2026 Great Lakes Coastal Symposium

2026 Great Lakes Coastal Symposium

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7:00am EDT

Bird Walk at Sheldon Marsh State Nature Preserve {pre-registration required} Offsite

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Banquet Hall

8:30am EDT

Opening Remarks Banquet HallJanice Kerns

8:45am EDT

Keynote: H2Ohio - Partnerships and Measuring Success Banquet HallAlexis McCarter • Dr. Lauren Kinsman-Costello • Carol Kauffman • Mary Mertz • Breann Hohman

9:45am EDT

Break with Exhibitors Banquet Hall

10:00am EDT

Applying the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Framework in Lake Erie ErieLiz Berg • Brandon Krumwiede • Todd Redder • Bob Holsman Using the Adaptation Workbook and Great Lakes Coastal Adaptation Menu in real-world planning Daisy/MarigoldDanielle Shannon Workshop TBD Huron

12:00pm EDT

Lunch pick-up Banquet Hall

12:30pm EDT

Field Trip to South Bass Island {pre-registration required} Offsite Field Trip: Contrasting Landscapes, Shared Recovery - Ecological Restoration of Martin’s Run and the Black River {pre-registration required} Offsite Field Trip: H2Ohio - Incorporating agricultural drainage into existing or restored wetlands {pre-registration required} Offsite Field Trip: H2Ohio Wetlands - From “Headwaters” to Coast {pre-registration required} Offsite

6:00pm EDT

Poster Session and Reception Banquet Hall POSTER: Allouez Bay Marsh Bird Habitat Restoration Banquet HallTom Prestby POSTER: Analyzing Soil Microbial Diversity in Organically Managed Fields Amended with Dredged Material in Northwest Ohio Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Mira Luna Ebersole • Shikshya Gautam • Jyotshana Gautam • Carlos D Soto • Angélica Vázquez-Ortega • Pei Wang • Zhaohui Xu POSTER: Benthic algal community composition: It’s not all Cladophora Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Madeline Betz • Mary Anne Evans • Kasia Przybyla-Kelly POSTER: Classifying wetlands by hydrologic regime using remote sensing imagery Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Kenneth Anderson • Hana Esber • Lauren Kinsman-Costello • Jackson Miller • He Yin POSTER: Comparing seasonal changes of stem CH4 flux of Acer saccharinum and co-occurring Quercus species in the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Sacha Brewer • Dr. Inke Forbrich • Dr. Roberta Bittencourt Peixoto • Dr. Nick Ward POSTER: GLCRS: Identifying Vulnerabilities in Erie's Blue Economy Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Shelby Clark POSTER: High Resolution Mapping of Invasive Buckthorn Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Rabecca Bakker • Laura Bourgeau-Chavez • Chris Cook • Dorthea VanderBilt POSTER: Identifying potential wetland restoration sites and assessing health for coastal resilience Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Michael Battaglia • Laura Bourgeau-Chavez • Jeremy Graham • Jessica LaReaux • Mary Ellen Miller POSTER: Invasive cattail harvest and biochar application influence on Great Lakes wetland manoomin restoration Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Liz Berg • Daniel Hayden • Shane Lishawa • Brian Ohsowski • Megan Wenner POSTER: Invasive Typha biochar amendment increases manoomin (Zizania palustris; northern wild rice) biomass despite presence of invasive Myriophyllum spicatum (Eurasian watermilfoil) Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Aimee Baier • Coleman J. Benedict • Dani Fegan • Shane C. Lishawa • MacKenzie Michaels • Brian M. Ohsowski • Hadley R. Rule POSTER: Marsh Bird Passive Acoustic Monitoring Detections Affected by Invasive Plant Populations Banquet HallMikaila Cadavona POSTER: Modeling the Second Phase of Restoration at Allouez Bay, WI Banquet HallTom Prestby POSTER: Obtawaing Biosphere Region Coastal Resilience Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Liz Berg • Jill Estrada • Amanda Grimm • Zoe Goodrow Kuntze • Shane Lishawa • Samantha Miller • Samantha Nellis • Doug Pearsall • Adam Schubel • Kate Truitt POSTER: Phosphorus Trends in Little Long Lake Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Alison Bressler • Alex Edwards • Zoe Frankel POSTER: Quantifying wave impact hours for eroding bluff shorelines in Southeastern Lake Huron Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Dr. Chris Houser • Ben Woodward POSTER: Rates of bluff retreat and shoreline change along the north shore of Lake Erie Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Cooper O'Rourke • Jacqueline Voisin-Roewade POSTER: Restoration and Resilience Case Studies under the Initiative for Resilient Great Lakes Coasts Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Brendan Cousino • Tyler Hackett • Brandon Krumwiede • Emily Kuzmick • Becky Nicodemus POSTER: Speculative Ecology: Wetlands, Coastal Resilience, and Real Estate Capital on Buffalo's Outer Harbor Banquet HallBanquet Hall • Phillip Campanile