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.
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 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? 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 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? 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 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 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 SESSION B Elyssa Kerr Executive Director, Beavers Northwest |
SESSION A There’s no place like home: Rebuilding the dynamics of lodge occupation of the North SESSION B Beavers and People and Fish, Oh My: Exploring Flow Device Innovation |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
Closing Comments |