ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

COS 159 - Restoration ecology: Urban ecosystems

Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Santa Clara II, San Jose Hilton
8:00 AM
A framework for urban stream restoration: Lessons learned from Los Angeles
Elizabeth J. Ruther, Natural Channel Design, Inc.; Tom O. Moody, Natural Channel Design, Inc.
8:20 AM
Post-project assessments of two urban stream restoration projects in northern California
Alison H. Purcell, UC Berkeley; Ocean Halbert, The Watershed Project; Vincent H. Resh, University of California, Berkeley
8:40 AM
Rejuvenation of Yamuna water quality by using constructed wetland
Sirajuddin Ahmed V, Jamia MIllia Islamia (Central University); Viktor Popve, Wessex Institute of Technology; Rasheed Ahmad, City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management
9:20 AM
Restoring suburban watersheds using a multidisciplinary approach to stormwater management
Allison H. Roy, US Environmental Protection Agency; Matthew P. Clagett, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Matthew A. Morrison, US Environmental Protection Agency; William D. Shuster, US Environmental Protection Agency; Hale W. Thurston, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Laboratory; Heriberto Cabezas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Stream restoration using sculpted concrete drop structures and soil lifts
Claire L. DeLeo, Boulder County Parks and Open Space
10:10 AM
Using rare plant reintroductions to predict future states for optimal restoration in dynamic urban ecotones
Joyce Maschinski, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Samuel J. Wright, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Jennifer Possley, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Julissa Roncal, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
10:30 AM
The role of frugivorous birds and giant fruit bats as agents for reforestation in south India
Timothy T. Caughlin, New College of Florida; T. Ganesh, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment; Margaret D. Lowman, California Academy of Sciences
10:50 AM
In-stream nitrogen processing in urban degraded and restored streams in Baltimore, MD
Carolyn A. Klocker, UMCES Appalachian Laboratory; Sujay Kaushal, UMCES Appalachian Laboratory; Peter M. Groffman, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Paul Mayer, USEPA, National Health and Environmental Research Laboratory; Ray P Morgan, UMCES Appalachian Laboratory