2011 PRESENTATIONS

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Tuesday, Session 1A: RECREATIONAL OCEAN WATER QUALITY

1. Turbow: Risks for Coastal Water Bathing
2. McGowan: Marine, Near-shore, and Beach Contamination from Wastewater Outfall with Emphasis on Antibiotic Resistant Genes
3. Ferguson:  Assessing Natural Sources and Regrowth of Enterococcus in Urban Runoff Impacting Coastal Beaches in San Diego
4. Terrill: Advances in Ocean Plume Tracking

Tuesday, Session 1B: PLANNING FOR SEA LEVEL RISE

1. Flick: California 21st Century Sea Level Rise
2. Gallien: High-Resolution Urban Coastal Inundation Modeling
3. Barnard: Assessing California's Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change using the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS)
4. Jenkins: Sea-Level Rise, Mitigation and Adaption

Tuesday, Session 1C:  RESTORATION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

1. Gates: El Dorado Nature Center Stream Restoration: Urban Stream Restoration in an Era of Limited Budgets
2. Murphy: Lake Habitat Improvements for the Machado Lake Ecosystem Rehabilitation Project
3. Lopez: Lessons Learned from Planning/Implementing Large-Scale Restoration Project at Colorado Lagoon
4. Zahn: California's Endangered Belding's Savannah Sparrow: Tolerance of Pedestrian Disturbance

Tuesday, Session 2A: CLEAN BAY RESTAURANT PROGRAM

1. Woodard: Pollution Prevention at Restaurants: The Clean Bay Restaurant Certification Program
2. McGowan: Integrating and Implementing the Clean Bay Restaurant Program in the City of Manhattan Beach
3. Miller: The City of Santa Monica Non-Recyclable Food Service Container Ban
4. Owens-Amsden: Euphoria Loves Rawvolution: A Restaurant Committed to Delicious Food, Great Products, and Environmental Business Practices

Tuesday, Session 2B: IMPLEMENTING THE CALIFORNIA SEDIMENT MASTER PLAN

1. Davenport: Recipe for the Future: Developing Tools to Help Implement Regional Sediment Management
2. Schlosser: The Hunt for Sand in Orange County: Regional Sediment Management Development
3. Dingler: What to do with too much sand?: The Coastal Regional Sediment Management Plan for Eureka Littoral Cell
4. Goeden: Bay, Sea-Level Rise, Sediment Deficits and Management Options
5. Comati: Implementing a Ventura-Santa Barbara RSM Plan by BEACON: Getting the Most Bang for your Buck

Tuesday, Session 2C: WETLAND RESTORATION 

1. Gruber:  Los Peñasquitos Lagoon - Regulatory Drivers for Restoration Alternatives
2. Kinkade: Stakeholder Success: Restoration Planning Progress at San Elijo Lagoon
3. Khan & Paster: Sediment Trend Analysis (STA) in Support of Shoreline Management: and Example from the West Coast of Barbados
4. Williams: Summary of the Proposed Otay Floodplain Wetland Restoration Project
5. Nordby: Habitat Design and Biological Monitoring of a Solar Salt Pond Restoration Project in San Diego Bay

Wednesday, Session 3A: WATER QUALITY MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

1. Greenwood: Environmental Forensics of Water Quality Monitoring Programs
2. Osorio: Large Scale Rapid Toxicity Assessment
3. Fetcho: Lower Klamath River Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Program
4. Rudolph: TIE Pyrethroid Stormwater Macroinvertebrate Sensitivity

Wednesday, Session 3B: LAGOON MAINTENANCE AND RESTORATION

1. Hastings: Inlet Maintenance, Los Peñasquitos Lagoon
2. Kuhn: It's the Little Things That Count: A Review of Tidal Datum and the Possible Implications of Error on Coastal Restoration
3. Josselyn: San Diego Regional Lagoon Study – Enhancing Lagoon Function as Part of Project Design
4. Behrens: Multi-Decadal Changes to Closure Behavior of a Northern California Tidal Inlet

Wednesday, 3C: RESTORATION & MONITORING: COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

1. Parker: Measuring Culture: Continuous Expression is Success
2. Smith: Ten Years with the Stream Team
3. Kovecses: San Diego Coastkeeper Water Quality Monitoring Program: Community Based Water Quality Monitoring and Data Management
4. Nguyen: Watershed Restoration in Low-Income, Urban Areas: Lessons Learned…So Far

Wednesday, Session 4A: RECREATIONAL OCEAN WATER QUALITY II

1. Clifton: Accuracy of the Enterococci Indicator Alone: Analysis of Enterococci and Coliform Indicator Exceedance Rates in Contaminates Waters
2. Ferguson: A Mass Balance Study Combined with Enterococcus Community Analysis to Assess Fecal Indicator Bacteria Exceedances at Doheny Beach
3. Izbicki: Sources of Fecal Indicator Bacteria to a Coastal Lagoon and the Near-Shore Ocean, Malibu, California
4. Dwight: Blame the Moon: A Critical Analysis of "Environmental Sources" of Enterococcus into Southern California Coastal Waters

Wednesday, Session 4B: COASTAL MANAGEMENT: MANAGED RETREAT 

1. Battalio: What is Managed Retreat? - Design Case Studies
2. Revell: Goleta Beach 2.0: Managing the Retreat from Coastal Erosion
3. Jenkin: Surfers Point Managed Shoreline Retreat Project
4. Brennan: Political Realities of Managed Retreat

Wednesdsay, Session 4C: CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACTS TO COASTAL HABITATS 

1. Brennan: Spatial Climate Change Scenarios for San Francisco Bay: Tidal Marsh Sustainability Assessment
2. Wood: Spatial Climate Change Scenarios for San Francisco Bay: Tidal Marsh Plant and Bird Communities
3. Garrity: Los Penaquitos Lagoon: A Watershed Approach to Lagoon Restoration

Wednesday, Session 5A: PLASTIC POLLUTION AND MARINE DEBRIS 

1. Cooper: Initial Studies of Beach Plastic Pollution in the North Pacific and North Atlantic
2. Haynes: Pre-Production Plastic and Storm Water
3. Kalapura: Taking a Plastic Bag Ordinance to the California Supreme Court: the Manhattan Beach Effort to Educate the Public, Reduce Plastic Pollution, and Promote Resource Conservation

Wednesday, Session 5B: SAN DIEGO REGIONAL BEACH SAND PROJECT

1. Webb: The San Diego Regional Beach Sand Project II (RBSP II)
2. Green: Biological Impact and Protection Considerations of the San Diego Regional Beach Sand Project II
3. Fenner: San Diego's Regional Beach Sand Project – Beach Nourishment Projects in 2001 and 2011
4. Honma: Monitoring for the Regional Beach Sand Project (RBSP II)
5. Cannon: Shoreline and Profile Modeling of the SANDAG Regional Beach Sand Project II

Wednesday, Session 5C: APPROACHES TO RESTORATION

1. James: Adaptive Management in Ecological Restoration: A Model for Success
2. Jenkin: Towards 'Ecosystem-Based Management' – A Case Study: Ventura River, California
3. Katagi: Roadmap to Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration in the Arroyo Seco Watershed
4. Phillips: Borrego Wash Stabilization and Restoration Program

Thursday, Session 6A: COASTAL WATER QUALITY

1. Helmer: Bacterial Source Tracking in the Tijuana River Watershed – Moving from Monitoring to Restoration
2. Dorsey: An Assessment of Fecal Indicator and other Bacteria from Del Rey Lagoon, City of Los Angeles, California.
3. Gruber: Poche Beach Bacterial Source Identification – Watershed Impacts on Coastal Water Quality
4. Wasko: Innovative Pilot Program to Filter Stormwater
5. Dwight: Impacts of Climate Change and Urbanization on Coastal Water Quality in Southern California

Thursday, Session 6B: COASTAL SEDIMENT MANAGEMENT

1. Battalio: Coastal Processes at Ocean Beach
2. Ewing: Beach Nourishment during a Time of Rising Sea Level: An Example from Southern California
3. Richmond: Life Cycle of an Artificial Surfing Reef
4. Wohlmut: Update on the Sand Retention and Multipurpose Artificial Reef at Oil Piers, Ventura, California

Thursday, Session 6C: BEACH ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS

1. Dugan: Sandy Beaches as Ecosystems at the Brink
2. Hubbard: Loss of Coastal Strand Habitat in Southern California: the Role of Beach Grooming
3. Martin: Ecological Values of Beach Ecosystems:  Nursery Functions for Charismatic Wildlife
4. King: Beyond Counting Critters: The Ecological Economics of Beaches
5. Green: Protecting Beach Resources – Sediment Management Considerations

Thursday, Session 7A: COASTAL WATER QUALITY

1. Carter: A Moving Target: Tracking Harmful Algal Blooms in Southern California
2. Stanfield: Presence and Toxicity of Freshwater Cyanobacteria in Pinto Lake, Monterey Bay Area, California
3. Buhbe: Compatibility of High-Fines Sediments with Beach Replenishment: Results of the Tijuana Estuary Sediment Fate and Transport Project
4. Sutula: Managing Eutrophication in California's Bar Built Estuaries
5. West: Malibu Legacy Park: Creating an Integrated Water Quality Legacy

Thursday, Session 7B: COASTAL WATER QUALITY

1. Dwight: The Distribution and Impacts of Recreational Beach Expenditures in Southern California
2. Kovecses: Habitat Shifts in Response to Rising Sea Levels in San Diego
3. McGregor: Modeling the Economic Impacts of Coastal Disasters to Marine Industries
4. Whittet: The Economic Costs of Sea-Level Rise to California Beach Communities

Thursday, Session 7C: HISTORICAL ECOLOGY

1. Beller: Historical Eco-Geomorphic Processes on the Lower Santa Clara River: Reconstructing Two Centuries of Change
2. Jacobs: Classification of California Estuaries Based on Historical Closure Patterns: Templates for Restoration and Management
3. Grossinger: Habitats of the 19th-Century Ventura Shoreline: Regional Context and Local Diversity
4. Vanderburg: Shoreline Planning in Washington State: Meeting "No Net Loss" of Ecological Functions

Thursday, Session 8A: SUSTAINABLE PLANNING AND PRACTICE

1. Manghi: Regional Strategies for Integrated Water Management: A Case Study of Southern California's Western Municipal Water District
2. Cleaver: Recycled Wastewater, Golf and SB 918
3. Steele, Stivers & Belden: Transition to a Sustainable Neighborhood: The Elmer Avenue Retrofit Project , Stivers
4. Vondrak: Ocean Friendly Gardens Program: Promoting Responsible Garden Design and Reducing Runoff Pollution from Urban Landscapes

Thursday, Session 8B: SHORELINE MANAGEMENT

1. Vandever: FEMA Region IX California Coastal Analysis and Mapping Project and the Open Pacific Coast Flood Studies
2. Trivedi: Coastal Developments - An Adaptation Strategy
3. Revell: Adaptation Options for Climate Change: An Evaluation of Erosion Mitigation Alternatives
4. Damitz: A Collaborative Planning Approach for Adapting to Coastal Erosion and Sea Level Rise in the Southern Monterey Bay Region
5. King: The Economics of Shoreline Management Policies in South Monterey Bay

Thursday, Session 8C :RESTORATION PLANNING AND MONITORING

1. Clark: Watershed Characterization and Monitoring of Restoration Projects using the California Rapid Assessment Method
2. Teunis: Functional and Condition Based Assessment Methods: A Multipurpose Tool in the Restoration Planning Toolbox
3. Fetcho: Using CRAM Attributes to Develop Restoration Potential, Water Quality and Habitat Function Linkages
4. Teunis: Laguna Niguel's Journey to Revitalizing a Southern California Urban Stream (Sulphur Creek)

Thursday, Session 9A: OCEAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1. Helms: Implementing Marine Biodiversity Policy: the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA)
2. Hobi: Community Based Planning for Marine Protected Areas on California's North Coast
3. Halmay & Hardy: An Innovative Co-Management Strategy using a Community Fishing Association, Ecosystem Based Management, and Portfolio Fishing Strategy
4. Birney: Preventing Collisions between Blue Whales and Cargo Ships in the Santa Barbara Channel

Thursday, Session 9B: INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

1. Hutsel: Towards Integrated Water/Watershed Management: The San Diego Experience
2. Manghi: Towards Integrated Water/Watershed Management: The Water District Perspective
3. Morris: Towards Integrated Water/Watershed Management: The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Perspective
4. Ogden: Towards Integrated Water/Watershed Management: The Australian Perspective
5. Clifton: Towards Integrated Water/Watershed Management: Data Strategies 

Thursday, Session 9C: STEELHEAD RECOVERY AND STREAM MANAGEMENT

1. Capelli: Southern California Steelhead Recovery and Climate Change
2. Spencer: Gobernador Debris Basin Modification for Fish Passage and Sediment Control
3. Katagi: Restoration Opportunities Spurred by Steelhead Recovery in Southern California
4. Green: Rainfall Catchment to Improve Instream Flows in a Coastal Watershed
   

Thursday, Session 10A: WATER QUALITY, SUPPLY AND MANAGEMENT 

1. Phillips: Design of Regional Urban Watershed Dry-Weather Flow Treatment
2. Panton: Identifying and Addressing Critical Instream Flow Needs in the San Gregorio Watershed
3. Daniels, Stivers & Belden: Estimating Protozoal Fate and Transport in a Wetland System Using a Model-Based Approach
4. O'Connell: Storm Water Pollutant Removal Effectiveness of Ecology Embankment Media Filters at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
5. Osiadacz: Visualizing Basin-Scale Relationships Between Water Management Practices, Groundwater Elevation and Nitrate Concentrations in the San Juan Valley of Central California

Thursday, Session 10B: HABITAT AND SPECIES RESTORATION

1. Revell: Restoration of the Santa Ynez River Estuary
2. Zacherl: Restoration of Olympia Oysters
3. Maher: Restoration and Enhancement of Tidal Wetlands in South San Diego Bay
4. Cannon: Dredging, Filling, and Breaching Solar Salt Ponds to Restore Tidal Salt Marsh in San Diego Bay
5. Touchstone: Conservation Planning to Restore Tidal Salt Marsh in San Diego Bay

Thursday, Session 10C: RIPARIAN RESTORATION

1. Giessow & Casanova: Arundo Impact Assessment and Mapping Report: Coastal Watersheds from Monterey to Tijuana
2. Leclerc: Effects of Arundo Donax on River Hydraulics, Sediment Transport, and Geomorphology, Santa Margarita River
3. Griggs: Riparian Habitat Restoration on the Otay River Delta
4. O'Keefe & Woollenweber: A Multi-Agency, Multi-Entity Approach to Restoring the San Dieguito Watershed for the Restoration of Habitat for Sensitive Species and the Prevention of Catastrophic Wildfire