2020 Agenda

December 1, 2020

9:00 – 9:10	Day 1 Welcome & Opening Remarks	Debbie Lee, Program Support Team
9:10 – 9:25	Introduction to the Collaborative Program Science and Adaptive Management (S&AM) Process	Catherine Murphy, Program Support Team
9:25 – 10:00	Science and Adaptive Management Committee (SAMC) Lightning Round	SAMC, MRGESCP
10:00 – 11:00	Session I – The Changing Bosque Habitat	Anne Marken, moderator
10:00 – 10:15	Loss of Open Areas and a Changing Albuquerque Bosque and River	Mary Harner, University of Nebraska at Kearney
10:15 – 10:30	Applied Remote Sensing in the Middle Rio Grande	Chris Sanderson, Tetra Tech, Inc.
10:30 – 10:45	Role of Restored Floodplains in Conservation of the Endangered Rio Grande Silvery Minnow	Richard A. Valdez, SWCA Environmental Consultants
10:45 – 11:00	Preparing the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher for the Tamarisk Leaf Beetle in the Middle Rio Grande, NM	Ondrea Hummel and Joe Schroeder, Tetra Tech, Inc.
11:00 – 11:15	Break
11:15 – 11:30	S&AM Tool Presentation: AM Database	Shay Howlin, Program Support Team
11:30 – 12:30	Virtual Field Tour: Results of 17 Years of Monitoring at the Los Lunas Habitat Restoration Site	S. David Moore and Rebecca Siegle, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch Social Hour & Poster Presentation
12:30 – 1:30	Vegetation Communities’ Interactions with Dynamic Patch Mosaic Structure in the Middle Rio Grande	Jonathan Tyrrell, Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program

December 2, 2020

9:00 – 9:05	Day 2 Welcome	Catherine Murphy, Program Support Team
9:05 – 10:05	Virtual Field Tour: Southwestern Native Aquatic Resources and Recovery Center	Wade Wilson, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Southwestern Native Aquatic Resources and Recovery Center
10:05 – 11:20	Session II – Rio Grande Silvery Minnow: Life History and Biology	Mo Hobbs, moderator
10:05 – 10:20	Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Reproductive Monitoring (2003–2020)	Robert K. Dudley, American Southwest Ichthyological Researchers, L.L.C. & Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico
10:20 – 10:35	Surface Flow Intermittency Results in Ecological Traps for a Fish Assemblage: Implications for Conservation	Thomas Archdeacon, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
10:35 – 10:50	Duration of Floodplain Inundation Necessary for Larval Rio Grande Silvery Minnow	Richard A. Valdez, SWCA Environmental Consultants
10:50 – 11:05	Environmental Flow Analysis for Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Recruitment	Michael D. Porter, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
11:05 – 11:20	The Next Generation of Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Genetic Monitoring	Guilherme Caeiro-Dias, Department of Biology & Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico
11:20 – 11:30	Break
11:30 – 12:00	Keynote Speaker – Laura Paskus	Laura Paskus, New Mexico PBS
12:00 – 12:30	S&AM Tool Presentation: Conceptual Ecological Models	Catherine Murphy, Program Support Team
12:30–1:30	Lunch Social Hour & Poster Presentation
12:30–1:30	Linking Hydrology and Geomorphology on the Middle Rio Grande with Habitat Conditions for the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow	Jacob G. Mortensen, American Southwest Ichthyological Researchers, L.L.C.

December 3, 2020

10:00 – 10:05	Day 3 Welcome	Catherine Murphy, Program Support Team
10:05 – 11:05	Session III – Modeling a Dynamic System: Developing Hydraulic and Hydrologic Models for the Middle Rio Grande	Ashlee Rudolph, moderator
10:05 – 10:20	Habitat Hydraulics: Sensitivity Analysis and Habitat Suitability Modeling of Rio Grande Silvery Minnow	Aubrey Harris, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
10:20 – 10:35	Can Combining the Middle Rio Grande Mobile Bed HEC-RAS Model and URGWOM Contribute to Improved Restoration Planning	Kyle Shour, Tetra Tech, Inc.
10:35 – 10:50	Linking Morpho-Dynamics and Habitat Conditions in the Isleta Reach of the Middle Rio Grande	Ari J. Posner, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
10:50 – 11:05	30 Years of Hydrographic Data Collection on the Middle Rio Grande and Its Applications for River Monitoring and Endangered Species Habitat Restoration	Breana Chavez and Walt Kuhn; Michelle Klein, Tetra Tech, Inc.; U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
11:05 – 11:35	Keynote Speaker – Cliff Dahm	Cliff Dahm, University of New Mexico
11:35 – 11:50	S&AM Tool Presentation: Interactive Mapper	Shay Howlin, Program Support Team
11:50 – 12:00	Closing Remarks	Catherine Murphy, Program Support Team