4th Annual Meeting
June 9-12, 2004
University of Arkansas
Hosted by the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Analysis, Design, and Management of Ecological Services
The Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas invites you to attend and participate in the American Ecological Engineering Society's Fourth Annual Meeting to be held June 9-12, 2004. The purpose is to engage in a meaningful discussion of the theory, principles, practices, and academic foundations of ecological engineering.
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The meeting is organized into two days of plenary presentations and nine poster mini sessions. Poster authors will give 5 minute summaries of their work and present their posters for 90 minutes for continued substantive interaction with other participants.
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Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
9:00 am - 4:00 pm: Stream Restoration Workshop
Mike Hanley, Stream Restoration Senior Project Director, The Nature Conservancy. The focus of this workshop will be on restoring ecological services in streams. This workshop will be a field-based lecture/demonstration, exploring the various design interventions available to the stream restoration engineer. Registration is required due to space limitations (approx. 25). Please email Robert Morgan at ramorga@uark.edu to reserve your slot. This workshop is covered in the registration fee.
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: AEES Business Meeting
7:00 pm: Ecological Engineering Social, George's Majestic Tavern - Beer Garden
Thursday, June 10, 2004
8:30 am - 9:00 am: Opening Remarks – Mark Brown, President, AEES
9:00 am - 10:00 am: Plenary Presentation: An Integrated, Conceptual Framework For Sustainable Water Resources Management: Engineers, Soft Sciences and the Hard Reality of Water Management – Kent Thornton, Principle, FTN Associates, LTD., Littlerock, AR
10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Poster Mini-Sessions
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Poster Session 1: Ecological Machinery
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Poster Session 2 : Fundamentals of Ecological Engineering: Building the Engineering Science Foundation
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Distinguished Lecture: The Existential Pleasures of Ecological Engineering – Patrick Kangas, University of Maryland
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Poster Min-Series
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Poster Session 3: Restoring Ecological Services along Stream Corridors
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Poster Session 4: Monitoring and Managing In-stream Ecological Services
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Poster Session 5: Modeling Ecological Services at the Watershed Scale
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Plenary Presentation: Designing Recombinant Ecologies – Stephen Luoni, Director, UA Community Design Center
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Social - Radisson Hotel McElroy Meeting Room
Friday, June 11, 2004
9:00 am - 10:00 am: Plenary Presentation: The Business of Ecological Engineering: Progress and Prospects – Jim Bays, Principal Technologist, Natural Treatment Systems, CH2MHILL
10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Poster Mini-Sessions
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Poster Session 6: From Science to Policy: Ecological Services Decision Support Systems
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Poster Session 7: Modeling, Design and Analysis of Complex Ecosystems
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Plenary Presentation: Self-Engineering in Phytoremediation: A Relationship with Ecological Engineering – Steve McCutcheon, USEPA NERL
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Poster Min-Series
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Poster Session 8: Ecological Engineering Education
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Poster Session 9: Phytoremediation
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Meeting Synopsis - Alex Horne, UC Berkley, Incoming President, AEES
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Saturday, June 12, 2004 - Field Trips
Float the Buffalo River: 6:00 am - 7:00 pm - $35, includes canoe rental, transportation, lunch and dinner
Fly Fishing on the White River: 7:00 am - 6:00 pm - $50, includes equipment rental, transportation, lunch and dinner
Caving the Ozarks: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm - $25, includes transportation, lunch and dinner
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Poster Sessions
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