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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 |