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Event Proceedings

September 30, 2016; 10AM-5PM
Room 285, Special Collections Library, UGA


Proceedings for the Upper Oconee Science and Policy Summit will be posted here as they become available.

Parking: Parking for off-campus visitors is available in the Hull Street deck. UGA faculty, staff, and students who have parking privileges elsewhere on campus are prohibited from parking in the Hull Street Deck and will be ticketed if they utilize visitor parking. We recommend you take a UGA bus or park at the Tate Center. (more details...)

Time Speaker Title
9:15-9:45
Registration and Breakfast/Coffee
9:45-10:00 Giri
Welcome and Introduction Remarks by UOWN Board President
10:00-10:10 McKay Using models to explore options for river management (abstract) (presentation)
10:10-10:20
Byers
Using stream restoration on UGA's campus as a focus for engaging land grant missions in sustainability (abstract) (presentation)
10:20-10:30 Conn Informing River Management by Quantifying the Effects of Flow Conditions on Key Ecological Functions in the Middle Oconee River (abstract) (presentation)
10:30-10:40 Jacobs Backyard knowledge gaps: the state of stream fish monitoring in Athens-Clarke County (abstract) (presentation)
10:40-10:50 Wood Podostemum ceratophyllum - that weird plant that grows on rocks at the bottom of the river - what it is and what does it do? (abstract) (presentation)
10:50-11:00 Bumpers Long-term trends in the Upper Oconee watershed using UOWN citizen-science data (abstract) (presentation)
11:00-11:10 Rosemond Both pollutants and altered hydrology negatively affect stream life in the Upper Oconee watershed (abstract)(presentation)
11:10-11:20 Johnson Temporal patterns and drivers of conductivity in urban Piedmont streams of Georgia, USA (abstract) (presentation)
11:20-11:30 Molina Micro CSI: A microbial citizen science initiative in urban watersheds (abstract) (presentation)
11:30-11:40 Oladeinde Hydrogen peroxide signaling controls fecal indicator bacterial fluctuations (abstract) (presentation)
11:50-12:00 Teachey Bacterial community assembly in the Upper Oconee watershed (abstract) (presentation)
12:00-13:00  
Lunch Break and Poster Session
13:00-13:10 Cho Monitoring Enterococcus and its antimicrobial resistance in the Upper Oconee watershed (abstract) (presentation)
13:10-13:20 Radcliffe Septic Systems’ Effect on Stream Nitrogen and Fecal Bacteria Concentrations in Metropolitan Atlanta (abstract)
13:20-13:30 Varsa Activities of Athens Land Trust (abstract) (presentation)
13:30-13:40 Vinings Potential for White Dam removal (abstract) (presentation)
13:40-13:50 Hines Creating simplified inundation maps for dam break emergency action plans (abstract) (presentation)
13:40-14:00  
Break
14:15-15:00  
Round Table Break-out Session
15:00-17:00  
Reception and Tours of Draper Collection Water Exhibit


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