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Invited Speaker Bios   (PDF version)

Program Outline

Statehouse Convention Center

Monday, March 3

Registration                 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm             Atrium

Display Setup               8:00 am – 5:30 pm                East Ballroom Foyer

Tuesday, March 4

Registration                 7:30 am to 3:00 pm                Atrium

Sessions I & II             8:00 am to 12:00 pm              Ballrooms B & C

Lunch (provided)         12:00 pm to 1:00 pm             Ballroom A

Sessions III & IV         1:00 pm to 5:30 pm               Ballrooms B & C

Poster Session                       6:00 pm                       Ballroom A

Wednesday, March 5

Sessions V & VI           8:00 am to 12:00 pm             Ballrooms B & C

Lunch (provided)         12:00 pm to 1:00 pm             Ballroom A

Sessions VII & VIII     1:20 pm to 4:30 pm               Ballrooms B & C

Dinner (provided)                 6:00 pm                       Ballroom A

Thursday, March 6

Sessions IX & X          8:00 am to 12:00 pm             Ballroom B & C

Lunch (provided)        12:00 pm to 1:00 pm             Ballroom A

Adjourn

Program

Monday, March 3

12:00 pm – 9:00 pm    Registration

Tuesday, March 4

7:30 am – 3:00 pm      Registration

8:00 am – 8:10 am       Welcome and Announcements

8:10 am           Keynote:  Dr. Graeme Lockaby, Associate Dean of Research in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences and Director of the AU Water Resources Center, Auburn University, Floodplain Ecosystems of the Southeast: Linkages Between Forests and People

Session I

8:40 am           Invited Speaker:  David L. Galat, Guidelines for Effective Restoration of River-floodplain Ecosystems

9:10 am           Invited Speaker:  Cliff R. Hupp, Aaron R. Pierce, and Phillip A. Townsend, Floodplain Geomorphic Processes, Sedimentation, and Ecological Impacts of Hydrologic Alteration along Coastal Plain Rivers

9:40 am           Break

Session II

10:00 am         Scott B. Franklin, John A. Kupfer, S. Reza Pezeshki, Randy Gentry, and R. Daniel Smith, Complex Effects of Channelization and Leveeing on Western Tennessee Floodplain Forest Structure, Composition and Function

10:20 am         Charles Klimas, Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Foti, Jody Pagan, and Henry Langston, Geomorphology, Plant Community Distribution, and Wetland Restoration in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley

10:40 am         Kimberly Meitzen, The Effects of Lateral Channel Migration Rates on Riparian Forest Structure and Composition, Congaree River, Congaree National Park, South Carolina

11:00 am         K. H. Nislow, C. O. Marks, F. J. Magilligan, J. K. H. Zimmerman, and K. A. Lutz, Influence of Hydrologic Alteration on Floodplain Ecosystems in the Connecticut River Basin, Northeastern U.S.

11:20 am         M. Jason Todd, George Vellidis, R. Richard Lowrance, and Catherine M. Pringle, Influence of Sediment Oxygen Demand in Seasonally Inundated Floodplain Swamps of the Georgia Coastal Plain

11:40 am         Gregory B. Noe and Cliff R. Hupp, Retention of Riverine Nutrient and Sediment Loads by Floodplains in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

12:00 pm         Lunch (provided)                                                      Ballroom A

Session III

1:00 pm           Harold L. Schramm, Jr., Michael S. Cox, Andrew W. Ezell, and Todd E. Tietjen, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Sequestration on the Floodplain:  A Case for Restoring the Ecological Functionality of the Lower Mississippi River-Floodplain Ecosystem

1:20 pm           Robert R. Lane, John W. Day, Rachael Hunter, and Joel Lindsey, Wetland Assimilation of Treated Municipal Effluent: Wetland Restoration & Improved Water Quality in Louisiana

1:40 pm           Michael A. Eggleton, John R. Jackson, and Benjamin J. Lubinski, Multiple-gear Assessment of Floodplain Lake Fish Assemblages of a Large-river Floodplain Ecosystem

2:00 pm           Mark C. Leao, Edmund R. Buckner, and Michael A. Eggleton, Patterns in Fish Community Structure and Diversity in Natural and Artificially-created Wetlands in the White River, Arkansas

2:20 pm           Bradley S. Williams and S. Reid Adams, Patterns of Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Community Structure across a Gradient of River-Floodplain Connectivity

2:40 pm           S. Reid Adams, Matt D. Schroeder, Robert L. Clark, and Bradley S. Williams, Fish Assemblages and Connectivity of Riparian Wetlands in the Lower Arkansas River Floodplain Ecosystem

3:00 pm           Break

Session IV

3:20 pm           Sandra J. Clark-Kolaks, John R. Jackson, and Steve E. Lochmann, Population Structure of Adult and Juvenile Paddlefish in Floodplain Lakes along the Lower White River, Arkansas

3:40 pm           Andrew L. Rypel, Wendell R. Haag, and Robert H. Findlay, Pervasive Hydrologic Effects on Freshwater Mussels and Riparian Trees in Southeastern Floodplain Ecosystems

4:00 pm           B. T. Halloran, D. A. Rutherford, M. D. Kaller, and William E. Kelso, The Degree of Co-occurrence between Zooplankton and Ichthyoplankton Shape the Year-class Recruitment in Newly Inundated Bottomland Hardwood Floodplains

4:20 pm           Kim Diana Connolly, The Significant Nexus of Science to the Future Protection of the Waters of the United States

5:00 pm           Invited Speaker:  Richard Sparks, Integrating Economics in Floodplain Restoration: An Analysis of The Nature Conservancy’s Emiquon Project on the Illinois River

6:00 pm           Poster Session – Reception

Wednesday, March 5

Session V

8:00 am           Invited Speaker:  John D. Hodges, Changes in Forest Management Practices Needed to Insure Timber Quality of Bottomland Hardwood Stands

8:30 am           Invited Speaker:  Hugh McManus, Changing Landownership Patterns and the Hardwood Lumber Industry in the South

9:00 am           Invited Speaker:  Randy Wilson and Kenny Ribbeck, Managing Bottomland Forests for Wildlife

9:30 am           Break

Session VI

10:00 am         Brian Roy Lockhart, The State of Knowledge Regarding Site Quality Evaluation for Bottomland Hardwood Management

10:20 am         Aaron Hohl, Andrew Niccolai, and Chad Oliver, A Decision Support Tool for the Landscape Scale Management of Bottomland Hardwood Ecosystems of the Southeast

10:40 am         Bruce P. Allen, Charles P. Goebel, and Rebecca R. Sharitz, Floodplain Forest Development Models: Do Examples from Old-growth Forests Fit?

11:00 am         Bobby Keeland and John McCoy, Tree Survival and Growth through 20 years of Green-Tree Reservoir Management

11:20 am         John L. Nelson, John W. Groninger, Loretta L. Battaglia, and, Charles M. Ruffner, A Century of Disturbance Regime Changes in an Ohio River Floodplain Forest:  Implications for Wetland Conservation Area Management

12:00 pm         Lunch (provided)                                                      Ballroom A

Session VII

1:20 pm           Ken W. Krauss, Thomas W. Doyle, William H. Conner, Richard H. Day, and Jamie A. Duberstein, Structure and Growth of Tidal Freshwater Forested Wetlands in Relation to Salinity and Fertility

1:40 pm           Paul R. Gagnon and William J. Platt, Fire in Bottomland Forests: Insights   from Disturbance Ecology of Arundinaria

2:00 pm           Andrew W. Ezell, J. L. Moree, and John D. Hodges, Influence of Planting Stock, Planting Method, Fertilization, and Competition Control on Survival of Oak Seedlings Planted in Afforestation Areas – Second Year Results

2:20 pm           Stephen Faulkner, Wylie Barrow, Bob Keeland, Susan Walls, and Tom Moorman, Conservation Practice Effects on Wetland Ecosystem Services in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley

2:40 pm           Break
 

Session VIII
 

3:00 pm           Invited Speaker:  Richard F. Keim, Loretta L. Battaglia, William H. Conner, and Diane De Steven, Hydrologic Controls on Swamp Forest Regeneration and Sustainability.

3:30 pm           Invited Speaker:  Skip Hyberg, Floodplain Ecosystem Restoration: Commodity Markets, Environmental Services, and the Farm Bill. 

4:00 pm           Invited Speaker:  David Shoch, Past, Present, and Future of Carbon as a Financial Tool for Bottomland Hardwood Restoration in the Lower Mississippi Valley

6:00 pm           Dinner (provided)                                         Ballroom A

Thursday, March 6

Session XV

8:00 am           Invited Speaker:  Leigh H. Fredrickson, Early Successional Habitats in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley: Their Role in Meeting Conservation Objectives

8:30 am           Andrew K. Zadnik, James T. Anderson, Petra Bohall Wood, and Kerry Bledsoe, Wildlife Use of Back Channels Associated with Islands on the Ohio River

8:50 am           Jeff Hoover, The Effects of Hydrologic Restoration on Birds Breeding in Forested Wetlands

9:10 am           Larry A. Wood and Robert J. Cooper, Response of Prothonotary Warblers to Flooding and Timber Harvest in a Bottomland Hardwood Forest

9:30 am           Break

Session X

10:00 am         Jeremy Brown, Thomas J. Benson, and James C. Bednarz, Vegetation Characteristics Associated with Habitat Occupied by Swainson’s Warblers at the White River National Wildlife Refuge: Implications for Management of Bottomland Systems

10:20 am         Troy J. Bader and James C. Bednarz, Reproductive Success and Causes of Nest Failures for Mississippi Kites in the White River National Wildlife Refuge: Response to Altered Hydrology?

10:40 am         J. Brian Davis, Bruce D. Leopold, Richard M. Kaminski, and Robert R. Cox, Wood Duck Duckling Mortality and Survival in Mississippi and Alabama Floodplain Ecosystems

11:00 am         Paul D. Scharine, Clayton K. Nielsen, Eric M. Schauber, and Lyann Rubert, Habitat Factors Affecting Relative Abundance of Swamp Rabbits in a Floodplain Forest Ecosystem

11:30 am         Invited Speaker:  Rebecca Sharitz, Lorreta L. Battaglia, John W. Groninger and Sammy L. King, Integrating Science into the Restoration and Management of Floodplain Ecosystems of the Southeast:  A Synthesis

12:00 pm         Lunch (provided)                                           Ballroom A

Symposium Concludes

Posters

Babbit, G., Bick, A., Restoration of the Flat Fork Valley

Baldwin, M., Barrow, W., Faulkner, S., Case, C., Migratory Bird Stopover Use of Reforested Lands: a Portable Radar Study

Benson, T.J., Brown, J.D., Anich, N.M., Bednarz, J.C., Using Elevation Data to Improve GIS-based Estimates of Potential Habitat in Bottomland Systems: A Case Study with Swainson’s Warblers at White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas

Bentrup, G., Dosskey, M.G., Schoeneberger, M.M., Wells, G., Landscape Planning and Site Design Tools for Supporting Forest Ecological Restoration with Agroforestry

Brendecke, W.W., Zaczek, J.J., Arnold, K., Restoration and Management Practices for Canebrake Establishment

Burke, M.K., Eisenbies, M.H., Harrison, C.A., Liechty, H.O., Primary Productivity, Hydroperiod, and Nutrient Cycling in Four Floodplain Forest Communities on a Blackwater River

Chen, X., Carrington, M., Mendelson, J., Stand Structures in Riparian Floodplain and Upland Forests along Thorn Creek in Northeastern Illinois

Clark-Kolaks, S.J., Jackson, J.R., Lochmann, S.E., Effects of River Connectivity on Floodplain Lake Fish Communities of the Lower White River, Arkansas

Day, R.H., The Effect of Microtopography on Drainage Patterns, Hydroperiod, and Tree Species Distribution within the Cache River Floodplain, Arkansas

Dosskey, M.G., Bentrup, G., Burger, W.L., Schoeneberger, M.M., Restoring Ecological Functions of Bottomland Forest with Agroforestry

Duzan, J.D., Lindsey, M.B., Haase, C.S., Hydrologic and Geomorphic Restoration of a Bottomland Hardwood Headwater Ecosystem in the Cache River Basin of Eastern Arkansas, USA

Eggleton, M.A., Jackson, J.R., Lubinski, B.J., Evaluation of Minimum-length Limits for Crappies in a Large River-floodplain

Fleming, K.S., Kaminski, R.M., Tietjen, T., Evaluating Benefits of Moist-soil Management on Wetland Reserve Program Lands in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley

Horton, R., Kaminski, R.M., Estimation and Modeling of Red Oak Acorn Abundance in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley

Kaminski, R., Wang, G., Ezell, A., Leininger, T. Uihlein, B., Reinecke, K., Moorman, T., Estimating and Modeling Acorn Abundance in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley

Lockhart, B.R., Kellum, J.E., Bottomland Hardwood Old Growth: Myth or Matter of Perspective

Lucas, J.S., Loeb, S.C., Roost Site Selection of a Rare Bat in an Old Growth Bottomland Forest

Menon, R., Holland, M.M., Moore, M. Cooper, C.M., Kroger R., Phosphorus Retention by Wetland Plants in Agricultural Drainage Ditches: A Greenhouse Study

Miyazono, S., Aycock, N., Miranda, L.E., Steffen, C, Tietjen, T., River Connectivity as a Determinant of Fish Communities in Oxbow Lakes of the Yazoo River Basin

Nelson, F., Shallow Bathymetric Mapping of Floodplain Wetlands to Assist Management Decisions

Nero, B.F., Lond, A.J., Maiers, R.P., Dewey, J.C., Restoring Former Agricultural Wetlands in LMAV with Mixed Bottomland Hardwood Species: Effects of Species Mixes and Early Management Practices

Nuse, B.L., Patterns of Vegetation and Avifaunal Diversity in Georgia River Floodplains

Scaroni, A.E., Nyman, J.A., Lindau, C.W., DeLaune, R.D., Keim, R.F., Denitrification in Three Habitat Types of a Large River Floodplain, Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana, USA

Self, A.B., Ezell, A.W., Efficacy of Chemical Site Preparation for Competition Control in Hardwood Afforestation Areas

Shelley, D.C., Thom, T.A., French M., Dolphin, B., Piezometers as Tools for Floodplain Hydrology Monitoring, Research, and Education Programs at Congaree National Park

Stapleton, R.E., Williams, H.M., Farrish, K.W., Kronrad, G.D., Development of Carbon Pools in Created Forested Wetlands on Reclaimed Lignite Mine Soil

Thogmartin, W.E., Gallagher, M., Young, N., Rohweder, J.J., Durbian, F., Knutson, M.G., Bird Habitat Associations on the Lower Missouri River Floodplain

Thom, T.A., Shelley, D.C., Floodplain Research at the Old-growth Bottomland Forest Research and Education Center, Congaree National Park, SC

Thompson, L.C., General, D.M., Effects of Harvesting Treatments on Ant Assemblages in a Mississippi River Bottomland Hardwood Forest in West-central Mississippi

Whitsitt, T., Tappe, P.A., Small Mammal Community Associations with Topographic Complexities on a Wetland Restoration Site in Southeast Arkansas

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