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
Location: Solitude room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Cascades room (2nd floor)
10:40 | Session Introduction |
10:45 | Understanding and managing impacts of solar farms on landscape hydrology: insights from field monitoring and modeling (abstract) PRESENTER: Lauren McPhillips |
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
Location: Duck Pond room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Solitude room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Cascades room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Duck Pond room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Solitude room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Cascades room (2nd floor)
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) PRESENTER: Holly Yaryan Hall |
08:30-09:50 Session 3C: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Complex Networks
Location: Duck Pond room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Solitude room (2nd floor)
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) PRESENTER: Rachele Franceschi |
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
Location: Cascades room (2nd floor)
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) PRESENTER: Katherine Wardinski |
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
Location: Duck Pond room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Solitude room (2nd floor)
12:30 | Session Introduction |
12:35 | Analyzing Flaws in TR-55: Stormwater Management Implications for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (abstract) PRESENTER: Briar Ownby-Connolly |
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
Location: Cascades room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Duck Pond room (2nd floor)
12:30 | Session Introduction |
12:35 | Forest Restoration and Management for Water Resource Planning (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel McLaughlin |
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
Location: Solitude room (2nd floor)
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) PRESENTER: Olivia J. Mitchell |
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
Location: Cascades room (2nd floor)
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) PRESENTER: Yohtaro Kobayashi |
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
Location: Latham Ballroom AB (1st floor)
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) PRESENTER: Katherine Porterfield |
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) PRESENTER: Micayla Schambura |
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) PRESENTER: Katherine McCullen |
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) PRESENTER: Maureen Norah Nabulime |
Assessing multiple ecosystem services for green stormwater infrastructure in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (abstract) PRESENTER: Lauren McPhillips |
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) PRESENTER: Alejandro Flores-Chevere |
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) PRESENTER: Alexander Babinski |
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) PRESENTER: Sofia Solis Naranjo |
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) PRESENTER: Md Tariqul Islam Shajib |
Friday, May 31st
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08:30-09:50 Session 8A: Water Quality and Control 2
Location: Solitude room (2nd floor)
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
Location: Cascades room (2nd floor)
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 |