate Student, School of Forest Resources
9:15 am	The role of benefit-cost analysis in water resources planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Part 1) Julie Vano, Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
9:40 am	Criticisms and revisions to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers principles and guidelines for benefit-cost analysis (Part 2) Tyler Blake Davis, Graduate Student, Public Policy and Management, Evans School of Public Affairs
10:05 am	Break

Session 2 — Hydrological ecology

10:25 am	An update on the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the Pacific Northwest’s Wind River Core Site Jerry Franklin, Professor, School of Forest Resources
10:50 am	Trees and snow in Seattle’s Cedar River Watershed: Can silviculture help combat climate change? Jessica Lundquist, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
11:15 am	Effect of forest harvesting and riparian buffers on headwater stream temperatures Robert Edmonds, Professor, School of Forest Resources
11:40 am	LiDAR-based metrics for solar energy attenuation and large woody supply potential in riparian forests L. Monika Moskal, Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing & Biospatial Analysis, School of Forest Resources
12:05 pm	Lunch Break

Session 3 — Stormwater/water resources in the Puget Sound region

1:15 pm	Eyes on Puget Sound: What are we learning from ocean observing? Allan Devol, Research Professor, School of Oceanography
1:40 pm	Assessing land use, land cover, and wastewater infrastructure for shellfish in the Puget Sound nearshore Danielle Spirandelli, Graduate Student, Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments
2:05 pm	Temporal variation in river nutrient concentrations and the impact of storm runoff on Hood Canal nutrient loading Nick Ward, Graduate Student, School of Oceanography
2:30 pm	Efficacy and safety of reclaimed water Sally Brown, Research Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources

2:55 pm

Break

Session 4 — The latest on salmon

3:15 pm	Why do salmon stray? Tradeoffs between habitat and homing Jeremy Cram, Graduate Student, School of Forest Resources
3:40 pm	Fishery selection on Alaskan sockeye salmon: Are we catching the big ones and is there potential for evolutionary change? Neala Kendall, Graduate Student, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
4:05 pm	Linking species to ecosystems: Effects of spawning salmon on aquatic ecosystem function Gordon Holtgrieve, Research Associate, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
4:30 pm	Closing remarks
4:35 pm	Reception