Imperiled Ecosystems in a Shifting Climate
2016 Atlantic White Cedar Symposium
May 24-26, 2016

Hotel 1620, 180 Water St., Plymouth, MA

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Wilkinson: Restoring Atlantic White Cedar Ecosystems Exclusively Using the Dormant Seed Bank

Whittier, et al.: Genetic Resource Conservation of Atlantic White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) in the Eastern United States

Keynote Address: Chris Neill, Director of Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Lab. How large-scale changes in land use impact Atlantic white cedar

Davenport: Living Observatory: a collaborative for capturing, interpreting and revealing change across a large-scale wetland restoration project

Kennedy: Nitrogen Dynamics of Wetland Restoration: A Field Example from the Cranberry Bogs of Tidmarsh Farms

Kowalski and Atkinson: Examining historic growth patterns of Atlantic white cedar in contrasting hydrological conditions within the Great Dismal Swamp

 

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Keynote Address: Jeff Donnelly, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Climate Change and Atlantic White Cedar: Lessons from the past and hope for the future

Melchior: Eel River Restoration: A Review of Design and Construction Methods Used in a New England Cranberry Bog Restoration.

Hackman, et al.: How are the kids?  Monitoring Atlantic White Cedar plantings at the Eel River Headwaters Restoration Project (Plymouth, MA)

Spears and Salick: American Indian Insights on Atlantic White Cedar

Sleeter, et al.: Evaluating the Carbon Dynamics of Atlantic White-Cedar Peatlands in the Great Dismal Swamp: A State-and-Transition Simulation Modeling Approach

Pearl, et al.: Climate controls on the annual growth rings in Atlantic White cedar

POSTERS:

Howell: Application of UAS technology to monitor Atlantic White-Cedar (AWC) seed dispersal and regeneration success on Hofmann Forest, North Carolina

Simmons, T and L. M. Hutchins: Effects of Municipal Pumping adjacent to an Atlantic White Cedar Swamp

C. G. Mirda, J. Slater, and R. B. Atkinson: Analysis of early growth in Atlantic White Cedar as a predictor of hydrologic conditions in Southeastern Virginia peatlands

Gutenberg, L: Remote Sensing of Forest Type and AWC range in the Great Dismal Swamp and preliminary results of Greenhouse Gas Flux Monitoring


Thursday, May 26, 2016

Price, et al.: Sharon Great Cedar Swamp Restoration Project

Warner and Saffell.: Abstract:  Fish and Amphibian Dynamics in Hydrologically Impacted and Restored Atlantic White Cedar Sites in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Arrowsmith: Atlantic white cedar establishment success stories – A reevaluation of landscape position, hydrology, and urban pressure in the context of a functional restoration model.

Duberstein, et al.: A comparison of aboveground biomass and tree growth rates in Atlantic white cedar, maple-gum, and tall pine pocosin forests of the Great Dismal Swamp

Slater, et al.: Dendroecological analysis of Atlantic White Cedar as a predictor of historic hydrologic conditions in Mid-Atlantic peatlands