In Person Schedule

A.  Student Research Bright Spot, Students, Area Colleges (invited), Room 222

The Student Research Bright Spot session will feature a number of short (10 minutes) talks that feature student research on watershed issues underway at colleges in our region. Bright spots may include live PowerPoint presentations, pre-recorded presentations, recorded narrated PowerPoint presentations. All questions will be held until the end when a brief Question and Answer session will facilitated by the session moderator. 

B.  Multiple Benefits of Dam Removal: Angelica Creek Park Case Study*, Stanley Kemp, University of Baltimore, and David Osgood,  Albright College, Room 215

C.  Community Science Approaches to Our Salty Stream Problem*, David Bressler and John Jackson, Stroud Water Research Center; Pete Goodman, Valley Forge Trout Unlimited; Anna Willig and Lauren McGrath, Willistown Conservation Trust; Christa Reeves, Musconetcong Watershed Association, Room 217

D.  Restoration and Ecological Uplift of Teaneck Creek Park within Bergen County’s Overpeck County Park - From an Abandoned Rubble Fill to a Sand Seepage Wetland, Joe Berg, Biohabitats with Kevin Dahms and Adam Strobel, Bergen County Parks, Room 205

E.  Collaborative Flood Mitigation Planning for the Darby-Cobbs Watershed, Franco Montalto, Drexel University; Eva Bacmeister, Mario Cimino, and Rachel Zobel,  Darby-Cobbs Watershed Adaptation; Sharon Elwell, Darby-Cobbs Watershed Partners, Room 220

F.  Online and In-Hand Tools for Watershed Community Science, Scott Ensign  and Steve Mohapp, Stroud Water Research Center, Room 205

G.  The Schuylkill Scrub: A Regional Initiative for Litter Clean-ups, Kaitie Evers, Schuylkill Action Network/Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Room 222

H.  Acidification of Pennsylvania’s Streams:  A Case Study of an Old Threat that is New Again*, Erik Silldorff, Delaware Riverkeeper Network with Alexis Smith, Schuylkill Conservation District, Room 217

I. The Ecological Restoration of the West Wayne Preserve: From Contaminated Site to Wooded Wetland*, Michele Adams, Tara Dougherty, and Marc Henderson, Meliora Design, with Dennis Capella and Steve Norcini, Radnor Township, Room 215

J.  Flooding and Flood Damage in the Pottstown Municipal Park System, Michael Lenhart, Borough of Pottstown Parks and Recreation, Room 220