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BeaverCON 2022 Agenda & Speakers

Speakers and Topics
Our presenters came from various locations around the world and brought diverse subjects and experiences in regards to beaver management and ecological restoration.
SPEAKERS
PRESENTATION TOPICS AND DETAILS​
DAY ONE
TUESDAY, JUNE 14TH
Hilary Harp Falk
President, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Emily Fairfax, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Management, California State University Channel Islands
Beaver-created refugia from megafires
Chris Jordan, Ph.D.
Mathematical Biology and Systems Monitoring Program Manager, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
Beaver Are the National Climate Action Plan – For Fish, Water, and Wildfire
Scott Mcgill
​CEO, Ecotone
Castor Controlled the Chesapeake
Bob Boucher
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President, Superior Bio Conservancy; President and Owner, Still Meadows LLC
Hydrological Impact of Beaver Restoration in the Milwaukee River Watershed in Wisconsin
Skip Lisle, M.Sc.
Owner, Beaver Deceivers
Furthering the Cause: Fish, Flow Devices, and Freedom
SESSION A
​John Egan

Chief of Field Operations, Beaver Solutions

​SESSION B
Joe Berg
Senior Restoration Ecologist, Biohabitats

Doug Streaker
Water Resource Engineer, Biohabitats
Laura Kelm
​Project Manager, Greenvest LLC
SESSION A
Using Flow Devices to Manage Beaver Flooding


SESSION B
Beaver facilitated conversion of a baseflow stream channel restoration to a 0-stage channel

SESSION A
Jesse Sikora

M.Sc. Student, Northern Illinois University

​SESSION B
Mike Thompson

Restoration Design Coordinator, Meadville Land Service, Inc.
SESSION A
Is water storage potential of a restored grassland influenced by beaver dam structure and density?
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SESSION B
Construction Benefits of Beaver Dam Analog Stream Restoration
SESSION A
Reese Mercer

Program Director, Beaver Works Oregon

​SESSION B
Erik Michelson
Deputy Director, Bureau of Watershed Protection and Restoration, Anne Arundel County Maryland
SESSION A
Examination of the Effectiveness of Beaver Relocation
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SESSION B
Can we use tools to model the water quality benefits of beaver to create incentives for landowners and local governments to embrace their return?
SESSION A
Alicia Leow-Dyke
Welsh Beaver Project Officer, North Wales Wildlife Trust

​SESSION B
Aaron Hall
Senior Aquatic Biologist, Defenders of Wildlife
Mae Lacey
Conservation GIS Analyst, Defenders of Wildlife
SESSION A
Beavers in Wales: Can one family make all the difference? 
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SESSION B
iBeaver: A community science app for Beaver​
SESSION A
Britt van Zelst
M.Sc. student, Wageningen University

​SESSION B
Eric Zhu
Software Engineer, Google
Nicholas Clinton

Developer Advocate, Google
SESSION A
Beavers in the Netherlands: Lessons Learned and to be Learned
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SESSION B
Project EEAGER: Using Machine Learning and Earth Engine to Map Changes in Beaver Habitat at Scale
SESSION A
Kerri O'Shaughnessy
Riparian Specialist, Cows and Fish

​SESSION B
Alexa Whipple
Project Director, Methow Beaver Project
SESSION A
Putting Beavers to Work for Watershed Resiliency and Restoration in Alberta: Collaboration, Community Engagement and Co-existence
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SESSION B
Dammed If You Do, Dammed If You Don’t: Beaver Dams & Fish Passage
SESSION A
Melanie Arsenault
M.Sc. Student, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
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​SESSION B
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Elyssa Kerr

Executive Director, Beavers Northwest

SESSION A
There’s no place like home: Rebuilding the dynamics of lodge occupation of the North
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SESSION B
Beavers and People and Fish, Oh My: Exploring Flow Device Innovation​

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DAY TWO
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15TH
SESSION A
Chris Becraft
Partner, Underwood & Associates

​SESSION B
Barbara Jones, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology, Brookdale Community College
SESSION A
Regenerative Stream Conveyance: Climate Resilient Beaver Dam Analogs
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SESSION B
Invented Borders: How Persistent Wildlife Narratives Challenge True Coexistence
SESSION A
Jakob Shockey
Co-Founder & Executive Director, The Beaver Coalition

​SESSION B
Alison Zak
Founder & Director, Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund
SESSION A
A Proposed Strategic Framework for Engaging with Beaver-based Restoration
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SESSION B
Time for Beaver School: Designing and Evaluating Youth Education Programs about Beavers and their Ecosystems
SESSION A
Rob Walton
Acting Ombudsman, State of Alaska

​SESSION B
Lilly Wilson
Senior, Borah High School (Boise, ID)
SESSION A
Landowners, Beaver, and Salmon on the Oregon Coast
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SESSION B
Youth Engagement in Keystone Conservation: the Impacts of Youth on Beavers and Salmon
SESSION A
Bryan Hummel
Life Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

​SESSION B
Shawn Behling
Wildlife Biologist, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
SESSION A
How Humans can use the Brilliance of the Beaver Across a Variety of Land Uses to Meet Multiple Objectives
10:15 - 10:45 am

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SESSION B
Washington DFW Beaver Relocation Permit Pilot Program
SESSION A
Holly Kinas
Conservation Analyst, Miistakis Institute


​SESSION B
Chelsea Boaler
Marine Ecosystems & Fisheries Specialist, WWF-Canada
SESSION A
Addressing Social and Regulatory Barriers to Coexistence
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SESSION B
Pond Levelers Supporting Atlantic Salmon Populations as a Deterrent to Beaver Dam Removal 
SESSION A
Sarah Koenigsberg
Director, Tensegrity Productions

​SESSION B
Molly Alves
Wildlife Biologist, Tulalip Tribes Natural Resources Department
SESSION A
Beyond Believing in the Beaving: Intentional Communication for Climate Adaptation
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SESSION B
Partnering with Beavers Through Relocation to Restore and Create Salmon Habitat Within Tulalip Tribes Ancestral Lands
Jennifer Vanderhoof
​Senior Ecologist, King County Washington
Restoration Guide: The Planning for Beavers Manual
Elissa Chott
​Beaver Conflict Resolution Field Technician, Clark Fork Coalition
The Beaver Conflict Resolution Project
Mike Callahan
​President, Beaver Institute
Developing a National Beaver BioBank Program
Eileen Shader
​River Restoration Director, American Rivers
A National Plan to Protect and Restore Floodplains
Brenda Zollitsch, Ph.D.
​Senior Policy Analyst, Association of State Wetland Managers (ASWM)
A National Dialogue on Beaver-related Restoration: Project Findings and Resources
DAY THREE
THURSDAY, JUNE 16TH
Lelia Philip
Author
The canon: Two Centuries of American Thinking and Writing on the Beaver
Izzie Tween
Beaver Recovery Project Officer, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
Beavers’ Place in the British Isles: Assessing the Feasibility of a Eurasian Beaver Release onto the Isle of Wight
Emily Jones
​Senior Research Technician, University of Louisville
Emerging aquatic insects from a restored headwater valley colonized by beaver
Frank Nelson
Wetland Ecologist, Missouri Department of Conservation
Relationships Between Beavers, Karst Fens, and the Legacy of Relict Species in Missouri
​Alison Zak
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Founder & Director, Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund
Understanding Human-Beaver Interactions within the Larger Context of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence
Christian Sorflaten
A review of a novel water-tight beaver dam analog (WTBDA) to restore eroded seasonal creeks to permanent beaver wetlands
Mike Callahan
​President, Beaver Institute
Scott Mcgill
​CEO, Ecotone
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