2026 Great Lakes Coastal Symposium

Assembly Welcome

Mindful Moment

Keynote: Great Lakes as Great Uniters: Envisioning th... 1:20pm - 2:10pm

Announcements

Break with Exhibit...

Happy Hour at the Hotel 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Data to Decisions:...

Restoration of the...

Successful coastal...

Contrasting Landsc...

Collaborative prog...

Climate and Coasta...

Climate-driven imp...

Lake Michigan Bluf...

Investigating inva...

Successful Phragmi...

A Binational Frame...

Developing Great L...

Enhancing Coastal...

Design Development...

Sandusky Bay Resto...

Sandusky Bay Initi...

The Great Lakes Co...

Scoping a Lake Ont...

Modeling with the...

Panel: Basin-wide...

Monitoring for div...

Measuring Restorat...

Monitoring connect...

Manoomin's Good Li...

Monitoring reconne...

Avoiding Common Pi...

Evaluating Sustain...

Regional Coastal W...

NOAA’s Office of H...

Monitoring for div...

Stewardship Event {pre-registration required} 9:00am - 11:30am

Lunch on your own 11:30am - 1:00pm

Bus into town for dinner 5:30pm - 8:00pm

Breakfast 7:30am - 8:30am

Opening Remarks

Keynote: H2Ohio - Partnerships and Measuring Success 8:45am - 9:45am

Break with Exhibit...

Lunch pick-up 12:00pm - 12:30pm

POSTER: Rates of bluff retreat and shoreline change along the north shore of Lake Erie 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Allouez Bay Marsh Bird Habitat Restoration 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Obtawaing Biosphere Region Coastal Resilience 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Benthic algal community composition: It’s not all Cladophora 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: High Resolution Mapping of Invasive Buckthorn 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Invasive Typha biochar amendment increases manoomin (Zizania palustris; northern wild rice) biomass despite presence of... 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Analyzing Soil Microbial Diversity in Organically Managed Fields Amended with Dredged Material in Northwest Ohio 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Quantifying wave impact hours for eroding bluff shorelines in Southeastern Lake Huron 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Poster Session and Reception 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: GLCRS: Identifying Vulnerabilities in Erie's Blue Economy 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Phosphorus Trends in Little Long Lake 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Identifying potential wetland restoration sites and assessing health for coastal resilience 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Modeling the Second Phase of Restoration at Allouez Bay, WI 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Speculative Ecology: Wetlands, Coastal Resilience, and Real Estate Capital on Buffalo's Outer Harbor 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Invasive cattail harvest and biochar application influence on Great Lakes wetland manoomin restoration 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Classifying wetlands by hydrologic regime using remote sensing imagery 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Marsh Bird Passive Acoustic Monitoring Detections Affected by Invasive Plant Populations 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Restoration and Resilience Case Studies under the Initiative for Resilient Great Lakes Coasts 6:00pm - 8:00pm

POSTER: Comparing seasonal changes of stem CH4 flux of Acer saccharinum and co-occurring Quercus species in the Ottawa National... 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Using the Adaptation Workbook and Great Lakes Coastal Adaptation Menu in real-world planning 10:00am - 12:00pm

Applying the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Framework in Lake Erie 10:00am - 12:00pm

Workshop TBD 10:00am - 12:00pm

Bird Walk at Sheldon Marsh State Nature Preserve {pre-registrati... 7:00am - 8:00am

Field Trip: H2Ohio Wetlands - From “Headwaters” to Coast {pre-registration required} 12:30pm - 5:00pm

Field Trip: H2Ohio - Incorporating agricultural drainage into existing or restored wetlands {pre-registration required} 12:30pm - 5:00pm

Field Trip to South Bass Island {pre-registration required} 12:30pm - 5:00pm

Field Trip: Contrasting Landscapes, Shared Recovery - Ecological Restoration of Martin’s Run and the Black River {pre-registration required} 12:30pm - 5:00pm

Breakfast 8:00am - 9:00am

Mindful Moment

Opening Remarks

Keynote: Connect the Dots, Catalyze the Culture:... 9:10am - 9:55am

Announcements

Break with Exhibit...

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Priority Islands f...

Conserving Lake Hu...

Monitoring Rare Sp...

The Nature Conserv...

Beyond protection:...

Natural Community...

Natural Community...

Like a Rolling Sto...

Understanding Comm...

An Introduction to...

Keeping Sediment i...

Ohio's Commercial...

Innovative Use of...

Beneficial Reuse o...

[PLACEHOLDER]

What If Partnershi...

Engaging Communiti...

Restoring the Will...

Managing New York’...

Treading New Marsh...

Community Engageme...

Developing an Acti...

Communicating unce...

Creating Harmful A...

Cuyahoga County’s...

Planning for Resil...

SEAS in Pennsylvan...

Surf's Up! How Eng...

Waterfront Integra...

Building Coastal W...

Interdisciplinary...

Connected wetlands...

Plant influences o...

Data Management St...

Optimization of So...

Interpreting Wetla...

Mapping Multi-Deca...

The Bird-friendlin...

Improved Great Lak...

Dynamic stability...

Identifying Ecolog...

What’s happening i...

Great Lakes Geospa...

Delineation of Cri...

Monitoring surface...

Bird Walk at Sheldon Marsh State Nature Preserve {pre-registrati... 7:00am - 8:00am

Concurrent Sessions 10:15am - 12:00pm

Concurrent Sessions 1:00pm - 3:00pm