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
- 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