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Great Lakes Tributary Modeling Program 516(e)

All Hands Meeting

February 11-12, 2009

Hampton Inn - Detroit Metropolitan Airport

30847 Flynn Drive, Romulus, MI 48174

Phone: (734) 721-1100

Day 1 – Wednesday, February 11 (All times EST)

11:00 a.m. Welcome, Introductions and Meeting Objectives (0.7 mb) - Jan

Miller

11:10 a.m. Regional Trends and Opportunities: An Introduction - Jan Miller

(slides included in previous presentation)

11:30 a.m. Tributary Modeling Updates: Ag / Rural Land Uses

   • St. Joseph River, MI/IN (3.8 mb) - Jim Selegean

   • Battle Creek River, MI / Sediment Budget (5.1 mb)

- Jim Selegean

   • Discussion of Lessons Learned and Next Steps - All

12:15 p.m. Working Lunch

1:00 p.m. Tributary Modeling Updates: Urban / Other Land Uses

   • Waukegan River, IL (0.5 mb) - Dave Bucaro

   • Cayuga Creek, NY - Mike Draganac

   • Discussion of Lessons Learned and Next Steps - All

1:45 p.m. Tributary Modeling Updates: Other Applications

   • Lake Erie (NOAA) (1.4 mb) - Joe DePinto

   • Swan Creek (Web-based) (0.5 mb) - Bartholic/

     Engel

   • Discussion of Lessons Learned and Next Steps - All

2:30 p.m. Break

2:45 p.m. Prioritizing Watersheds for Future Modeling (0.2 mb) - Jon

Bartholic

3:00 p.m. Web-Based Model Development (Status Updates, Next Steps)

   • System-wide (0.8 mb) - Jon Bartholic

   • Urban Land Uses (0.8 mb) - Bernie Engel

   • Forestry Land Uses (1.1 mb) - Bill Elliot

     (Paper: Conroy et al., 2006, 0.5 mb)

3:45 p.m. Discussion of Integration / Delivery of Web-Based Tools - All

• Developing a Strategy for Tributary Models

4:45 p.m. Adjourn for the Day

Day 2 – Thursday, February 12 (All times EST)

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Communications / Outreach: Group Discussion and Next

    Steps (0.3 mb)

   • SWCD webinar and toolkit - Tom Crane

   • Website and New Web Resources - Laura Kaminski

   • Other outreach opportunities - Jan Miller

• FL-LOPA Annual Meeting (10/13/09,

     Geneva, NY)

• Sediment short course

9:30 a.m. Partnerships

   • Update on GL Soil Erosion & Sedimentation Program

     (0.3 mb) - Gary Overmier

   • Priorities of SWCDs and NACD RPG - Brad Rogers

   • Other potential partnerships - All

10:15 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. GLRC Strategy Nonpoint Chapter (.03 mb) - All (Lead: Jan Miller)

   • Are the recommendations from the Strategy on

     target?

   • Who is the champion for this issue?

   • What is the role for the 516 program?

11:00 a.m. Regional Trends and Opportunities: Where Do We Go From

Here? - All (Lead: Jan Miller)

11:20 a.m. Next Steps - Jan Miller

11:30 a.m. Adjourn