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LIS Eelgrass Collaborative Workshop

9:15 am	Check-In and Coffee - Lowell Weicker Building, Room 103 Foyer
9:45	Welcome and Workshop Overview – Katie Lund, CT NERR
9:50 - 11:20	LOCATION: LWB, Room 103 Featured Speakers - focus on NPS and EPA eelgrass restoration/resilience projects: - Phil Colarusso (Marine Biologist, U.S. EPA) – Colarusso PRESENTATION - Stephanie Kamel (Professor, UNCW Biology and Marine Biology Dept.) – Kamel PRESENTATION Panel with 2 featured + additional speaker for added insight and audience Q&A: 30 mins - Bradley Peterson (Associate Professor, Stony Brook University) – NPS Project
11:20 - 11:30	BREAK
11:30 - 12:30	LOCATION: LWB, Lobby/Rankin Lab Poster and Tour Rotation (two groups rotate – 30 mins in each location): Group A - start inside at poster session, Lowell Weicker Bldg. (LWB) Room 103 Lobby Group B - start outside in front of LWB and choose one the following: 1) Rankin Lab tour: viewing & discussion of restoration facility upgrades 2) Visit CT Sea Grant’s new mobile seaweed lab
12:30 - 1:20	LUNCH - Mort's in the Academic Building (including time to walk across campus)
1:20 - 1:30	BREAK (and make way to breakout rooms)
1:30 - 3:00	LOCATION: Academic Bldg, Room 207 & 211 Breakout Session Rotation (two groups rotate - 45 mins in each location): Group A - start in Academic Building, Room 211 Topic: Eelgrass Seed Restoration Survey Results & Related Discussion of LISS FY 26 Funding Facilitators: Torrie Hanley (SHU) & Cayla Sullivan (EPA) Group B - start in Academic Building, Room 207 Topic: NEIWPCC Seed Based Restoration Grant Discussion Facilitators: Steve Schott (CCE), Jamie Vaudrey & Craig Tobias (CTNERR and UConn)
3:00 - 3:30	LOCATION: Academic Bldg, Auditorium Breakout Debrief & Collaborative Next Steps Adjourn at 3:30 pm

(More posters will be added here in the days ahead…please check back!)

Name	Affiliation	Title/Topic
Michael Bradley	University of Rhode Island	Tier 1 2024 Mapping of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Long Island Sound and the Peconic Estuary
Susan Bryant	Center for Student Coastal Research	CSCR Ecology Team - Eelgrass 2024: High school students use gopros, YSI’s and ArcGIS or explore loss of eelgrass meadows in Massachusetts
Emma Coffey	Connecticut Dept. of Energy & Environment	CT DEEP 2024 Eelgrass Survey
Matthew Leason	UConn / CT NERR	Assessing Dock-Based Deployments as a Proxy for Light and Temperature in Nearby Seagrass Beds
Tracy Mandel	Center for Ocean Engineering, UNH	Ecological implications of seagrass-flow interactions: Ongoing fluid mechanics research at the University of New Hampshire
Hannah Vagts	Fishers Island Seagrass Management Coalition	Making Waves: Creating the Save Our Seagrass Movement
Kelsey Ward	UConn	Improving Measurements of Denitrification and Nitrogen Fixation in Zostera marina Beds Using Noble Gas Tracers
Emily Watling	UConn / CT NERR	Bi-State Assessment of LIS Eelgrass Management and Restoration
Abbie Winter	Connecticut Dept. of Energy & Environment	Eelgrass Area Classification in ArcGIS Pro