2018 CONFERENCE: Presentation Slides
The following presentations from the 2018 conference are available to view or download in PDF format.
NETWC assumes no responsibility for copyright of any information within the presentations and all responsibility lies with the author.
NETWC assumes no responsibility for copyright of any information within the presentations and all responsibility lies with the author.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
TRACK: IMPLEMENTATION | ROOM: 163C
- (10:00am) Reducing Vehicular and Wildlife Conflicts: A Case Study of an Urban Wildlife Tunnel in Concord, Massachusetts
- (11:00am) First Wildlife Passage Dedicated to Turtles on the Road Network Managed by Quebec’s Ministry of Transportation’s
- (2:00pm) NHDOT Stream Passage Improvement Program
- (2:30pm) Integrating NEPA and Permitting
- (3:30pm) What's in a Landscape? From Data to Decisions at MaineDOT
- (4:00pm) Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey (CHANJ)
- (4:30pm) "No Sport for the Short-Winded:" Implementing a Successful Wildlife Crossing Project Through a Grassroots and Government Collaboration
TRACK: PANEL | ROOM: Campus Center Auditorium
- Partnering for Resilient Infrastructure and Ecosystems in Massachusetts’s
- The Pollinator Plight: Case Studies in Roadside Vegetation Management for Pollinator Conservation
- Integrating Stream Habitat, Fish Passage, and Flood Vulnerability Data to Prioritize Culvert Replacements for Restoration and Mitigation in New Hampshire
TRACK: POLICY | ROOM: 165-69
TRACK: RESEARCH | ROOM: 162-75
- (10:00am) Maine Turtle Roadkill Survey: Identifying Hotspots for Mitigation with the Help of Citizen Scientists and iNaturalist
- (1:30pm) Road Mortality Mitigation: The Effectiveness of Animex Fencing vs. Mesh
- (2:00pm) Plastic Bridges: New Materials for the Integrated Design of Landscape and Infrastructure
- (2:30pm) Using Landscape-Scale Conservation Design to Prioritize Transportation Infrastructure
- (3:30pm) Modeling Road Crossings for Moose (Alces americanus) and Black Bear (Ursus americanus) in Massachusetts, USA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
TRACK: IMPLEMENTATION | ROOM: 163C
- (8:00am) Amphibian Road Closures: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Season of “Big Night Detours” in Keene, NH
- (8:30am) MassDOT Case Studies in Tidal Restoration
- (9:00am) Working with Environmental, Transportation and Emergency Management Agencies to Restore Aquatic Habitat Connectivity and Support Infrastructure Improvement
- (10:30am) Engineering and Design Features of a Culvert Sliplining Project in Connecticut to Facilitate Brook Trout Passage
- (11:00am) MassDOT’s Innovative Approach to Planning Bridge Replacements
- (11:30am) Innovative Fisheries Protection for MassDOT Design-Build Bridge Projects
TRACK: PANEL | ROOM: Campus Center Auditorium
TRACK: POLICY | ROOM: 165-69
TRACK: RESEARCH | ROOM: 162-75
- (8:00am) Going with the Flow: Conserving Resilient and Connected Landscapes
- (8:30am) Rights-of-way Management for Native Insect Pollinators in the Northeastern USA: Literature Meta-analysis and Preliminary Summary of Maine’s Bumblebee and Butterfly Roadside Surveys
- (10:30am) Wildlife Movement Through Culverts and Bridges in Vermont: Influences of Structure and Site Characteristics
- (11:00am) “Profiling” Road Segments: A Rapid, Basic Set of Research Tools and Protocols for Understanding How Wildlife in Habitat Cores Are Impacted by Roads
- (11:30am) The Vermont Transportation Resilience Planning Tool
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
TRACK: LIGHTNING SESSION | ROOM: Campus Center Auditorium
- (8:00am) Development of a State-Wide Program in Massachusetts to Build Municipal Capacity for Replacing Problem Culverts with Crossings That Meet Improved Environmental Design and Flood Resiliency Standards
- (8:30am) First Year Review of Culvert Stream Crossings Designed Using Habitat Connectivity Design Practices
- (8:45am) Tidal Road-Stream Crossings: A New Approach to Assess and Prioritize Transportation Infrastructure for Coastal Resilience
- (9:15am) Review of Effects of Highways on Bats in Context of the Federally-Endangered Northern Long-Eared Bat (Myotis septentrionalis)
- (9:30am) Wildlife Mortality Hotspot Locations Identified from Two Different Data Sources: is there any Overlap?
- (9:45am) Exeter Dam Removal: Managing Public Infrastructure to Increase Resiliency
- (10:30am) A Review of Three Herptile Passage Systems in New Jersey
- (10:45am) Assuming the Mantle: A Cross-agency Collaboration in Maine to Safeguard Freshwater Mussels During Transportation Projects
- (11:00am) The Hot 200: A New Protocol and Technology for Surveying 200 Culverts Across Vermont
- (11:15am) Wildlife Passage Benefits of Maine’s Atlantic Salmon Programmatic Agreement (MAP)
- (11:30am) NY’s First-Ever Critter Shelf
- (11:45am) Moving Forward on Northeast Regional Conservation Priorities for Freshwater Turtles at Risk: Current and Best Management Practices for Locating and Mitigating Road Impacts on Turtles
TRACK: WORKSHOP
- Where the River Meets the Road: MassDOT Training Program for Using Fluvial Geomorphology to Enhance Infrastructure Resiliency
- Implementing Ecological Connectivity from Labrador to Connecticut: A Workshop with the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers Working Group on Ecological Connectivity
