PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2008 SUMMER SPECIALTY CONFERENCE: Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers - Working at the Water's Edge

Table of Contents

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SESSION 1: Effects of Hydrology on Nutrient Processing

• Denitrification Potential, Root Biomass and Organic Matter in Degraded and Restored Urban Riparian Zones - Peter Groffman, Danielle Gift, Sujay Kaushal, Paul Mayer (ABSTRACT)
• Urban Land Use Effects on Riparian Water Table Depths and Groundwater Nutrient Processing Along Low-Order Coastal Plain Tributaries, Greenville, NC - David Harnsberger, M. O'Driscoll, J.L. Chadwick (ABSTRACT)
• Ground-Water Nitrate Removal Capacity of Riparian Zones in Urbanizing and Agricultural Watersheds - T. Watson, D. Q. Kellogg, K. Addy, A.J. Gold, M.H. Stolt, P.M. Groffman (PAPER)
• Soil Solution Chemical Composition in a Riparian Forest in Rondonia State, Brazil - Nei K Leite, Alex V. Krusche, Giovana M. Cabianchi, Judes G. dos Santos, Edgar M. Marmolejo, Maria Victoria R. Ballester, Reynaldo L. Victoria, Jeffrey E. Richey, Chris Neill) (PAPER)

SESSION 2: Channel Design/Restoration to Optimize Floodplain/Habitat Connectivity

• A New Paradigm in Stream Restoration: Base Flow Channel Sizing and Integrating Stream and Wetland Restoration to Optimize Restoration Value - Joe Berg, Keith Underwood (ABSTRACT)
• Water Quality Enhancements: Riparian Buffers, Floodplain and Natural Channel Reconnection - Thomas A. Graupensperger (PAPER)
• Channel and Habitat Connectivity Restoration at a Mountain Highway Stream Crossing - Greg Laird, Scott Stoneman, Brett A. Jordan, Nicholas E. Allmendinger ABSTRACT)
• Stream Classification System in the Eastern US - Candice Piercy, Theresa M. Wynn, W. Cully Hession (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)

SESSION 3: Panel: Riparian Forest Buffer Implementation and Management ~ Recommendations from the Mid-Atlantic States

More than 90% of the riparian plantings in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been implemented with federal cost share program funds. Assessment of these projects indicates that there are issues causing success to be somewhat difficult. Agencies, organizations, and scientists have summarized findings and developed practices that increase the opportunity for successful riparian forest buffer restoration projects. This panel will explore some of the known issues and solutions, and present ideas that have worked in specific situations and are applicable in most instances.

Panelists

P. Pannill, MD Department of Natural Resources Forest Service, Hagerstown, MD
Site Preparation and Alternative Groundcovers In Riparian Forest Buffer Planting In Maryland

Shawn Belt, US Department of Agriculture Plant Materials Center, Beltsville, MD
Invasive Plants and Control Measures in Riparian Zones

David Wise, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Post Planting Management Recommendations and Schedules

Judith A. Okay, Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD
The Enigma of Tree Shelters and Their Use

SESSION 4: Implementing Buffers: Targeting Tracking and Approaches

• Landscape Planning for Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution Reduction: A Geographical Allocation Framework - Matthew Diebel, Jeffrey Maxted, Peter Nowak, Jake Vander Zanden (ABSTRACT)
• Changes in Riparian Vegetation Buffers at both the Patch and Landscape Scales in Response to Development in Three Oregon Cities from 1990 to 2002 - J. Alan Yeakley, Connie P. Ozawa (ABSTRACT)
• Perception vs. Reality: Watershed Ecosystem Integrity in the Eye of the Stakeholder - Sarah Lewis, Jennie Popp, Marty Matlock, Leanna Mathews (ABSTRACT)
• Specific Catchment Area as a Basis of Design for Precision Riparian Buffers - James E. Mathis (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 5: Riparian Area Ecosystems: Integrating Physical & Ecological Processes into Decision-Making #1

• The Active River Area: A Framework for River Conservation and Restoration - Mark P. Smith, Roy Schiff, Arlene Olivero, James MacBroom (ABSTRACT)
• Prioritizing Floodplain Forests for Conservation and Restoration - Arlene Olivero, Mark G. Anderson, Charles Ferree, Feng Zhao (ABSTRACT)
• Restoring Ecological Processes in Protected River Corridors - Michael Kline, Barry Cahoon (PAPER)
• Using the Clean Water Act to Protect Streams: Big Darby Creek, Ohio - Anthony Sasson (PAPER)

SESSION 6: Biochemical Response to Buffers at the Watershed Scale

• Riparian Buffers to Protect Water Quality: Does a 30 m Setback Make Sense? - Todd Walter, Stephen B. Shaw, Zach Easton, Rebecca D. Marjerison, Helen Dahlke, Josephine Archibald (ABSTRACT)
• Hydrologic Exchange and Coupled Nitrogen Transformations within Southeastern Floodplains - Durelle Scott, Jud Harvey, Greg Noe (ABSTRACT)
• Flood Water Recharge and Processing in Arid and Semi-Arid Riparian Areas - Thomas Meixner, Scott Simpson, Carlos Soto, James Hogan, Paul Brooks (ABSTRACT)
• Controls of Riparian Zones on Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) Exports from Watersheds - Shreeram Inamdar, Nina Finger, Myron Mitchell (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 7: Riparian Forest Buffer Implementation and Management

• Factors Affecting Seedling Growth and Survivorship on CREP Buffer Installations - Stephen Czapka, Bernard W. Sweeney, David S. Wise (ABSTRACT)
• Challenges for Restoring Maryland's Riparian Forests: Weeds, Invasives, and Deer - Anne Hairston-Strang, Philip D. Pannill, Hailu Sharew (PAPER)
• Impact of Exotic Species Management on Soil-Water Nitrogen Levels In Autumn Olive Dominated Stands - Andrew Somor, Karl W.J. Williard (ABSTRACT)
• A Low Cost Deer Exclusion Approach for Forested Riparian Buffer Plantings - W. Neil Gillies, Frank Rodgers (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 8: Restoration and Conservation through Partnerships

• Riparian Management Partnerships in the Far North - Joni Scharfenberg, Bob Henszey (ABSTRACT)
• Addressing Riparian Needs through Education, Volunteer Action and Community Partnerships - Candice Rupprecht, George Zaimes (PAPER)
• Enhancing the Acceptance of Riparian-Wetland Area Improvement and Management - The Creeks and Communities Service Trip Model - Janice Staats, Laura Van Riper Social (ABSTRACT)
• Innovative Tools to Motivate Watershed Stewardship - Christine Feurt (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 9: Riparian Area Ecosystems: Integrating Physical & Ecological Processes into Decision-Making #2

• Ecologically Functional Floodplains: Connectivity, Flow Regime, and Scale - Jeff J. Opperman (PAPER)
• The Lamoille River and Black Creek Floodplain Restoration Project - Roy Schiff, Jessica Clark, Barry Cahoon (PAPER)
• Implementation of Geomorphologically-Based Stream Restoration Strategies in the Hubbardton River Watershed, Vermont - Paul Marangelo, Ethan Swift, John Field (ABSTRACT)
• Conserving Riparian Areas Watershed Wide: Case Studies from Maine - Joshua Royte (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 10: Riparian Areas as Buffers: Water Quality Functions and Dynamics

• Riparian Vegetation Influence on Channel Geomorphology - W. Cully Hession, Maeve McBride, James E. Pizzuto (PAPER)
• Water Quality Functions of Giant Cane (Arundinaria Gigantea) and Forest Riparian Buffers in Southern Illinois Agricultural Watersheds - Jon Schoonover, Karl W.J. Williard, Chris R. Blattel, Chad M. Yocum (ABSTRACT)
• Assessment of concentrated flow paths within riparian buffer zones of southern Illinois - Ryan Pankau, Jon E. Schoonover, Karl W.J. Williard, Pamela J. Edwards (ABSTRACT)
• Natural Forest Buffer and Grass Filter Effectiveness in Northeast Missouri - Kris W. Knight, Richard C. Schultz, Cathy M. Mabry, T. M. Isenhart (PAPER)

SESSION 11: Riparian Restoration and Evaluations: Case Studies #1

• A Riparian Urban Constructed Tidal Marsh Buffer - 21 Years Later - Gary Anderson (ABSTRACT)
• Collaborative Adaptive Management Framework for Proposed North Gaza Wastewater Project - Michael Davidson, Said Ghabayeen (ABSTRACT)
• Strategies for Implementation of Riparian Buffer Zone and Other Conservation Practices in Taiwan - Jen-Yang Lin, Chia-Ling Chang, Tzyy-Woei Chu, Yen-Chang Chen, Shaw L. Yu (PAPER)

SESSION 12: Pesticides and Riparian Buffers: Integration of Field Studies and Modeling

• Simulated Rainfall Technology - Designing Runoff Studies to Meet Regulatory Needs for Exposure Assessments - Mary Nett, Andrew C. Newcombe (ABSTRACT)
• Vegetative Buffer Efficacy Study, Design, Results, Modeling of Field Data - Robert Everich, Andrew C. Newcombe, Mary Nett, Tammara Estes (PAPER)
• Simulating Pesticides in Riparian Buffers with REMM - Richard Lowrance, Randall G. Williams, R. Donald Wauchope, Tamara Estes (ABSTRACT)
• Fate of Herbicides and Their Degradation Products Entering a Forested Riparian Buffer Following Herbicides Application to an Adjacent Corn Field - Clifford Rice, Krystyna Bialek, Greg McCarty, Dean Hively, Jonathan Angier) (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 13: Streambank: Methods for Quantifying Sediment

• Bank Erosion: Causes, Processes, and Measurement - Kyle Juracek (ABSTRACT)
• Identification of Sediment Source Areas and the Design And Targeting of Riparian Buffers to Reduce Sediment Delivery to Receiving Waters in Intensively Row-Cropped Watersheds - Thomas Isenhart, Richard Schultz, Keith Schilling, Kris Knight Keegan Kult, Jason Palmer, Mustafa Tufekcioglu (ABSTRACT)
• Sediment Fingerprinting: A Tool for Quantifying Sediment Sources in an Urban Watershed - Olivia Devereux, Karen L. Prestegaard (PAPER)
• Monitoring and Measuring the Effects of Riparian Cattle Grazing on Bank Erosion - Faith Fitzpatrick, Marie C. Peppler, Dennis L. Busch (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 14: Nitrogen Dynamics in Riparian Soils

• Recovery of Nitrogen Pools and Processes in Degraded Riparian Zones in the Southern Appalachians - John Walker, Jim Vose, Jennifer Knoepp, Christopher D. Geron (ABSTRACT)
• Factors Controlling Soil Nitrogen and Carbon Transport through Riparian Areas in Appalachian Watersheds; Role of Vegetation in Nutrient Loss and Water Quality - Charlene Kelly, Stephen H. Schoenholtz, Mary Beth Adams) (PAPER)
• Linking Form to Function: Using Soil Properties to Predict Nitrogen Removal Across an Urban Riparian Landscape - Monica Palta, Joan G. Ehrenfeld (ABSTRACT)
• Emission of the Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide (N2O) from Riparian Forest Buffers, Warm-Season and Cool-Season Grass Filters and Crop Fields - Dong-Gill Kim, Richard Schultz, Thomas Isenhart, Timothy Parkin, Thomas Loynachan, James Raich (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 15: Streamside Management Zones and Forestry

• Forestry Riparian Buffer Characteristics - Jami Nettles, Devendra Amatya, Rhett Jackson, Hal Liechty, Dan Marion, Matthew McBroom, Erik Schilling, Stephen Schoenholtz (ABSTRACT)
• Effectiveness of Streamside Management Zones on Water Quality: PreTreatment Measurements - Johnny Boggs, Ge Sun, Will Summer, Steve G. McNulty, William Swartley, Emrys Treasure (PAPER)
• Hydrologic Change Related to Ecological Condition in the Japanese Mire - Tadanobu Nakayama (ABSTRACT)
• Reductions in Chemical Drift by a Vegetative Buffer - George Ice, Harold Thistle, Richard Karsky (PAPER)

SESSION 16: Modeling Nutrient Dynamics in Riparian Zones

• Using RUSLE to Investigate the Watershed Sink-Source Relationship of CDOM - Frederick Bradley, Barnali Dixon, Julie Earls (ABSTRACT)
• Testing for Riparian Buffer Effects on Nutrient Discharges from Whole Catchments - Donald E. Weller, Matthew E. Baker, Thomas E. Jordan (ABSTRACT)
• Managing Watershed Nitrogen at the Local Level: Accounting for Riparian Nitrogen Sinks - Arthur Gold, D.Q. Kellogg, K. Addy, P.V. August, P.M. Groffman (ABSTRACT)
• Riparian Ecosystem Management Model Simulations to Assess the Potential of Riparian Buffers in Stemple Creek Watershed - Carrie Graff, Richard Lowrance, Randy Williams, Ron Bingner (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 17: Streambank Erosion: Technical Challenges

• Using Environmental Radionuclides as Fingerprints to Study Streambank Erosion - Jerry C. Ritchie, Gregory N. Nagle, Paul Pedone (PAPER)
• Seepage Erosion Impacts on Edge-of-Field Gully Erosion and Streambank Failure - Glenn V. Wilson, G.A. Fox, M.L. Chu-Agor (ABSTRACT)
• Assessing the Impact of Riparian Soil-Water Dynamics on Streambank Erosion - Eddy J. Langendoen, Glenn V. Wilson, Garey A. Fox (PAPER)
• Changes in Boundary Shear Stress Due to Streambank Vegetation - Leslie Clark, T. M. Wynn (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 18: Impacts of Altering Riparian Vegetation in Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitat

• The Impacts of Riparian Disturbance on Aquatic Habitat Indicators in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada - Adam Wei, Weirong Chen (ABSTRACT)
• Environmental Impacts of Partial-harvest Logging In Riparian Reserves of Boreal Forest Streams - David Kreutzweiser, Stephen Holmes, Jim McLaughlin, Peter Hamilton, Kandyd Szuba (ABSTRACT)
• Effect of Watershed Forest Structure on Herbaceous Riparian Community Recovery - Clayton B. Marlow, Daniel Durham, Ronald Tucker, Vinita Shea and Jennifer Walker (PAPER)
• Distribution of Key Riparian Shrubs in the Upper Columbia River Basin: Implications for Aquatic Habitat - Marc Coles-Ritchie, Kathleen Dwire (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 19: Riparian Restoration and Evaluations: Case Studies #2

• Effects of Agricultural Land Retirement on Quality of Streams in the Minnesota River Basin - Victoria Christensen, Kathy E. Lee (PAPER)
• The Bear Creek Watershed Project - 18 Years of Private Landowners, University Researchers, Government and Non-Government Organizations and Local Agribusiness Collaboration - Richard Schultz, Thomas M. Isenhart (ABSTRACT)
• Water Quality Functions of a 15-year-old Riparian Forest Buffer System - J. Denis Newbold, Susan Herbert, Bernard W. Sweeney, Paul Kiry (PAPER)
• Riparian Wetland Creation/Establishment in an Agricultural Landscape - Michael Rehman, Mark Gallagher, Geoffrey Goll, John Miller (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 20: Modeling and Mapping Riparian Ecosystems

• A Comparison of Methods for Mapping and Monitoring the Extent of Riparian Forest Buffers - Peter Claggett, Frederick M. Irani, Howard Weinberg, Judith Okay (ABSTRACT)
• Using Soil Surveys to Target Riparian Buffers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - Michael Dosskey (PAPER)
• Practical Application of the RBDE - Benjamin Houston, Matt Starr, Rob Klosowski (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 21: Streambank Erosion: Watershed Responses

• Legacy Effects of Colonial Millponds on Modern Floodplain Sedimentation, Bank Erosion, and Channel Morphology, Mid Atlantic Region, USA - Edward Schenk, Cliff R. Hupp (ABSTRACT)
• Bank Erosion along the Lower Roanoke River, North Carolina Downstream of Piedmont Dams - Cliff R. Hupp, Edward R. Schenk, Jean M. Richter (ABSTRACT)
• Riparian Land-Use and Channel Condition Impacts on Stream Bank Eroding Lengths and Recession Rates in Two Third Order Rural Watersheds in Central Iowa - Jason Palmer, R.C. Schultz, T.M. Isenhart, K.E. Schilling (ABSTRACT)
• Scales of Bank Roughness and Their Relationship to Bank Erosion Processes - Erik Hankin, Karen Prestegaard (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 22: Hydroloical, Biological & Physical Interactions and their Relationship to Ecological Conditions

• Riparian Characteristics of Brook Trout Subwatersheds in the Eastern United States: Can They Predict Status? - Mark Hudy, Teresa Thieling) (ABSTRACT)
• Biodiversity Patterns Associated with Varied Riparian Buffer Width and Connectivity - Reuben Goforth, David Stagliano, Yu Man Lee, Joshua Cohen, Michael Penskar (ABSTRACT)
• Application Of A Knowledge-Based Approach To Wetland Function Assessments - Cat Shrier, Ana Carolina Maran Coelho, Darrell Fontane (PAPER)
• Riparian Forest Habitat Hydrologic Function in Breached Dam Legacy Sediments - Deborah Slawson (PAPER)

SESSION 23: Agrochemical (Nutrient/Pesticide) Processing in Buffers: Buffered Streams

• Impact of Temporal and Spatial Variations in Agrochemical Fluxes within the Riparian Buffer on Exports from a First Order Watershed - Gregory McCarty, Gregory W. McCarty, Jonathan Angier, Clifford P. Rice, Krystyna Bialek (ABSTRACT)
• Nitrate Reduction in Streambed Sediments: Effect of Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions - Janet Herman, Chuanhui Gu, George M. Hornberger, Aaron L. Mills (ABSTRACT)
• Sediments in Low Relief Coastal Streams as Effective Filters of Agricultural Nitrate - Aaron L. Mills, George M. Hornberger, Janet S. herman (PAPER)
• Nutrient Control Benefits of Stream Stabilization Structures - Traditional and Enhanced Designs - Kenneth Carlson, Chester Watson (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 24: Urban Stream Corridors and Buffers

• Integrating Stream Restoration and Stormwater Wetlands for Comprehensive Restoration of the Ecological Functions of an Urban Riparian Corridor - Jason Doll, Brad G. Fairley, Amber L. Coleman (PAPER)
• Vegetative Wave Attenuation Barriers in a Shallow Reservoir - Randall Bushey, Micheal Landrum (Extended Abstract)
• Innovative Methods to Assess and Manage the Effects of Urban Development on Channel Geomorphology and Riparian Ecosystems - Gary E. Palhegyi, Eva S. Butler (PAPER)
• Optimal Application of Riparian Easements and Best Management Practices to Reduce Stormwater Runoff Pollution: A Multiobjective Tradeoff Model - Arthur McGarity (PAPER)

SESSION 25: Groundwater-Surface Water Runoff Contributions to Streamflow under Varying Hydrologic & Geologic Conditions

• A Scale-Based Study of Stream Runoff Generation And Riparian Area Contributions in Small Forested Catchments and the Effects of Varying Hydrologic Conditions - April James, Nigel T. Roulet) (ABSTRACT)
• Investigation of Surface Water - Groundwater Interactions as a Basis to Adjust Municipal Land Use Policy in Pennsylvania: Stewardship Implications for Stream-Breeding Salamanders as Well as Deep Aquifer Water Supply - James Shallenberger, Robert B. Stanfield (ABSTRACT)
• Geologic Control of Groundwater Flow Through Riparian Buffers - Rick Bolich, Kristen McSwain (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)
• Implications of Groundwater Hydrology to Buffer Designs in the Southeastern US - Ge Sun, James M. Vose, Devendra M. Amatya, Carl Trettin, Steven G. McNulty (PAPER)

SESSION 26: Evaluation of Riparian Processes at Multiple Landscape Scale

• Riparian and Watershed Land Cover at Multiple Landscape Scales for Great River Sampling Sites within the Mississippi Basin
  - Mary F. Moffett, David W. Bolgrien, Tatiana Nawrocki, Matthew A. Starry, Roger A. Meyer, Theodore R. Angradi, Brian H. Hill, Terri M. Jicha, Mark S. Pearson, Debra L. Taylor (ABSTRACT)
• Fluvial Forms and Processes in a Seasonally Wet Sub-Tropical Landscape: Limitations of Classical Application of Regime-Based Classification and Assessment Tools - John Kiefer, Kristen Blanton, William Wise, Joann Mossa) (ABSTRACT)
• Riparian and Wetland Buffers: A Review of Current Literature, with Recommendations for Determining Widths for Providing Certain Ecosystem Services - Christopher P. Kilgore, ENTRIX, Inc., Atlanta, GA (co-authors: R. Gunther, R. Rupprecht)
• Raritan Basin Stream Restoration Framework: Level I Riparian Health Analysis - Kathleen Hale, Jeremiah Bergstrom, Richard Bolton, Jennifer Brunton, Christine Hall, Shandor Szalay (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)

SESSION 27: Riparian Buffer Placement for Specific Nutrient and Biological Results

• Hitting the Hotspots! (For Riparian Forest Buffer Placement) - Jennifer Sobecki, Duane McCoy (PAPER)
• From Protection to Prevention: the New York City Riparian Buffer Program - Irina Birman (PAPER)
• The Use of Artificial Stream Shading to Evaluate Riparian Ecosystem Restoration for Coldwater Species - Brad Fink, Mark Hudy (ABSTRACT)
• Modeling Solar Radiation Transmission by Riparian Buffer Zones - David R. DeWalle (PAPER)

SESSION 28: Riparian Issues in the Western United States

• From Headwaters to the Great Plains: Ecological Consequences of Streamflow Alteration and Water Redistribution in Colorado
  - Kathleen Dwire, Susan K. Skagen (ABSTRACT)
• Threats to Riparian Ecosystems in the Western US: An Analysis of Existing Literature - Boris Poff, Karen Koester, Daniel G. Neary, Victoria Henderson (ABSTRACT)
• Moving Water in the Urbanizing West: Riparian Issues in Agricultural Areas in Colorado - John Wiener (ABSTRACT)
• Hybrid Freshwater Ecosystems: A Case Study of Colorado's South Platte River - Robert Crifasi (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 29: Hydrologic Modeling (Connections) within Buffer Zones

• Multi-Scale Groundwater Modeling to Assess Potential Effectiveness of Multi-Species Riparian Buffers in the Bear Creek Watershed - William Simpkins, Cheng Cheng, Colleen B. Fowle, Jennifer L. Abrahamson, Thomas M. Isenhart, Richard C. Schultz (ABSTRACT)
• Flow-Patterns Effects on Ground-Water Quality in Riparian Forest Buffer Corridors - Gary Speiran (ABSTRACT)
• Describing Flow Changes Through Wetlands with a Dynamic Wave Equation - David Stern (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)
• Land Cover Change vs Flooding Pattern along a Bifurcation River System - Van Tri, Paul A. Carling, Peter M. Atkinson (PAPER)

SESSION 30: Riparian Zone Function at the Landscape Scale: New Tools and Research #1

• Frontiers in Riparian Zone Research in the 21st century - Philippe Vidon, Craig Allan, Richard Lowrance (ABSTRACT)
• Dynamic River Networks as the Context for Evaluating Riparian Influence on River Basin Solute Export - Parker J. Wigington (ABSTRACT)
• Hot and Cold Moments/Spots in Riparian Zones: Beyond Seasonal and Spatial Variability - Craig Allan, Philippe Vidon, Richard Lowrance, Shreeram Inamdar, Judith Okay, Tim Duval, Doug Burns, Stephen Sebestyen, Patrick Mulholland, Rosemary Fanelli, J.K. Bohlke, Mat Baker, Noel Gurwick (ABSTRACT)
• Role of Vegetation in Biogeochemical Functions in Riparian Zones - Michael Dosskey, Noel Gurwick, Richard Lowrance, Philippe Vidon, Tim Duval, and Craig Allan (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 31: Designing and Managing for Multiple Objectives in Riparian Ecosystems

• A Modern Program Based on Tried and True Methods: The Streamside Assistance Program for the New York City Watershed - Jennifer Grieser (ABSTRACT)
• Comparing Riparian Forest Management Guidelines and Compliance Rates in the South and the West - Erik Schilling, George G. Ice (ABSTRACT)
• What about Riparian Utility Corridors? - Benjamin Leatherland, Stuart Lynde (ABSTRACT)
• Ecosystem Restoration at the Atlas Tack Corporation Superfund Site - Barry Dubinski, Todd Randall, Elaine Stanley, David Abrahamson (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 32: Riparian Buffers: Supporting a Sustainable Bioenergy Future

• Biofuel Production - The Best of Times; The Worst of Times- Thomas W. Simpson (ABSTRACT)
• Riparian Buffers - Linking Energy/Food Production/Natural Resource Objectives on Agricultural Land - Michele Schoeneberger (ABSTRACT)
• Riparian Buffer Species - Attributes and New Species Combinations - Dean Current, Anna Robertson (ABSTRACT)
• Bigger, Better, & Bioenergy Buffers - Getting Them in the Ground - Bruce Wight, Gary Bentrup (ABSTRAACT)

SESSION 33: Panel: Emerging Issues in Riparian Management

The fields of riparian ecosystem science and function and the proliferation of programs and initiatives using riparian systems as stream/shoreline buffers for water quality improvement practices have demonstrated the need for continued learning and adaptive management. In addition, water quality problems in many regions remain complex and persistent. While proven conservation approaches still remain valid, many questions remain unanswered and new challenges such as climate change, sea level rise, bio-energy, water quality trading, and invasive pests point out the need for creativity in developing solutions. How should scientists, resource professionals, and government managers respond?

"The 2008 conference focus on emerging science, the structure, function and management of riparian ecosystems from many perspectives also has an emphasis on the use of new technology for prioritization, targeting, measuring, and monitoring the effectiveness of riparian ecosystems. This panel discussion will feature presentations on living shorelines as coastal buffers and the concept of ecosystem markets and their role in riparian protection and restoration followed by an open discussion with conference participants on emerging topics raised at the conference. The Panel will compile a list of persistent and emerging issues that can be used to guide future research and potentially stimulate policy and program development.

Panelists

Carl Hershner, Ctr. for Coastal Resources Management, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA
Integrated Management of Tidal Shorelines (ABSTRACT)

Albert H. Todd, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area, Annapolis, MD
Ecosystem Service Markets and Potential for Water (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 34: Riparian Zone Function at the Landscape Scale: New Tools and Research #2 Panel Discussion to follow these two presentations.

• Research Needs for Riparian Ecosystems: Integration of Modeling and Field Data at Multiple Scales - Richard Lowrance, P. Vidon, C. Allan, L. Lautz, R. McKane, J. Wigington (ABSTRACT)
• Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) Exports From Watersheds: The Role of Riparian Ecosystems - Shreeram Inamdar, Durelle Scott, Stephen Sebestyen, Craig Allan, Philippe Vidon (ABSTRACT)

SESSION 35: Watershed Scale Design of Riparian Buffers

• Influence of Overstory Vegetation on Atmospheric Nitrogen and Dissolved Organic Carbon Flux Rates to Soils in a Western Canadian Boreal Forest Watershed - David Pelster, E.E. Prepas (ABSTRACT)
• Effects of Land Use on Water Quality: Case Study of the Assiniboine River, Canada - Kazuhiro Sonoda, Jason Levy, Miguel Estrada, Jens Hartmann (PAPER)
• Structure and Function as a Means for Characterizing Riparian Zone Width in Southern Appalachian Headwater Catchments - Barton Clinton, James M. Vose, Jennifer D. Knoepp, Katherine J. Elliott, Barbara K. Reynolds (ABSTRACT)
• Buffer Widths and Nutrient and Sediment Removal Efficiencies - Qingli Ma, Reuben Baris, Stuart Cohen (PAPER)

SESSION 36: Restoring and Conserving Buffers: The Chesapeake Experience

• Observations - EPA's Assistance of Partners in Protecting the Chesapeake Bay - Linda Fuller, Dan Engelberg (ABSTRACT)
• A Riparian Forest Buffer Nutrient Reduction Efficiency fr Application on A Watershed Level - Judith Okay (PAPER)
• Protecting the Forests most Valuable to Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - Sally Claggett (ABSTRACT)
• Virgina's Experience with Riparian Buffer Protection Through the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act and Regulations - Alli Baird (ABSTRACT)
  

Poster Session

• Fecal Bacteria Removal by Macro-Invertebrates in a Riparian Ecosystem - Ebenezer Ansa, H.J. Lubberding, H.J. Gijzen (ABSTRACT)
• Effects of Gravel Bar Deposition on Channel and Floodplain Dynamics - Zachary Blanchet, Karen Prestegaard (ABSTRACT)
• Structure and Composition of Riparian Vegetation in Trinidad, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago - Natalie Boodram, Daniel Zarin,Yasmin S. Baksh-Comeau (ABSTRACT)
• Using Fine-Resolution Topography Data to Infer Groundwater Flowpaths and Denitrification Potential in Riparian Wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - Kathy Boomer, Donald E. Weller, Matthew E. Baker, Thomas E. Jordan (ABSTRACT)
• The Impact of Changin Hydrologic Regimes on the Effectiveness of Reservoir Release Policies - Patricia Bresnahan, Glenn Warner, Kynoch Reale-Munroe (ABSTRACT)
• Conservation Practices in Reservoir Impoundment and Buffer Zones in Taiwan - Kuang-Chih Chang, Yueh-Chi Kaun, Jen-Yang Lin (ABSTRACT)
• Effects of Acequias and Groundwater Levels on Riparian Vegetation, Evapotranspiration, and Restoration - Ciara Cusack, A.G. Fernald (ABSTRACT)
• Development of a National Riparian Inventory and Monitoring Guide for National Forest Service Lands - Kathleen Dwire, Manning, Mary E., David M. Merritt, Brian P. Bledsoe, Erick A. Carlson, Marc Coles-Ritchie, Janet L. Grove, Christopher D. Peltz, Lina Polvi, Gregg Riegel, David A. Weixelman, Ellen Wohl (ABSTRACT)
  
• Modeling Buffer Effectiveness Using PRZM and REMM - Tammara Estes, Richard Lowrance, Robert C.Everich (ABSTRACT)
• Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) Concentrations and Quality Across Watershed Compartments - Nina Finger, Shreeram Inamdar, Myron Mitchell (ABSTRACT)
• A Buffer Educational Garden - Laurie J. Fox, Susan C. French (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)
• The Role of a Forested Wetland Buffer in Mitigating the Impacts of Urbanization - Jason Hill, Vincent S. Neary (ABSTRACT)
• Production and Consumption of the Greenhouse Gas Methane (CH4) from Riparian Forest Buffers, Warm-Season and Cool-Season Grass Filters and Crop Fields - Dong-Gill Kim, Richard Schultz, Thomas Isenhart, Timothy Parkin, Thomas Loynachan, James Raich (ABSTRACT)
• Biomass Yields and the Effect of Harvesting Trees, Shrubs and Native Grasses on Greenhouse Gas (CO2, N2O and CH4) Flux in Riparian Buffers Designed to Provide Biomass for Biofuel Production - Dong-Gill Kim, Richard Schultz, Thomas Isenhart, Timothy Parkin, Thomas Loynachan, James Raich (ABSTRACT)
• Riparian Buffer Effectiveness as Influenced by Vegetation Type, Buffer Width, and Groundwater Depth in the Middle Coastal Plain - Sara Knies, D. L Osmond, M. R. Burchell, O. W. Duckworth (ABSTRACT)
• Dynamic Change of Hydrologically Sensitive Areas in the Riparian Zones of Two Forested Watersheds, Taiwan - Shyue-cherng Liaw, Yung-Chung Chuang (ABSTRACT)
• Relationship among Land Use Types, Riparian Buffer Width, and Streamwater Nitrate Concentration in a Mountainous Watershed, Taiwan - Shyue-cherng Liaw, Chun-Kuo Yeh (PAPER)
• Evaluating a Constructed Floodplain Wetland for Nutrient Removal Efficiencies - Andrea Ludwig, W.C. Hession, Jim Lawrence (ABSTRACT)
• Response of Boreal Riparian Vegetation to Buffered and Cut-to-Shore Treatments - Rebecca L. Macdonald, Ellie E. Prepas (PAPER)
• Coordinating Stream and Riparian Monitoring from Local to Regional Scales - Kipp Marzullo, Sherman Swanson (ABSTRACT)
• Initial Seedling Size Affects Time Required for Managed Riparian Zones to Provide Ecological Benefits - Matthew McTammany, Lara K. Lewis, Ryan A. Sepsy, Alexandra Q. Mass, Amanda M. Forsburg (ABSTRACT)
• Simulated Rainfall Study to Determine the Vegetative Buffer Efficacy - Mary Nett, Andrew C. Newcombe, Robert C. Everich (PAPER)
• Monitoring Surface and Sub-Surface Nitrogen Contamination Using Trees and Stable Nitrogen Isotope (del15N) Analyses - Elizabeth Nichols, Damian Maddalena (ABSTRACT)
• Groundwater Seepage and Dissolved Organic Carbon Flux in an Appalachian Catchment - Michael O'Driscoll, D. R. DeWalle (PAPER)
• Spatial and Temporal Variation in Surface and Ground Water Temperature - Soni M. Pradhanang, Russell D. Briggs (PAPER)
• Nitrate Occurrences in Groundwater Near Streams of Eastern Shore, Virginia: Relationship to Riparian Zone Characteristics - Paul Probasco, Janet S. Herman, Aaron Mills, George Hornberger (ABSTRACT)
• Evaluating Alterations of Natural Flow Variability for the Hsintien Creek Basin, Taiwan - Jenq-Tzong Shiau (PAPER)
• Modeling Stream-Aquifer Interactions During Floods and Baseflow: Upper San Pedro River, Southeastern Arizona - Scott Simpson, Thomas Meixner (ABSTRACT)
• Riparian Land-use Impacts on Stream Bank Soil and Phosphorus Loss via Surface Runoff - Richard Schultz, Mustafa Tufekcioglu, Thomas Isenhart (ABSTRACT)
• Impacts on Floodplains by an Invasive Shrub, Buddleja davidii - Nita Tallent-Halsell, Lawrence R. Walker (ABSTRACT)
• A Comparison of Riparian Restoration Strategies for Water Quality Improvement Within and Among Watersheds - Molly Van Appledorn, Matthew E. Baker (ABSTRACT)
• Delaware Forested Streamside Buffer Preservation and Restoration Project - Laura Whalen, Jennifer Campagnini (ABSTRACT)
• Stream Restoration, Buffer Enhancement, and Stormwater Management in the North Country - Robert Wildey, Krista Reinhart, Dan Redondo (ABSTRACT)
• Molecular Characterization of Microbial Communities in a Riparian Adirondack Wetland Contaminated by Methylmercury - Riqing Yu, Tamar Barkay, Jeffra K. Schaefer, Christopher DiPasquale, Isaac Adatto, Mark E. Hines (ABSTRACT)
• Urbanization Effects on Microclimate and Vegetation Structure of Riparian Areas along Ephemeral Streams - Air Temperature Data - George N. Zaimes, Jon R. Martin, Michael A. Crimmins, Douglas M. Green, Amy H. Glancy, Candice Rupprecht (PAPER)