Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Meeting2015

Burlington, VTSeptember 9 - 11

Program Book

AgendaWednesday, September 9, 2015

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast buffet - Woodbury Room, Hilton Garden Inn

8:30 Welcome and Intros - Woodbury Room

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Speaker - Jon Erickson - Ecological Economics

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break Round tables - Armory• Coastal Storms• Crude Oil Transport• Fisheries• Marine Operations/Shipboard Education• NOAA Outreach & Communication in the Great Lakes• Great Lakes Research Funding• Understanding Ecosystem Services

10:30 - 12:00

Break out Sessions• Environmental Literacy & Workforce Development - Hunt Board Room• Aquatic Invasive Species - Armory• Crude Oil Transport - Woodbury Room A• Planning for Impactful Evaluation - Woodbury Room B

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - The Armory

1:00 - 2:00 Plenary - National Sea Grant Office updates

2:00 - 3:30 Break out Sessions• Sense of Place as a Metric for Impact - Woodbury A• Communication under Duress - Hunt Room• Climate Adaptation Training for Resource Professionals - Woodbury B

3:30 - 5:00 Poster session: Bring a recent or your favorite program poster or other materials to share with the network

5:00 Dinner on your own; Extension Leaders meet for dinner

Thursday, September 10, 20157:30 - 8:30 Breakfast Buffet - Woodbury Room

8:30 Welcome and Intros - Woodbury Room

8:30 - 10:00 Plenary - Eric Smeltzer - Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation

Deborah Lee - Director, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory - GLERL update to the Sea Grant community

10:00 - 12:00

Network meetings (Communicators, Educators, Program Leaders), special focus ara or research topic meetings - Woodbury Room, Armory, Program Leaders in Hunt Room

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - The Armory

1:00 - 4:00 Field Trips• Green Infrastructure Walking Tour• R/V Melosira and Rubenstein Lab tour• Intervale Farm Tour• Watershed Alliance - water quality and stewardship• ECHO - Lake Aquarium and Science Center, Lake Champlain Basin Program, and Rubenstein

Lab tour

4:00 - 6:00 Break

6:00 - 7:007:00 - 8:008:00 - 9:00

Cocktail hourDinnerDessert and Awards

Friday, September 11, 20157:30 - 8:30 Breakfast Buffet - Woodbury Room9:00 - 10:30 Break out Sessions

• Coastal Storms - Woodbury A• Fisheries - Woodbury B• International Great Lakes Datum Update - Hunt

10:30 - 11:00

Closing Plenary - Breck Bowden (LCSG Director) and Kris Stepenuck (LCSG Extension Leader)

11:00 Box lunches to go

Guest SpeakersJon Erickson is Professor of Ecological Economics in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. He has published widely on energy & climate change policy, land conservation, watershed planning, environmental public health, and the theory and practice of ecological economics. His books include The Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices from the Adirondack Park (2009), Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application (2007), and Ecological Economics: a Workbook for Problem-Based Learning (2005). Jon is also an Emmy award-winning producer of films such as the four-part PBS series Bloom on sources and solutions to nutrient pollution in Lake Champlain.

Eric Smeltzer is an Environmental Scientist at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. Lake Champlain water quality management has been Eric’s major area of focus since the 1980s. His work on Lake Champlain has involved discharge impact studies, development of phosphorus water quality standards, lake modeling studies, long-term monitoring, and development of the Lake Champlain Phosphorus Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL).

Mike Smiles is the Executive Director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, a non-profit museum dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Lake Champlain through publications, research, exhibits and education programs. The museum uses nautical exploration, an active fleet of historic replica vessels, boat-building programs for special needs students, and hands-on exhibits and learning adventures for all ages to bring to life the stories of Lake Champlain and its people. Previously, Mike was the Director of Development at Mystic Seaport - the Museum of America and the Sea and Chief Development Officer of The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.

Angela ArcherFellowship Program Leader

Abigail BobrowCommunication Specialist

C. Eliana BrownStormwater Specialist

Terri HallesyEducation Coordinator

Kaitlin HollenbeckWater Resources Outreach Assistant

Erin KnowlesCommunication Specialist

Irene MilesCommunication Coordinator

Brian MillerIllinois-Indiana Sea Grant Director

Caitie NigrelliEnvironmental Social Scientist

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant

Kara SalazarSustainable Communities Extension Specialist

Margaret SchneemannWater Resources Economist

Kristin TePasCommunity Outreach Specialist

Kristin Hope WalkerEnvironmental Educator

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant

Lake Champlain Sea GrantBreck BowdenLake Champlain Sea Grant Director

Erin De VriesAquatic Science Literacy Educator and UVM Watershed Alliance Coordinator

Mark MalchoffAquatic Resources Specialist

Linda PattersonLand-Use Planning and Water Quality Educator

Elissa SchuettResearch Coordinator and Communication Specialist

Kris StepenuckExtension Leader

Becky TharpGreen Infrastructure Collaborative Manager

Mark BreederlandExtension Educator

Jim DianaMichigan Sea Grant Director

Clarence FullardProgram Coordinator

Erin JarvieMaster’s Student

Katy HintzenExtension Educator

Cynthia HudsonExtension Program Communications Manager

Ronald KinnunenExtension Educator

Ankita MandeliaInternational Joint Commission Fellow

Rhett RegisterCommunications Program Leader

Michigan Sea Grant

Catherine RisengResearch Program Manager and Assistant Research Scientist

Amy SamplesCoastal Resilience Specialist

Heather TriezenbergExtension Specialist and Program Coordinator

Michigan Sea Grant

Dale BergeronMaritime Extension Educator

John BilottaWater Resource Management and Policy Extension Educator

Cynthia HagleyEnvironmental Quality Extension Educator

Douglas JensenAquatic Invasive Species Program Coordinator

Marte KitsonAquatic Invasive Species Specialist and National Park Service Liaison

Brent SchleckCoastal Storms Outreach Coordinator

Jesse SchombergInterim Co-Director, Coastal Communities and Land Use Planning Extension Educator

Hilarie SorensenClimate Change Extension Educator

Minnesota Sea Grant

Mary AustermanGreat Lakes Coastal Community Development Specialist

Katherine Bunting-HowarthNew York Sea Grant Associate Director

Helen DomskeCoastal Education Specialist, Associate Director, Great Lakes Program

Paul FocazioWeb Content Manager

Dave MacNeillFisheries and Ecosystem Specialist

Brittney RogersExtension Aide

Heather WeitznerGreat Lakes Coastal Processes and Hazards Specialist

David WhiteRecreation and Tourism Specialist, Associate Director, Great Lakes Research Consortium

William WiseNew York Sea Grant Director

New York Sea Grant

Jill BartolottaExtension Educator

Kristen FusselExecutive Assistant

Tory GabrielExtension Program Manager

Scott HardyExtension Educator

Joe LucenteExtension Development Coordinator

Lyndsey ManzoEducation Specialist

Sarah OrlandoClean Marinas Program Manager

Ohio Sea Grant

David BoughtonMaritime Education

Thomas CermakCoastal Outreach Specialist

Marti MartzSenior Coastal Outreach Specialist

Anna McCartneyCommunication and Education Specialist

Eric ObertDirector of Extension

Sean RaffertySenior Research Specialist

Sara StahlmanSenior Coastal Outreach Specialist

Sarah WhitneyAssociate Director

Pennsylvania Sea Grant

Tim CampbellAIS Outreach Specialist

Gene ClarkCoastal Engineering Specialist

Moira HarringtonAssistant Director for Communications

David HartAssistant Director for Extension

Anne MoserSenior Special Librarian

Julia NoordykNOAA Coastal Storms Program Outreach Coordinator

Titus SeilheimerFisheries Specialist

Wisconsin Sea Grant

Dale BakerNational Sea Grant Advisory Board

Sarah BowmanNational Sea Grant Office, Knauss Fellow

Jonathan EigenActing Asst Deputy Director of Operations, National Sea Grant College Program

Chris EllisNOAA Office for Coastal Management,Social Scientist

Kathe Glassner-ShwayderNOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, Communications and Outreach Specialist

Margaret LansingNOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Information Services Branch Chief

Deborah LeeNOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Director

Kodi MonroeOU CIMMS/NSSL, SG Lab Liaison at NSSL

Laura Rear McLaughlinNOAA CO-OPS

NOAA Attendees

Colleen RocheNOAA CO-OPS

Elizabeth RohringNational Sea Grant Office, Director of Communication

Rochelle SturtevantRegional Sea Grant Extension Educator

NOAA Attendees