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8:00-8:30am     Announcements

Main Room

Track A

8:30-10:00am 

Panel 4A Restoration & Thermal Patterns

 

Scott O'Daniel CTUIR

Meacham Creek Water Quality

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Sierra Higheagle Nez Perce Tribe

Zenner Meadows Restoration Using Induced Meandering

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John Palmer EPA Region 10

Columbia River Thermal Refuges

8:30-10:00am 

4B Clean Water Act Program Changes

Donna Downing EPA HQ

Water Quality Certification Rule Changes and Impacts on Tribes

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Laura Shumway EPA HQ

ATTAINS Phased National Rollout: Including Tribal Assessments

Track B

10:00-10:30am     Break

10:30-12:00pm

5A Thermal Patterns    featuring an interactive sonde discussion

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Andy Gendaszek USGS

Thermal Patterns in Mill Creek

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Mark Buettner Klamath Tribes

Long-Term Water Quality Monitoring Program: Key Program For Assessing Effects of Land and Water Management and Climate Change in the Upper Klamath Basin

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Candace Penn Squaxin Island Tribe

Vote for your favorite sonde brand - Join this session to give us your input!

10:30-12:00pm

5B Clean Water Act Program Changes & Opportunities

Donna Downing EPA HQ

Navigable Waters Protection Rule (formally WOTUS)

 

Damaris Christensen EPA HQ

Navigable Waters Protection Rule (formally WOTUS) continued

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Krista Mendelman EPA Region 10

Who Knew That Hazard Mitigation Could Be So Beautiful - Natural Hazard Mitigation Plans and Nature-Based Solutions

12:00-1:00pm     Lunch 

1:00-2:00pm

6A Water Quality Monitoring

Julian Sammons Skokomish Tribe

Off-reservation Pollution Sources that Affect the Skokomish Reservation - 106 Case Study

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Eric Berntsen Kalispel Tribe

Characterizing Spatiotemporal Variability in Water Temperature and Habitat to Inform Restoration for Cold-Water Fishes

1:00-2:00pm 

6B Wetland Program Development Grants

Linda Storm EPA Region 10

Introduction and Program Basics

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Janice Martin Quinault Indian Nation

Tribal WPDG case study

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Matt Baerwalde Snoqualmie Tribe

Tribal Wetlands Working Group

2:00-2:15pm        Break

2:15-3:00pm     Strategizing and Closing

Vicki Kruger Squaxin Island Tribe

Main Room

Tribal Nonpoint Training

Day 2 October 27 

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