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Workshop
Aaron Wolf, PhD – Water Conflict Management & Transformation Workshop
Todd H. Votteler, PhD – Water Conflict Management & Transformation Workshop
Plenary
Dan Wickham, PhD – Protecting Water Quality with Biology
James J. Elser, PhD – Phosphorus, Food, and our Future
Session 1A – Nutrients
Abbie Ebert – Overview of Montana DEQ’s Preliminary Lake and Reservoir Eutrophication Assessment Method
Brooke G. Bannerman – Contemporary Limnological Sampling of Lake McDonald (Glacier National Park) Confirms Oligotrophic Status
Matthew Church, PhD – Drivers of Temporal Variation in Phytoplankton Productivity in Flathead and Whitefish Lakes
Session 1B- Lake Associations and Citizen Scientists
Casey Lewis – Western Montana Conservation Commission: The New Kid on the Block
Kate Sheridan – The Swim Guide: Monitoring the Water Quality of Flathead Lake’s Swimming Beaches
Session 2A – Contaminants
Lindsey R. King – Water-Quality Data Collection in the Transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir and Upper Kootenai River, Montana
Rich Janssen and Erin Sexton – Legacy Coal Minng Impacts in the Transboundary Kootenay Watershed
Session 2B – Mountain\Alpine Lakes
Carly Innis – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Ecosystem Processes and Human Perceptions of Montana’s Mountain Lakes
Joe Vanderwall – Mountain Glaciers Influence Biogeochemical and Ecological Characteristics of Alpine Lakes Across the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA
Kari Minissale – Analysis of Shifts within Northwestern Montana Lakes Based on Water Clarity, Temperature, and Chemistry
Session 3A – Managing Native Fish
Barry Hansen – Tribal Efforts to Restore Native Species in Flathead Lake
Sam Bourret – Pygmy Whitefish Distribution and Genetic Structure in Montana Lakes
Vin D’Angelo – Char Wars: Glacier’s Bull Trout Strike Back
Kyle Flynn – A long Hard Road to Nowhere: Arctic Grayling Restoration in Upper Red Rock Lake, Montana
Session 3B- Ecosystem Resilience
Ryan Richardson – The Push for Global Hydrology: What Can Montana’s Lakes Gain from New NASA Satellite?
Samantha Tappenbeck – Impacts of Recreational Boating and Corresponding Wave Energy in a Lake-Influenced Large River System
Tess Hanson – Building Ecosystem Resiliency with Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration
Valerie Kurth, PhD – Reservoir Management in Montana: Challenges and Opportunities for Building Drought Resilience
Session 4A – Aquatic Invasive Species
Gordan Luikart, PhD – Protecting Our Lakes Using Multiple eDNA Based Approaches
Patrick Hutchins – Transitioning eDNA Biomonitoring from Research to Operational use for Invasive Species Early Detection
Thomas Woolf – Protecting our Waters from AIS Through Partnerships
Session 4B – On-site Wastewater Treatment
Andy Ulven – DEQ’s Septic and Onsite Wastewater Treatment Programs
Emilie Henry – A Regional, Holistic Approach to Addressing of Septic Leachate Pollution in the Flathead Basin, MT
Nanette Nelson – Leveraging Community Partnerships and Intelligent Technologies to Address Septic System Water Quality Risks in the Flathead Basin
Sarah Halvorson, PhD – Examining Social Dimensions of Risk Related to Impacts of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems in Seeley Lake, Montana
Session 5A – Education and Outreach
Dan Handlin – Saving Our Lakes One Lake at a Time Our Little Bitterroot Lake Story
Katherine Lynch-Dombroski – Collaboration-Based Stormwater Management in Flathead County
Stephanie Murphy – Montana Waters: An “Umbrella” approach in western Montana
Session 5B – Aquatic Plants
Jordan Tollefson – Developing a Harmful Algae Bloom (HAB) Monitoring Program
Melissa Maggio – Flowering Rush Biological Control in Montana
Sawyer Meegan – Holland Lake Fragrant Water Lilly Management Plan