The 3rd annual meeting with presentations and videos from meeting participants. Real-time closed captioning and translation of all speakers will be available via Zoom.
MEETING SCHEDULE:
January 31: Oregon Field Trips
1. Sitka Sedge SNA
2. Greater Florence area
February 1: Dunes Restoration Online Meeting from 9 am to 4 pm (via Zoom)
AGENDA
9:00-9:10: Welcome and Introductions Christie Boser, USFW
9:10-9:50: Increased climate resiliency following restoration of a California foredune Andrea Pickart, USFWS; Zach Hilgendorf, UCSB; and Ian Walker, UCSB
9:50-10:10: Foredune restoration as a dust control measure at the Oceano Dunes, CA Ian Walker, Zach Hilgendorf and Nitzan Swet, UCSB
10:10-10:40: Efforts to restore two northern California dune systems
Terra Fuller and Renee Pasquinelli; California State Parks
BREAK
10:50-11:10: Change in plant litter decomposition following European beachgrass
(Ammophila arenaria) invasion and implications for coastal dune restoration Savannah Fuqua, University of Arizona; Lorraine Parsons, Point Reyes National
Seashore; Ben Yang, University of Arizona; Albert Barberán, University of
Arizona; Rachel Gallery, University of Arizona
11:10-11:30: Use of contouring as a tool to restore ecological succession within a coastal
dune ecosystem Dan Robinette, Jamie Miller, Emily Rice, Julie Howard, Angela Fortuna, and
Lynne Hargett; Point Blue Conservation Science, Vandenberg Field Station
11:30-11:50: Lingering legacy effect of invasion and restoration complicate coastal dune
ecosystem restoration Lorraine S. Parsons, Point Reyes National Seashore; Savannah R. Fuqua,
University of Arizona; Michael K. Spaeth, University of Arizona; Benjamin H.
Becker, NPS
11:50-12:10: The Education to Conservation Pipeline
Jenise Coates, The Dunes Center
LUNCH
13:00-13:40: Ocean Ranch restoration
Michael Van Hattem, CA Department of Fish and Wildlife
13:40-14:00: Evaluating native plant characteristics and production requirements to
support coastal dune revegetation in the Pacific Northwest
Ian Silvernail, USDA Corvallis
14:00-14:20: Using dune restoration on an urban beach as a coastal resilience approach
Karina K. Johnston, UCSB; Jenifer E. Dugan; UCSB, David M. Hubbard, Coastal
Restoration Consultants; Kyle Emery, UCLA; Melodie Grubbs, Morro Bay
National Estuary Program
14:20-14:40: Mapping hundreds of hidden beachgrass plants: the range, distribution,
abundance of a newly-discovered, invasive hybrid (Ammophila arenaria x A.
breviligulata)
Risa, Askerooth, Rose Antaki, Felipe Barreto, Beck Harper, Hieu Ly, Rebecca
Mostow, Drake Scrafford, Malcolm Thieme, Sally Hacker; University of Oregon)
14:40-15:10: Coalition building: Dunes Science Network
Laura Engeman, California Sea Grant, UCSD
15:10-16:00: Discussion: records of lessons learned, data storage, needs from the field,
thank you!
Christie Boser, USFWS
February 2: California Field Trip options at 1pm:
1. Ten Mile Preserve (near Fort Bragg)
2. UC Santa Barbara Goleta dunes and wetland restoration (Goleta)
https://www.ncos.ccber.ucsb.edu/
February 3: California field trip options at 8:30am:
1. Manchester State Park (near Fort Bragg)
2. Chevron Dunes (near Lompoc) https://guadalupedunes.com/
To see the full agenda and presentation abstracts click here
For more information about the event email the planning committee at dunesrestoration2023@gmail.com.
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