Day 1: Tuesday, October 20 | | | |
Time | | | | | |
7:15 | Setup | | | | |
8:00 | Registration | | | | |
8:30 | Conference Opening | | | | |
Session 1 - R 3 Innovations (Reclamation, Remediation, Restoration) | | | |
8:45 | Sweet - Use of High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) to Improve Contaminated Site Management | | | | |
9:15 | Boudreau et al - Sediment Fingerprinting to Assess Erosion in an Agricultural Watershed | | | | |
9:45 | Parker and Sharpe: "Species at Risk in Restoration" | | | | |
10:15 | Morning Break | | | | |
Session 2 - Freshwater Habitat Restoration and Management | Session 3 - Atlantic PIRI | | |
10:45 | Bagnall & Redfield - Fish Passage in the Petitcodiac River | Poirier - Key Regulatory Developments Since 2012 | | | |
11:15 | Jenkins - Restoration of a Madawaska River Tributary | Noble - New Vapour Instrusion Assessment Guidance | | | |
11:45 | Kennedy - Management of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Lake Banook | Ells - Calculating Changing Compound Concentrations in Groundwater | | | |
12:15 | Lunch | | | | |
Session 4 - Vegetation | Session 5 - Remediation Risks and Decision-Making | | |
13:30 | Hicks - Southern Twayblade at the Halifax International Airport | Banks - Comparative Analysis of Remediation Costs for Soil Vapour-Based Risk Assessment | | | |
14:00 | MacDonald et al - Improving the Quality of Choke Cherry Seedings for Reclamation | Walker & MacAskill - Mass Flux-Informed Remediation Decisions at the Sydney Tar Ponds | | | |
14:30 | Major et al - Salt Tolerance of Three Native Willow Species | MacAskill - Using PAH Fingerprinting in the Sydney Tar Ponds | | | |
15:00 | Afternoon Break | | | | |
Session 6 - Fredericton's Picaroons Roundhouse Project | | | | |
15:30 | Langille - Environmental Contamination in Real Estate | | | | |
16:00 | Dunbar - Brownfield Roundhouse to Award-Winning Brews | | | | |
16:30 | Lanigan - Picaroons 2 | | | | |
19:00 | Evening Activities | | | | |
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Day 2: Wednesday, October 21 | | | | |
Time | | | | | |
Session 7 - NB Power's Mactaquac Project | | | | |
8:15 | Power - Mactaquac Project Update | | | | |
8:45 | Paul - First Nations Liaison and Field Monitoring Role | | | | |
9:15 | Smal - River Restoration Option | | | | |
9:45 | Curry et al - Mactaquac Aquatic Ecosystem Study (MAES) | | | | |
10:15 | Morning Break | | | | |
Session 8 - Wetland Restoration | Session 9 - Mine Reclamation at the Sydney Coalfield | | |
10:45 | Bowron et al - Looking Back Over 10 Years of Tidal Wetland Restoration in Nova Scotia | Power et al - Geochemical Assessment of Reclaimed Waste Rock Piles | | | |
11:15 | Beck et al - Community Patterns After 5 Years of Salt Marsh Restoration in the Upper Bay of Fundy | Bradley et al - Use of a Conceptual Model in Advance of Numerical Simulations of Loading from Waste Rock Piles | | | |
11:45 | Dykstra et al - Development of Salt Pools in Restored Salt Marshes in the Bay of Fundy | Ramasamy et al - Variably Saturated Flow Modelling of Soil Cover Systems on Lingan Waste Rock Piles | | | |
12:15 | Lunch | | | | |
Session 10 - GenomeAtlantic - Springboard Event (Chancellor Room) | | | |
13:15 to 15:10 | A unique networking session designed to help companies find R&D expertise to address their key industry challenges. | | | | |
| > Businesses and local researchers get three minutes each to present their interests and expertise. | | | | |
| > Networking breaks provide time to explore opportunities. | | | | |
| > Representatives from industrial R&D organizations will be on hand to discuss funding opportunities. | | | | |
| For more information, visit the Connector website: http://www.cvent.com/d/lrq64y | | | | |
15:10 | Afternoon Break | | | | |
Session 11 - Wetland Restoration (Continued) | Session 12 - Managing Environmental Issues | | |
15:30 | Sharpe & Parker - Wildcat Brook Shale Pit Restoration | Meiers et al - Use of Analytical Estimates and Water Balance Components to Estimate Leakage Through Cover Systems Utilizing a Geomembrane | | | |
16:00 | Wrathall et al - Use of Spartina Species for Natural Shoreline Management | Fiander - Slope Stabilization at the Saint John Mail Processing Plant | | | |
16:30 | Skinner et al - Biogeochemistry of a Recently Restored Macrotidal Salt Marsh (Cheverie Creek, NS) | Thompson - Biotic Earth Hydraulic Growth Media (HGM) for Vegetation Establishment | | | |
17:00 | Evening Activities | | | | |
Day 3: Thursday, October 22 | See NB Power's current poster campaign to solicit public input on the future of this important piece of NB infrastructure. English / French | |
Time | | | | | |
9:00 | Tour - NB Power's Mactaquac Generating Station | | | |