| 8:30 - 8:40 |
Welcome - Usha Varanasi, Director, Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
| 8:40 - 9:00 |
Watershed Program Overview - Phil Roni, Watershed Program Manager |
| 9:00 - 9:20 |
Ecosystem Processes Team Overview: Known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns - Tim Beechie |
| 9:20 - 9:35 |
Riparian-aquatic feedback loops in the interior Columbia River basin - Michael Pollock |
| 9:35 - 9:50 |
Describing patterns and processes of river network connections: implications for conservation and biodiversity - Peter Kiffney |
| 9:50 - 10:15 |
Break (posters available) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Estuary-nearshore connections and their importance for estuary restoration - Correigh Greene |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Evaluating the biological condition of Puget Sound - Casey Rice |
| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Impacts of non-native brook trout on endangered juvenile Chinook salmon in Idaho streams - Kate Macneale |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Award Presentation. George Pess presents the NOAA 2005 Environmental Hero Award to Michael McHenry, fish habitat biologist for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. |
| 11:15 - 12:30 |
Lunch (posters available) |
| 12:30 - 12:35 |
Landscape Ecology and Recovery Science Team Overview - Ashley Steel |
| 12:35 - 12:50 |
"Inconspicuous" impacts of non-indigenous species in a Pacific Northwest estuary - Blake Feist |
| 12:50 - 1:05 |
Non-indigenous species of the Pacific Northwest: an overlooked risk? - Beth Sanderson |
| 1:05 - 1:20 |
Landscape analyses of riparian condition in the Columbia River basin: implications for riparian restoration - Aimee Fullerton |
| 1:20 - 1:35 |
Wavelets and water temperature: how fancy stats can help assess the effects of dams, the variability of natural systems, and the impacts of land-use alternatives - Ashley Steel |
| 1:35 - 2:00 |
Recovery planning and the Landscape Ecology and Recovery Science Team: an infomercial.
- How many fish fit in Puget Sound? - Beth Sanderson
- The Lewis River Case Study: Sensitive? Robust? - Aimee Fullerton
- The sensitive side of EDT (Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment) - Ashley Steel
- Scaling with SWAM, the Salmon Watershed Analysis Model - Blake Feist
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| 2:00 - 2:30 |
Poster Session |
| 2:30 - 2:35 |
Restoration Team Overview - George Pess |
| 2:35 - 2:50 |
Pre-dam removal monitoring in the Elwha River Basin: establishing baseline conditions for primary and secondary productivity - Sarah Morley |
| 2:50 - 3:05 |
Movement and survival of juvenile salmonids in simple and complex stream reaches in the East Twin River, Washington - Todd Bennett |
| 3:05 - 3:20 |
Monitoring invertebrate and periphyton responses to wood placement in the Elwha and N. Fork Stillaguamish Rivers - Holly Coe |
| 3:20 - 3:35 |
Global review of effectiveness of habitat rehabilitation techniques and guidance for restoration of freshwater ecosystems - Phil Roni |
| 3:35 - 3:50 |
Assessing multi-year, multi-site sampling designs for estimating average effect size of reach and basin scale habitat restoration - Martin Liermann |
| 3:50 - 4:05 |
Patterns and processes of salmon colonization and straying: a literature review - George Pess |
| 4:05 - 4:15 |
Closing Comments - Phil Roni |
