
The 2014 NH Water & Watershed Conference was held on March 21, 2014 at Plymouth State University. The conference focused on Sustainability of New Hampshire’s Water Resources with the following agenda (see links for presentations):
8:45 – 10:00 am: Morning Plenary
- Introduction and Welcome – Sara Jayne Steen, President, Plymouth State University, and June Hammond Rowan, Associate Director, Center for the Environment, Plymouth State University
- Introduction to the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable by David Berry, Manager of SWRR
- Engaging the Public in Sustainably Managing NH’s Water Resources by John Gilbert, President of Synchrony Advisors, LLC; former Chair of the Water Sustainability Commission; and member of the New Hampshire Lives on Water Steering Committee
10:00 – 10:30 am: Poster Session & Refreshments
10:30 am – 12:00 pm: Morning Talks
Sustainability of New Hampshire’s Water Resources Chair: Judy Tumosa
- Developing Social Indicators Regarding Water Resources in New Hampshire – Shannon Rogers and Jill Ferrell
- Developing Indicators of Water Use and Availability in New Hampshire – Steve Norton and Daniel Barrick
- Population Projections, Housing Demand and Water Sustainability – Steve Norton and Dennis Delay
Integrating Science with Decision Making for Water ResourcesChairs: Wayne Ives & Shane Csiki
- Comprehensive Management of Lakes and Rivers: The Lamprey River/Pawtuckaway Lake Management Plan – Wayne Ives
- Application of Long-Term Water Level Monitoring to Assess Sustainability – Dan Tinkham, John Brooks, Jeff Marts
- Province Lake Watershed Restoration Plan: Engaging Citizens to Address High Phosphorus Levels and Cyanobacteria Blooms – Forrest Bell, Linda Schier
Climate Change and Water Resources Chair: Chris Keeley
- How Species and Habitats Can Help Your Town Adapt to Climate Change and How You Can Help – Emily Preston
- Patterns of Snow Accumulation and Snowmelt in New Hampshire Watersheds – Carrie Vuyovich, Jennifer Jacobs
- Sustainable Water in New Hampshire: The Future of Snow – Jennifer Jacobs, Bryan Carignan, Carrie Vuyovich
- Assessment of Hydrologic Change in New Hampshire as a Result of Climate Change Using a Regional Precipitation Runoff Model – David Bjerklie and Joseph Ayotte, U.S. Geological Survey New England Water Science Center; and Matt Cahillane, Climate and Public Health Program, NH DHHS/DPHS/Bureau of Public Health Protection
Emerging Issues in Water and Public Health Chair: Kathleen Bush
- Groundwater Monitoring for Parameters Related to Arsenic Mobility – Jason Jarvis
- Impacts of road salt application on heavy metal mobilization in New Hampshire Watersheds – Kathleen Bush, Jess Wilhelm, Daniel Bain
- Using Virtual Beach to Protect Actual Beaches: Using a computer modeling program to predict bacteria at New Hampshire beaches – Sonya Carlson
Integrated Land Use Planning for Water ResourcesChair: Alison Watts
- Integrated Watershed Management in the Great Bay, NH Watershed: Many challenges, one Solution – Paul Stacey
- Integrated Planning to Reduce Nitrogen Loads in the Oyster River Watershed – Bill Arcieri, Theresa McGovern, Zach Henderson
- Integrated Planning in the Exeter/Squamscott Watershed – Alison Watts, Robert Roseen, Paul Stacey
- Climate Adaptation Plan for Exeter (CAPE) – Paul Kirshen
12:00 – 1:00 pm: Poster Session & Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 pm: Afternoon Talks
Sustainability of New Hampshire’s Water Resources Chair: Marcy Lyman
- Revising DES’s Nonpoint Source Management Plan to Address New Hampshire’s Water Quality Challenges – Jillian McCarthy
- Water Infrastructure Sustainability Funding Commission (SB60) Report – Senator Martha Fuller Clark
- Preparing Our Youth as Sustainable Water Stewards – A Water Education Plan for New Hampshire – Laurel Pushee and Judy Tumosa
- Addressing New Hampshire’s Water Planning Challenges – Potentially Useful Models from Other States – Rhonda Kranz
Integrating Science with Decision Making for Water Resources Chairs: Wayne Ives & Shane Csiki
- Water Quality Management: All Lakes are Not Created Equal – Joe Boyer
- A Comparison of Maintenance Cost, Labor Demands for LID and Conventional Stormwater Management – James Houle
- Detecting Geomorphologic Changes – Applying Innovations to Spatial Data Gathering – Jeremy Nicoletti
Water Resource Outreach, Education, and Citizen Science Chair: Denise Burchsted, Barbara McMillan
- Squam Watershed Assessment Report: Communicating decades of data to the Squam Community – Rebecca Hanson
- The WaterViz for Hubbard Brook – Lindsey Rustad
- Talk to Me: Generating Interest in Water Quality through Better Reporting – Sara Steiner
- Using Specific Electrical Conductance to Compare Rainfall Runoff in NH Urban and Rural Catchments– Ashley Hyde
Where are New Hampshire’s Water Data? Chairs: Mark Green & Rick Chormann
- USGS National Water Information System – Richard Kiah
- Groundwater Data for New Hampshire – Stephen Roy
- Blue Lines and Beyond: The New Hampshire Hydrography Dataset as a Framework for Data Discovery and Analysis – Rick Chormann
- Environmental Monitoring Database: Overview of the data collection program & where the data live – Deb Soule
Land Use Planning for Conservation and Water SustainabilityChair: Shannon Rogers, Barbara McMillan
- A land conservation plan for the Merrimack Watershed of NH and MA – Chris Wells
- Breaking New Ground: A Collaborative Approach to Protecting New England’s Surface Water Supplies – John O’Neil, Kira Jacobs
- Water Resource Conservation Achievements Through the NHDES Aquatic Resource Mitigation Fund (ARM) – Lori Sommer
- Improving Wetlands Regulations to Reflect Community Values – Michael McCrory and Rick van de Poll
2:30 – 2:45 pm: Break
2:45 – 3:45 pm: Closing Plenary
Join a panel of moderators and reporters from the day’s break-outs to discuss and address overarching questions posed in the morning plenary, plus general discussion – Moderators: David Berry or Rhonda Kranz
Throughout the Day:
Posters on New Hampshire Water Topics Chair: Cory Gucwa
- Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage: Five Years of Monitoring at Ore Hill Mine Site, Warren, New Hampshire – Aaron Johnson
- Hodgson Brook Watershed Analysis – Pamela Ordung
- NH Wilderness Water Quality – Georgia Murray and Aaron Emerson
- Spatial and temporal variability of nitrogen cycling in riparian wetlands – David Rosengarten
- A Recent History of Snow Observations and Trends in New England – Douglas Osborne, Jennifer M. Jacobs, Carrie Vuyovich
- Systems Research at the Secondary Level: Hydrology and Ecology in the Salmon Brook Watershed – Megan Reilly, Quinn DiPasquale, Eleanor Loconte
- Distribution of Fluvial Wetland Area and Stream Elevation along the Lamprey River – Sophie Wilderotter
- Use of the World Café method of stakeholder engagement for developing a Squam Watershed plan – June Hammond Rowan, Rebecca Hanson, Chelsea Berg, Greg DiSanto, Jonathon Loos
- Evaluating Watershed Ecosystem Services in New Hampshire – Chelsea Berg, Jonathon Loos, Shannon Rogers
- A Rapid Floristic Quality Assessment for NH Wetlands – Jennifer-Lee Bell
- Sensing Suspended Solids: Using in-situ water quality sensors to provide insight into the suspended solids dynamics of high flow storm events in the Lamprey River – Nicholas Shonka
- Nitrate uptake kinetics in suburban streams of New Hampshire – Bianca Rodriguez-Cardona
- Use of Community-Based Social Marketing to Promote Sustainable Fishing Behavior in New Hampshire Recreational Lakes and Rivers – Melissa Leszek