Registration is open! Learn more about the conference program, registration, exhibitors, scholarships, and more at https://vwmc.vwrrc.vt.edu/conferences/.
The planned program is shown below:
- Studying a Correlation between Land Use Change and Virginia SOS Water Quality Results – Geoff Orth, Fiona Hawley, Posie Magurn, and Frances Lash;* Smith Mountain Lake Association (SMLA), Virginia Save Our Streams, and *Ferrum College
- Connecting Water Quality Monitoring and Community Science to Tribal Engagement – Sophie Stern, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, and Jessica Phillips, Chickahominy Indian Tribe – Eastern Division
- Genus Virginia Stream Condition Index for Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in the Non-Coastal Areas of Virginia – Drew Garey, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
- Modeling the Potomac Interceptor Collapse: ICPRB’s Operational Emergency Response – Sarah Ahmed, Interstate Commission for the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB)
- The Potomac Interceptor Spill: Rapid Response, Lingering Concerns, and Chronic Challenges – Wes Slaughter; Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences; University of Maryland
- Data Centers, Water Demand, and Regional Water Supply Planning in the Potomac River Basin – Alimatou Seck, Interstate Commission for the Potomac River Basin
- Social-Ecological Impacts of Salt in Freshwater Streams – Stanley Grant, Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Lab / Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
- Hellbender Salamanders as Sentinels of Water Quality in Virginia – Bill Hopkins, Global Change Center / Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech
- Rising Tides & Real Data: Catching the King & Measuring the Muck – Stephanie Letourneau, Wetlands Watch, and Margaret Mulholland, Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Old Dominion University
