Wednesday, April 12^th

Fieldtrip- Wetlands in Wine Country

Evening Mixer, Location TBA

Thursday, April 13th

7:45-8:30	Continental Breakfast (Room 120C- Steele Room, Bechtel Engineering Center)
8:30-9:00	Welcome
	Dr. Alex Horne and Conference Committee
	Plenary Session: Ecological Engineering in Arid Climates
9:00-9:30	Dr. Daniel Kammen
	Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) UC Berkeley
9:30-10:15	Dr. Denise Reed
	Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of New Orleans
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break (Room 120C- Steele Room, Bechtel Engineering Center)
10:45-11:15	Plenary Session (cont): Ecological Engineering in Arid Climates
	Dr. Alex Horne
	Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
11:15-12:00	Plenary Speaker
	Dr. G. Mathias Kondolf
	Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley
12:00-1:30	Lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:45	Session I: Ecological Approaches to Urban Development (Hynes Room, Faculty Club)
	Session II: Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis (Seaborg Room, Faculty Club)
2:45-3:15	Coffee Break and Posters (Howard Room, Faculty Club)
3:15-4:30	Session I: Ecological Approaches to Urban Development (cont) (Hynes Room, Faculty Club)
	Session II: Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis (cont) (Seaborg Room, Faculty Club)
4:30-5:45	Business Meeting (Hynes Room, Faculty Club)
6:00-9:00	Social at Dr. Horne’s Home, with panoramic view of San Francisco Bay 875 Bates Ave, El Cerrito Transportation provided

Friday, April 14th

7:45-8:30	Continental Breakfast and Poster Session (Howard Room, Faculty Club)
9:30-9:45	Session III: River Restoration (Hynes Room, Faculty Club)
	Session IV: Engineering Sustainable Agriculture (Seaborg Room, Faculty Club)
9:45-10:15	Coffee Break and Posters (Howard Room, Faculty Club)
10:15-11:30	Session III: (cont) River Restoration (Hynes Room, Faculty Club)
	Session V: Ecological Engineering and Waste Management (Seaborg Room, Faculty Club)
11:30-12:45	Lunch (on your own)
12:45-2:00	Session VI: Monitoring Ecological Health (Hynes Room, Faculty Club)
12:45-2:20	Session VII: Ecological Engineering for Water Quality Management (Seaborg Room, Faculty Club)
2:00-3:15	Session VII: Ecological Engineering in the Developing World (Hynes Room, Faculty Club)
3:15-3:45	Break (Seaborg Room, Faculty Club)
3:45-4:00	Student Design Competition Award Ceremony (Seaborg Room, Faculty Club)
4:00-6:00	Wrap-up Discussion (Seaborg Room, Faculty Club)

Saturday and Sunday, April 15^th- April 16^th

Fieldtrip- Treatment Wetlands at Lake Tahoe

Thursday April 13th

Plenary Morning Sessions in Sibley: Ecological Engineering in Arid Climates- Chairs Alex Horne and Nicole West

8:30 a.m.- Introduction Alex/Nicole/Maia/Christina

9:00 a.m.- Meeting the Need for Safe Drinking Water in Rural Mexico through Point-of-Use Treatment- Dan Kammon

9:30 a.m.- Floods, levees, and restoration: a comparative assessment of coastal Louisiana and the San Francisco estuary- Denise J Reed

10:45 a.m.- Efficient Sustainability in a Dry Land: Advantages and drawbacks of constructed treatment wetlands in arid climates - Alex Horne

11:15 a.m.- Plenary Speaker- Matt Kondolf

Session I: Ecological Approaches to Urban Development- Chairs Aaron Gabriel and Jeffrey Huber

1:30 p.m.- Assessing the effectiveness of greenroofs to increase building efficiency and reduce buildings’ effect of the environment- Roger Hilten

1:55 p.m.- Monitoring urban campus swale to attract birds- Walter Chen

2:20 p.m.- Campus Hydroscapes: Watershed as a planning platform for campus improvements in the University of Arkansas Athletic Valley- Aaron Gabriel

Break 2:45-3:15

3:15 p.m.- Impact of residential and commercial development on urban streams in Fayetteville, Arkansas- Kyle M. Kruger

3:40 p.m.- Using urban stormwater runoff as an ecological resource- Robert McGregor

4:05 p.m.-Habitat Trails: Habitat for Humanity- Jeffrey Huber

Session II: Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis- Chair David Gattie

1:30 p.m.- Ecosystem Analysis: The Modeling Problem- David Gattie

1:55 p.m.- Linkage between stream morphology and aquatic habitat quality- Cully Hession

2:20 p.m.- The greening of river management for ecosystem restoration- Timothy Granata

Break 2:45-3:15

3:15 p.m.- Hydraulic, water quality and social assessment of the Nzoia basin, Kenya Fishery- Bill Tollner

3:40 p.m.- Interdisciplinary modeling for aquatic ecosystems curriculum development workshop-Mark E. Grismer

4:05 p.m. Environmental accounting using energy: engineering cost accounting for a prosperous way down- Mark Brown

Friday April 14th

Session III: River Restoration- Chair Marty Matlock

8:30 a.m.- How riverbeds become structured under low-sediment supply conditions: Implications for restoring dam-impacted rivers- Aleksandra M. Wydzga

8:55 a.m.- Restoration of Mercury-Contaminated Dredger Tailings in the Western US: Case Study of the Merced River Ranch - Maia Singer

9:20 a.m.- A Field-Calibrated Model of Pioneer Riparian Tree Recruitment for the San Joaquin Basin, CA- John Stella

Break 9:45-10:15

10:15 a.m.- The Codornices Creek Restoration Project: Urban Stream Restoration for Steelhead Habitat in Albany/Berkeley, California- Roger Leventhal

10:40 a.m.- Watershed-scale analysis of channel stability using LIDAR data and low-level aerial photography- Mark McElroy

11:05 a.m.- Development of a remotely sensed qualitative habitat evaluation index (RS-QHEI) using aerial photography and satellite imagery as a tool for river restoration- Christopher Tomsic

Session IV: Engineering Sustainable Agriculture- Chair Stewart Diemont

8:30 a.m.- Plant community design and successional patterns in indigenous agroforestry systems of Chiapas, Mexico- Stewart Diemont

8:55 a.m.- Designing agricultural systems for the prosperous way down: Guidance from Cuba-Jay Martin

9:20 a.m.- Reducing Non-point DOC Exports from Rice Fields: A Pilot Study and Quantitative Survey to Determine the Effects of Different Hydrologic Management Practices- P. Bachand, Bachand & Associates

Session V: Ecological Engineering and Waste Management- Chair Stewart Diemont

10:15 a.m.- Removal of pathogenic and indicator bacteria from dairy wastewater using an ecological treatment system- Jennie Morgan

10:40 a.m.- Advanced Integrated Wastewater Pond Systems: Efficient Water Reclamation for Arid Environments- Bailey Green

11:05 a.m.- Sunlight-Mediated Inactivation of Enterococcus faecalis in Pond Systems: The Importance of Indirect Photoinactivation and the Role of Reactive Oxygen Species- Khalid Kadir

Session VI: Monitoring Ecological Health- Chair Noah Hume

12:45 p.m.- The national wadeable streams assessment in Arkansas: An overview-Eric Cummings

1:10 p.m.- Identification and evaluation of limiting factors on algal growth in headwater Ozark streams- Andrea L. Ludwig

2:00 p.m.- Trophic conditions and nutrient limitation at Beaver Lake, Arkansas- Monica Koller

Session VII: Ecological Engineering for WQ Management- Chair Mark Beutel

12:45 p.m.- Organic carbon sources related to land use in Beaver Reservoir watershed, Northwest Arkansas- Josh Giovannetti

1:10 p.m.- Methylmercury accumulation in fish tissue as a function of lake trophic status: A review- Stephen Dent

1:35 p.m.- Control of Mercury release from profundal lake sediments using oxygenation- Theo Leonard

2:00 p.m.- The role of submerged and emergent macrophytes in mercury biogeochemistry? implications for wetland restoration in San Francisco Bay- Lisamarie Windham

Session VIII: Ecological Engineering in the Developing World- Chair Kara Nelson

2:00 p.m.- Low-cost water technologies for developing countries: the sustainability argument- Isha Ray

2:25 p.m.- Gas production and water quality analysis of agricultural biodigesters in Costa Rica- Stephanie Lansing

2:50 p.m..- Exploring the treatment potential of wastewater drainage ditches in the Andean Amazon of Peru: Project overview and preliminary findings- Lynn V. Saunders