2014 Watershed Symposium
The primary goal of the Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium is to bring together water quality experts, policy makers, environmental advocates, industry, academics, students, and the public to further research, foster collaboration, and provide a forum for networking opportunities.
The buzz during the 8th Annual Watershed Symposium was attendance by the entire student body of Wasatch Institute of Technology students, a charter high school! Half of the students on Day 1 and the other half on Day 2.
Keynotes
- Keynote—Mountain Accord: Not Another Study on the Shelf
- Keynote—iUTAH: Science for Utah’s Water Future(5.24mb)
Michelle Baker, Utah State University
Presentations
- 303(d) For You and Me: A Long-Term Vision for Water Quality
Carl Adams, Division of Water Quality - And the Experts Say...Expert Panels of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL
David Hirschman, Center for Watershed Protection - Behind the Bushes: Unseen Residents of the Jordan River Parkway Trail
Kerry Cramer, Salt Lake County Health Dept. - Beyond the Pulaski: Conservation Corps in the 21st Century
Dave Bastian, Utah Conservation Corps - Conserving Water Without Reducing Quality of Life
Kerry Kopp, Joanna EndterWada, Utah State University - Environmental Crimes, Clean Water Act Enforcement and Teamwork
Ron Lund, Salt Lake County Health Dept. - Going Native in the Landscape)
Larry Rupp, Richard Anderson, Jerry Goodspeed, JayDee Gunnell, Utah State University - In Accord with Our Watersheds
Stacey Arens, MWH
Laura Briefer, Salt Lake City Public Utilities
Marian-Hubbard Rice, Salt Lake County Watershed
Ann Ober, Clint McAffee, Park City - Innovative Tools for Water Education
Laura Hanson, Jordan River Commission
Nick Schou, Utah Rivers Council - iUTAH: Enabling Sustainable Water Systems for Utah
- Late Breaking Headlines from the Stormwater News & Gazette
David Hirschman, Bill Stack, Center for Watershed Protection - Mountain Accord: Harmony or Noise?
Pat Shea, PAS, PC - Nutrients in Great Salt Lake Wetlands: Fluxes and the Role of Microbes
Scott Teeters, University of Utah - Our Watershed in 2050? The impact of adding 2.5 million people to the Wasatch Front and Back?
Robert Grow, Envision Utah - Protecting Great Salt Lake: Meeting the Water Quality Challenge
Jodi Gardberg, Division of Water Quality - Research, Monitoring, and Recovery Projects on Utah Lake and the Utah Lake/Jordan River Transition Zone
Suzanne Walther, Weihong Wang, Utah Valley University
Hilary Arens, Division of Water Quality
Michael Mills, June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program - Securing Future Water Supplies within the Great Salt Lake Watershed
Alan Matheson, Utah State Governors Office
Laura Briefer, Salt Lake City Public Utilities
Robert Davies, Utah State University
Dan McCool, University of Utah
Jeff Salt, Great Salt Lake - Stormwater Programs in Utah: What the Managers and Operators Think
Steve Burgon, Salt Lake County
Andrea Armstrong, Utah State University - Utah at the Crossroads: Climate Change Impacts to our Watersheds (link to Utah Rivers Council 2012 full report "Crossroads Utah: Utah's Climate Future")
Zach Frankel, Utah Rivers Council - Water Flows through the City: Planning Perspectives
Martin Buchert, Erfan Goharian, Sarah Hinners, Phillip Stoker, University of Utah - We Just Had a Fire in the Watershed, Now What?(4.75mb)
David Waldron, Forsgren Associates
Robert Ramsey, Canyon Concepts - Win, Win, Win! Jordan River Bird Monitoring through Citizen Science
Peter Woodruff, Rachel LeBlanc, Tracy Aviary
Field Trips
Continuing Education (CEU)
The Watershed Symposium received course accreditation from the Utah Water Operator Certification Program.
- November 19: 0.4 credits
- November 20: 0.4 credits
- November 21: 0.2 credits
Watershed Planning and Restoration
2001 S State St NL-400 N3-120
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4575
Phone: (385) 468-6600
Fax: (385) 468-6603
