Great Lakes Coastal Symposium 2022 has ended

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Great Lakes Coastal Symposium 2022

3:00pm EDT

Bird Walk at North Huron Birding Trail (Transportation on Your Own!) Offsite Registration Open Water's Edge Exhibit Set-up Water's Edge

7:00pm EDT

Welcome Reception Woodlands (behind Signatures Lounge)

6:45am EDT

Breakfast and Visit Exhibitors DreamMakers Theater

7:00am EDT

Bird Walk at Lake Superior State University (meet in the Library Parking Lot) Offsite Registration Open Water's Edge

8:00am EDT

Invocation and Drumming by Bawating Singers Cedar/Birch Room Exhibit Hall Open Water's Edge

8:20am EDT

Welcome Cedar/Birch Room

8:40am EDT

Introductions Cedar/Birch Room

8:45am EDT

Featured Speaker - Cam Davis, GEI Consultants and former Great Lakes Restoration Initiative liaison under President Obama Cedar/Birch Room

9:15am EDT

Featured Speaker - Frank Ettawageshik - United Tribes of Michigan Cedar/Birch Room

9:45am EDT

Break and Visit Exhibitors Water's Edge

10:00am EDT

Coastal Wins with Great Lakes Restoration Support Spruce Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Conservation Framework: Lake Erie Pilot Oak

10:20am EDT

Assessing NFWF's Impact on Migratory Birds of Great Lakes Wetlands Spruce Coastal Resources and Islands of the Great Lakes Oak

10:40am EDT

Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration Assessments: Supporting Restoration at the Landscape Scale Spruce An overview of USEPA Great Lakes National Program Office monitoring and conservation actions in Great Lakes coastal areas Oak

11:00am EDT

Using Video to Tell Your Coastal Story Spruce Assessing Coastal Management Action Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement: An Interactive Workshop to Provide Input to the International Joint Commission Oak

12:00pm EDT

Pick Up Boxed Lunches & Board Buses for Field Trips Water's Edge

12:30pm EDT

Field Trips Offsite

5:00pm EDT

Break and Visit Exhibitors Water's Edge

5:45pm EDT

Carpool and Shuttle to Center for Freshwater Research and Education Discovery Center Same Pickup Area as Field Trips (Near DreamMakers Theatre)!

6:00pm EDT

Offsite Reception and Dinner @ CFRE Discovery Center Center for Freshwater Research and Education (CFRE) Discovery Center

6:45am EDT

Breakfast and Visit Exhibitors DreamMakers Theater

7:00am EDT

Bird Walk at the LSSU’s Center for Freshwater Research and Education (Transportation on Your Own!) Offsite Exhibit Hall Open Water's Edge

8:00am EDT

Featured Speaker - Heather Stirratt, International Joint Commission Cedar/Birch Room

8:30am EDT

Announcements Cedar/Birch Room

8:40am EDT

Cut-to-Drown Management: Taking Advantage of High Great Lakes Water levels to Control Phragmites & The Great Lakes Phragmites Collaborative and PAMF: Resources for Tracking management efforts of the invasive Spruce Reciprocal Research: Centering Community in Partnerships with Indigenous Nations & Best Practices for Partnering with Indigenous Nations Oak Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Assessment and Climate Change Adaptation Planning for Coastal Managers Cedar/Birch Room

9:30am EDT

Monitoring Water Resources Using Affordable IoT Sensors: Hands On Training and Examples In The Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie Regions Spruce

11:00am EDT

Break and Visit Exhibitors Water's Edge

11:20am EDT

Legacies and Prospects for Lake Erie Coastal System Conservation and Restoration in Less-Altered Coastal Ecosystems Oak The Brandenburg Park Project - An innovative coastal restoration solution to a failing seawall Cedar/Birch Room Evaluating Restoration Techniques for a Coastal Fen on Lake Ontario Degraded by Typha × glauca and Shrub Encroachment as Part of Larger Restoration Effort Spruce

11:40am EDT

Sandusky Bay Initiative: Landscape Scale Intervention to Restore Lost Ecosystem Services Oak Wireless Wetlands: Using Technology to Monitor Wetlands Cedar/Birch Room Vegetation and marsh bird relationships with invasive Phragmites australis occurrence and management in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron Spruce

12:00pm EDT

Detecting Human Disturbance in Coastal Wetlands Across Temporal and Spatial Scales Using Biotic Indicators Oak The Bird Migration Explorer: A Collaborative Science-based Geospatial Platform to Connect People with Migration and Conservation Cedar/Birch Room Using a Phased Approach to Restore Marshbird Habitat at Allouez Bay, Wisconsin Spruce

12:30pm EDT

Lunch and Visit Exhibitors DreamMakers Theater

1:00pm EDT

Poster Presentations DreamMakers Theater

1:40pm EDT

Manoomin (wild rice) Restoration at Bay Mills Indian Community Oak Remote Great Lakes Islands Surveys: Notable Discoveries and Prioritization Schema for Biodiversity Stewardship Cedar/Birch Room Managing Coastal Habitat for Piping Plover in the Great Lakes Spruce

2:00pm EDT

Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan Oak Machine learning approaches reveal fish movement in a restored Great Lakes coastal wetland Cedar/Birch Room Nanotags improve estimates of Black Tern fledging success in Michigan Spruce

2:20pm EDT

Sustaining Freshwater Services as we Anticipate Climate and Development Changes in the Obtawaing Biosphere Region Oak How Web GIS Applications Help Us Advance Great Lakes Conservation Goals Cedar/Birch Room Does hydrology help explain the distribution of an endangered butterfly population in Michigan’s prairie fens? Spruce

2:40pm EDT

Amplifying Nature-Based Shoreline Management in the Great Lakes Oak Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Flood Damage Reduction Modeling Cedar/Birch Room Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) colony collapse under climate driven lake-level rise and anthropogenic stressors Spruce

3:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremony - Drumming, Light Snacks, Prizes Cedar/Birch Room