Watersheds, Water Quality and a Changing Climate
Thank you to everyone who attended our 2009 Symposium. We felt it was a great success, allowing for much needed dialogue about what is happening on the central coast to address watersheds, water quality and climate change.
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA
The Sanctuary’s Water Quality Protection Program and the Central Coast Wetlands Group brought together diverse stakeholders to showcase applied research and promote regional collaboration to address complex watershed-based challenges.
Following the workshop was the Sip of the Sanctuary, a complimentary wine tasting event celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Agriculture Water Quality Alliance and honoring recipients of the 2009 AWQA Stewardship Awards.
Schedule
8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome by Paul Michel, MBNMS Superintendant
9:30 Agricultural Water Quality: Issues and Efforts (Lisa Lurie, MBNMS, Facilitator)
• The collision between rising sea levels and water quality: Ecosystem management in a California Estuary (Bryan Largay, ESNERR)
• Cooperative Water Quality Monitoring for Agriculture: Current Issues and Preliminary Trend Analysis (Sarah Greene, Preservation Inc)
• Irrigation and Nutrient Management Techniques and Trials (Dr. Michael Cahn, UCCE)
30 Minute Question and Answer Session with the Panel
11:00 Taking it to the Streets: Urban Pollution Problems and Solutions (Bridget Hoover, MBNMS Facilitator)
• Monterey Regional Storm Water Permit Participants Group – Year Three Lessons (Tom Reeves, City of Monterey)
• Impacts of agricultural and urban chemicals on the central coast and practices to reduce contaminant runoff (Brian Anderson, MPSL)
• Hydromodification in Built Out Cities (Robert Ketley, City of Watsonville)
30 Minute Question and Answer Session with the Panel
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 Tracking Pollutants from Watersheds to Waves (Gary Conley, MBNMS, Facilitator)
• Potential influences of episodic land drainage on harmful algal bloom (HAB) ecology in Monterey Bay (Dr. John Ryan, MBARI)
• Sanctuary Condition Report (Dr. Jennifer Brown, MBNMS)
30 Minute Question and Answer Session with the Panel
3:00 A Changing Climate (Ross Clark, CCWG, Facilitator)
• Flint-Monterey Sanctuary 2009 (Dr. Lorraine Flint, USGS)
• Climate Change and California’s Water: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable (Matt Heberger, Pacific Institute)
• Climate Change Impacts on California’s Water Resources: Resources for Local Managers (Dr. Jamie Anderson, California Department of Water Resource’s Bay-Delta Office)
30 Minute Question and Answer Session with the Panel
4:30 Closing Remarks by
• Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator
• Bill Douros, West Coast Regional Director, NMSP
5:30 Sip of the Sanctuary
