2018 Lamprey River Symposium

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?