The 2011 Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Water Pollution Biologists Association
November 14 - 17
Montgomery Bell State Park, Tennessee

Monday, November 14, 2011

12:30 – 5:30    TN Quality Assurance Workshop (TDEC Biologists only)
                        12:30 – 1:00: Review of habitat assessment protocols (Room A1)
                        1:00 – 4:30:  Field Exercise
4:30 – 5:30: Group discussion and problem solving (habitat, periphyton, bugs)          Room A1

7:00 – 10:00    Registration and refreshments in hospitality Suite

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

7:00 – 8:00      SWPBA registration outside conference room

8:00 – 8:15      Welcome, Announcements and Door Prizes - Kim Sparks, 2011 SWPBA President

8:15 – 8:30      Welcome from Tennessee Division of Water Pollution Control - Garland Wiggins, Deputy Director

8:30 – 9:00      Ramblings from a couple of antique biologists- Ken Pointer and Robert Worthington, original SWPBA members

Moderator: Michael Atchley, TDEC

9:00 – 9:20      Nashville flood of May 2010 – Jimmy Smith, Nashville Environmental Field office, TDEC

9:20 – 9:40      Memphis flood 2011 – Joellyn Brazile, Memphis Environmental Field Office – TDEC

9:40 – 10:00    Hurricane Katrina case study – Mike Beiser, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality

10:00 – 10:20  The Effects of a combined hydrologic and hydraulic drought in Tennessee
during 2007 – Joy Broach, Environmental Section, USACE

BREAK: 10:20 – 10:35

Door Prize Drawing 10:35!

Moderator: Greg Harris, TDEC

10:40– 11:00   Summary of biological and water quality impacts of the Kingston Ash Spill – Larry Everett, Knoxville Environmental Field Office, TDEC

11:00 – 11:20  MC 252 incident – Mike Beiser, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality

11:20 – 11:40  Pryor oil spill – Larry Everett, Knoxville Environmental Field Office, TDEC

11:40 – 12:00  Mercury air deposition and selenium levels in Tennessee fish and surface water – Michael Graf, Water Pollution Control, TDEC

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

Door prize drawing 1:00!

Moderator: Brandon Chance, TDEC

1:05 – 1:25      The bridges of Wayne County – Chad Augustin, Columbia Environmental Field Office, TDEC

1:25 – 1:45      Healing the scars: hopeful trends in west Tennessee mining – Sharon Kington, Jackson Environmental Field Office, TDEC

1:45 – 2:05      Coal mines and critters – A proposed relationship? – Lisa Hicks, Kentucky Division of Water

2:05 – 2:25      Explorations of relationships between specific conductance values and benthic macroinvertebrate bioclassifications in North Carolina – Susan Gale, Wetland Program Development Unit, NCDWQ.

2:25 – 2:45      Trashing of Mississippi streams:  insightful habitat augmentation or thoughtless degradation? – Susan Adams, Southern Research Station, USFS

2:45 – 3:05      Emergency Streambank Stabilization and Measures Taken to Mitigate Impacts to
                        Archeological Sites and Freshwater Mussel Resources – Joy Broach, Environmental Section, USACE

Break 3:05– 3:20

Door Prize drawing 3:20!

Moderator: Tina Robinson, TDEC

3:25 – 3:45      Current efforts to understand crayfish distributions and status within the Tennessee River system, with discussion of Tennessee’s newest species, Barbicambarus simmonsi – Jeff Simmons, Tennessee Valley Authority

3:45 – 4:05      Odonates: an overview of the nymphs of dragonflies and damselflies occurring in the southeast – Larry Everett, Knoxville Environmental Field Office, TDEC

4:05 – 4:25      TN odonates; an overview of adult stage dragonflies and damselflies – Richard Connors, Resource Management Division, Tennessee State Parks and Natural Areas

4:25 – 4:45      Macroinvertebrates in headwater streams across EPA region IV in the southeast –Ross Vander Vorste and Larry Eaton North Carolina Division of Water Quality

4:45 – 5:05      Blackwater and clearwater streams in south Georgia coastal plain; pH and DO comparisons – Tasha Hickman and Ben Hutton Georgia Environmental Protection Division

5:05 - 7:00      Dinner on your own

7:00 – 10:00   Hospitality suite open to all SWPBA and 401 Conference (Join us for a luau!)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: Joint SWPBA and 401 Conference

7:30 – 8:00      SWPBA registration outside conference room

8:00 – 8:10      Announcements and door prizes, Kim Sparks, SWPBA president

8:10 – 8:25      Welcome from Paul Davis, Director, Water Pollution Control, TDEC

8:25 – 8:45      Welcome Dr. Shari Meghreblian, Assistant Commissioner, TDEC

Moderator: Morris Flexner, US EPA

8:45 – 9:15      Climate change impacts on water resources in the southeastern U.S. – Can we adapt? – Peter Caldwell, Ph.D., Eastern Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USFS

9:15 – 9:45      Establishing a collaborative and multipurpose long-term national network of reference watersheds and monitoring sites for freshwater streams in the United States – Anne Choquette, USGS

9:45 – 10:15    Framework for a Monitoring Network to Detect Climate Changes in Streams in the Northeast – Britta Bierwagen, U.S. EPA

10:15 – 10:30 Break sponsored by 401 conference

10:30 – Door Prize Drawing!

Moderator: Morris Flexner, US EPA

10:35 – 11:00  Instream flow science in the southeastern United States - Mary Davis, Ph.D, Southern Instream Flow Network, SARP

11:00 – 11:30  How Warm is Hot?  Stream temperature relationships to warmwater fish and crayfish distributions … a new study"– Susan Adams, Southern Research Station, USFS

11:30 – 12:00 Climate change predictions and water management options from coupled watershed and salmon population dynamic models – Lisa Thompson, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of California.
 
12:00 – 1:00   Lunch on own

SWPBA and 401 Optional field activities (sign up for one by noon on Wednesday)

 
Mound Bottom – Ancient Indian Ceremonial Center

1:00 – 1:30 – Travel to site
1:30 – 3:00 -  Tour Site
3:00 – 3:30 –  Return to MBSP (some people may chose to drive home from site)

Leipers Fork Stream Restoration Project

1:00 - 1:45 travel to site
1:45 - 3:00 tour the project site
3:00 - 3:45 return to MBSP (some may want to leave directly from site)