Watershed Symposium 2024

Watershed Symposium 2024

8:30am MST

Registration & Check-in Crossroads

9:00am MST

Welcome Great Hall

9:10am MST

Keynote Great HallBrenda Bowen

9:45am MST

Update from the Great Salt Lake Commissioner's Office: Next Steps Great HallBrian Steed • Tim Davis

10:15am MST

Break & Snacks Crossroads

10:45am MST

New Delta Dawn Lower Level, Ballroom CEric McCulley Water is Life: Brand New Research on Utahns’ Water Values and Priorities Lower Level, Ballroom A/BJason Brown • Bart Forsyth

11:25am MST

Phosphorus Sources to Utah Lake and Their Impacts on Harmful Algal Blooms Lower Level, Ballroom CWeihong Wang Great Salt Lake Basin Integrated Plan Update Lower Level, Ballroom A/BLaura Vernon • Jake Serago

11:55am MST

Lunch Great Hall

12:55pm MST

Climate Resiliency Toolbox Lower Level, Ballroom CDallen Webster How Are the Region's Wetland Managers Adapting to Climate Change and Drought? Lower Level, Ballroom A/BMark Brunson

1:30pm MST

Historical Life Ways of the Wuda Ogwa (Bear River) Lower Level, Ballroom A/BBrad Parry Navigating EPA 9-Element Plans: Heber Valley Watershed Success Strategies Lower Level, Ballroom CSandy Wingert • Arianna Mason

2:15pm MST

Assessing a Social Value of Water in Aquifer Storage and Recovery Projects Lower Level, Ballroom A/BR. Jeffrey Davis H2Oquirrh: A Vision for Salt Lake County’s Southwest Waterways Lower Level, Ballroom CRenn Lambert • Jason Wolf • Helen Lea

2:45pm MST

Poster Session, Break, Snacks Great HallJens Ammon • Zachary Claerhout • Nick Halverson • Farah Nusrat • Kevin Perry • Jen Robison • Rose Smith • Carina Thiriot

3:25pm MST

NSF Southwest Sustainability Innovation Engine: Connecting Research to Practice Great HallBrenda Bowen • Meghan Dovick • Sarah Hinners • Marian Rice

3:55pm MST

Prize Drawing & Closing Comments Great Hall

8:30am MST

Registration & Check-in Crossroads

9:00am MST

Opening Comments Great HallRobert Thompson

9:10am MST

Decoupling M&I Water Use from Population Growth: Can Utah Cities Help Save GSL? Great HallTodd Stonely

9:50am MST

So You Want To Go Viral: Leveraging Social Media To Amplify Watershed Efforts Lower Level, Ballroom CSierra Hastings Whose Shore Is It Anyway Lower Level, Ballroom A/BSoren Simonsen • Heidi Hoven

10:20am MST

Break & Snacks Crossroads

10:50am MST

Native Restoration of Urban and Suburban Land Lower Level, Ballroom A/BSteven Kelty Reeling in the Data: Fish Tissue Contaminants in the Great Salt Lake Watershed Lower Level, Ballroom CJacob Ridgway

11:30am MST

Great Salt Lake Stormwater Study: Basin-Wide Analysis of Stormwater and LID Lower Level, Ballroom CRenn Lambert • Joshua Hortin Quantifying the Impact of Dust on Snowmelt in the Great Salt Lake Basin Lower Level, Ballroom A/BOtto Lang

12:00pm MST

Lunch Great Hall

1:00pm MST

Hogle Zoo, Our Watershed, and You Lower Level, Ballroom CTori Bird Water Conservation Toolbox Lower Level, Ballroom A/BLeland Myers • Lily Wetterlin

1:40pm MST

Utah’s Multi-Billion Dollar Bomb: Great Salt Lake Dust Lower Level, Ballroom A/BZach Frankel • Brian Moench • Amy Wicks Water Conservation Efforts of Irrigation Companies in the Great Salt Lake Basin Lower Level, Ballroom CBailey Holdaway

2:20pm MST

Resilient Landscapes: Fire Mitigation for the Future of the Wasatch Mountains Great HallLaura Briefer • Stuart Bedke • Spencer Shaver • Robby Edgel

2:50pm MST

Prize Drawing & Closing Comments Great HallRobert Thompson