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Thursday, May 17

12:00 pm to 6:30 pm Miller 132 Registration
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Kennedy Aud. Symposium: Urban Aquatic Ecosystems
1:00 pm to 1:10 pm Introduction
1:10 pm to 1:40 pm Addressing water management challenges: Where policy and science meet
1:40 pm to 2:05 pm Current and future wastewater reuse in Texas
2:05 pm to 2:30 pm Anatomy of urban streams in North Texas
2:30 pm to 2:55 pm Urban watershed management in a developing area of North Central Texas: The Denton, Texas watershed protection program
2:55 pm to 3:15 pm Miller 132 Session Break
3:15 pm to 3:40 pm Science to Policy: The banning of coal tar sealant in Austin, Texas
3:40 pm to 4:05 pm Analytical and theoretical ecology of Prymnesium parvum ("golden algae") in Texas inland waters
4:05 pm to 4:30 pm Watershed urbanization, nutrients, and ecological thresholds in streams
4:30 pm to 5:00 pm Panel Discussion
5:00 pm to 6:00pm Miller 137 SC SETAC Business Meeting

Friday May 18

7:00 am to 8:00 am Miller 132 Registration, Continental Breakfast
7:15 am to 8:00 am Miller 137 TRRMS Business Meeting
8:20 am to 8:30 am Kennedy Aud. Welcome from David Ownby and Bryan Brooks
8:30 am to 8:45 am What is NALMS? - Steven Watters, NALMS BOD
8:45 am to 9:00 am What is SETAC? – George Cobb, SETAC NABOD
9:00 am to 10:20 am Kennedy Aud. Platform Session I: Nutrients
9:00 am to 9:20 am Water quality, P. parvum and fecal coliform monitoring for Lake Granbury, TX
9:00 am to 9:20 am Does the relative importance of bacteria in reservoir nutrient cycling vary with productivity?
9:20 am to 9:40 am Factors affecting carbon and nitrogen fixation in eight Texas reservoirs
9:40 am to 10:00 am Neither stream nor lake – The world the standards forgot
10:20 am to 10:40 am Miller 132 Session Break
10:40 am to 12:00 pm Kennedy Aud. Platform Session II: Aquatic Toxicology
10:40 am to 11:00 am Habitat-specific differences in mercury concentrations of largemouth bass from Caddo Lake
11:00 am to 11:20 am The effects of pH on the toxicity of a model weak base to aquatic organisms
11:20 am to 11:40 am Acute effects of Triclosan and Triclocarban exposure on the development of Xenopus laevis tadpoles
11:40 am to 12:00 pm Assessment and comparison of the sensitivities of common in vitro and in vivo assays of environmental estrogenicity using chemical toxicity distributions
12:00 pm to 2:30 pm Forestry Deck Lunch
12:30 pm to 2:20 pm Forestry 117 Poster Session
1:45 pm to 2:15 pm Forestry 102 Student SETAC Meeting
2:20 pm to 4:00 pm Kennedy Aud. Platform Session III: Texas Bivalves
2:20 pm to 2:40 pm Diversity, ecosystem functions, and major threats to freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in Texas
2:40 pm to 3:00 pm Trends in diversity and abundance of freshwater Unionid bivalves in Texas
3:00 pm to 3:20 pm Distributional survey of freshwater mussels and their habitats in the Brazos, San Antonio and Lower Sabine Rivers
3:20 pm to 3:30 pm Miller 132 Session Break
3:30 pm to 5:10 pm Kennedy Aud. Platform Session IV: Additional Aquatic Issues
3:30 pm to 3:50 pm Plans for the Texas hydrographic survey program
3:50 pm to 4:10 pm The influence of channel form on hydraulic diversity
4:10 pm to 4:30 pm Multiple uses and benefits of constructed wetlands
4:30 pm to 4:50 pm Preliminary steps toward an Integrated Drought Information System (IDIS) for Texas
5:45 pm Vans leave from Hotels for Bar-B-Q Parking lots
6:00 pm Millard's Crossing Bar-B-Q Dinner


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