GLIN==> Great Lakes Beach Conference 2010 - webinar registration

The Great Lakes Beach Association (GLBA) seeks healthy beach water
conditions in the Great Lakes area.  The Great Lakes Beach Conference
2010 October 19 - 21 is being offered as a series of webinars.  Register
for sessions by following the links below.

(1) Great Lakes Beach Conference 2010 - Rapid analytical methods wet lab
Date:  Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Time:  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/990883673

Jeffrey Strain, Life Technologies/Applied Biosystems
Michael Vickery, BioGX, Inc.
Rick Jones, Pall Life Sciences
Christopher Kephart, USGS (DNA extraction)
Rebecca Bushon, Erin Stelzer, USGS (IMS/ATP)

(2) Great Lakes Beach Conference 2010 - Welcome and agency updates
Date:  Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time:  8:30 AM - 9:45 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/912779289

Welcome and agency updates -- Shannon Briggs, Chair
Greg Kleinheinz, University of Wisconsin--Oshkosh, GLBA President
Lori Boughton, Penn. Dept Environ. Protection Welcome and introduction
Denise Hawkins, USEPA Future Directions of U.S. EPA's Beach Program
Lisa Christ, USEPA US EPA Recreational Water Quality Criteria
Charles Kovatch, USEPA How Do the Great Lakes Beaches Look According to
303d and 305b Program Reporting through  the ATTAINS System?

(3) Great Lakes Beach Conference 2010 - Agency updates
Date:  Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time:  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/778416952

Agency updates -- Shannon Briggs, Chair
Tim Fletcher, Ontario Ministry of Environment Canada Beaches and Water
Quality Criteria
Jeff Ridal, International Joint Commission Can I Swim at the Beach?  –
Update on the Activities and Recommendations from the IJC Work Group on
Beaches and Recreational Water Quality
Holly Wirick, USEPA, Region 5 Beach projects funded under the Great
Lakes Restoration Initiative
David Rockwell, Univ. of Mich -- CILER Beach Health Interagency
Coordination Team (BHICT)
Jim Morris, USGS USGS beach-health investigations throughout the Great
Lakes
David Schwab, NOAA-GLERL Activities at NOAA Center of Excellence for
Great Lakes and Human Health
Panel Q&A with Federal Agencies: David Rockwell, Jim Morris, David
Schwab, and Holly Wirick

(4) Great Lakes Beach Conference 2010 - Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative
Date:  Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time:  1:00 PM - 2:50 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/526994849

Great Lakes Restoration  Initiative and related research -- Donna
Francy, Chair
Christine Manninen, Great Lakes Commission Beach-related projects that
GLC secured under the GLRI RFP
Eric Wiegert, NY State Dept of Health Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
and related research
Shannon Briggs, Mich. Dept. Natural Resources and Environment Michigan's
GLRI  strategy for 224 beaches
Chris Bradley, AbTech Industries GLRI Stormwater Remediation Project for
Bryant Park Beach in Michigan
Greg Kleinheinz, University of Wisconsin--Oshkosh Great Lakes
Restoration Initiative and related research
Corey Schwab, Ohio Dept. of Health Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
and related research
Justin DeWitt, Illinois Dept. Public Health Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative and related research

(5) Great Lakes Beach Conference 2010 - Remediation, management, and
beach aesthetics
Date:  Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time:  3:10 PM - 4:50 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/706551417

Remediation, management, and beach aesthetics -- Melissa Soline, Chair
Rachel M. McNich, Erin A. Dreelin, Mich. State Univ. Landuse Trends
Surrounding Michigan Great Lakes Beaches: Implications for Management
Kristopher D. Barnswell, Univ. of Toledo Designing a constructed wetland
for water quality enhancement at Maumee Bay State Park
Natalie Spina, Envionment Canada Impact of Physical and Hydrogeological
Conditions on Deteriorating Conditions at Beaches of the Great Lakes
Jennifer Haley, St. Lawrence River Init. Beach Health: E. coli levels
and Effective Management Practices at St. Lawrence River Beaches
Jamie Cross, Alliance of the Great Lakes Adopt-a-Beach™ Volunteers
Playing a Valuable Role in Beach Health Data Collection

(6) Great Lakes Beach Conference 2010 - Tools for rapid assessments and
modeling
Date:  Thursday, October 21, 2010
Time:  8:30 AM - 10:10 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/426409025

Tools for rapid assessments and modeling -- Richard Whitman, Chair
Mark H. Weir, Mich. State Univ. Developing a User Friendly Risk Tool for
Nearshore and Beach Microbial Risk Forecasting
Zongfu Ge, USGS Numerical Simulation of bacteria trasnport and
deposition processes at a Chicago beach
Meredith B. Nevers, USGS Does modeling E. coli improve risk protection
and access for swimmers at Chicago beaches?
Rebecca Bushon, USGS Comparison of rapid methods and culture-based
methods for bacterial indicators at Great Lakes and inland lake beach
sites
Susan Phillips, USGS Data support for beach managers, researchers, and
modelers

(7) Great Lakes Beach Conference 2010 - Sources and human health
Date:  Thursday, October 21, 2010
Time:  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/568233560

Sources and human health -- Mike Sadowsky, Chair
Joanna M Pope, Mich. State Univ. Using routine PCR and qPCR as molecular
mapping tools to determine bacterial inputs into the Red Cedar River in
mid-Michigan
Asli Aslan, Mich State Univ. Comparison of Bacteroids human markers for
pollution diagnostics in recreational waters
Sheridan Haack, USGS Bacterial Pathogens and Microbial Source Tracking
Markers at Great Lakes Beaches – USGS Studies May-September 2010
Brian D. Badgley, Univ Minn Biotech Institute Temporal and Spatial
Variation in Genotypic Composition of Cladophora-borne E. coli
Populations in Lake Michigan
Tasha Santiago Rodriguez, Univ. of Puerto Rico Prevalence of
enterophages and coliphages at selected sites across the Rio Grande de
Arecibo
Greg Kleinhienz, University of Wisconsin--Oshkosh Closing remarks


More about the Great Lakes Beach Conference 2010
http://www.great-lakes.net/glba/2010conference.html
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Pranas Pranckevicius, CISSP
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 West Jackson Blvd.  G-17J
Chicago, IL  60604-3590
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