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2018 Conference: Presentation Slides

​The following presentations from the 2018 conference are available to view or download in PDF format. 

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
    • Dexter
    • Ferry
    • Finton
    • Paulson
  • The Pollinator Plight: Case Studies in Roadside Vegetation Management for Pollinator Conservation
    • Batchelor
    • Furlong
    • Richardson
  • ​Integrating Stream Habitat, Fish Passage, and Flood Vulnerability Data to Prioritize Culvert Replacements for Restoration and Mitigation in New Hampshire
    • Bondi
    • Callahan
    • Sommer

​TRACK: POLICY | ROOM: 165-69

  • (1:30pm) Post-Storm Infrastructure Improvements and Stream Restoration: Three Case Studies

​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

  • Analyzing the Hydraulic Capacity and Flood Resiliency of Culverts Across the Northeast
    • Panel Intro
    • Hebson
    • Menes
    • Rees
    • Taggart
    • Truhlar
  • Bats, Birds, and Fish. Oh My! Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act Updates and Ongoings
    • Dexter
    • Ham
    • Paulson
    • Richard

​TRACK: POLICY | ROOM: 165-69

  • (10:30am) New Jersey's Adventures in Requiring Wildlife Passages

​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
    • Banks
    • Channel Evolution Exercise
    • Dexter
    • Nyman
    • Paulson
    • Schiff
  • ​​Implementing Ecological Connectivity from Labrador to Connecticut: A Workshop with the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers Working Group on Ecological Connectivity

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