Presentations

KEYNOTE: Tiny but compelling voices: What insects can tell us about restoration and recovery

Celeste A. Searles Mazzacano, CASM Environmental, LLC

9:10 AM - 9:50 AM

Effective outreach to vulnerable and underserved communities through Community Engagement Liaisons (CELs)

Jennifer Devlin, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services

9:50 AM - 10:00 AM

Exploring the relationship between collaborative partnerships and outcomes: An in-depth look at the Tree for All Program

Rebecca McLain, Institute for Sustainable Solutions
Antonia Machado, Clean Water Services

10:00 AM - 10:10 AM

Portland’s Forest Park is economically undervalued therefore its management underfunded: A call for public private partnerships to conserve forest function and protect human health

Carole L. Hardy, Portland State University

10:10 AM - 10:20 AM

Understanding the gaps between interest and knowledge of bee pollinators

Lauren E. Bennett, Oregon State University
Gail Langellotto, Oregon State University

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM

Influence of water availability on native wildflower phenology and pollinator attractiveness

Aaron G. Anderson, Oregon State University
Lucas Costner, Oregon State University
Gail Langellotto, Oregon State University

11:00 AM - 11:10 AM

Plant community composition patterns in urban parks of Portland, Oregon

Michelle L. Talal, Oregon State University
Mary V. Santelmann, Oregon State University

11:10 AM - 11:20 AM

Exploratory noxious weed survey of the Middle and Upper Columbia Slough Watersheds

Alexander Staunch, Mosaic Ecology LLC

11:20 AM - 11:30 AM

KEYNOTE: The Extinction of Experience Revisited

Robert Michael Pyle, Writer, Biologist, and Independent Scholar

1:00 PM - 1:40 PM

Design for climate: An interdisciplinary approach

Jason A. King, Greenworks PC

1:40 PM - 1:50 PM

Hydraulic vulnerability of native trees is increased by urban heat

Aaron R. Ramirez, Reed College
Vivek Shandas, Portland State University
Todd Rosenstiel, Portland State University
Hannah Prather, Portland State University
Jack Aldrich, California State University - Long Beach

1:50 PM - 2:00 PM

Designing hydro-logical community resilience

Natalia S. Ortiz Luna, University of Oregon

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Interaction of climate change with restoration action maturation in an urban environment: Impacts to salmon habitat

Laura E. McMullen, ICF
Jon Walker, ICF
Chip McConnaha, ICF

2:10 PM - 2:20 PM

Who does it best? Engineers vs. beavers in a stormwater treatment facility

Katie A. Holzer, City of Gresham
Karen Bromley, City of Gresham
Torrey Lindbo, City of Gresham

2:50 PM - 3:00 PM

Dam, it's hot in here! Human- vs. beaver-constructed dams and stream temperature

Noah Jenkins, Johnson Creek Watershed Council

3:00 PM - 3:10 PM

Streams without biology: How physics inadvertently usurped river restoration

Janine M. Castro, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

3:10 PM - 3:20 PM

Mixing of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers across Sauvie Island, Oregon based on stable isotopes (δ18O and δD) of surface water

Mae Saslaw, Portland State University

3:20 PM - 3:30 PM

Urban impacts on the biological health of Portland streams

Chris Prescott, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services

3:30 PM - 3:40 PM