CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Maine Water Conference 2012

March 14, 2012

Abstracts due Friday, December 16, 2011.
For a complete list of conference sessions and information on submission please visit
http://www.umaine.edu/waterresearch/mwc/call_for_abstracts_12.html

Freshwater Fish Habitat
Research and Restoration

Chairs: Barbara S. Arter, Diadromous Species Restoration Research Network, Senator George J. Mitchell Center, UMaine and Merry Gallagher, Division of Fisheries and Hatcheries, Maine Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife.

Although many of Maine’s native coldwater fish species historically thrived throughout a diversity of aquatic habitats, over 30% of lake sub-watersheds today maintain greatly reduced native populations due to impacts from non-native fishes and habitat degradation from land-use changes, forestry and agricultural practices, and urbanization.

Evaluating Restoration Outcomes of
the Penobscot River Restoration Project:
An Assessment of Pre-dam Removal Conditions

Chairs: Rory Saunders, NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service and Charlie Baeder, Penobscot River Restoration Trust.

We are inviting presentations from researchers working in the Penobscot River watershed who are assessing fish passage, the ecosystem effects of dams, ecosystem restoration, and related socioeconomic issues for a special session of the 2012 Maine Water Conference entitled “Evaluating Restoration Outcomes of the Penobscot River Restoration Project”.