Symposia

12th Annual Lamprey River Symposium

Thursday, January 17, 2019

James Hall, Room G46 - University of New Hampshire

8:00-8:30 - Registration - James Hall G46; Light refreshments - James Hall G49

8:30-8:45 - Introduction and Welcome - Bill McDowell

12:30 - 1:15 - Lunch - James Hall G49

1:15 - 1:45 - Poster session and continued discussion – James Hall ground floor lobby

Posters and Displays – James Hall ground floor lobby

Parking for the Symposium

Parking is available in the Sage Way Visitor Lot at $1.25/hour with no limit.  This is the best place for visitors to park for the day. The Edgewood Road Visitor Lot is closer to James Hall, but there is a 4-hour parking limit. See the paystation in the lot for payment instructions and display your payment receipt on your vehicle’s dashboard. Please contact  Michelle.Shattuck@unh.edu if the parking fees prohibit you from attending the event.
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Eleventh Annual Lamprey River Symposium

January 8, 2018

Location: James Hall G46 - University of New Hampshire

Presentations:

8:00-8:30 Registration and light refreshments – Please sign in at James G46

8:30-8:45 Introduction and Welcome - Bill McDowell

Session 1: New Technology and New Issues in Watershed Management Moderator: Adam Wymore

8:45-9:00 am What’s the Condition of the Great Bay? A Lamprey Watershed Focused “State of Our Estuaries”. Kalle Matso

9:00-9:15 am Recurring seasonal Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (CHABs). Beth Ziniti

9:15-9:30 am eDNA methods for monitoring ecosystem indicators in NH streams. Alison Watts

9:30-10:15 am Discussion (4 groups). Each group addresses the theme: New Technology and New Issues in Watershed Management. What are the important unanswered questions, what are new research opportunities to address them, which research questions are most exciting from an academic disciplinary standpoint, or most important from a stakeholder perspective?

10:15-10:35 am Coffee Break

10:35-11:00 am Summary and reporting out by discussion group

Session 2: Watershed Carbon Storage and Fluxes Moderator: Qingtao Zhou

11:00-11:15 am Response of carbon fluxes to winter temperature and snow depth across land cover types in Durham, NH. Rebecca Sanders-Demott

11:15-11:30 am Forest structural changes in response to natural (insect, fire, tornado) and anthropogenic (tree stand thinning, land conversion) disturbances across the Lamprey and Oyster River Watersheds. Lindsay Melendy

11:30-12:00 pm Discussion on watershed carbon storage and fluxes

12:00-12:25 pm Summary and reporting out

12:25-1:30 pm Lunch

Session 3: Unanswered Questions in Watershed Biogeochemistry Moderator: Jody Potter

1:30-1:45 pm Toward understanding the impacts of dams on floods, droughts, and nutrient flux on the Lamprey River Watershed. David Simon

1:45-2:00 pm Long-term trends and event based responses of solute concentrations in the Lamprey River Watershed. Adam Wymore

2:00-2:15 pm Increasing sediment in Great Bay: Can we finger a culprit? Bill McDowell

2:15-3:00 pm Discussion on watershed biogeochemistry 3:00-3:25 pm Summary and reporting out

3:25-3:30 pm Wrapping up: Bill McDowell 3:30-4:00 pm Social hour and informal strategizing for future research

Posters:

Name: Emily Wilcox, UNH

Title: Comparing the Relationship between Soil Frost Depths and Snow Depths at Thompson Farm and Kingman Farm in Southeast New Hampshire

Table Displays:

Name: Judith Spang, LRAC

Title: Lamprey River Watershed Association: Get volunteers for our water quality monitoring for summer 2018

Name: Suzanne Petersen, LRAC

Title: Lamprey Rivers Advisory Committee table display

Discussion Questions (4 groups) - Each group addresses the theme:

Session 1: New technology and new issues in watershed management

1) What are the important unanswered questions?

2) What are new research opportunities to address them?

3) Which research questions are most exciting from an academic disciplinary standpoint or most important from a stakeholder perspective?

Session 2: Watershed carbon storage and fluxes

1) What are the important unanswered questions?

2) What are new research opportunities to address them?

3) Which research questions are most exciting from an academic disciplinary standpoint or most important from a stakeholder perspective?

Session 3: Watershed biogeochemistry

1) What are the important unanswered questions?

2) What are new research opportunities to address them?

3) Which research questions are most exciting from an academic disciplinary standpoint or most important from a stakeholder perspective?

Tenth Annual Lamprey River Symposium 

Monday, January 9, 2017

Memorial Union Building - University of New Hampshire

Presentations - Theater II (3rd Floor); Posters - Room 334/336

 
8:00 – Registration and light refreshments – Please sign in at MUB Theater II (near ticket office)

8:30 – Welcome and opening remarks – Bill McDowell, Professor of Environmental Science, UNH

8:45 – Lamprey River Hydrologic Observatory Past and Present:  What have we learned, where are we headed? – Bill McDowell, Professor of Environmental Science, UNH

9:15 – Dissolved organic matter composition in the Lamprey Watershed: headwaters to mouth – Ashley Coble, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, UNH

9:35 – Regional coherence in solute interactions during stormflow in a statewide aquatic sensor network – Michelle Shattuck, Research Scientist and Lauren Koenig, PhD Candidate, UNH

9:55 – Break

10:25 – Examining the role of dissolved organic nitrogen in stream ecosystems across biomes and Critical Zone gradients – Jody Potter, Water Quality Analysis Laboratory Manager, UNH

10:45 – A longer vernal window: the role of winter coldness and snowpack in driving spring transitions and lags – Alexandra Contosta, Research Scientist, UNH

11:05 – Thirsty trees: How the 2016 drought impacted NH forests – Heidi Asbjornsen, Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology, UNH

11:25 – Water resources from a legislative perspective: Progress and opportunities – Judith Spang, State Representative

11:30 – Significance of research findings - Discussion

12:00 – Lunch and poster session *Lunch will be provided*

12:45 – Breakout groups

1:30 – Long-term volunteerism in the Lamprey River watershed – Suzanne Petersen and Emily Schmalzer, Lamprey Rivers Advisory Committee

1:50 – Projections of paired water temperature and chloride as stressors to aquatic species in New Hampshire – Shan Zuidema, Research Scientist, Water Systems Analysis Group, UNH

2:10 – Quantifying fecal bacteria removal in New England watersheds for ecosystem service management – Tao Huang, Graduate Student, UNH

2:30 – Spruce Hole Groundwater Source & Artificial Recharge Facility – Adding Diversity to the UNH/Durham Water System – Mike Metcalf, Senior Project Manager, Underwood Engineers, Inc.

2:50 – Regulations: Where effective stormwater management starts – Jamie Houle, Program Director, UNH Stormwater Center

3:10 – Reintroducing large wood into headwater streams for habitat development and nutrient retention – Joel DeStasio, NH Field Manager, Trout Unlimited

3:30 – 4:00 – Significance of research findings - Discussion and wrap-up

Posters and Displays 

Heavy Metal Mobilization from Historic Apple Orchards – Scott Greenwood, Research Scientist, UNH

Lamprey River Eco-Trail – Abigail Lyon, Technical Assistance Program Manager, PREP

Lamprey River Advisory Committee exhibit – Sharon Meeker, LRAC

Lamprey River Watershed Association – Samuel Demeritt, LRWA

Ninth Annual Lamprey River Symposium 

Friday, January 8, 2016

Memorial Union Building - University of New Hampshire

Presentations - Theater II (3rd Floor); Posters - Room 330/332

 8:00 – Registration and light refreshments – Please sign in at MUB Theater II (near ticket office)

 8:30 – Welcome and opening remarks – Bill McDowell, Professor of Environmental Science, UNH

 8:45 – 10:15 Session I – Nutrients and sediment 

 8:45 – Concentration discharge relationships and long-term trends of solute fluxes vary among flood periods – Ashley Coble, PostDoc, UNH

 9:00 – Hydrologic controls on nitrate and specific conductivity in NH streams: New insights using sensor     data – Michelle Shattuck, Research Scientist, UNH

 9:15 – Sediment production in a tributary to Woodman Brook – Jacob Poirier, Undergraduate Student, UNH

 9:30 – Getting the P out of Pawtuckaway Lake – Wayne Ives, NHDES Watershed Management Bureau

 9:45 – Break and Poster Displays

10:15 – 11:45 Session II – Dissolved organic matter, watershed characterization, groundwater heat pump applications and discussion

10:15 – Direct response of dissolved organic nitrogen to nitrate (NO₃^-) availability in headwater streams – Adam Wymore, PostDoc, UNH

10:30 – Improving watershed delineation with lidar terrain data and stormwater infrastructure – Neil Olson, Hydrogeologist, NHDES

10:45 – Mapping Lamprey River watershed health indicators: Using Landsat imagery to assess changes in urban sprawl, impervious surfaces, and lake water temperature – Megan Corbiere, Research Scientist, Applied Geosolutions

11:00 – Geothermal heat pump applications in New Hampshire and the Northeast US – Matt Davis, Associate Professor, UNH

11:15 – Significance of research findings - Discussion

11:45 – Lunch and informal breakout groups *Bring your own lunch or purchase at Food Court*

12:45 – Poster displays

 1:45 – 3:30 Session III – Monitoring, planning, tracking and discussion

 1:45 – Sentinel monitoring in the Northeast Region – Paul Stacey, Research Coordinator, GBNERR

 2:00 – Piscataqua Region Environmental Planning Assessment – Abigail Gronberg, Technical Assistance Program Manager, PREP

 2:15 – Great Bay pollution tracking and accounting pilot project: Update and next steps – Sally Soule, Watershed Assistance Section, NHDES and James Houle, Program Director, UNH Stormwater Center

 2:30 – Tracking fecal contamination in the New Hampshire Seacoast Region – Laura Diemer, Project Manager, and Lauren Bizzari, Project Scientist, FB Environmental Associates

 2:45 – Genomic methods for identifying water quality indicators in streams – An engineer’s misadventures in biology – Alison Watts, Research Assistant Professor, UNH

3:00 – 3:30 Discussion and wrap-up

Posters and Displays – MUB Room 330/332

Using high resolution topography and tracer studies to understand fluvial transport processes during low to moderate flows – Meghan Arpino, Graduate Student, Department of Earth Sciences, UNH

Automotive distribution of platinum group elements to NH Soils – Scott Greenwood, Research Scientist, UNH

Modeling the fate and transport of fecal coliform in Lamprey River Watershed – Tao Huang, Graduate Student, UNH

The contribution of aquatic metabolism to CO₂ emissions from New Hampshire streams – Lauren Koenig, PhD Candidate, UNH

Summertime dissolved oxygen analysis of the Lamprey River watershed – Mark T Kotowski, Undergraduate Student, and Anne Lightbody, Assistant Professor of Hydrology, UNH

Soak up the Rain NH – Barbara McMillan, Watershed Outreach Coordinator, NHDES

Lamprey River Advisory Committee exhibit - Sharon Meeker, LRAC

“Take a Hike” – Determining the feasibility of a regional walking trail along the Lamprey River – Kyle Pimental, Strafford Regional Planning

Strafford/Rockingham permeable reactive barrier demonstration project to reduce septic system nitrate - An update – Danna Truslow, Truslow Resource Consulting LLC

Understanding potential futures of riverine chloride impairment in New England USA due to climate change, groundwater storage, and human activities – Shan Zuidema, Research Scientist, UNH

Displays

Lamprey River Advisory Committee exhibit - Sharon Meeker, LRAC

Eighth Annual Lamprey River Symposium 

Friday, January 9, 2015

Memorial Union Building - University of New Hampshire

Presentations - Theater II (3rd Floor); Posters - Room 302 

 8:00 – Registration and light refreshments – Please sign in at MUB Theater II (3^rd Floor near ticket office) 

 8:30 – Welcome and opening remarks - Bill McDowell, Professor of Environmental Science, UNH 

 8:45 - 10:05 Session I – Public perceptions and understanding water quality using sensors, models and other analyses 

 8:45 – Granite State perceptions of environment and science - Larry Hamilton, Professor of Sociology, UNH

 9:05 – Do sensors matter?  Improved precision in flux estimates with continuous data - Bill McDowell, Professor of Environmental Science, UNH

 9:20 – Patterns and drivers of diel solute cycles in headwater streams - Alison Appling, PostDoc, UNH

 9:35 – Projected land use change in the Lamprey watershed following current trends and associated effects on nitrogen export - Madeleine Mineau, Research Assistant Professor, UNH

 9:50 – Understanding nitrogen sources during storms in the Lamprey and Oyster River watersheds using dual nitrate isotopes and microbial DNA analysis - Richard Carey, Research Scientist, UNH. For more information on this topic contact Richard Cary.

10:05 - 10:35 – Break and Posters 

10:35 - 12:05 Session II – Eelgrass, nitrogen sources and transport, habitat restoration and discussion 

10:35 – The status of eelgrass in the lower Lamprey River and the Great Bay Estuary - Fred Short, Research Professor of Marine/Natural Resources, UNH

10:50 – Non-point nitrogen sources and transport in the Great Bay watershed - Michelle Daley, Research Scientist, UNH

11:05 – Interactions of climate and land use in controlling nitrogen fluxes through the Oyster River watershed in 2013 and 2014 - Wil Wollheim, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources & the Environment, UNH

11:20 – Oyster River Forest and Environs: Protecting water quality, restoring habitat, enhancing recreation - Ellen Snyder, UNH Cooperative Extension

11:35 – Significance of research findings - Discussion 

12:05 - 1:05 – Lunch and Informal Breakout Groups *Bring your own lunch or purchase at Food Court*

  1:05 - 1:45 – Poster Displays 

  1:45 – 3:00 Session III – Nitrogen retention in wetlands, hydrology of headwater streams and water quality solutions 

  1:45 – Contribution of fluvial wetlands to nitrogen retention in urbanizing coastal watersheds - Anne Lightbody, Assistant Professor of Earth Science, UNH

  2:00 – Flow monitoring in small intermittent headwater streams - Neil Olson, Hydrogeologist, NHGS

  2:15 – Strafford/Rockingham permeable reactive barrier demonstration project - Danna Truslow, Truslow Resource Consulting LLC and Mark Kelley, Haley & Aldrich

  2:30 – Integrated planning in the Exeter/Squamscott watershed – New Flexibility brings New Opportunities - Alison Watts, Research Assistant Professor, UNH

  2:45 – Modeling the effect of local stormwater regulations on future pollutant loads - Jamie Houle, Stormwater Center Program Manager, UNH and Bill Arcieri, Senior Water Resources Specialist, VHB 

  3:00 – Break 

  3:30 - 4:00 – Significance of research findings and future research priorities – Discussion

Posters

Using field survey and high-resolution topography data to analyze bathymetric change in the Suncook River - Meghan Arpino, M.S. Candidate, UNH

The effect of soil moisture dynamics on stream discharge - Brian Godbois, Senior Laboratory Technician, UNH

DOC and NO₃^- dynamics in suburban streams of NH - Bianca Rodríguez-Cardona, M.S. Candidate, UNH

Enhanced protocols for managing a network of modern water quality sensors - Lisle Snyder, Research Technician, UNH

Transient storage parameterization of wetland-dominated stream reaches - Sophie Wilderotter, M.S. Candidate, UNH

Identifying sources of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in streams using EA-IRMS and Py-GC/MS across a land-use gradient - Adam Wymore, PostDoc, UNH 

Displays

Lamprey River Advisory Committee exhibit - Sharon Meeker, LRAC

On Thursday, May 13, 2010, a seminar on water quality and salt reduction was held at the Hugh Gregg Coastal Conservation Center in Greenland, NH.

Testing over the last 25 years has indicated that chloride levels have increased steadily and substantially in New Hampshire’s freshwater streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, wetlands, and groundwater - including well water. In many small streams in southern and coastal New Hampshire, elevated chloride levels are so high that they threaten the health of sensitive fish species and smaller organisms that serve as their food source. There is no easy solution. At this time, the only way to prevent chloride from reaching surface and ground water is to reduce the amount applied to our roadways and parking lots without compromising safety.

The Lamprey River Watershed Outreach collaborative hosted an outreach conference in June 2009 on pressing water issues for the residents of the 14 towns that make up the watershed. The conference was titled "Your Water, Your Wallet, Your Watershed - Why Working Together Across Town Boundaries Makes $ense For Protecting Our Water".