AEES 2024: 2024 AMERICAN ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, May 29th Thursday, May 30th Friday, May 31st

Wednesday, May 29th

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10:40-12:00 Session 1A: Phosphorus
10:40
Session Introduction
10:45
Soil Texture as a Predictor of P Loss from Agricultural Soils (abstract)
PRESENTER: Erin Ebersbach
11:00
Balancing tradeoffs between wetland phosphorus retention and waterfowl habitat provision in an uncertain future (abstract)
PRESENTER: Madlyn Carpenter
11:15
Understanding the role of anoxic environment on recalcitrant organic phosphorous mineralization and subsequent orthophosphate release at the sediment-water interface of freshwater systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tasnuva Farnaz
11:30
Phosphorus fate and optimization in specialty crop production systems
PRESENTER: Ryan D. Stewart
11:45
Design and Production of a Bench-Scale Phosphorus Removal Structure for Laboratory Studies and Outreach Demonstrations (abstract)
10:40-12:00 Session 1B: Water, Food, and Energy Nexus
10:40
Session Introduction
10:45
Understanding and managing impacts of solar farms on landscape hydrology: insights from field monitoring and modeling (abstract)
11:00
The Triple-Yield System: Merging Solar Power, Water Conservation, and Agriculture for Urban Sustainability (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nazia Nowshin
11:15
Practical Research Gaps in Hydrological and Ecological BMPs for Utility Scale Solar Development (abstract)
PRESENTER: Katie Myers
11:30
Roots to Resilience: Advancing the Frontiers in Sustainable Data Center Landscape Design on an Industrial Brownfield with the Integration of Food Forests Supporting Carbon Sequestration, Environmental Education, Habitat, Soil and Sound Remediation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter I. May
11:45
The USA Seafood, Energy, Water Nexus: identifying strategies for increased efficiencies and waste reduction. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mark Brown
10:40-12:00 Session 1C: Ecohydraulics
10:40
Session Introduction
10:45
Ecohydraulics of a disappearing stream: flow-tree-sediment interactions in a karst landscape (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jonathan Czuba
11:00
Developing conceptual ecological models for hydraulic analysis (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kiara Cushway
11:15
Incipient motion principles applied to stream assessment and restoration processes regarding the keystone species bluehead chubs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Samuel Kraus
11:30
Freshwater mussel response to habitat alterations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jessica Kozarek
11:45
Recommendations for dam operations to limit effects on juvenile freshwater mussel recruitment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Fatemeh Shacheri
13:30-14:50 Session 2A: Constructed and Treatment Wetlands 1
13:30
Session Introduction
13:35
Design, implementation and initial performance of a coupled wetland and Phosphorus removal filter system on an agricultural field (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nathan Stoltzfus
13:50
Joys and Problems with treatment wetlands - Removing some phosphate while increasing an endangered bird population in Prado Wetland, Orange County, CA. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alex Horne
14:05
Can Ecological Engineering be used at Rural Wastewater Treatment Plants to Improve Nutrient Removal? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michael Burchell
14:20
The Fate of Nitrate in the Presence of Contaminant Mixtures: A 15N Isotopic Study at the Mesocosm Scale (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emily Nottingham
14:35
Ecological engineered approaches for supplemental wastewater treatment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Natasha Bell
13:30-14:50 Session 2B: Stream and Floodplain Restoration 1
13:30
Session Introduction
13:35
Assessing the effect of stream restoration on nutrient dynamics in lower order urban systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Debabrata Sahoo
13:50
Assessing the Efficacy of Stream Restoration and SCM Retrofitting for Channel Stability in Urbanized Catchments (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sami Towsif Khan
14:05
BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF RESTORING A STORMWATER CREEK BOUND BY A HIGHLY URBANIZED COMMUNITY TO PROTECT AGAINST FLOODING, IMPROVE WATER QUALITY, AND CREATE NEW HABITAT (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pieter De Wolf
14:20
Best Practices for Stream Quantification Tool (SQT) Assessment on Mitigation Projects (abstract)
14:35
To the Next Stream Restoration Practitioner: Project Outcomes and Lessons Learned (abstract)
13:30-14:50 Session 2C: Career Development, Extension, and Education
13:30
Session Introduction
13:35
Developing a Body of Knowledge for Ecological Engineering
PRESENTER: Tess Thompson
13:50
Training the workforce to execute nature-based solutions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Candice Piercy
14:05
Developing the Next Generation of Ecological Engineering Professionals: A Presidential Dream Course on Nature-Based Solutions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Robert Nairn
14:20
Hands-on Ecological Engineering Course with a Semester Long Project and Laboratory Exercises (abstract)
PRESENTER: Niroj Aryal
14:35
TRWD Rainscapes Program: Education, Engagement, and Outreach in the Upper Trinity Basin of Texas (abstract)
Thursday, May 30th

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08:30-09:50 Session 3A: Coastal Ecosystems
08:30
Session Introduction
08:35
Integration of Coastal Wetlands into Shoreline Infrastructure for Flood Mitigation in McKay Bay, Florida (abstract)
PRESENTER: Megan Kramer
08:50
Something's fishy here: Considering the role of coastal stormwater retention ponds as habitat for fish (abstract)
PRESENTER: Levi McKercher
09:05
Chesapeake Beach Wetland Restoration for Improved Stormwater Management (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter I. May
09:20
Flood mitigation design strategies and recommendations to address sea level rise in a coastal municipality on Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter May
09:35
Oysters and algae, ecologically engineered design interventions on a former steel mill site converted to a global logistics center near Baltimore, Maryland. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter May
08:30-09:50 Session 3B: Environmental Justice, Public Health, and Water Quality
08:30
Session Introduction
08:35
The Implications of Bottled Water Reliance in Rural West Virginia and Kentucky (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kate Albi
08:50
The Syracuse Urban Food Forest Project: community-engaged restoration with edible landscapes for environmental and food justice (abstract)
PRESENTER: Stewart Diemont
09:05
Microbial Contaminants in Floodwaters and the Drivers Influencing Water Quality (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emine Fidan
09:20
Intensified Treatment Marsh for Nitrogen Removal in Hurricane Disaster Relief Effort (abstract)
PRESENTER: Abigail Neufarth
09:35
Ecological Engineering Ethics: A Robust Standard of Care (abstract)
08:30-09:50 Session 3C: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Complex Networks
08:30
Session Introduction
08:35
The power of artificial intelligence embodied in large language models to advance ecological engineering, design, teaching and research (abstract)
08:50
Prediction of Gravel Streambed Embeddedness in Virginia based on Machine Learning and Regression Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emma Oare
09:05
Predicting floodplain dissolved oxygen concentrations using deep learning methods (abstract)
PRESENTER: Harrison Myers
09:20
Leveraging Machine Learning and Explainable AI for Enhanced Understanding and Water Quality Monitoring: A Case Study of Lake Okeechobee (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mauricio Arias
09:35
Objectively extracting floodplain-channel networks to understand water, sediment, and nutrient fluxes across floodplains (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sadia Afrin Khan
10:10-11:30 Session 4A: Circular Bioeconomy and Life Cycle Assessment
10:10
Session Introduction
10:15
Lessons from the ill-fated 2021 fertilizer import ban in Sri Lanka based on analysis of nutrient flows (abstract)
PRESENTER: Eric Roy
10:30
An Integrated Anaerobic/Aerobic Biological Treatment Process to Support Circularity in Controlled Environment Agriculture (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ana Martin-Ryals
10:45
Cattail Bioproducts as Potting Media: Horticultural Suitability, Ecological Impacts, and Economic Potential (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kyle Boutin
11:00
Technologies for Processing Animal Waste to Value-Added Products: Barriers and Opportunities (abstract)
11:15
Natural materials as non-plastic alternatives in coastal sectors: Engineering solutions with traditional ecological knowledge (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mariah Livernois
10:10-11:30 Session 4B: Wetlands and Wetland Restoration
10:10
Session Introduction
10:15
Large Scale Pocosin Wetland Restoration - Design and Implementation (abstract)
10:30
Are All Reference Wetlands Created Equal? How Geomorphology Drives Hydrology Within Traditional Wetland Classification Types (abstract)
PRESENTER: Renee Price
10:45
Dissolved organic matter dynamics in surface water and porewater during precipitation driven shifts of the terrestrial-aquatic interface in hydrologically dynamic wetlands (abstract)
11:00
Potential reductions in watershed nitrogen loads from ecological restoration of cultivated wetlands (abstract)
PRESENTER: Adrian Wiegman
11:15
Estimating net phosphorus flux on restored, riparian wetlands in an agricultural landscape (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tiffany Chin
10:10-11:30 Session 4C: Perspectives in Ecological Engineering
10:10
Session Introduction
10:15
Odum, Emergence and Ecological Engineering (abstract)
10:30
Cybernetic Landscapes and Urban Ecological Prostheses (abstract)
10:45
Nature-Based Solutions for the Masses: Empowering Landowners with Small Solutions that Add Up to Big Impact (abstract)
11:00
Leveraging Charismatic Wildlife to Achieve Watershed-Based Goals (abstract)
PRESENTER: Katie Myers
11:15
Ecological Engineering and Self-Organization: Insights from Howard T. Odum (abstract)
PRESENTER: David Tilley
12:30-13:50 Session 5A: Urban Stormwater
12:30
Session Introduction
12:35
Analyzing Flaws in TR-55: Stormwater Management Implications for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (abstract)
12:50
A Role for Turf Replacement Programs, Conservation and Green Infrastructure in Combating Eco-grief (abstract)
PRESENTER: Megan Rippy
13:05
Installation and Maintenance of Green Stormwater Infrastructure in the Upper Trinity Basin (abstract)
13:20
A new approach to sustainable development: integrating green infrastructure in transportation planning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Fouad Jaber
13:35
Plant adaptive strategy influences hydrologic services provisioning by nature based solutions for urban stormwater management (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lauren Krauss
12:30-13:50 Session 5B: Water Quality and Control 1
12:30
Session Introduction
12:35
Stream Nitrate Load Monitoring for Watershed-Scale Assessment of Edge-of-Field Conservation Practices (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gabriel Johnson
12:50
Environmental and management impacts of legacy nitrogen remediation with bioreactors (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sabrina Mehzabin
13:05
Dissolved Nitrogen Removal in Biochar Amended, High Permeability Media for Urban Stormwater Treatment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mark Vicciardo
13:20
Temperature-Dependent Nitrate Removal in woodchip media: the role of groundwater velocities and oxygen penetration (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jing-An Lin
13:35
Microbial Communities as a Pathway to Improved Woodchip and Corncob Bioreactor Design and Performance (abstract)
PRESENTER: Taylor Vroman
12:30-13:50 Session 5C: Watershed-Scale Approaches 1
12:30
Session Introduction
12:35
Forest Restoration and Management for Water Resource Planning (abstract)
12:50
The valley and its stream: Linking geomorphology, hydrology, and downstream function using hydrogeomorphic units (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nate Jones
13:05
Shifting Focus toward Holistic Watershed Management: Effects of Spatially Targeted Stream Restoration on Watershed-Scale Flood Dynamics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Durelle Scott
13:20
Urban riparian networks: the value of keeping them connected (abstract)
13:35
Coupling Environmental Remediation and Ecological Restoration with Nature-Based Solutions on Derelict Mining Sites (abstract)
PRESENTER: Robert Nairn
14:10-15:30 Session 6A: Constructed and Treatment Wetlands 2
14:10
Session Introduction
14:15
Microplastics Fate and Transport through Water and Sediment in a Large Constructed Wetland (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jessica Boyer
14:30
Carbon Sequestration in Two 30-year-old Constructed Wetlands (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jay Martin
14:45
Trace Metal Bioaccumulation in Planted Vegetation of a Mine Drainage Passive Treatment System and Potential Ecological Risk (abstract)
15:00
WETLAND TREATMENT SYSTEMS FOR TREATING BOURBON STILLAGE AND WASTEWATER (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tiffany Messer
15:15
Long term removal of nitrate in a large wetland treating diversion from an effluent-dominated stream: Prado Wetland, Orange County, CA. (abstract)
14:10-15:30 Session 6B: Watershed-Scale Approaches 2
14:10
Session Introduction
14:15
A qualitative validation of the Stewardship Tool for Environmental Performance (STEP) for a sensitive Ohio watershed using USDA-ARS edge-of-field data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jacob Murray
14:30
Physical drivers of streamflow and drying across a physiographic gradient in the Southeastern US (abstract)
PRESENTER: Delaney Peterson
14:45
Light Availability Estimates for River Surfaces in the Contiguous United States (abstract)
15:00
Integrating Watershed Nutrient Management with Lake Discharge Optimization for Nutrient Mitigation in Lake Okeechobee, Florida (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mauricio Arias
15:15
Prediction of benthic habitat quality via embeddedness across gravel-bedded river networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Justus Hargett
16:00-18:00 Session 7: Poster Session and Reception
Comparison of analytical methodologies for the detection of PFAS in private drinking water supplies (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kyra Sigler
Improving Agricultural Runoff Quality through Conservation Channel Designs (abstract)
Analyzing impacts of long-term wetland plants on infiltration in established sites and development of future citizen science research (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ella Harrell
Smart Stormwater Sensors for Efficient Stormwater Management Processes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Isabella Battish
Design of an interactive database documenting Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) incidence in private drinking supplies in Virginia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nick McLelland
Occurrence of PFAS in the Stormwater Systems of four Virginia Coastal Communities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ava DiVita
Application of field-scale decision tools and watershed models to improve water quality in Ohio Watersheds (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emmitt Higgins
Examining characteristics of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) in a eutrophic reservoir system through monitoring and modeling (abstract)
PRESENTER: Laura Krueger
ECOLOGICAL ACCOUNTING AND MICROPLASTIC FLOWS FOR DIFFERENT FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES (abstract)
Aggregating river-network scale embeddedness predictions within local neighborhoods to predict sediment-sensitive species (abstract)
PRESENTER: Heather Wall
Investigating the Net Freshwater Eutrophication Potential of a Stormwater Sand Filter through Life Cycle Analysis (abstract)
Restoring Greenbelt, Maryland: Ecological Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Stormwater Management (abstract)
PRESENTER: Anushka Tandon
Traditional Stormwater Management vs Environmental Site Design (ESD): Modeling impacts of stormwater management practices on surface runoff in an urban watershed (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mushtari Maliha
Exudate Analysis of Duckweed in the Presence of Sulfamethoxazole: Implications for Phytoremediation (abstract)
Evaluating trends using Three Rivers QUEST (3RQ) data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Leslie Hopkinson
Modelling Arundinaria gigantea (Giant Rivercane) as a Culturally Important Nature-Based Solution for Ecosystem Restoration (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hailey Seago
Denitrifying bioreactors for legacy nitrate removal from springs in the Chesapeake Bay watershed (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michaela Foster
Assessing Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) characteristics for Bioenergy Production within a Circular Bioeconomy (abstract)
Assessing multiple ecosystem services for green stormwater infrastructure in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (abstract)
Designing Resilient Watercourse Crossings as a Multi-benefit Driver (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alejandra Gomez
Phosphorus retention via accretion on formerly farmed, restored riparian wetlands in Vermont (abstract)
PRESENTER: Laura O'Brien
Simulation of phosphorus flux potential under aerobic and anaerobic flood conditions in restored riparian wetlands on agricultural lands in central VT (abstract)
PRESENTER: Elizabeth Mehler
High rate biofiltration for urban stormwater treatment: runoff mitigation of campus parking lots and an industrial marina in Ohio (abstract)
PRESENTER: Taylor Fulton
Rethinking Stormwater Ponds with the Pond Shoreline Assessment Tool (abstract)
PRESENTER: Joshua Robinson
Prince George's County M-NCPPC Parking Lot Redesign For Decreasing TMDL Levels (abstract)
Understanding Hydrology and Quantifying Nutrient Reduction in a Constructed Wetland Complex Treating Storm Flows from East Fork Little Miami River in Ohio (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sarah Wallentine
Evaluating Stacked Agricultural Conservation Practice Effects at the Field-Scale in the Lake Champlain Basin of Vermont (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nisha Nadkarni
Hybrid Constructed Wetlands for Enhanced Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal from a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kimiya Yousefi
Characterizing topographic indices for model parametrization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Binyam Asfaw
Evaluation and Performance Assessment of Hybrid Constructed Wetlands for Sustainable Treatment of Aquacultural Wastewater: A Pilot-Scale Study (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ariel Lineberger
Quantifying Recalcitrant Organic Phosphorus Mineralization in Freshwater Sediments to Assess its Contribution to the Development of Harmful Algal Blooms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Iffat Tasnim
Rain Garden Revitalization: Sustaining the Public’s Connection to Green Infrastructure through a Student Branch of AEES (abstract)
Response of Sediment and Microplastic Transport to Ecologic Restoration Processes in Headwater Stream Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tyler Smith
Sowing water: the drop of the future that we can save (abstract)
Demonstration and Evaluation of Regenerative Stormwater Conveyance (RSC) for Reducing Nutrient Pollution from Agricultural Sources (abstract)
PRESENTER: Barbara Doll
Removal of five commonly used antibiotics in agro-farm using ecological engineering techniques (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sushmita Roy
Adsorption and transport of GenX in biochar-amended soils (abstract)
Friday, May 31st

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08:30-09:50 Session 8A: Water Quality and Control 2
08:30
Session Introduction
08:35
Enhancing Agricultural Irrigation: Optimizing Secondary Effluent Wastewater Treatment with Combined Fe(VI) and Fe(III) Approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zepei Tang
08:50
IMPLICATIONS OF NANOPESTICIDES ON DOWNSTREAM WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS (abstract)
PRESENTER: William Rud
09:05
Accepted Algal Turf Scrubber (ATS) Student-Led Design and Funding Acquisition (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter May
09:20
The Non-Point Challenge: Achieving Water Quality Goals in the Chesapeake Bay (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zachary Easton
09:35
Catchment structure and solute spatial patterns in headwaters
08:30-09:50 Session 8B: Stream and Floodplain Restoration 2
08:30
Session Introduction
08:35
Estimating Nutrient Loads to Falls Lake, North Carolina from Streambank Erosion (abstract)
PRESENTER: Layla El-Khoury
08:50
A possible template for enhanced floodplain restoration: the existing floodplain channels along the East Fork White River, Indiana (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jonathan Czuba
09:05
Watershed-scale restoration for native Brook Trout in VA (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dylan Cooper
09:20
Floodplain Restoration along the French Broad River to Support Vital Habitats (abstract)
09:35
Assessing Impacts and Benefits of Riparian Zones with the Riparian Ecological Function Index (REFI) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Samantha Wiest