2004 PRESENTATIONS

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Wednesday, Session 1A

1. Leslie and Weldon: Beach Attendance and Economic Analysis of City of Encinitas Beaches
2. Marlowe: Taking Coastal Advocacy to the Next Level
3. Pendleton: The California Ocean Economics Report

Wednesday, Session 1B

1. Altstatt: Community-Based Restoration of a Historic Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Bed at Frenchy's Cove, Anacapa Island
2. Caruso: A Community-Based Approach to Giant Kelp Restoration in Southern California
3. Baron and Barrett: Longboat Key, FL Seagrass Mitigation Project: Year One Survival Results
4. Fetscher: Indicators of Intertidal Wetland Condition and Response to Anthropogenic Influences: Insights from the 2002 EMAP Western Pilot in California
5. Makowski: Collier County, Florida: Creating A Vast New Database of Nearshore Harbottom Characteristics

Wednesday, Session 1C

1. Gruber: Identifying Sources of Indicator Bacteria in a Coastal Embayment, Mission Bay, California
2. Leddy: Using a Denaturing High Performance Liquid Chromatography System to Analyze Environmental Communities and Their Constituents
3. George, Douglas, Clark, Morrissey, and Hantzsche: Risk Assessment of Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems in High Priority Areas in the City of Malibu, California

Thursday, Session 2A

1. Carter, Flick, Bargatze, Zhang, Kacena, and Largier: California Shore Station Program and Global Warming
2. Terrill: The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS): Developing Coastal Observation Systems to Address Water Quality Needs
3. Lybolt and Tate: Environmental Monitoring of the Town of Palm Beach Mid-Town Beach Nourishment Project: Rapid Sand Movement Altered the Context of Compliance Monitoring

Thursday, Session 2B

1. Qin, Lu, and Noble: A Modeling Study for Yosemite Canal Wetland Restoration Project
2. McCarthy, Fancher, and Webb: Bolsa Chica Lowlands Restoration - A Progress Update
3. Webb and Leary: Colorado Lagoon Restoration Feasibility Study

Thursday, Session 2C

1. Carter, King, and Ackerman: A Regional Watershed Modeling Approach to Support Metals TMDL Development in Los Angeles
2. Abu-Saba and Flegel: Full Circle: Copper as an Example of the Phase Lag Between Science Discoveries and Policy Decisions
3. Ackerman, Stein, and Schiff: Modeling wet weather trace metal loads to Ballona Creek
4. Gordon: Plastic and Trash in Urban Runoff: Sources, Impacts, and Solutions
5. Tiefenthaler and Stein: Watershed-based Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) to southern California coastal environment

Thursday, Session 3A

1. Boudreau: Beaches in Enclosed Harbors - Are They Worth It?
2. Poon and Stein: Seeking Solutions to Improve Water Quality at Newport Bay
3. Sniderman, Fairey, and Pap: San Francisco Bay Marina Water Quality Project
4. Ashby and Hunter: Protecting Orange County 's Inland and Coastal Waters: A Multi-Agency Response to Sanitary Sewer Overflows

Thursday, Session 3B

1. Battalio, Borgonovo, Lindley: Martinez Regional Shoreline Marsh Restoration, San Francisco Bay, California
2. Cannon, Wootton, Ruddock, McKee-Lewis, and Fancher: The Buena Vista Lagoon Restoration Feasibility Study
3. Battalio, Lindley, and Donaldson: Breaching Protocol at Crissy Field Wetland
4. Shuman and Webb: The Malibu Lagoon Enhancement Project

Thursday, Session 3C

1. Hiemstra: Citizen Monitoring - A Community Approach to Better Water Quality
2. Read: Trend Evaluation of Habitat and Water Quality Functions of the Ballona Freshwater Marsh
3. Backlar: Monitoring of the Los Angeles River
4. Grabowsky and Leydecker: Tracking Bacteria on Mission Creek during a Rainstorm

Thursday, Session 4A

1. Leidersdorf, Hollar, Hearon, and Rundle: Beach Nourishment and Coastal Lagoons: The SANDAG Experience
2. Wiegel: Bolsa Chica Estuary/Bay and Beach, Orange County, California: A Bit of History
3. Revell and Griggs: Assessing Long Term Beach Changes and Sand Contribution to the Santa Barbara Sandshed
4. Warrick: Historical Erosion Rates of Coastal California - What is "Natural"?
5. Young: Evaluating Coastal Bluff Instability in Northern San Diego County

Thursday, Session 4B

1. Fehlman and Stein: Resolving Conflicts: Clearing for Fire Hazard Prevention Versus Stream Restoration and Stabilization
2. Read: Riparian Ecology of Flow-Regulated Streams
3. Weber: Water Quality Management, Stream Stabilization and Wetlands Restoration; Buck Gully, Newport Beach
4. Wiater and Ares: The Restoration of San Timoteo Creek
5. Coy and Meyer: Creating a Microcosm of the San Gabriel River Watershed

Thursday, Session 4C

1. Anthony: The Clean Water Act: A Zero Waste Law
2. Barger: The Plastic Plague: CAPPing the Plastic Pollution Explosion
3. Otwin: To Charge or Not to Charge: Motivating Community Involvement
4. Mosko: The Precautionary Principle: Trash and Your Health

Thursday, Session 5A

1. Rose: Goleta Beach Master Planning Process Overview
2. Revell: Examining Long Term Beach Changes from Ellwood to Goleta Beach
3. Lowe: Goleta Beach : A conceptual model to help make informed decisions
4. Bailard: Goleta Beach Nourishment Project

Thursday, Session 5B

1. Aldstadt: Conservation Planning for a Threatened Fish in the Santa Ana River
2. Baskin, Haglund, and Bryant: Distribution and population size structure estimates for the Threatened Santa Ana Sucker
3. Hoffman: Endangered Birds of the Santa Ana River Watershed
4. Tennant: Wildlife of the Prado Basin

Thursday, Session 5C

1. Meakim, Collins, and Kircher: Meeting the TMDL for Trash and Debris Removal from the Los Angeles River
2. Angle: Storm Water Filtration and Re-Use: Powells Creek, Concord, NSW, Australia

Friday, Session 6A

1. Williams, DiRamos, and Wu: Hydrodynamic Simulation for a Mudflat Dominated Coastal Lagoon Restoration Project
2. Fadel and Sharaki: Analysis of Submerged Breakwaters Using Integral Equations
3. Christensen: PEM: An Innovative Approach to Sand Retention
4. Hearon, Weldon, and Rundle: The Effect of SANDAG's Regional Beach Sand Project on the Encinitas Shoreline

Friday, Session 6B

1. Dickerson: Desalination in California: What will it take to catch up with the rest of the world?
2. McIntyre: Ocean Water Desalination: Impacts and Alternatives
3. Paludi: More Balanced Water Policy
4. Lopez: San Diego County Water Authority's Seawater Desalination Program

Friday, Session 6C

1. Hogue: The Role of Hydrologic Models and New Observation Technologies in Watershed Assessment
2. Fetscher, Sutula, Stein, and Collins: Rapid-Assessment Method Development for Wetland Condition in California
3. Shilling: Watershed Assessment and Management with the California Watershed Assessment Manual
4. Stein, Olson_Callahan, and Sutula: Southern California Riparian Ecosystem Assessment Method (SCREAM): Preliminary Results and Potential Applications

Friday, Session 7A

1. Winter and Hall: What, Where, When, How, and Why?
2. Hull: Las Virgenes Creek Restoration Project
3. Bapna: Stream Naturalization
4. Shuman: Opportunities and Constraints

Friday, Session 7B

1. Tennant: Functional and Future Treatment Wetlands in the Prado Basin
2. Palmer and Bays: Bacterial RE-Contamination and Conveyance Design Affect Low-Flow Urban Runoff Treatment Performance
3. Dallman: Los Angeles Basin Water Augmentation Study: Capturing Stormwater in the LA Region
4. Imus and Sharp: Operation and Management Experience of a Southern California Desert Constructed Wetland
5. Lyon, Leddy, Ibekwe, Jacobson, Cooper, and Fogel: Treatment of Santa Ana River Water Using Free-Water Surface and Subsurface-Flow Constructed Wetlands - A Multidisciplinary Approach

Friday, Session 7C

1. Tacconelli: Dominguez Watershed Management Master Plan
2. Cooke, DeStefano, Giffen, and Keith: Similarities, Contrasts, and Challenges of Two Watershed Management Planning Projects Under Prop 13
3. Katagi and Thomas: Watershed Management Plan for the San Gabriel River above Whittier Narrows

Friday, Session 8A

1. James, Hubbard, and Dugan: On the Banks of the River of Sand : Restoration of Ecological and Physical Processes in the Coastal Strand Zone
2. Elwany: Sand Disposal at Agua Hedionda Lagoon, Carlsbad, California
3. Weldon and Leslie: North County of San Diego Shoreline Monitoring Program
4. Davenport: California 's Coastal Sediment Master Plan: A plan for the future

Friday, Session 8B

1. Johnson, Schwarzbach, and Tjeerdema: Evaluation of Pesticides in Vernal Pools in the Central Valley
2. Tanaka, Schellhase, Francis, Powell, and Sanden: Biodiversity and Roads: A project to address wetland wildlife crossing needs in Ventura County, California, and provide realistic solutions for future road projects

Friday, Session 8C

1. Zembal: Santa Ana River Watershed Program, 1997- 2004
2. Nakao and Bapna: Sun Valley Watershed Management Plan - Efficient Resource Management in a Highly Urbanized Watershed
3. Pelletier: Water Quality Modeling as a Screening Tool in Watershed Restoration Planning: An Example from the Arroyo Seco
4. Dangermond: Recreation & Land Use Planning in the Upper Watershed

Friday, Session 9A

1. Powers: Should LNG Be a Part of California's Energy Future?
2. Knatz: LNG Siting Issues Panel
3. Myown: Long Beach Citizens for Utility Reform
4. Wildcoast: Environmental impact of LNG terminals in Northern Pacific Coastal Baja

Friday, Session 9B

1. Byron and Orton: Factors Controlling Algal Growth in Malibu Creek and Lagoon: Evaluating Impairment
2. Jones, Dekermenjian, Sedrak, Kepke, and Ponce: Safe to Swim - Preventing Beach Closures through Implementation of the Santa Monica Bay Beaches Bacteria TMDL

Friday, Session 9C

1. Tam: The Ballona Creek Watershed: Management Strategies for the New Millennia
2. Wang: Background and Context of the Watershed Plan
3. Lamm: Stakeholder-Driven Goals and Objectives
4. Horne: Methods and Mechanisms for Watershed Enhancement
5. Ross: Next Steps for the Stakeholders