2012: 12th Great Lakes Beach Association Conference

Agenda:
Final agenda

Conference Materials:
Presentation and Poster Abstracts
Speaker Bios

Presentations:
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Beach 101
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

• Holly Wirick, USEPA Region 5

• Shannon Briggs, Michigan DEQ

• Scott Reynolds, Environmental Canine Services

Sanitary Surveys
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

• Denise Hawkins (presented by John Wathen), USEPA: Overview of New Recreational Water Quality Criteria

• Moderated by Shannon Briggs, Michigan DEQ: Discussion questions

Workshops, continued
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

• Meredith B. Nevers, USGS: Hands on evaluation of data for new proposed criteria

• Julie Kinzelman, City of Racine: qPCR monitoring data for new proposed criteria

Workshops, continued
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

• Matt Warner and Stephanie Swart, Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality: Opportunities to conserve and restore Great Lakes beach health through the Coastal Zone Management and Areas of Concern programs

Session One
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM EDT

• David Rockwell, outgoing GLBA president: Welcome and introductions

• Cameron Davis, USEPA, Senior Advisor to the Administrator (Great Lakes): Beaches: Our doorways to the Great Lakes (no slides)
  

• Adam Mednick, WI Dept. of Natural Resources: Beach nowcasting in a post-BEACH Act world

• Denise Hawkins (presented by John Wathen), USEPA: EPA's 2012 Recreational Water Criteria

• John Wathen, USEPA: EPA's revised national beach guidance and required performance criteria for grants

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Success Stories
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

• Sarah U'Ren, The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay: Grand Traverse Bay Watershed GLRI beach restoration projects

• Sarah Opfer, NOAA Marine Debris Program: NOAA community-based marine debris removal efforts in the Great Lakes

• Amie Brady, USGS Ohio Water Science Center:Predictive modeling: Data processing tools and success stories

• Peter Pittner, Miller Engineers & Scientists: Naturalized solutions to reduce stormwater impacts at public beaches

• Julie Kinzelman, City of Racine (presented by Tamara Anan’eva, USEPA): Implementing qPCR on a regional level

• Sheridan Haack, USGS Michigan Water Science Center: Factors influencing bacterial pathogen genes at Great Lakes beaches

Luncheon Keynotes
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM EDT

• Dr. Joan Rose, Michigan State University: The 100-year study for the Laurentian Great Lakes

• Charles Kovatch, USEPA: An overview of change in the Great Lakes from 1900 to today

Management of Beaches: How to Address Impacts of Climate Change, the Balance Between Protecting Ecosystems and Providing Public Access, and Community and Shoreline Stewardship
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time: 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

• Patrick Donnelly, Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation: Beach stewardship: New programs of engaging the grassroots

• Geoffrey Peach, Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation: Dune conservation: Foundation of good beach health

• Todd Brennan, Alliance for the Great Lakes: Adopt a Beach: A platform for Great Lakes stewardship and action

• Yvonne Stokes, Another Wild Goose Chase: Gull management programs and Escherichia coli at two Chicago beaches

• Steve Mauro, Mercyhurst University: The contribution of bacterial pollution by algae in recreational freshwater

Communicating Beach Water Quality to the Public
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time: 3:20 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

• Bill Kramer, USEPA: Modernized BEACON webpage and prototype any-time data verification tool

• Ed Verhamme, LimnoTech: myBeachCast mobile app serves data for all Great Lakes states

• Jesse Schomberg, Minnesota Sea Grant: ParkPointBeach.org: A holistic approach to communicating beach information to recreationists

• Frank Lupi, Michigan State University: Who visits Great Lakes beaches and do they value Great Lakes water quality?

• Richard Whitman, USGS Great Lakes Science Center: Report of the GLBA expert workshop on fecal indicator bacteria in beach sands (no slides)
  

Physical, Hydrological and Geological Aspects of Beaches
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

• Roger Miller, Miller Engineers & Scientists: Natural beach dynamics and effective planning of enhancements and naturalization

• Mary-Louise Byrne, Wilfrid Laurier University: Sand dune restoration in Point Pelee National Park, Ontario, Canada

• Marc Verhougstraete, Michigan State University: Microbial responses to land, physical, chemical, environmental and hydrological factors

• Richard Whitman, USGS Great Lakes Science Center: What can empirical observations and numerical modeling tell us about beach contamination? Examples from southern Lake Michigan

• Allan Crowe, Environment Canada: Impact of Groundwater-Stream Interaction on Groundwater Conditions Below Beaches

• Clare Robinson, University of Western Ontario: Occurrence of heavy metals in a freshwater beach, Lake Erie

Identifying Sources and Sinks of Fecal Contamination Through Sanitary Surveys, GIS and Other Tools
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time: 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

• Aneta Pekalska, University of Toledo: Watershed E. coli sources identified following enumeration sewer mapping and GIS

• Meredith Nevers, USGS Great Lakes Science Center: Sources and fluctuations of E.coli along 40-km urban coast of Lake Michigan

• Chanlan Chun, University of Minnesota: Is macroalga Cladophora a source of the Clostridium botulinum for avian botulism in the Great Lakes? (withheld by request, pending publication)

• Mauricio Larenas, Source Molecular: Microbial source tracking: Search for human, gull and dog

• Michael Sadowsky, University of Minnesota: Development of a practical pyrosequencing-based microbial source tracking method (PyroMiST)

Predictive Tools and Rapid Testing: Method Advancements and Expansion of Applications
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM EDT

• Pam Struffolino, University of Toledo: Continuing efforts to improve a water quality model for a recreational beach

• Mark Citriglia, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District: Predicting water quality at Villa Angela Beach using qPCR technology

• Jeanette Schnars, Regional Science Consortium: Predicting E.coli exceedances at swimming beaches using real-time modeling and qPCR

• Jennifer Haley, St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences: A comparison of techniques for determining beach E. coli concentrations

Predictive Tools and Rapid Testing: Method Advancements and Expansion of Applications, continued
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time: 2:20 PM - 3:40 PM EDT

• Andrew Bramburger, St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences: Nowcasting of E. coli concentrations at St. Lawrence River beaches

• Laura Pobanz, Macomb County Health Department: Beach forecasting: Predicting the unpredictable

• Alicia Ritzenthaler, Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research: Development of a process model-based bacterial water quality forecasting system

• Steve Corsi, USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center: Enabling new sophistication and efficient data access for beach water quality forecasts

Closing Comments
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time: 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

• David Rockwell