ICCB 2013 Program - Society for Conservation Biology

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Symposium: Despite What You’ve Heard...Conservation Success in the Chesapeake Bay
Session II
Room 310
Monday, July 22, 10:30 to 12:30
Organizer(s): Keryn Gedan, University of Maryland; Autumn-Lynn Harrison, Clemson University
The Chesapeake Bay is one of the world’s largest, most culturally treasured, and most productive estuariesa scale that challenges
and provides opportunities for conservation and management. Recent decades have been hard on Chesapeake Bay ecosystems and
the people who depend on them. The wild oyster fishery that once shaped the region’s cultural identity has collapsed, a seasonal
dead zone plagues the Bay mainstem, and there is heavy dependence on the blue crab fishery. Despite notorious environmental
problems, Chesapeake conservation practitioners have rallied a conservation ethic and pursued an ambitious conservation agenda.
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Participants in this session have advanced that agenda and will discuss the triumphs and pitfalls of managing nutrients, fisheries,
and habitats in the Chesapeake Bay. Nutrient management plans for the Chesapeake watershed are some of the strictest in the
nation. Fisheries managers are facilitating a shift from wild harvest to bivalve aquaculture and embarking upon one of the largest
marine restoration projects ever. Stakeholders from crabbing and farming communities steward conservation activities to preserve
the Chesapeake cultural legacy. Finally, the session will include a presentation about the Bay Game, a data-intensive, educational
simulation game that incorporates the complex issues of the Bay. In the Chesapeake Bay, people have transcended impressive
disciplinary, cultural, and political boundaries to carry out conservation activities.
10:30 Nutrient overload to Chesapeake Bay: Where it comes from and ways to control it
Tom Jordan, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Donald E. Weller, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center;
David L. Correll, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Dennis F. Whigham, Smithsonian Environmental Research
Center; Matthew E. Baker, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
10:45 Multi-decade responses of a tidal creek system to nutrient load reductions: Mattawoman Creek, Maryland USA
Walt Boynton, Chesapeake Biological Lab; C.L.S. Hodgkins, C. O’Leary, E. M. Bailey, A.R. Bayard, and L.A. Wainger,
Chesapeake Biological Lab
11:00 Farmers as stewards
Representatives of the Maryland Soil and Water Conservation Districts and the Maryland Farm Stewardship
Certification and Assessment Program
11:15 Poultry litter management from a Stakeholder’s perspective
Hobey Bauhan, Virginia Poultry Federation
11:30 The Bay Game
Jeffrey Plank, University of Virginia
11:45 Looking back at the Chesapeake Futures Report, 10 years on
Don Boesch, UMD Center for Environmental Science
Open discussion follows from 12:00-12:30
lunch activities: 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• SCB Groups Meetings
SCB Chapters, Room 306
Working Group for Ecological Economics and Sustainability Science (EESS), Room 310
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• Workshop: The Do’s and Don’ts of Networking in Conservation (student workshop)
Room 301
Organizer(s): ICCB Student Activities Committee
• Workshop: Faculty/Researcher Training Resources for Research Ethics, Cultural Sensitivity and Communitybased
Research for Conservation Biology (Day 1 of 2)
Room 302
Organizer(s): Dianne Quigley, Northeast Ethics Education Partnership, Brown University
• Workshop: Highway Wilding - A Documentary Screening
Room 303
Organizer(s): Danah Duke, Miistakis Institute; Rachelle Haddock, Miistakis Institute
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