The 2003 STREAMS Channel Protection and Restoration Conference
October 6 and 7, 2003, Columbus, Ohio

Reception and Exhibits: 5:00 - 6:30 pm (Atrium)

Poster Session 1: 6:00 - 7:30 pm (Oval)

Working Dinner: 7:30 - 9:00 pm NEMO for Streams (organizational meeting -- venue to be announced)

Workshops

Workshop1: Introduction to Stream Geomorphology & Stream System Measurements. (9:00 AM - 3:30 PM) - Instructors: Andy Ward, Greg Jennings, and Dawn Farver

Workshop 2: Understanding and Preventing Urbanization Impacts of Stream Health. (9:00 AM - 3:30 PM) - Instructors: Derek Booth and John Mathews

Workshop 3: Designing Structures to Prevent Stream Problems at Road Crossings. (9:00 AM - 3:30 PM) (Participants should have an engineering degree and basic knowledge of stream hydraulics and fluvial processes. Non-engineers should have extensive knowledge of stream hydraulics and fluvial processes.) Instructor: Peggy Johnson

Workshop 4: Obtaining and Applying Sediment Transport, Channel Bed, Bank and Bar Data. (9:00 AM - 3:30 PM) (Participants should have a basic knowledge of stream hydraulics and fluvial processes.) Instructors: Pete Downs and Dan Mecklenburg

Note: We are please to offer two additional workshops -- "Rosgen Stream Classification Methods Workshop" and "ODNR Natural Channel Design Tools Workshop" -- that will be held the day after the conference (October 8).

Conference Sessions
(Click each speaker's name below for a short bio.)

Session 1 (8:15 - 10:00 AM)

INTRODUCTION, etc. (5 minutes)

1. Understanding and Preventing Urbanization Impacts on Stream Health. Derek Booth.
2. Channel Naturalization. Bruce Rhoads.
3. Watershed Management and Channel Protection Strategies. Ken Brown.

   BREAK (10:00 - 10:30 AM)

Session 2 (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)

4. Soil Erosion and Sediment Export: Myths and Reality: The Coon Creek Experience. Stan Trimble.
5. Stream Biota and the Management of Riparian Zones. Lance Williams.
6. Large Wood as a Restoration Tool: I Fought the Law, and the Law Won. Doug Shields.

   PANEL DISCUSSION (15 minutes)

   LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION 2 (12:15 - 1:30 PM)

   • Great Lakes Drainage Ditch Luncheon
   • NEMO for Streams Luncheon
   • Other Participants in the Oval

Session 3 (1:30 - 3:00 PM)

7. Natural Channel Design on the Ground: Myths and Reality. Greg Jennings.
8. Stream Restoration in the Vicinity of Bridges. Peggy Johnson.
9. NRCS Stream Design Manual. Jon Fripp.

BREAK (3:00 - 3:30 PM)

Session 4 (3:30 AM - 4:45 PM)

10. Stream Restoration, Function and Storm Water Management Programs. Brant Keller.
11. Understanding Sediment Transport and Channel Morphology Interactions: The Key to Channel Protection and Restoration. Peter Downs.

    PANEL DISCUSSION AND RAP UP (15 minutes)

    Note: The topic Two-Stage Channel Designs and Design Tools for Small Ungaged Watersheds (Andy Ward and Dan Mecklenburg) will now be presented as a poster or exhibit.

Confirmed Speakers

The invited speakers, who will also assist with the workshops, are internationally renown and collectively they have authored about a 1000 papers on stream processes and watershed hydrology. They have assisted with numerous successful restoration projects and have developed a knowledge base and wide range of tools that aid in the wise protection, restoration, and management of stream and watershed systems.

Derek Booth: Co-Director of the Center for Water and Watershed Studies at the University of Washington, where he holds joint faculty appointments in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Earth and Space Sciences, Forest Resources, Urban Planning, and Landscape Architecture. He was the manager of the Basin Planning Program of King County's Surface Water Management Division, a U.S. EPA award-winning program for assessing the current and future conditions of some of the region's most rapidly urbanizing watersheds. He maintains active research into the causes of stream-channel degradation and the effectiveness of stormwater mitigation strategies. He has co-authored many geological maps for the U.S. Geological Survey, and several dozen papers and reports on the physical effects of urban development on aquatic systems. Web pages: Biographical Information and the Center for Water and Watershed Studies

Kenneth B. Brown: Aquatic Biologist, The Center for Watershed Protection. Mr. Brown has 15 years experience assessing and managing land development impacts on stream and wetland environments. He was a Senior Environmental Scientist with a leading Metropolitan Washington civil engineering/land planning firm. In 1995, Mr. Brown took a position as Special Protection Area Biologist with the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection where he conducted biological stream monitoring and reviewed development proposals in exceptional quality watersheds. Mr. Brown joined the Center for Watershed Protection in 1999, and is the principal author of Urban Stream Restoration Practices: An Initial Assessment. He is currently researching stream restoration design techniques for a guidance manual on urban watershed restoration. Web pages: Biographical Information and Center for Watershed Protection ; PDF file: Urban Stream Restoration Practices: An Initial Assessment

Peter Downs: Peter Downs is a Senior Fluvial Geomorphologist with Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, CA, and was previously a faculty member of the Department of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK (1993-2000). His research and consultancy experience in the UK, USA and New Zealand has focused on developing geomorphic reconnaissance protocols for baseline data collection, assessing the impact of watershed processes on sediment transport and channel morphology, and the planning, design and post-project evaluation of river restoration projects in a variety of river environments with differing management objectives. In California, he is currently involved with projects including the construction of a sediment budget for Redwood Creek, Marin Co., scientific assessments to underpin restoration design planning for a formerly gold-mined reach of the lower Merced River in the San Joaquin valley, geomorphic habitat characterization for the Santa Clara River, Ventura Co., and the development of biologic and geomorphic high flow experiments for CALFED Bay-Delta Program.

Jon Fripp: Civil Engineer, USDA/NRCS National Design Construction, and Soil Mechanics Center, Fort Worth, Texas. He has worked with the US Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington, Baltimore, and Vicksburg. The NRCS is in the beginning phases of developing a set of guidelines and tools for designing stream restorations, streambanks, and channels, using natural channel design approaches, as well as existing design guidance for structural channels. Ecological goals of restoration and environmental consequences of channel modifications will be integrated into this design guidance. Jon is one of the production team co-leaders of this effort and will describe the scope and content of this multi-faceted effort. Web page: National Design, Construction and Soil Mechanics Center

Greg Jennings: Greg Jennings is Associate Director of the Water Resources Research Institute of UNC and Professor of Biological & Agricultural Engineering at North Carolina State University. He has directed more than 100 research and demonstration projects and has authored over 150 technical articles on environmental issues including stream restoration, nonpoint source pollution control, and watershed management. Dr. Jennings serves on the NC Environmental Management Commission and the NC Sedimentation Control Commission. Web page: Biographical and links to other pages

Peggy Johnson: Dr. Johnson is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She conducts research in the areas of bridge scour, stream restoration, reliability analyses, and river mechanics. In 1992, Dr. Johnson won the National Science Foundation Young Investigator award and in 1995, she won the Presidential Faculty Fellow award. Peggy recently developed design parameters for the use of vanes, cross vanes, and w-weirs to protect bridge foundations from scour and to provide smooth transitions from a restored channel through a bridge opening. Dr. Johnson developed design guidelines for instream structures for the state of Maryland that included stream stabilization and restoration techniques. Web pages: Biographical Information and Hydraulic Control of Flow through Bridges

Brant Keller: Director of Public Works and Utilities, City of Griffin, Georgia. Brant has over 18 years of local government experience, 2 years of state government experience, and 8 years experience in private industry, 2 years as a college professor and 4 years in the USAF. Mr. Keller started the 1st Stormwater Utility in the State of Georgia and authored the book "Public Involvement and Education: The Critical Elements to the Success of Stormwater Utilities". He is the founder and Executive Director of the "Georgia Association of Stormwater Management Agencies." He has served on numerous National and State Committees and has made over 120 presentations in the Field of Stormwater Management. Web pages: City of Griffin, Georgia, Stormwater Department and Nonpoint Source: Whose Cross is it to Bear?

Dan Mecklenburg: Ecological Engineer, Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Dan is one of Ohio's leading experts on stream processes and natural channel design. He has developed several spreadsheet tools that have seen widespread application and has taught numerous workshops on stream processes. Dan provides extensive assistance to a diverse range of organizations, has helped with many restoration projects, and recently developed the designs for a restoration project that received a national award. He was the principal author of Ohio's Rainwater and Land Development Standards. Web page: Stream Morphology

Bruce Rhoads: Professor and Head, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bruce has two decade of experience as an educator and his research interests include: naturalization of streams in the Midwest, the linkages between fluvial conditions and fish habitat in human-modified streams, and the recovery of streams to human modification. Bruce is the nation's leading expert on the naturalization of low gradient channels. His has assisted with numerous projects and has published widely on a diverse range of topics including: the interaction between scientists and nonscientists in community-based watershed management, the role of large woody debris in the dynamics of a low-energy meandering stream in the Midwest. Web pages: Biographical Information and Research Interests

Doug Shields: Doug Shields is a research hydraulic engineer with the National Sedimentation Laboratory of the US Dept of Agriculture. He has 15 years of experience in rehabilitating physical aquatic habitat including stream restoration design, impacts of channel incision on warmwater stream ecosystems, hydraulic influence of woody vegetation, large woody debris, ecological indicators, streambank erosion, response of fluvial systems to disturbance, and environmental design criteria for river engineering. He is co-editor of the book River Channel Restoration: Guiding Principles for Sustainable Projects, John Wiley. Web pages: Biographical information and Stream Corridor

Stan Trimble: Professor in the Department of Geography and Institute of Environment, UCLA. His interests include human impacts on hydrology an in particular soil erosion, stream and valley sedimentation, and stream flow and channel changes. Stan was a research hydrologist with the USGS (1973-84), and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, Vienna, Oxford, London (University College), and Durham. He is joint editor of CATENA, an international journal of soils, hydrology, and geomorphology. Most recently, he served on the NRC Committee on Watershed Management, and continues to serve on committees concerned with the Upper Mississippi River where he has done research for 3 decades. Web page: Biographical Information

Andy Ward: Professor of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University. Andy has more than 25 years of international experience as a consultant, educator, and researcher with a focus on land use impacts on watershed hydrology and stream processes. He is the co-author of the best selling book Environmental Hydrology – the second edition that is co-author with Stan Trimble includes 150 pages on streams and will be available this Fall. Andy developed the DEPOSITS (included in SEDCAD), WASHMO, and ADAPT hydrologic models. Web page: Stream Restoration, Ecology, and Aquatic Management Solutions

Lance Williams: Assistant Professor of Stream Ecology, School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University. Lance is a stream ecologist specializing in understanding how different land uses impact stream communities. He has worked primarily in small, forested streams with fishes, macroinvertebrates, and amphibians. He has worked throughout the Southeastern and Midwestern United States, and his research primarily has been funded by the USDA Forest Service and the US Army. He has degrees in Zoology from University of Oklahoma and from Oklahoma State University, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Mississippi State University. Web page: Biographical Information