The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services wishes to thank each of the ~150 attendees for participating in the 32nd annual meeting of the New England Association of Environmental Biologists. The meeting included some excellent poster and oral presentations and we are thankful to all those that submitted this material. It was our pleasure to host the meeting this year and hope you enjoyed it as well.
Below are the final agenda and a table with links to each of the oral presentations.
| Number |
Presentation Title |
Primary Author |
| 1 |
National wetland condition assessment (PDF) (18 pp, 557 K) |
Jeanne Voorhees |
| 2 |
A landscape-level approach to wetlands monitoring and assessment (PDF) (85 pp, 6.7 MB) |
Scott Jackson |
| 3 |
Use of GIS to conduct a landscape level assessment of New Hampshire's wetlands (PDF) (43 pp, 2.8 MB) |
Ted Walsh |
| 4 |
Baseline floristic assessment and classification of pine barrens vernal ponds in New York (PDF) (31 pp, 2.7 MB) |
Jason Bried |
| 5 |
Connecticut methodology for freshwater nutrient criteria development (PDF) (29 pp, 1.3 MB) |
Mary Becker |
| 6 |
Effects of whole-river fertilization on benthic invertebrates: feeding a starving river (PDF) (44 pp, 4.9 MB) |
Gary Lester |
| 7 |
Inferring environmental conditions in streams based on stream algae (PDF) (34 pp, 888 K) |
Tom Danielson |
| 8 |
Assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in relation to regulated flows in the Deerfield River, Massachusetts (PDF) (23 pp, 1.4 MB) |
Michael B. Cole |
| 9 |
National Lakes Assessment: Overview of field season and preliminary data analysis |
Ellen Tarquinio |
| 10 |
A statewide probability survey of Vermont Lakes – an adaptation of the national lake survey (PDF) (30 pp, 615 K) | MS Powerpoint Version (PPT) (30 slides, 1 MB) |
Neil Kammen |
| 11 |
Water quality report cards (PDF) (16 pp, 2.1 MB) |
Warren Kimball |
| 12 |
Impairment to aquatic invertebrate and fish assemblages caused by heavy metals in the acid rock drainage from Ely mine near Vershire, Vermont (PDF) (26 pp, 2.6 MB) |
James Coles |
| 13 |
The use of on-lake remote sensing to measure water quality in New England lake (PDF) (31 pp, 6.2 MB) |
Shane Bradt |
| 14 |
Effect of climate change on aquatic ecosystems and biological indicators (PDF) (63 pp, 3.4 MB) |
Britta G. Brierwagen |
| 15 |
A random walk through sampling designs: the ups and down of probabilistic monitoring (PDF) (44 pp, 826 K) |
Jeroen Gerritsen |
| 16 |
Performance evaluations for a range of stormwater Low Impact Design, conventional structural, and manufactured treatment devices in a cold climate (PDF) (47 pp, 7.1 MB) |
James J. Houle |
| 17 |
In search of pristine ponds: The Adirondack Heritage Lake Project (PDF) (56 pp, 9.4 MB) |
Curt Stager |
| 18 |
Predicted impacts of climate change on cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in lakes: future threats to lake ecology and public health (PDF) (63 pp, 4.1 MB) |
Jim Haney |
| 19 |
Working with people: Applying social science research in conservation and outreach efforts (PDF) (33 pp, 3.7 MB) |
Brian Eisenhauer |
| 20 |
CWA section 106 monitoring initiative (PDF) (14 pp, 270 K) |
Susan Holdsworth |
| 21 |
Detecting water quality patterns in New Hampshire's estuaries using national coastal assessment probability-based survey data (PDF) (15 pp, 435 K) |
Phillip R. Trowbridge |
| 22 |
National wadeable stream assessment: analysis of region V state results (PDF) (31 pp, 5.4 MB) |
Chris Yoder |
| 23 |
Connecticut's invasive aquatic plant problem (PDF) (25 pp, 5.6 MB) |
Gregg Bugbee |
| 24 |
Didymosphenia geminata – a new potentially invasive diatom in New England rivers (PDF) (41 pp, 3.8 MB) |
Leslie Matthews |
| 25 |
Using geospatial technologies to research invasive aquatic plants in Connecticut (PDF) (25 pp, 4.1 MB) |
Roslyn Selsky |
| 26 |
Development of a fish assemblage assessment index for non-wadeable large rivers in Maine (PDF) (55 pp, 19 MB) |
Chris Yoder |
| 27 |
Predicted occurrence of coldwater fish assemblages in New Hampshire wadeable streams (PDF) (22 pp, 1.3 MB) |
David Neils |
| 28 |
Effects of the nuisance Diatom, Didymosphenia geminata, on benthic invertebrate communities in the Kootenai River, Montana/Idaho (PDF) (44 pp, 5.7 MB) |
Gary Lester |
| 29 |
Statewide application of target fish community methods (PDF) (27 pp, 1.4 MB) |
Todd Richards |
| 30 |
Trends in climate in northern New York, 1950 - 2005 (PDF) (38 pp, 822 K) |
Kathie Dello |
| 31 |
Climate change pilot study on the Maine database (PDF) (29 pp, 2.3 MB) |
Jeroen Gerritsen |
| 32 |
Annual differences in aquatic insects of the White Mountain National Forest – normal variation or global warming? (PDF) (39 pp, 4.5 MB) |
Donald S. Chandler |
| 33 |
Potential climate change indicators – Traits and taxa (PDF) (37 pp, 4.9 MB) |
Jen Stamp |
| 34 |
Northeast regional mercury total maximum daily load (PDF) (26 pp, 693 K) |
Susannah King |
| 35 |
Development of TMDL's for eutrophic lakes in Vermont – a contrast in approaches (PDF) (33 pp, 1.1 MB) |
Neil Kammen |
| 36 |
Use of models of medium scale complexity to derive total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for nutrient impaired lakes in New Hampshire (PDF) (23 pp, 1.7 MB) |
Sarah Macdougall |
| 37 |
Using RIFLS volunteer streamflow data to manage flows downstream of impoundments (PDF) (30 pp, 6.9 MB) |
Joanna Carey |
| 38 |
New Hampshire's approach to managing impounded water levels and corresponding downstream flows relative to aquatic life use support (PDF) (22 pp, 2.7 MB) |
Paul Piszczek |
The 32nd Annual Meeting
of the 
March
26 – 28, 2008 