Upcoming Public Events

 Our Board Meeting is open to the public and all interested individuals are invited to attend.  Cost: FREE

 This is a FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) organized/facilitated meeting.   FERC representatives will be in River Falls. Cost: FREE

 The Upper Midwest Stream Restoration Symposium (UMSRS)  DAY 1

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We bring together regional stream restoration practitioners so they may share experiences and expertise with colleagues working within similar environmental and land-use conditions.  Attendees from multi-disciplinary backgrounds will hear about innovative restoration designs and approaches as well as have the opportunity to network with the region’s leading stream restoration practitioners.    The Symposium is single-track (no concurrent sessions) so that all attendees hear all presentation and discussions. Keynote speakers will open each day followed by oral and poster presentations. 

•  Channel adjustments over 15 years following re-introduction of large wood to Whittlesey Creek – Ben Lee,
•  Beaver dam impact to low flow hydrology in Northern Minnesota streams – Emma Burgeson, University of Minnesota Duluth 
•  Measuring bank erosion in a large(-ish) Midwestern watershed: efficient methods and applications to sediment and nutrient budgeting – Pete Moore, Iowa State University 
•  Comparison of microbial functional diversity associated with artificial wetlands in an urbanized river system – Phil Nicodemus, Urban Rivers 
•  Integrating a sound/light deterrent and dam gate operations at Lock and Dam 8, Mississippi River to reduce upstream migration of Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) – Jeff Whitty, University of Minnesota 
•  "The Fargo Project" a stormwater basin retrofit – Stephanie Day, North Dakota State University
•  Invited Speaker: A LiDAR based approach for estimating channel forming discharge and hydraulic geometry relationships for the southern driftless area of the Midwest - Christopher Haring, US Army Corps of Engineers
•  Renaturalization of concrete-lined urban river systems – Jonathan Kusa, Inter-Fluve, Inc. 
•  History of managing a watershed to restore an urban trout stream in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area – Karen Kill, Brown's Creek Watershed District

  The Upper Midwest Stream Restoration Symposium (UMSRS)   DAY 2

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•  Invited Talk: Global perspectives in river and stream restoration, Matt Kondolf, Fluvial Geomorphologist, Professor of Environmental Planning, Co-Director of the Global Metropolitan Studies program at the University of California Berkeley (USA) 
•  Promoting successful stream restorations in the Upper Midwest – Gina Quiram, Minnesota DNR 
•  Streamflow Response to climate over years to decades: Implications for habitat and channel stability – Jim Almendinger, St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota 
•  Applications of 2D modeling in stream restoration: when, why, and how to use it – Craig Taylor, LimnoTech 
•  EnviroDIY open-source IoT technologies for cost-effective, real-time water monitoring, Anthony Aufdenkampe, LimnoTech 
•  Minnesota guide to stream connectivity and aquatic organism passage through culverts – Nicole Bartelt, Minnesota Department of Transportation 
•  Turbulence generated by simulated instream restoration structures offers fish swimming and energetic advantages at high flow velocities – Katherine Strailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
•  The effects of dams on native fish communities – Amy Childers, Minnesota DNR 
•  Large scale fish passage and river restoration on the Boardman River – Marty Melchior, Inter-Fluve, Inc. 
•   Reconnecting fish habitat on the Sand Hill River – Michelle Larson, US Army Corps of Engi

 Local Site Visit – Browns Creek Restoration Site Visit, led by the Browns Creek Watershed District and EOR. Learn more about Brown’s Creek here.