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Welcome and Plenary Session ‐ Empire Room Invited Speakers: Location: Winter Hession Shrestha Jennings Withers Tamkin Robinson Connell Houston Law Hoffman Holzbauer‐Schweitzer Lunch ‐ Invited Speaker: Location: Elkins Schramski Capps Jackson Blersch Jayakaran Panda O'Keefe TBD Joan Nassauer ‐ University of Michigan Joe Mulligan and Chelina Odbert ‐ Kounkuey Design Initiative Integrating stoichiometric thinking into socio‐ecological systems: Relationships among ecology, wastewater infrastructure, and environmental regulations Ligotti Hall 2 17th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society Integrating hydrologic, cultural, and socioeconomic elements in a watershed to optimize GSI efficacy TBD Willow Room Ligotti Hall 2 Willow Room Ligotti Hall 1 Ligotti Hall 1 Building a research‐scale aquaponics system ‐ Recovering nutrients for food production Can riparian forest cover cool streams that have warmed in the sun? Arrival, Attendee Pick‐up and Registration at The Classic Center (300 N Thomas St., Athens, GA 30601), The Foundry Building (Refer to attached map) Geospatial technology‐based Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle habitat suitability analysis in Florida for conservation decision support Residential food production: Solar Decathlon 2017 Concurrent Technical Sessions Sustainable Food Systems Ecological Connectivity Engineering food security in the Anthropocene Socio‐Cultural Dimensions Taste of Athens ‐ Grub and Pub Crawl 1:30‐2:30 PM Ecological Engineering for Adapatation in the Anthropocene The devil's in the ditches: Spatially‐explicit tools for multi‐scale prioritization to restore aquatic connectivity Moderator: Duncan Elkins Moderator: John Schramski Moderator: Anand Jayakaran "Ecological Engineering for Adaptation in the Anthropocene" 10:30 ‐ 11:50 AM Concurrent Technical Sessions Characterization and sorption capacity of four biochars for stormwater filtration Application of the high definition stream survey on the Harpeth and Falling Water River Stormwater Management Effects of different soil media, vegetation, and hydrologic treatment on nutrient and sediment removal and greenhouse gas dynamics in roadside bioretention systems Ecological Restoration Innovations in Measurement and Data Collection Monday, May 22 Using carbon isotopes to measure the reduction of hydrocarbons by bioretention Measuring water quality Impact of a coastal plain stream restoration during construction What is natural anyway? Toward a hybrid design approach for restoring streams in the anthropocene D'Olive watershed restoration rrojects to reduce sedimentation in Mobile Bay UAV‐based LiDAR for agricultural and environmental mapping Using Bowen's Ratio to calculate crop coefficients for a shrub/carr wetland 8:30 ‐ 10:30 AM 7:00 ‐ 9:00 AM 8:00 AM Hosted by the University of Georgia ‐ Athens, Georgia ‐ The Classic Center Link to our website Continental Breakfast, Registration and Poster Set‐up at The Classic Center in The Foundry Building (Refer to attached map) Moderator: Stephanie Houston 4:00 ‐ 8:00 PM Evaluating low impact development best management practices as an alternative to traditional urban stormwater management Informal Gathering and Sponsor Table Set Up at The Classic Center in The Foundry Building Tuesday, May 23 Student Design Competition Meeting ‐ Willow Room 4:00 ‐ 6:00 PM 6:00 PM Noon Restoring old fields: Plant community responses to burning, tilling, and mowing Correlating watershed remote sensing observations with source water quality Darryl Haddock ‐ West Atlanta Watershed Alliance Moderator: Greg Jennings Moderator: Cully Hession 1

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Welcome and Plenary Session ‐ Empire RoomInvited Speakers:

Location: 

Winter Hession Shrestha

Jennings Withers Tamkin

Robinson Connell Houston

Law Hoffman Holzbauer‐Schweitzer

Lunch ‐ Invited Speaker:

Location: 

Elkins Schramski Capps

Jackson Blersch Jayakaran

Panda O'Keefe TBD

Joan Nassauer ‐ University of Michigan Joe Mulligan and Chelina Odbert ‐ Kounkuey Design Initiative

Integrating stoichiometric thinking into socio‐ecological systems: Relationships among ecology, wastewater infrastructure, and environmental regulations

Ligotti Hall 2

17th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society

Integrating hydrologic, cultural, and socioeconomic elements in a watershed to optimize GSI efficacy

TBD

Willow Room

Ligotti Hall 2 Willow Room

                Ligotti Hall 1

                Ligotti Hall 1

Building a research‐scale aquaponics system ‐ Recovering nutrients for food production

Can riparian forest cover cool streams that have warmed in the sun?

Arrival, Attendee Pick‐up and Registration at The Classic Center (300 N Thomas St., Athens, GA 30601), The Foundry Building (Refer to attached map)

Geospatial technology‐based Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle habitat suitability analysis in Florida for conservation decision support

Residential food production: Solar Decathlon 2017

Concurrent Technical Sessions

Sustainable Food SystemsEcological Connectivity

Engineering food security in the Anthropocene

Socio‐Cultural Dimensions

Taste of Athens ‐ Grub and Pub Crawl

1:30‐2:30 PM

Ecological Engineering for Adapatation in the Anthropocene

The devil's in the ditches: Spatially‐explicit tools for multi‐scale prioritization to restore aquatic connectivity

Moderator: Duncan Elkins Moderator: John Schramski Moderator: Anand Jayakaran

"Ecological Engineering for Adaptation in the Anthropocene"

10:30 ‐ 11:50 AM Concurrent Technical Sessions

Characterization and sorption capacity of four biochars for stormwater filtration

Application of the high definition stream survey on the Harpeth and Falling Water River

Stormwater Management

Effects of different soil media, vegetation, and hydrologic treatment on nutrient and sediment removal and greenhouse gas dynamics in roadside bioretention systems

Ecological Restoration Innovations in Measurement and Data Collection

Monday, May 22

Using carbon isotopes to measure the reduction of hydrocarbons by bioretention

Measuring water quality Impact of a coastal plain stream restoration during construction

What is natural anyway? Toward a hybrid design approach for restoring streams in the anthropocene

D'Olive watershed restoration rrojects to reduce sedimentation in Mobile Bay

UAV‐based LiDAR for agricultural and environmental mapping

Using Bowen's Ratio to calculate crop coefficients for a shrub/carr wetland

8:30 ‐ 10:30 AM

7:00 ‐ 9:00 AM8:00 AM

Hosted by the University of Georgia ‐ Athens, Georgia ‐ The Classic Center Link to our website

Continental Breakfast, Registration and Poster Set‐up at The Classic Center in The Foundry Building (Refer to attached map)

Moderator: Stephanie Houston

4:00 ‐ 8:00 PM

Evaluating low impact development best management practices as an alternative to traditional urban stormwater management

Informal Gathering and Sponsor Table Set Up at The Classic Center in The Foundry Building

Tuesday, May 23

Student Design Competition Meeting ‐ Willow Room

4:00 ‐ 6:00 PM6:00 PM

Noon

Restoring old fields: Plant community responses to burning, tilling, and mowing

Correlating watershed remote sensing observations with source water quality

Darryl Haddock ‐ West Atlanta Watershed Alliance

Moderator: Greg Jennings Moderator: Cully Hession

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Location: 

Balcom Lammers Wituszynski

Haase Keys Winfrey

Goo Govenor Hitchcock

Lewis Stroth Francis

Location: 

Aguilar Bledsoe

Lewis Castano

Burchell Swan

Probabilistic floodplain mapping as a template for planning urban revitalization

Tackling resiliency resistance: Lessons learned from three years of flood recovery on Colorado’s Front Range

Climate change game model ‐ A tool to deliver better public policies to adapt to climate change

Ligotti Hall 2 Willow Room

                Ligotti Hall 1

                Ligotti Hall 1

Repleneshing Silver Springs with a multifunctional wetland park

Metagenomic analysis of an ecological wastewater treatment plant's microbial communities and their potential to metabolize pharmaceuticals

Wastewater Treatment and Resuse

Rare earth element tracers reveal fine sediment mobilization and deposition in a first order stream

Net‐zero water: Residential greywater filtration

Tuesday, May 23 ‐ Continued

Moderator: Ian Balcom Moderator: Roderick Lammers Moderator: Daniel Hitchcock

Moderator: Michael Burchell Moderator: Brian BledsoeStudent Design Competition

Evaluating ecohydrological function and water quality benefits to support green infrastructure decision‐making in coastal South Carolina

Improving biodiversity of urban waterfronts: Algae in cement to increase biofouling and colonization

Concurrent Technical Sessions

Urban Ecosystems

Older stormwater biofilters lose plant diversity but not functional diversity

The influence of local landscape features on birds in a residential neighborhood of a large midwestern city

Assessing the impacts of large wood on flooding dynamics in a headwater Appalachian stream

Urban Planning and Resilience

Constructed treatment wetlands for tropical conditions: A Costa Rica case study

Constructed Wetlands

Concurrent Technical Sessions4:10 ‐ 5:10 PM

2:40‐4:00 PM

Fluvial Geomorphology

Ligotti Hall 2 Willow Room

Can strategic location of constructed wetlands designed to treat low strength rural wastewater accelerate improvements in watershed health?

Buses Return to The Classic Center

Long‐term evaluation of a stormwater wetland park: Vegetation diversity through hydroperiod restoration

9:15 PM

5:45 PM

Dedicated time slot for students to attend concurrent technical sessions or work on the design competition.

Odum School of Ecology Welcome Dinner Reception at Terrapin Brewing Co.6:00 ‐ 9:15 PMBuses Depart from The Classic Center for Terrapin Brewing Co.

Full spectrum analytical channel design with the capacity/supply ratio (CSR)

Alternative on‐site wastewater treatment technologies to reduce biochemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids, and total nitrogen from high strength commercial wastewater

A new intermediate complexity model for predicting channel evolution in stream networks

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Location: 

Peterson Wind Robinson

Risse Schueler Williams

Hall Jacobs Hickman

Calabria Bell Johnston

Location: 

Bhattacharjee

Kline

Stephens Davis

Hoffman Huynh

10:40 AM ‐ Noon                Ligotti Hall 1 Ligotti Hall 2 Willow Room

Moderator: Steven McCutcheonStream Habitats and Environmental Flows

McCutcheon Proteomics of phytoremediation

Moderator: Tim Stephens

Local Field Tours

Plants for vegetated channels in nurseries: Evaluation of seven aquatic plant species for susceptibility to five species of Phytophthora

Concurrent Technical Sessions

Urban Innovation and Revitalization

Regenerative stormwater conveyance: predictions and reality

Engineering design of green roofs for stormwater controlModeling effects of anthropogenic barriers on salt marsh migration under sea‐level rise in coastal Georgia

Poster Session (See presentation list on page 5) ‐ Cypress Room4:00 PM ‐ 6:00 PM

Low flow trends at southeast U.S. streamflow gages

Water supply system modeling for evaluating alternatives to balance instream and off‐stream flow needs

Indicator bacteria, sediment, and antibiotic‐resistance gene transport via runoff from vegetable plots amended with manure

Research needs related to living shorelines in the Southeast; A new role for ecological engineers

Fate and transport of antibiotics and nutrients in dairy manure management systems

Ligotti Hall 2 Willow Room

Habitat provision associate with environmental flows

Using a second generation biofuel crop for phytostabilization of contaminated military lands

Phytometabolism of sulfamethazine by Arabidopsis thaliana

Noon

Moderator: Natasha Bell Moderator: Joshua RobinsonAntibiotics and Nutrients in Agricultural ApplicationsResilient Coastlines

                Ligotti Hall 1

The Turner Field Redevelopment: A landmark opportunity for green infrastructure and urban stormwater management

Life cycle impacts of a commercial rainwater harvesting system and sustainability analysis using a modified eco‐efficiency framework

Ecological engineering design for coastal bioengineered structures

Persistence of culturable antibiotic‐resistant Escherichia coli  from manure amended vegetable fields

Using EC to understand mechanisms that drive plant alliance shifts in coastal settings

Moderator: Mark Risse

Wednesday, May 24

Identification of primary habitat and water quality stressors of aquatic macroinvertebrates across West Virginia using a genus‐level index of biodiversity

Phytoremediation Student Design Competition

Dedicated time slot for students to attend concurrent technical sessions or work on the design competition.

1:30 PM ‐ 4:00 PMLunch

Concurrent Technical Sessions9:00 ‐ 10:20 AM

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Location: 

Bartholomew Cubas Walteros

Kurki‐Fox Horne Aird

Uribe Roy Turk

Schmidt Morshed

Location: 

Nairn Witarsa Panda

Beutel Lansing Samples

Fuhrmann Hasan Weber

Panda Hassanein Page

                Ligotti Hall 1 Ligotti Hall 2 Willow Room

                Ligotti Hall 1 Ligotti Hall 2 Willow Room

Moderator: John Paul Schmidt Moderator: Alex Horne Moderator: Jeff Turk

Effective depth controls the nitrate removal rates in a water supply resevoir with a high nitrate load

Can we acheive needed nutrient BMPs using River Diversion Wetlands (RDWs) to remove nutrients and reverse eutrophication in lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, and the coastal oceans?

10:40 ‐ 12:00 PM

Forested wetland conservation on the Coastal Plain in Georgia

Contamination Analysis and Remediation Bioenergy and Applications

Processing the archive of publicly available satellite imagery for inland water quality monitoring

State Botanical Gardens Field TripBusiness Meeting

Thursday, May 25

1:00 ‐ 2:00 PM12:00 ‐ 1:00 PM

2:30 PM

The use of hypolimnetic oxygenation to restore ecosystem function in the bottom of lakes and reservoirs

Lunch

Ecological applications of Google Earth Engine: A multi‐petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary‐scale analysis capabilities

Nutrient Removal and Analysis Engaging Education

Concurrent Technical Sessions

Moderator: Robert Nairn Moderator: Stephanie Lansing Moderator: TBD

Ecological Engineering: Source of inspiration for an innovative approach in elementary, middle and high school curriculum

Wetland Restoration and Management

Bio‐slurry in plant mircobial fuel cells for electricity generation

Creating bioenergy from algal flow way using anaerobic digestion

Effects of the oxidation‐reduction potential on sediment ammonia desorption in surface waters

9:00 ‐ 10:20 AM

Lake Tahoe aquifer contamination susceptibility analysis through fully‐automated DRASTIC groundwater assessment model development

Stream recovery in a mining‐impacted watershed‐ecotoxic metal removal in passive treatment systems through targeted mechanisms in multiple process units

Functional diversity of Andean wetland vegetation and its role in water supply

An environmental course design: philosophy and causality for the understanding, planning, and management of environmental systems

Model development To assess transformation of inorganic nutrient to microalgal biomass

Nutrients, agriculture, and bioenergy: Innovations to close the nutrient loop

Prioritizing the location of greeen infrastructure to maximize effectiveness of stormwater mitigation for the City of Sandy Springs

Concurrent Technical Sessions

Geospatial Analysis and Applications for Decision Support

Characterizing the background water quality for natural wetlands in North Carolina and the implications on wetland management

Impacts of historic groundwater alteration and recovery on wetland soil functions in isolated cypress domes of west central Florida

Large‐scale Mississippi River diversions designed for coastal restoration: What is the eutrophication risk?

Potential sinkholes risk probability analysis through automated geospatial modeling

A wastewater treatment wetland at a school monitored for performance in Washington, D.C.

Nitrate addition as an ecotechnology to reduce mercury bioaccumulation in aquatic ecosystems: the Occoquan Resevoir case study

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EmilyBeatty Mark R. Kettle Creek Battlefield: Natural channel design alternative for Kelly Creek

Jessica T. R.BenjaminAbhinavLawrenceKevinEthanBrittanyBrockJeffreyCourtneyEugeneAyellaCristinaBryanPeterPeterPeter

Mulligan Joe Flood resilience in slums: Community‐responsive adaptation in Kibera, NairobiMattMaryAdrianDerrickClaireAdrianDhanuskaDanielleMichelleAustinYan Groundwater fluxes estimation: A thermal balance approach

Poster Title

Effect of Guar on removal and Treatment of catfish waste Runoff, sediment yield, and hydrologic modeling of na ve prairie and encroached EasternRedcedar Watersheds

Efficiency of a new nano‐iron product to boost biogas production Studying the effec veness of a greywater filtra on system at improving water quality in a living building

Modeling impacts of sea‐level rise, oil price and managementstrategy on sustaining Mississippi delta marshes with hydraulic dredging Development of a vegeta ve based LID suitability index for coastal coun esof South Carolina

Measuring water quality impact of a coastal plain stream restoration during construction Improving drainage system design in bioreten on areas for op mal performance

Water scavenging in Appalachia

Analysis of hydraulic reten on  me for modeling removal of pollutantsin abBioreten on basin

Inventorying low impact develop best management practices on Georgia's coastEffects of baseflow response to spatial arrangements of infiltration facilitiesScrubbing H2S from farm‐based anaerobic digestive systemsBorn resistance of salt cedar (Tamarix spp)as a tool for water managementBarriers to ubiquitous American adoption of large‐scale anaerobic digestion

Furthering a sustainable campus: Research inspired by HampshireCollege's living buildingUnmanned aircraft vehicle use in aerial sprayingImpact of control structures on the restoration of wetland hydrology within the Great Dismal Swamp State Park

Modeling the impact of manure applica on prac ces: Phosphorous discharge from the Maumee WatershedA preliminary comparison of microclimates in two exhibit tropical rain forestsRestoring milkweed: Balancing ecosystem services with pest managementPre‐Treatment of algae from an algal turf scrubber for anaerobic digestionAdvancing equity: Comparing water violations in rural versus urban Virginia

Monitoring of a floa ng treatment wetland retrofit on a stormwater pond usingcon nuous, mul ‐point‐in‐situ sampling methodsA unique biofuel option from a novel algal ecotechnologyAn ecological survey of a novel urban estuarine ecosystem in Baltimore, MarylandA full scale model living bulkhead design tested for deployment on Anacostia River in Washington, D.C.

Novel eQUEST simula on of indoor ver cal flow constructed wetlands and impacts on HVAC performance

WinterWood‐RamirezWozniakZhou

MayMay

RaymondRubischSaenzSandersShillingtonWiegmanWijesinghe

GrutterKamrathKastKeirnLawMaile‐MoskowitzMarcilloMaxwellMay

Poster Reception ‐ Wednesday, May 24th from 4:00 ‐ 6:00 PM

Poster PresentersBanach

BrownChoatChoudhuryDavisDomineyDonahue

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Registration

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