PROGRAM-AT-A-GLANCE (subject to change)
For a printable, detailed agenda, click here.
| Monday, June 6 | |
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| 4:00-8:00pm | Registration, Hilton Knoxville, 501 West Church Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902 |
| 4:00-6:00pm | Informal Gathering at Hilton, Sponsor table set up |
| 6:00pm | Market Square Crawl/Outdoor Knoxville Festivities |
| Tuesday, June 7 | |
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| 7:00-9:00am | Continental Breakfast, Registration, and Poster set-up | 8:00am | Student Design Competition Team Meeting Sponsored by: UTIA College of Agriculture, Science & Natural Resources |
8:30-10:30am | Welcome and Plenary Session Sponsored by: UTIA AgResearch Invited Speakers: Bill Hunt, PhD, PE, North Carolina State University Laura Wildman, PE, PrincetonHydro.com |
10:30-11:50am | Concurrent Technical Sessions: —Watershed Planning —Stream Restoration I —Wastewater Treatment In Ag & Coal |
| Noon | Opening Luncheon (provided) |
| 1:30-2:30pm | Concurrent Technical Sessions: —Climate Change —Ecosystem Services —Sustainable Food Systems |
| 2:40-3:40pm | Concurrent Technical Sessions: —Bioretention —Urban Watersheds —Innovations in Ecological Engineering Education |
| 3:50-5:10pm | Concurrent Technical Sessions: —Urban Landscapes —Stream Restoration II —Treatment Wetlands |
| 6:00-9:00pm | Welcome Dinner Reception on the Tennessee Star Riverboat (boarding from 6-6:55pm; depart 7pm) Sponsored by: UT Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment |
| Wednesday, June 8 | |
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| 8:00-9:00am | Student Design Competition Mentor Session with Industry Experts |
| 9:00-10:20am | Concurrent Technical Sessions: —Green Infrastructure Applications —Stream Restoration III —Novel Methods in Water Quality Monitoring |
| 10:40-Noon | Concurrent Technical Sessions: —Innovations in Green Infrastructure —Stream Restoration IV —Wastewater Treatment & Resource Recovery |
| Noon | Lunch - provided |
| Noon-5:00pm | Technical Field Trips sponsored by UT Extension |
| 4:30pm | Poster Reception at Hilton (see presentation list below) |
| 6:30pm | Stdent Design Competition Testing sponsored by UTIA College of Agriculture, Science & Natural Resources |
| Thursday, June 9 | |
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| 8:30-9:50am | Concurrent Technical Sessions: —Measuring Impacts of Green Infrastructure —Watershed Processes —Ecosystem Modeling |
10:10-11:10am | Concurrent Technical Sessions: —Big Ideas: Knoxville-Area Projects —Green Energy —BioSolutions |
| 11:30am | Student Design Competition Presentations sponsored by UTIA College of Agriculture, Science & Natural Resources |
| 12:30-2:00pm | Closing Luncheon and Annual Business Meeting - lunch provided |
| 2:00pm | Executive Committee Meeting |
| 3:00pm | Organized Recreational Activities |
Poster Presenters:
Bell, Natasha—Plant Selections for Vegetative Buffers: Can Phytopathogens be Remediated from Irrigation Water?Billian, Hannah—Fate and Transport of Fecal Indicator Bacteria (FIB) and Microbial Source-Tracking (MST) Targets in Groundwater
Blanton, Jesse—In-Bench P-Filter Design and Monitoring for Two-Stage Ditches in the Western Lake Erie Basin
Blau, Ulysse—Review of promising Ecological Wastewater Treatment Technologies
Canaztuj, Maya—How tree xylem filters can make surface water drinkable
Christian, Laurel—Exploring the Influence of Urban Watershed Characteristics and Antecedent Climate on In-Stream Pollutant Dynamics
Chun, Seung-Hoon—An application study on river environment assessment system for designation guideline of river project zoning in Korea
Corkins, Chelsea—Do roots bind soils: Comparing the physical and biological role of roots in fluvial streambank erosion resistance
D'Ambrosio, Sofia—Importance of Pool Depth to Young-of-Year and Adult Coastal Cutthroat Trout
Ellis, Kathryn—Hydrological Assessments of Tidal Creeks to Inform Nutrient Management Recommendations
Franti, Tom—Urban Stormwater Runoff Contaminant Mitigation by Bioretention Cells and Rain Gardens in Lincoln, Nebraska
Freudenberg, Violet—Relationship Between the Quality of Soil and the Quantities of Food and Water
Geberemariam, Thewodros—Post Construction Green Infrastructure Performance Monitoring Parameters and Their Functional Components
Hoehne, Suzanne—A Changing View of the Role of Surface Waters & Stormwater In Urban Planning and Design
Houston, Stephanie—Modeling Phsophorus Concentration in Five Shallow Wet Retention Ponds in Montgomery County, Virginia
Huber, David H.—Preliminary Analysis of the Bioremediation Potential of the Sediment Microbiome in the Highly Disturbed, Industrialized, Kanawha River (Charleston, WV)
Huber, David-Evaluating Co-Digestion in a Pilot-Scale Thermophilic Digester Stabilized on Poultry Litter Substrate: Performance, Resilience, and Microbial Community Adaptation
Kangas, Patrick—A Survey of a Novel Urban Estuarine Ecosystem
Kangas, Patrick—Moss Community Structure on House Roofs
Kangas, Patrick—Vermiculture Experiments Using Algal Biomass as a Substrate
Kangas, Patrick—Performance of an Experimental Algal Turf Scrubber near Baltimore Harbor, Maryland
Kaur, Manjinder—Effect of substratum roughness on filamentous algal species colonization recruitment and its biomass characteristics under different nutrient conditions
Ketchum, Qualla—Evaluation of Metrics for Assessing Stream Restoration Success and Failure in Mined Areas
Kurki-Fox, Jack—Assessing forested wetland trends and identifying key hydrologic and ecologic baseline characteristics that will improve wetland restoration in North Carolina
Lawrence, Rian—How tree xylem filters can make surface water drinkable
Liao, Hehuan—The interplay between conductivity and habitat on benthic community health in mixed-landuse streams in West Virginia, USA
Lisenbee, Whitney—Monitoring Water Quantity and Quality Before and After Harvest of Eastern Redcedar for Biofuel Production
Litton, Jarrod—Benthic algae cultivation for the recovery of nutrients from aquaponics wastewater
Majidzadeh, Hamed— Effect of urban impervious surfaces on soil carbon dynamic
Majidzadeh, Hamed—Effect of Urbanization on Spread of Urban Mosquitoes
Manka, Brandy—Driving Forces of Bioretention Effluent Nutrient Variability in Field Applications
Markle, Aldyn—Greywater Filtration in a Living Building: Assessing Water Quality and Microbial Community Composition in Wetland Mesocosms
Markle, Aldyn—Connecting the Living and Built Environment through the Living Building Challenge: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Integrating Alternative Building Practices
McAndrew, Brendan—Carbon and nitrogen capture performance of a floating treatment wetland as a measure for sustainable stormwater management in an urban environment
McKnight, Julie—Soil CO2 flux and soil moisture variability in two constructed agricultural wetlands in East Tennessee: Implications for constructed wetland design and carbon budgets
Merritt, Danielle— Invertebrate Diversity on Urban Green Roofs in Charlotte, NC
Montoya, Lozano Ariana—Comparison of denitrification rates between restored and conventional agricultural floodplains.
Moore, Trisha—Urban-rural partnerships: a means to maximize watershed ecosystem services?
Ortiz de Zarate, Laura—Nutrients dynamics in riparian zones of agricultural watershed in North Carolina
Park, Dara—Defining Cover Management (C) and Length Slope (LS) Factors of RUSLE to Model Soil Erosion in Urban Landscapes
Pelle, Angela—Non-stationarity within the Obion Watershed
Rains, John—Pathogen die-off in algal turf scrubbers
Rogers, Brad—Assessing the utility commercial fluorimeter probe for rapid assessment of water quality trends using benthic chlorophyll
Roux, Anthony—Evaluation of 20 years of land use change on benthic macroinvertebrate diversity and function in Piedmont streams
Sachs, Andrew—Building a Floating Treatment Wetland as a Best Management Practice and Educational Tool on an Urban College Campus
Sivells, Teneil—Livestock Exclusion Influences on Water Quality for Two Small Streams in Southwest Virginia
Stephens, Timothy—Investigation of the effects of whitewater parks on aquatic resources: a spatially explicit hydraulic analysis
Tilley, David—Ecological Entrepreneurship: discovery the business outside of you
Tirpak, Andrew—Investigating the Treatment Performance Benefits of Trees in Stormwater Bioretention Mesocosms
West, Derek—Evaluating periphyton sampler size effects in direct comparisons with a commercial fluorimeter probe
Wind, Lauren—Environmental dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes from vegetable production
Withers, Urban—A review of alternative wetland systems for wastewater treatment in the rural Southeast
Wynn-Thompson, Theresa—Wetbud: A model for mitigation wetland design