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North American
Lake Management Society

PO Box 5443
Madison, WI 53705-0443
Phone (608) 233-2836
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2008 Lake Louise Symposium (November 11 - 14, 2008)

Preliminary Program

This document is preliminary and paper placement and session titles are subject to change.

Alpine Lakes

Derek Bonin: Assessing the Use of Alpine Lakes for Drinking Water Storage
Ken Green: Studies of Australia’s Alpine Lakes
Rolf Vinebrooke: Glaciers Amplify the Impacts of Climate Change on Alpine Lake Ecosystems
Paul Weidman: Climate Change Impacts on Alpine Lake Ecosystems via the Phenological Plasticity of Zooplankton Species
Craig Williamson: Vertical Distribution of Zooplankton in Subalpine and Alpine Lakes: Does Ultraviolet Radiation Play a Role?

Aquatic Ecosystem Health: Use of Habitat Metrics

Shannon Brattebo: Development of Periphyton and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Habitat Suitability Indices for Assessment of Reservoir Quality and Potential Production on the Pend Oreille River, Washington, USA
Reesa Evans: Comparison of Disturbed v. Natural Shoreline on the Aquatic Plant Community
Ricardo Miguel Perez-Munguia: Design of a Model for Monitoring the Environmental Quality and the Biotic Integrity Based on the Assemblages of Aquatic Beetles, for Carstic Springs in the Mexican Huasteca
Sara Schmidt: Development of Multi-dimensional Littoral Zone Habitat Fingerprints for Classification and Management of Lakes
Darlene Siegel: Development of Macrophyte Habitat Suitability Indices for Assessment of Reservoir Quality and Potential Production on the Pend Oreille River, Washington, USA

Climate Change

Martin Kernan: Interactions between Climate Change and Other Stressors – Effects on European Lakes
Shadananan Nair: Management of a Tropical Freshwater Lake in a Changing Environment
Dave Sauchyn: Climate Change Impacts on Western Watersheds
Hans Schreier: How to Adapt Watershed Management to the Combination of Land Use and Climate Change
Markus Thorman: Effects of Climate Change on Boreal Peatlands – A Microbiological Perspective

Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins: Causes and Control

Danielle Barrington: Lysis to Kill - The Removal of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins by Hydrogen Peroxide Addition
Connie Bozarth: Genetic Characterization of Microcystis Bloom in Copco Reservoir, Klamath River, Nth CA
Huirong Chen: Associations between Nitrogen and Cyanobacterial Growth and Microcystin Production: Results of Laboratory Experiments and Field Studies
Craig Stanley: Exploring the Causes of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Lake Manatee, Florida. I. Determining the Contribution of Various Land Uses in the Watershed to Nutrient Loading
Gurpal Toor: Exploring the Causes of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Lake Manatee, Florida. II. Linking Specific Water Quality Parameters with Episodic Cyanobacterial Blooms

Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins: Occurrence and Monitoring

Jennifer Graham: Co-occurrence of Toxins and Taste-and-Odor Compounds in Cyanobacterial Blooms from the Midwestern United States
Steven Heiskary: Blue-green Algal Toxin (Microcystin) Levels in Minnesota Lakes
Jean Jacoby: Toxic Cyanobacteria in the Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed, WA
Celeste Journey: Geosmin Occurrence in Two Piedmont Reservoirs, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, 2005 to 2007
Keith Loftin: Preliminary Assessment of Cyanotoxin Occurrence in Lakes and Reservoirs of the United States
Lenore Tedesco: Cyanobacterial Ecology and Toxicity in Three Eutrophic Public Drinking Water Supply Reservoirs, Central Indiana, USA

Ecology of Shallow Lakes

Barbara Barry: Evaluation of Proposed Shallow Water Habitat at the Salton Sea, California
Suzanne Bayley: Effects of Agriculture vs. Drought on Water Quality and Productivity in Northern Shallow Lakes
Danielle Cobbaert: What Factors Drive the Community Structure of Boreal Ponds? Glynnis Hood: Beaver (Castor canadensis) Mitigate the Effects of Climate on the Area of Open Water in Boreal Shallow Wetland Lakes in Western Canada
Dwight Osmon: Affects of Spring Enso on Fox Lake, a Shallow Lake in Dodge County, Wisconsin

Effects of Forest Disturbance on Watersheds

Janice Burke: Streamflow, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Concentration and Export Patterns One Year after Experimental Forest Harvest in Canadian Boreal Plain Watersheds
Paul Dinsmore: Pre-disturbance Runoff Patterns from a Headwater Catchment Harvesting Study on the Boreal Shield of Northwestern Ontario
Rebecca MacDonald: Response of Boreal Riparian Understory Vegetation Post Harvest in Buffered and Cut-to-Shore Conditions in Boreal Forest Watersheds
Ashley Mascarenhas: Harvesting Lodgepole Pine in Northern Alberta: Implications for Soil Microbial Community Dynamics and Nutrient Availability
David Pelster: Streamflow, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Concentration and Export Patterns One Year after Experimental Forest Harvest in Canadian Boreal Plain Watersheds
Ellie Prepas: The Forward Project - Objectives, Framework and Initial Integration into a Detailed Forest Management Plan in Alberta
Gabor Sass: Assessing the Effects of Forest Harvesting on the Trophic Status of Shallow Lakes on the Boreal Plain Using Satellite Remote Sensing
Brett Watson: Development of a Hydrological Model to Predict the Impacts of Forestry Operations on the Boreal Plains

Fish Ecology and Habitat

Paul Askey: The Okanagan Lake Story: Fishery Collapse, Introduced Species, Water Scarcity, Development Pressures and More
Michael Bozek: Use and Partitioning of Complex Coarse Woody Habitats by Fish in the Littoral Zone of a North Temperate Lake
Monir Hossain: Population Dynamics of Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in Lake Toya of Hokkaido, Japan
Bill Tonn: Effects of Trout-Stocking on Ecological Communities of Small Boreal Foothills Lakes
Kyle Zimmer: Effects of Habitat Size and Connectivity on Shallow Lake Biodiversity

Industrial Waste Impacts

Mohamadi Ashnani: Assessment of Any Radioactivity Releases to the Environmental Caspian Lake & Aras River
Mohammed Keshta: Evaluation of Leaching from High Capacity Arsenic Sorbents under Simulated Landfill Conditions
Kerri Lappin: Building Landscape Chronicles to Mitigate the Future Effects of Mining
Michael Moncur: Potential Implication of Changes in Seasonality on the Physical and Geochemical Processes in an Acid Mine-Impacted Watershed
Robert Plotnikoff: Characterizing Presence of Metals and PCB (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) and Evaluating Potential for Bioaccumulation in a Regulated Reservoir on the Pend Oreille River, Washington, USA

Integrated Watershed Management I: Invited

Mark Bennett: Watershed Management Planning in the Bow River Basin Phase 1 – Water Quality Objectives
Paul Budkewitsch: Freshwater Reservoirs in Northern Communities and Their Vulnerabilities
Brian Stratton: Source Water Protection Planning in the Mississippi-Rideau Watersheds in Ontario – A Technical Perspective
Mark Taylor: Coastal Zone Management on the Great Lakes in a Changing Environment
Dave Trew: Integrated Watershed Management Planning for the North Saskatchewan River Basin in Alberta

Integrated Watershed Management II: North American Case Studies

Sandra Cooke: Water Quality Management in the Grand River Watershed: Looking Beyond Effluent Limits
Neil Kamman: A Statewide Probability Survey of Vermont Lakes – An Adaptation of the National Lake Survey. New Approaches for Lake Assessment Programs at Moderate to Large Scale?
Wendell Koning: Water Quality and Watershed Management in the Oldman River Basin, Alberta Holly Waterfield: From Science to Policy: Managing Onsite Wastewater and Phosphorus Loading in the Otsego Lake Watershed, Otsego County, New York Norm Zirnhelt: A Lakeshore Management Strategy That Protects Water Quality and Riparian Habitat in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada

Integrated Watershed Management III: International Case Studies

Durgesh Durgappa: Human Influence on South Indian Lakes and Management
Mohammad Hosein: A Study of Hour Al Azim Detioration Procedure with the Use of Landscape Ecology Approach
Mike Kinney: Property Tax Credits as a Tool for Watershed Management: Results of a Wisconsin Pilot Project
Linda Rossouw: Environmental Water Requirements: Determining Water Quality Required in Non-perennial River Systems, South Africa

Invasive Species I: Ecological Impacts

Michael Anderson: Impacts of Quagga Mussel Invasion on the Ecology of Reservoirs of the Colorado River Aqueduct – Results from Hydroacoustic Surveys
John Beaver: Ecosystem Response to Extreme Drought and Invasion of Quagga Mussels: Importance of Depth, Water Inflows, and Zooplankton and Phytoplankton Composition in Lake Mead, NV-AZ
Michael Hartshorne: Impacts of Cultural Eutrophication, Abatement Efforts, and Dreissenid Mussel Invasion on the Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Community of Sodus Bay
John Kelly: Early Detection Monitoring Approaches Developed From a Case Study on a Vulnerable Great Lakes Embayment
David Miller: Application of a Lower Food Web Ecosystem Productivity Model to Investigate Population Dynamics of Invasive Species in Lake Michigan

Invasive Species II: Management Challenges

Ship Bright: The Invasive Species Public Policy Challenge: Lessons Learned from 6 Years of Experience on the Federal Invasive Species Advisory Committee
Patrick Goggin: Citizen Perceptions and Reactions to Aquatic Invasive Species on the Pike Lake Chain of Lakes, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Roberta Hill: Engaging Volunteers in the Effort to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Aquatic Plants in Maine
Dick Osgood: Milfoil, Mussels and More – Lake Minnetonka’s AIS Challenges
Toni Pennington: Development of an Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Integrated Management Plan: Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada

Lake and Reservoir Management I: In-Lake Treatment

Ken Ashley: Hypolimnetic Aeration of St. Mary Lake, Saltspring Island, BC
Sarah Dominick: Considerations in the Selection, Design and Installation of a Mile High Reservoir Oxygenation System
Gilles Fortin: Rehabilitation of a Phosphorus Impacted Lake with Ferric Chloride, Gatineau Area, Quebec
Brad Sherman: The Impact of Top-down Impeller-Based Circulators on Stratification in Googong Reservoir
Amanda Williams: Improving Lake Water Quality by Solar Powered Circulation
Craig Wolf: Controlling Algal Biomass in Cherry Creek Reservoir via Aeration

Lake and Reservoir Management II: Assessment Techniques and Tools

Darren Brandt: Assessment of Lake Conditions from a Single Field Visit: Can It Be Done? Sean Fleming: Geophysical Trend Detection as a Signal-to-Noise Ratio Problem, With Application to Ecological Low Flows in Cowichan-Region Watersheds
Brian Huser: An Advanced Method to Reduce Internal Sediment Phosphorus Loading in Lakes Based on Contributing Phosphorus Pools and Aluminum-Phosphorus Binding Chemistry
Craig Mount: Cost-effective Digital Bathymetric Technique Utilizing Recent Advances in Commercial GPS / Depth Sounder Technology Todd Tietjen: Aquatic Microbial Community Responses to Transient Physical Structure in a Reservoir Ecosystem

Lake and Reservoir Management III: International Case Studies

Amy Beussink: Watershed Influences and In-lake Processes–A Regional-Scale Approach to Monitoring Source Water, Houston, Texas
Sara Peel: Littoral Zone Restoration in Four Northern Indiana Lakes: An Experimental Approach
Jarka Popovicova: Eutrophication of a Non-stratified Reservoir in an Agricultural Watershed of East-Central Indiana
Muhammad Rais: Assessment of Water Quality of Chotiari Reservoir, Sanghar, Sindh, Pakistan
Rudra Bahadur Raya: Impact of Land Use on Water Quality of Phewa Lake Pokhara, Nepal
Najmus Saqib Rehmani: Water Management at Rawal Dam, Islamabad: A Solution to Continuous Supply of Drinkable Water for Rawalpindi Area

Lake and Reservoir Management IV: Resources, Local Capacity Building and Socioeconomic Considerations

Doug Henderson: A New, Web-based Approach for Centralized Access to Monitoring Data: An Example Using the Lake Manitou, IN, Hydrilla Eradication Monitoring Program
Mike Layton: Local Capacity Building: The Water Guardians Network Experience
Greg Nelson: Respect Our Lakes–A Vehicle for Shared Governance at Recreational Lakes in Alberta
Emily Norton: What’s Water Clarity Got to Do with Property Values? A Hedonic Valuation Study of Michigan Lakes
Frank Wilhelm: An Advanced Limnology Course at the University of Idaho of Interest to NALMS CLM/CLPs and Other Aquatic Professionals

Lake and Watershed Stewardship I: Invited Case Studies from Alberta

Kay Lee Kinch: From Committee to Society: A Look at the Moose Lake Plan
Barry Kolenosky: Sustainable Planning: Protecting What Matters
Jeff McCammon: Lac La None Watershed Stewardship Society, Formation, Partnerships, Initiatives, and Quest Towards Watershed Management Plan
Al Sosiak: Planning for Success at Pine Lake, Alberta
Jay White: The Vincent Lake Story – How Alberta’s Most Promising Lake and Riparian Restoration Project Got Derailed

Lake and Watershed Stewardship II: Stewardship in Canada

Craig Emmerton: Focused Watershed Monitoring and Community Stewardship at a Large Alberta Lake
Carolyn Johns: The BC Lake Stewardship Society and the BC Lake Stewardship & Monitoring Program
Lynn Preston: Lake Management Planning in Eastern Ontario: The Lake Management Planning Program of the Rideau River Watershed
Louis Roy: The Quebec Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program
Chris Teichreb: Addressing Public Concerns through Planning and Management: Lessons Learned from Pigeon Lake, Alberta

Lake and Watershed Stewardship III: Stewardship Around the World

Larry Butler: The Northern Virginia Stream Restoration Bank: A Watershed Planning to Implementation Case Study
Linda Rossouw: Adopt-a-River Programme: Development of an Implementation Plan for South African Rivers
Carroll Schaal: Wisconsin’s Lake Leaders Institute: Where Are They Now?
Nancy Turyk: Developing Science-Based Lake Stewardship in an Agricultural Community

Lake and Wetland Reclamation and Management in the Oil Sands Region

Sergei Touchinski: Integrated Surface Water Quality Monitoring Program: Principles in Data Collection and Dissemination

More papers are expected for the oil sands session.

Lake Modelling

Kyung Hwa Cho: Integrated Modeling Approach to Assess the Watershed Management Actions on the Yeongsan Watershed, Korea
Laura Eerkes-Medrano: Applying an Isotope Mass Balance Model to Further Our Understanding of Boreal Lakes in Shield and Plains Regions
Imad Hannoun: Development and Application of a Three-Dimensional Water Quality Model to Lake Mead
Paul McGinley: The Effectiveness of Pervious Areas for Infiltrating Runoff from Impervious Surfaces
Keith Pilgrim: The Importance of One-Dimensional Lake Modeling to Evaluate Nutrient Impaired Lakes

Lake Waco

Tom Conry: The Lake Waco Comprehensive Study: Historic Perspective, Economics, and How to Gain Support for Critical Studies
Wendy Gendron: Impact of Recent Climate and Management Changes on Lake Waco
Don Kretchmer: Management Options for Lake Waco
Ken Wagner: Monitoring to Support the Improvement of Lake Waco
Ken Wagner: Nutrient Loading to Lake Waco in a Variable Climate

Low Impact Development

Alan Cibuzar: Golf Course Management to Eliminate Impact to Lakes
Melissa Clark: Applying the Limnological Significance of Rainwater Harvesting to Increase Campus Sustainability at Indiana University
Albelee Haque: Cultural Eutrophication: Sediments in Lakes, Rivers & Estuaries: Massachusetts Nutrient TMDL Case Studies
Bob Hartzel: Case Studies of Low Impact Development Retrofit Projects in Six Lake Watersheds

Macrophytes I: Ecology and Impacts

Patricia Chambers: Global Diversity of Aquatic Macrophytes in Freshwater
Mark Hoyer: Lack of Exotic Hydrilla Infestation on Plant, Fish and Aquatic Bird Community Measures
David Lamb: Coeur D’Alene Lake Aquatic Vegetation Surveys and Nutrient Release Estimation, 2004 - 2005
Scott Reid: Impacts of the Non-native Macrophyte, Cabomba caroliniana, on Littoral Biota and Food Web Dynamics in a Central Ontario Lake
John Titus: The Invasive Macrophyte Utricularia inflata: Distribution and Impact

Macrophytes II: Management and Treatment

Beth Cullen: On the Road to Eradication: Hydrilla in Washington State
Keith Gray: Affordable Alternatives to Control Wolffia in Urban Ponds
Doug Henderson: Submerged Native Vegetation Response Six Years after a Low-dose, Large-scale, Whole-Lake Sonar® Treatment
Roberta Hill: The Use of Herbicides to Control Invasive Aquatic Plants: Questions and...More Questions
James Johnson: Assessment of Whole-lake Herbicide Treatment as a Management Strategy for Controlling Curlyleaf Pondweed (Potamogeton crispus) in Minnesota Lakes

Mercury in Lakes

Martin Auer: Enhanced Natural Recovery of Mercury-Contaminated Lake Sediments by Electron Acceptor Augmentation
Philip DePetro: Organic Carbon Diagenesis and Monitored Natural Recovery of Mercury-Contaminated Lake Sediments
Craig Emmerton: Mercury in the Mackenzie River Delta: Concentrations and Fluxes During Open-water Conditions
Paul Gremillion: Regional Patterns of Mercury Accumulation in Arizona Reservoir Sediments
Susannah King: Northeast Regional Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load
Vincent L. St. Louis: Whole-ecosystem Study Shows Rapid Fish Mercury Response to Changes in Mercury Deposition

Mexican Lakes I: Ecology

Vladislav Carnero-Bravo: Reconstruction of the Trophic Evolution of the Valle De Bravo Reservoir (Central Mexico) Using Two Sediment Cores
Laura Davalos-Lind: The Use of Algal Bioassays to Determine Algal Growth Patterns and Anthropogenic Impact in a Large Tropical River in Mexico: The Coatzacoalcos River
Jose Luis García-Calderón: Fish Stocking in México. A General Outlook of Reservoirs Potential Production with a Nutrition Stress and a Particular View of Two Study Cases
Alberto Sánchez: Aquatic Fauna Associated with Emergent Macrophytes in the Tropical Wetland Pantanos de Centla, Southern Gulf of Mexico
Patricia M. Valdespino-Castillo: Community Metabolism (GP, R and NP) in Valle De Bravo, an Eutrophic and Wind-swept Reservoir

Mexican Lakes II: Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment

Guadalupe De la Lanza-Espino: Tecocomulco, the Last Lagoon from the Mexican Great Basin System
Rebeca González Villela: Climatic Change Effects in El Sol, a High-Mountain Lake in Mexico
Martín López-Hernández: Multiple Biomonitoring System to Evaluate Organic Pollution on the Lerma River Watershed
Jorge A. Ramírez-Zierold: Phosphorus and Nitrogen Budgets in the Valle de Bravo Reservoir: The Main Source of Water Supply for Mexico City
Felipe Vázquez-Gutiérrez: Improvement of the Quality of the Water of the Xochimilco Lake and Channels

Mitigating and Managing the effects of Agriculture I: Invited

Jane Elliott: Relating Agricultural Management to Downstream Water Quality Impacts: Discontinuities in Nutrient Transport Between Scales
Don Flaten: Reducing Nutrient Loading to Lake Winnipeg and Its Watershed
Nancy Glozier: Pesticide Concentrations in Canadian Prairie Wetlands and Small Surface Water Supplies: Prevalent Mixtures and Ecological Effects
Brook Harker: Towards Enhanced Agricultural Landscape Planning
Laura G. Maclean: Establishing New Environmental Standards for Ecological Health in Canadian Agricultural Streams

Mitigating and Managing the effects of Agriculture II: Case Studies

John-Mark Davies: Impacts of Agricultural Land Use Activities on Prairie Surface Water Quality Sarah Depoe: Water Quality in Alberta’s Agricultural Streams: A Summary of Fecal Bacteria Data Collected from 1999 to 2006
Kristen Lorenz: Water Quality in Alberta’s Agricultural Streams: A Summary of Nutrient Data Collected from 1999 to 2006
Andrew McNaught: Association between Livestock Operations, E. coli Abundance, and Bacterial Pathogens within an Agricultural Watershed in Isabella Co., MI
Colleen Phelan: Water Quality in Alberta’s Agricultural Streams: A Summary of Pesticide Data Collected from 1999 to 2006

Mitigating and Managing the effects of Agriculture III: BMP Evaluation

Adam Baumgart-Getz: Remote Sensing Evaluation of BMP Condition
Emilia Craiovan: Watershed Evaluation of Beneficial Management Practices: Quantifying the Environmental Effects of Restricted Cattle Access to Surface Waters within a Watershed
Jim Miller: Influence of Streambank Fencing and Off-stream Watering on Water Quality and Riparian Health of the Lower Little Bow River
Barry Olson: Nutrient Beneficial Management Practices Evaluation Project

Nanotechnology

Sylvia Chan-Remillard: Nanotechnology in Freshwater Systems – Beneficial Applications and Unintended Consequences
Greg Goss: Toxicity of Manufactured Nanomaterials to Aquatic Animals–When, How and Why Should We Be Worried
Larry Kapustka: The Challenge of Sound Environmental Management of an Emerging Technology
Lorraine Sheremeta: Nanomaterial Stewardship and Lake Management in Canada

Nutrients I: Post-Treatment Fate

Rebecca Dugopolski: Impacts of Salmon Carcass Decomposition on Reservoir Eutrophication and Drinking Water Quality in Seattle, Washington
Alex Horne: Where Does the Nitrogen Go? Sinks for Nitrogen Following Aeration or Oxygenation of Lakes
Erich Marzolf: Will Increased Reliance on Reuse Further Impair Our Waterways?
Dale Robertson: Effects of Changes in Water Level on In-lake Phosphorus Concentrations and Productivity
Ann Shortelle: Impacts of Dredging on Water Quality in Shallow Lakes

Nutrients II: Temporal and Long-term Assessment

Anna DeSellas: An Examination of Factors Affecting Long-term Changes in Secchi Depth in South-Central Ontario Lakes
Steven Effler: Metro’s Impact on Nitrogen Levels in Onondaga Lake, a 36-Year Record
James LaBounty: Secchi Transparency of Boulder Basin, Lake Mead, Arizona-Nevada: 1990-2007
Yongeun Park: Application of Statistical Approach for Temporal Analysis of Water Quality in Yeongsan Reservoir, Korea
Julia Terrell: Temporial Eutrophication Analyses Over 40 Years of Water Chemistry Data in the Choctawhatchee Estuary System in Northern Florida

Nutrients III: Musings of Phosphorus

Daniel Bourdeau: Total Phosphorus Water Quality Assessment using a Monte Carlo Simulation; a Statistical Evaluation of Lake Water Quality Associated with Changes in Land Use
Michael Brett: A Reassessment of the Lake Phosphorus Loading Concept in Lake Management
Barbara Cade-Menun: Using 31P-NMR Spectroscopy as a Tool to Better Understand and Manage P Cycling in Water
Harvey Harper: When the Data Lie – Limitations of the TSI Statistic
Ryan Whitehouse: Bringing Clarity to Clear Lake

Paleolimnology Assessments

Mark Graham: Long-term Records of Anthropogenically and Experimentally Induced Variability of Primary Production within Lake Ecosystems
Dörte Köster: Deciphering the Effect of Multiple Stressors on Water Quality in Four Alberta Lakes Using Paleolimnological Techniques
Dörte Köster: Nitrogen or Phosphorus: That is the Question. Diatom-Based Models for Reconstructing Lake Trophic Status in Alberta
Petra Werner: Palaeolimnological Climate-change Reconstructions from Non-alpine Isbenttjønn, Southern Norway

Plankton and Benthos Ecology and Assessment

Brenda Hann: Lake Winnipeg’s Benthic Community Health: Let the Organisms Tell the Story
Aliakbar Hedayati: Effect of Some Physicochemical Factors (Temperature & Salinity) On Ability of Cyst Hatching of Artemia urmiana in Uremia Lake
Kari Jacobson Hedin: Setting the Bar: Establishing Zooplankton Biocriteria for Reservation Lakes
Erin Murchie: Spatial Distribution of E. coli and Environmental Factors Influencing Its Abundance in a Freshwater Desert Beach Recreational Area
Jane Sawyers: Occurrence of Cryptomonads in Iowa (USA) Waters and the Potential Significance as a Water Quality Indicator
Wayne Thibaudeau: New Method to Detect and Identify Cyanobacteria and Invasive Bivalves Using a Continuous Imaging Particle Analyzer (FLOWCAM)

Remote Sensing Technology in Use

Shane Bradt: Phytoplankton Monitoring in the Great Salt Lake (Utah, USA) Using a Combination of Satellite and On-lake Remote Sensing
Patrick L. Brezonik: Measurement of Water Clarity and Chlorophyll in Lakes and Rivers by Satellite and Aircraft-mounted Remote Sensing
Steven Effler: The Importance of Light Scattering in Lake Ontario Mohammad Hosein: Trend Assessment of Anzali Wetland Using Remote Sensing (RS) and Proposing Management Solution
F. Peng: Individual Particle Analysis of Suspended Minerogenic Particles in Western Lake Erie: Implications for Water Clarity and Remote Sensing

Riparian and Lakeshore Assessment and Management

Norine Ambrose: Riparian Health of Lakes and Wetlands in Alberta
Joshua Carroll: Understanding the Link between Water Quality and Recreation Setting Attributes in the Squam Lakes Watershed
Patrick Goggin: Measuring the Value of Wildlife Habitat Restoration on Northern Wisconsin Lakes – The Wisconsin Lakeshore Restoration Project
Heather Leschied: Ecological Status: Monitoring and Establishing Reference Conditions Using the Sensitive Habitat Inventory Mapping Method on Windermere Lake
Kerri O’Shaughnessy: Measuring Riparian Health of Lakes and Wetlands on the Ground in Alberta

Urban Lakes and Wetlands I: Management Tools

Darryl Arsenault: Predictive Modelling Provides Answers to Public Scrutiny of Marina Development on Shuswap Lake System
Richard Lathrop: Using Science to Support In-lake Restoration of a Shallow Eutrophic Urban Lake
Conor Mines: Dying to Find the Source – Using Rhodamine Wt as a Proxy for Point Source Pollutants in Urban Lake Systems
Gertrud K. Nürnberg: Inflow Load or Concentration: What Dictates Water Quality in a Eutrophic Shallow Urban Reservoir?
Nathan Whalen: The Effect of Development on Near Shore Periphyton Biomass in an Oligotrophic Lake in Maine

Urban Lakes and Wetlands II: Management and Restoration Case Studies

Debbie Bryant: Geomorphic and Hydrologic Effects on Nutrient Distribution in Riparian Areas Surrounding the Sooke Lake Reservoir
GP Desai: Restoration of Lakes in and Around Davangere City Situated in Central Part of Karnataka State in South India
Fred Lubnow: The Development of a Restoration Plan for Greenwood Lake, NJ-NY, Based on the Lake’s Phosphorus TMDL
Mushtaq Nadaf: Restoration of Lakes in Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike
Deborah Sinclair: City of Brampton – Citywide Lake Assessment/Management Study

Urban Lakes and Wetlands III: Wetlands Management

Tricia Grieef: City of Calgary Guidelines for Stormwater Wetlands Management
Donald Mah: Stormwater End of Pipe Treatment Utilizing a Constructed Wetland Facility, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Chris Manderson: Calgary’s Wetland Policy–Lessons Learned
L.A. Maslen: Ecological Function of Urban Stormwater Facilities in Edmonton, Alberta
Judy Stewart: Using Municipal Tools to Protect and Manage Wetlands, Riparian Lands and Shorelands in Alberta’s White Zone

Water Governance

Leonard Clayton: Sink or Swim: The Duty to Consult with Aboriginal Communities Regarding Water Management Issues
Danielle Droitsch: Building a Legal Framework for Integrated Land and Water Management
Bryan Oborne: Unlocking the Potential for Watershed Governance on the Canadian Prairies
Christina Smith: Water Storage Rights in Alberta
Jason Unger: From Centralized Watershed Planning to Collaboration: Evolution or Deregulation?

Water Treatment and Technology

Travis Bray: Evaluation of Drinking Water Reservoir Inflow Pre-treatment Options to Address Conventional Pollutants and Micro-constituents
Mark Ernst: Is Dilution the Solution? Augmenting a Drinking Water Supply with a Salty Water Source
Vickie Hoge: Drawdown of the Lake Apopka Marsh Flow-way – Lessons Learned
Qian Liu: An Algal Bioassay Procedure to Determine Bio-available Phosphorus from Point and Non-point Sources

Waterfowl Ecology and Habitat

Mara E. Erickson: Influence of Altered Lake Characteristics on Abundance of Western Grebes in Alberta
Carly Greenway: Macroinvertebrate and Waterfowl Communities of Rotationally Grazed Temporary Prairie Pothole Wetlands
Eva Kuczynski: Use of Constructed Wetlands by Horned Grebes: A Stable Isotope Perspective
Andrea McGregor: Cormorant Control on a Shoestring. Assessing the Cost-effectiveness of Lethal Cormorant Management in the Lac La Biche Area of Alberta
Jennifer Newbrey: The Roles of Western and Red-necked Grebes in the Food Web of Lake Wabamun, Alberta

Plenary Speakers

John Downing: To be announced
Peter Leavitt: Climate Regulation of Ecosystem Structure and Water Quality in Lakes of the Northern Temperate Great Plains
Bruce Mitchell: Integrated Water Resource Management: Cross Currents and Turbulence

Poster Presentations

R. Alvarado Villanueva: Epiphytic Algae in the Lake De Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico during Three Years (2004-2006)
Alvarado Villanueva: Circadian Analysis of the Phytoplankton in the Lake of Zirahuén, Michoacán, Mexico
Anne-Marie Anderson: An Initial Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystem Health in Alberta
Josiane Bélanger: Freeze/Thaw Dynamics in Soils on the Boreal Plain: Linkages to Deterministic Hydrologic Modelling in Small Watersheds (SWAT)
Richard Casey: Surface Water Quality Monitoring in Alberta Lakes
Arturo Chacón-Torres: Lake Cuitzeo, Michoacan, Mexico
Philip DePetro: Characterization of Legacy Labile Organic Carbon Reserves Using a Sediment Bioassay and Modeling Approach
Janet Fischer: Ultraviolet Radiation as a Potential Constraint on Zooplankton Community Structure and Vertical Distribution in Fishless Alpine Lakes
Anthony Gabriel: Cumulative Impacts of Lake Level Drawdowns and Shore Protection to Nearshore Habitats, Moses Lake, Washington
G. Albert Galicinao: Determination of Methylmercury Flux from Lake Sediments Using Flow-through Reactors
Justin Hanisch: Stable Isotope Analysis Reveals Food Web Shift in Boreal Foothills Lakes Stocked with Trout
R. Hernández-Morales: Structure of Phytoplankton and Its Frequency in the Axalapasco Lake “La Alberca,” Michoacán, México
Gina Johnston: Long-term Effects of Varying Precipitation on Trophic State Indicators in a Northern California Water Supply Reservoir
Sarah Kalinoski: Shoreline Restoration on the Coastal Dune Lakes of Walton County, Florida
Martín López-Hernández: Rustic Artificial Wetland System as a Tool to Improve Water Quality of Canals Filled Out with Treated Water
Ashley Lundgren: Efficacy of Agricultural Better Management Practices on Prairie Surface Water Quality
Martina Medina-Nava: Fish Communities Assessment and Its Application in Biomonitoring and Watershed Management in Central Mexico
Jeffrey Meyers: High-resolution Bathymetry and Comparison of 50-Year Lake Volume Changes at Tar River Reservoir, NC
Mr. Ortega-Murillo: Trophic Evolution of a Mexican Tropical Lake Based on the Phytoplankton
Agustin Quiroz-Flores: Tecocomulco Lake Last Refuge of Endanger Macrophytes in the México Basin
M. Beatriz Rendón-López: Limnology of a Mexican Crater Lake
Scott Schiefer: Interagency Lake Mead Monitoring Program
Erica Schlickeisen: An Experimental Determination of the Effects of Aquatic Plant Control on Broader Measures of Water Quality
Maria Virginia Segura-García: Freshwater Diatoms in Lerma River, Central México, and Their Use for Water Quality Assessment
Dorothy Yu Huang: Microcystin Measurement in Water Using a Novel Cell Culture Chip Technology
Linda Green: Supporting Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Efforts throughout the USA

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