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Maryland Water Monitoring Council

Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources

Tawes Building, C-2

580 Taylor Avenue

Annapolis MD 21401

www.marylandwatermonitoring.org

Sandy Hertz, Maryland Dept. of Transportation

Chair

Mat Pajerowski

Vice-chair

Katherine Hanna, Maryland DNR

Executive Secretary

Directors

Andy Becker, KCI Technologies

Megan Brosh, Baltimore County DEPS

Jai Cole, M-NCPPC

(P) Lindsay DeMarzo, Howard Co. OCS

(P) Jason Dubow, MD Dept. Planning

Clark Howells, Baltimore City

(P) Ken Mack, Mont. Co. DEP

Byron Madigan, Carroll Co. BRM

Richard Mitchell, US EPA

Joel Moore, Towson University

Diana Muller, Maritimas

Jeff Reagan, Biohabitats, Inc.

Nancy Roth, Tetra Tech, Inc.

Bill Stack, Center for Watershed Protection

Ken Staver, Univ. of MD WREC

Matt Stover, Maryland Dept. of the Environment

Mark Trice, Maryland DNR

Chris Victoria, Anne Arundel DPW

Michael Williams, Univ. of MD College Park

(P) = Pending

MARYLAND WATER MONITORING COUNCIL

26th Annual Conference – December 3 - 4, 2020

Virtual Conference

Clean Waters, Healthy Humans: The Environment Rx

Morning Plenary Session Day 1 (9:00-10:00)

9:00 MWMC Board Chair’s Call to Order – Sandy Hertz; Maryland Department of Transportation; Chair, MWMC

Board of Directors

9:15 Plenary Session Speaker – Dr. Rita Colwell; Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland and

Johns Hopkins University; Former Director at the National Science Foundation

9:45 Plenary Session Speaker – Congressman John Sarbanes; US Representative for Maryland District 3; Co- chair of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Caucus and Author of the No Child Left Inside Act

9:50 Carl S. Weber Awards – Clark Howells; City of Baltimore

10:00 Break to Allow Moderators to Set Up Virtual Meeting Rooms

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Concurrent Virtual Breakout Sessions 10:10 – 12:00

12:00 End of Day 1

VB Room 1 VB Room 2 VB Room 3 VB Room 4

10:10

– 12:00

Recent Advances in

Stream Restoration

Monitoring, Part 1

STREAM RESTORATION

101 - Doug Stephens,

Montgomery Parks

DETERMINING

REALISTiC ECOLOGICAL

EXPECTATIONS IN

URBAN STREAM

RESTORATIONS - Robert

Hilderbrand, UMCES

Appalachian Laboratory

DEM DIFFERENCING AS

AN APPROACH FOR

IDENTIFICATION OF

STREAM RESTORATION

PROJECTS AND

QUANTIFICATION OF

STREAMBANK

SEDIMENT AND

NUTRIENT LOADS - Mike

Hickman, Center for

Watershed Protection

Clean Waters, Healthy

Humans

LINKING WATERSHED AND

COMMUNITY HEALTH – A

WALKABLE WATERSHED

APPROACH - Alisa Hefner,

Skeo Solutions

A ONE WATER APPROACH

TO UNDERSTANDING

CONTAMINANTS OF

EMERGING CONCERN -

Jennifer Flippin, Tetra Tech

POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF

MICROPLASTICS TO

ECOLOGICAL AND HUMAN

HEALTH IN THE

CHESAPEAKE BAY AND

ITS WATERSHED - Matt

Robinson, DOEE

NITRATE CONTAMINATION

IN MARYLAND’S

GROUNDWATER AND

HEALTH IMPACTS TO

LOWER EASTERN SHORE

COMMUNITIES - Katlyn

Schmitt and Darya Minovi,

Center for Progressive

Reform

Nutrient Management in

Saline Environments

COASTAL BLUE CARBON

101 - Hilary Stevens,

Restore America's

Estuaries

CARBON SEQUESTRATION

IN RESTORED WETLANDS

AT DREDGE MATERIAL

CONTAINMENT FACILITIES

- Shawn Kiernan, MDOT

Maryland Port

Administration

BLUE CARBON

POTENTIAL IN BENEFICIAL

USE PROJECTS: AN

EXAMPLE FROM POPLAR

ISLAND - Lorie W. Staver,

UMCES

NUTRIENT LIMITATION OF

PHYTOPLANKTON IN

CHESAPEAKE BAY:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN

EMPIRICAL APPROACH

FOR WATER-QUALITY

MANAGEMENT - Qian

Zhang, UMCES/CBP

Water Quality

THIS IS YOUR STREAM

ON DRUGS:

CONCENTRATIONS AND

LOADS OF

PHARMACEUTICALS

OVER ONE YEAR IN

BALTIMORE STREAMS -

Megan Fork, Cary

Institute of Ecosystem

Studies

SURFACE WATER

QUALITY TRENDS FROM

EPA’S LONG TERM

MONITORING NETWORK

- Scott Riley, US EPA

CROWDSOURCING

CHLORIDE DATA WITH

WINTER SALT WATCH -

Emily Bialowas, Izaak

Walton League of

America

IDENTIFICATION OF

MONITORING GAPS IN

STREAM MONITORING

NETWORKS - Joel

Blomquist, USGS

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Morning Plenary Session Day 2 (10:00-10:05)

10:00 MWMC Board Chair’s Call to Order – Sandy Hertz; Maryland Department of Transportation; Chair, MWMC

Board of Directors

10:05 Break to Allow Moderators to Set Up Virtual Meeting Rooms

Concurrent Virtual Breakout Sessions 10:10 – 12:00

12:00 Adjourn

VB Room 1 VB Room 2 VB Room 3 VB Room 4

10:10

– 12:00

Recent Advances in

Stream Restoration

Monitoring, Part 2

RIPARIAN PLANT

COMMUNITY AND

WATER QUALITY

RESPONSES AT SITES

RESTORED BY LEGACY

SEDIMENT REMOVAL &

FLOODPLAIN

RECONNECTION - Joel

Moore and Vanessa

Beauchamp, Towson

University

BENEFITS OF USING

WOOD STRUCTURES

TO RESTORE STREAMS

AND RECONNECT

FLOODPLAINS- Joe

Berg, Biohabitats

FUNCTION-BASED

STREAM RESTORATION

MONITORING - Rich

Starr, Ecosystem

Planning and

Restoration

VIEWING VARIATION IN

RESTORED CHANNEL

HABITAT THROUGH

THE LENS OF REMOTE

DATA - Hayley Oakland,

UMBC and Montana

State University

Meeting the Goals of the

Chesapeake Bay WIPs

through Innovation and

Hard Work!

FINANCING SOLUTIONS

TO MEET THE

CHESAPEAKE BAY TMDL

AND WIPs - Michael

Roberts, MDE

CONOWINGO WATERSHED

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN -

Bryan Seipp, Center for

Watershed Protection

HOW SALISBURY IS

ACHIEVING WIP GOALS

AND THE PATH TO

MAKING MAIN STREET

THE CITY’S FIRST GREEN

STREET - Amanda Pollack,

City of Salisbury,

Infrastructure and

Development Department

HOW AG IS

IMPLEMENTING THE WIPs -

Elizabeth Hoffman, MDA

PFAS (Per- and poly- Fluorinated Alkyl

Substances): News on an

Emerging Contaminant

MANAGING PFAS RISKS IN

MARYLAND - Rebecca-Ann

Warns, MDE

USGS INTEGRATED

SCIENCE ON PFAS:

STUDIES IN THE NORTH

ATLANTIC-APPALACHIAN

REGION - Michelle M.

Lorah, U.S. Geological

Survey

CONTAMINANTS OF

EMERGING CONCERN:

ASSESSING THEIR IMPACT

ON TREE SWALLOWS, A

MODEL AVIAN SPECIES –

Christine M. Custer, USGS

US AIR FORCE RESPONSE

TO PFOS/PFOA IN

WATERS OF THE STATE -

William K. Burris, Air Force

Civil Engineer Center

Data in the Time of

COVID: There’s an App

for That!

QC OF CONTINUOUS

DATA USING R AND

SHINY - Erik W. Leppo,

Tetra Tech, Inc.

DEPLOYING R SHINY

APPLICATIONS FOR

ENVIRONMENTAL

SCIENTISTS – WHAT

DOESN’T KILL YOU

MAKES YOU STRONGER

- Emma Jones, Virginia

Department of

Environmental Quality

COMMUNITY SCIENCE

CAN HELP FILL

KNOWLEDGE GAPS

ABOUT THE ECOLOGY

OF URBAN ESTUARIES -

Charmaine Dahlenburg,

National Aquarium

WIKIWATERSHED.ORG:

TOOLS FOR COMMUNITY

WATERSHED

ENGAGEMENT &

LEARNING - Dave

Arscott, Stroud Water

Research Center