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Wednesday May 9th
Wednesday, May 9th Schedule
Understanding Great Salt Lake’s Salinity
Why Do We Care? What Are We Doing?
8:00 – Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 – Welcome
9:10 – KEYNOTE:
UPRR Causeway Decision and the Need for a GSL Salinity Advisory Committee
Laura Ault, Utah Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands, Sovereign Lands Program Manager
Great Salt Lake: Salinity, Beneficial Uses, and Water Quality Standards
Jake Vander Laan, Utah Division of Water Quality, GSL Coordinator
9:50 – Salinity and Microbial Foundation of Great Salt Lake
Bonnie Baxter, Westminster College, Director GSL Institute
10:10 – Overview of Salinity Effects on Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp
Thomas Bosteels, Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Cooperative, Inc.
10:30 – The Importance of Salinity to the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem
John Luft, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program, Program Manager
10:50 – Mineral Recovery in the North Arm: The Convergence of Place, Hydrology, Climate, and Salinity
Joe Havasi, Compass Minerals International, Director of Natural Resources
11:10 – How the Changing Great Salt Lake Salinity Affects Magnesium Production
Tom Tripp, US Magnesium, Director of Technical Services and Development
11:30 – 11:50 Discussion
11:55 – 1:00 LUNCH
Working to Understand Great Salt Lake Salinity
1:05 – USGS Great Salt Lake Salinity Activities- Past, Present, Future
Cory Angeroth, USGS Utah Water Science Center, Hydrologist and Associate Director
Assessment of Deep Brine Layer Extent and Geochemistry Prior to and After Opening of a New Causeway Bridge, Great Salt Lake, Utah
1:45 – Utah Geological Survey Great Salt Lake Monitoring—Salinity, Chemistry, Salt Crust
Andrew Rupke, Utah Geological Survey, Industrial Minerals Geologist
2:05 – Total Mercury and Methylmercury Response in Water and Sediment to De-Stratification and Re-Stratification of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Bill Johnson, University of Utah, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
2:25 – Current State of the Art in Modeling the Mineral Resources of Great Salt Lake and Future Improvements
Craig Miller, Utah Division of Water Resources, Hydrology and Computer Modeling
2:45 – Historic Low Stand of the Great Salt Lake, Utah: Mass Balance Models and Origin of the Deep Brine Layer
Paul Jewell, University of Utah, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
3:05 – Partnering in the Salinity Process: Moving Forward With the GSL Salinity Advisory Committee
Erica Gaddis, Utah Division of Water Quality, Director
Laura Ault, Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, Sovereign Lands Program Manager
3:45 – Discussion
4:30 – End of program
Thursday May 10th
Thursday, May 10th Schedule
The Future is Now • Water and GSL Ecosystem Services • How Do We Reckon With This?
7:15 – Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 – Welcome
8:10 – KEYNOTE:
41 Resolute Members, Four Years, 93 Recommendations, One State Water Strategy Report
Warren Peterson, State Water Strategy Advisory Team Co-chair
8:50 – Resilience Thinking for the Great Salt Lake in the Anthropocene
Robin Craig, University of Utah, SJ Quinney College of Law
9:15 – The Great Salt Lake Effect : Mechanisms and Contributions to Wasatch Snow
Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
9:40 – Recognizing Water, Wet+Land, and Land Interconnections in Protecting the Great Salt Lake
Joanna Endter-Wada, Utah State University, Quinney College of Natural Resources
Karin Kettenring, Utah State University, Quinney College of Natural Resources
10:05 – BREAK/POSTERS
10:30 – Water for Great Salt Lake – Strategies to Maintain or Increase the Surface Elevation
Don Leonard, Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Cooperative, Inc.
10:55 – The Future of Secondary Water Metering
Amelia Nuding, Western Resource Advocates, Senior Water Resources Analyst
11:20 – Effects of Changing Salinity on Microbialite -Associated Primary Producers and Secondary Consumers in Great Salt Lake
Melody Lindsay, Montana State University, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
11:45 – 2018 Doyle W. Stephens Scholarship Award Presentation
Katherine Barrett, University of Notre Dame
12:00 – 1:00 - LUNCH/POSTERS
1:05 – KEYNOTE:
Political and Environmental Challenges for the Salton Sea
Michael Cohen, Pacific Institute, Senior Associate
1:45 – Source Regions and Elemental Composition of PM10 Mineral Dust Originating From the Exposed Lakebed of the Great Salt Lake
Kevin Perry, University of Utah, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
2:10 – Mapping Groundwater Quality and Chemistry Adjacent to Great Salt Lake, Utah
Stefan Kirby, Utah Geological Survey, Groundwater Group
2:35 – Can We Avoid the Tipping Point?
Armin Munévar, CH2M (now Jacobs), Global Technology Leader for Integrated Water Resource Management
3:00 – BREAK/POSTERS
3:25 – 4:55 – PANEL: The Bear River Compact – Then + Now
Martin & Nicholson Environmental Consultants, Project Manager and Regulatory Specialist,
Panelists:
Bear River Commission: 20-Year Compact Review
Jody Williams, Holland and Hart; Federal Commissioner and Chair of the Bear River Commission
Connecting Bear River to Great Salt Lake Health: Collaboration Concepts
Joan Degiorgio, The Nature Conservancy in Utah, Northern Mountains Regional Director
Lessons From the Desiccation of the World’s Saline Lakes: Is it Too Late for Great Salt Lake?
Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Utah State University, Watershed Sciences Department
Understanding How the Bear River Compact and Future Depletion Could Affect the Great Salt Lake
Craig Miller, Utah Division of Water Resources, Hydrology and Computer Modeling
Conservation Projects that Help Postpone the Bear River Project
Darren Hess, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, Asst. General Manager
5:00 – 6:00 – POSTER SESSION & RECEPTION (E. Conference Room)
6:30 – 9:30 – RECEPTION & BANQUET at the ALTA CLUB
Performance: Savage Poem Around Me
Original composition by Christopher Mansfield with text by Alfred Lambourne. Christopher Mansfield, piano; Hannah Stokes, voice.
2017 Alfred Lambourne Program
Friday May 11th
Friday, May 11th Schedule
Hemispheric • Regional • Backyard
Connectivity and Habitat Protection
7:15 – Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 – Welcome
8:10 – KEYNOTE:
Great Salt Lake: A Resource of Hemispheric Significance
Rob Clay, Western Hemispheric Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN), Director of the Executive Office
8:50 – Eared Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis): Changes in Affiliation Patterns Between British Columbia and Two Hypersaline Lakes in the USA
Sean Boyd, Environment Canada, Wildlife Research Division, Science and Technology Branch
9:15 – Gunnison Island, Pelicans, and Satellites
John Neill, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program, Avian Biologist
9:40 – The Importance of the Great Salt Lake and Promontory Peninsula to Raptor Populations
Steve Slater, HawkWatch International, Director of Conservation Sciences
10:05 – BREAK/POSTERS
10:30 – Revisiting Great Salt Lake Histories
Jedediah Rogers, Utah Historical Quarterly, Co-managing editor
Jeff Nichols, Westminster College, Dept. of History
10:55 – Lake Salt Knit
Virginia Catherall, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Curator of Education
11:20 – Allies All: The Power of Collaborative Partnerships in the Debate Over the Great Salt Lake Watershed
Casey Snider, Bear River Land Conservancy, Executive Director
11:50 – 1:00 -LUNCH/END of POSTER SESSION
1:05 – KEYNOTE:
Water and Birds in the Arid West: Saline Lake Habitats in Decline
Karyn Stockdale, National Audubon Society, Western Water Director
1:45 – Keeping Mono Lake Protected: Vigilance Through Public Policy and Science
Geoff McQuilkin, Mono Lake Committee, Executive Director
2:10 – Boom or Bust: How Waterfowl Respond to Varying Water Levels of the Great Salt Lake
Blair Stingham, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Migratory Game Bird Coordinator
2:35 – Opportunities for Improving Water Quality Using Flow Management in the lower Jordan River
Søren Simonsen, Jordan River Commission, Executive Director
Eric Duffin, Cirrus Ecological Solutions, Hydrologist
3:00 – What Should the Water Quality Goals for Great Salt Lake Wetlands Be?
Becka Downard, Utah Division of Water Quality, Wetland Coordinator
3:25 – West Davis Corridor Mitigation Plan
Randy Jefferies, Utah Department of Transportation, Project Manager
4:00 – Closing Remarks
Lynn de Freitas, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake, Executive Director
Thank you everyone!