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 ​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

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