Watershed Symposium 2024

Watershed Symposium 2024

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 Utah’s Multi-Billion Dollar Bomb: Great Salt Lake Dust Lower Level, Ballroom A/BZach Frankel • Brian Moench • Amy Wicks

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 • Keilani Fang Water Conservation Toolbox Lower Level, Ballroom A/BLeland Myers • Lily Wetterlin

1:40pm MST

Water Conservation Efforts of Irrigation Companies in the Great Salt Lake Basin Lower Level, Ballroom CBailey Holdaway Whose Shore Is It Anyway? Lower Level, Ballroom A/BSoren Simonsen • Heidi Hoven

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

3:20pm MST

UPRIVER | A Watershed Documentary Great HallSoren Simonsen