Wetland Assessment

Mid-Atlantic Coastal Wetland Assessment (MACWA) Workshop

February 17 th, 2010

9:30 - 4:30 p. m.

Cumberland Community College, NJ

 

The Wetlands Conference was a great success! Over 50 state and federal government representatives, as well as attendees from non-profits, acedemia, industry, and private consultants also attended.

Goals

  • To share information on past, current, and planned tidal wetland monitoring from coastal New Jersey to coastal Delaware and Maryland
  • Consider whether and how to develop a network, linking activities and sharing data for addressing sub-regional needs, such as climate planning

Proceedings of the MACWA workshop can be found here

Agenda

Session 1: National and Regional Wetlands Assessment; Past & Present

    Speakers:

  • Kathleen Drake, Wetlands Protection Team, EPA Region 2, New York, NY
  • Regina Poeske, Office of Monitoring and Assessment, US EPA Region 3, Philadelphia, PA
  • Kevin Holcomb, Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville, New Jersey
  • Bartholomew Wilson  P.G., Environmental Scientist IV, Delaware Coastal Program, Division of Soil and Water Conservation/ DNREC

Session 2: States, Academia and National Estuary Programs's

    Speakers:

  • Alison Rogerson , Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Watershed Assessment Section, Dover, DE
  • Kathleen Strakosch Walz, Ecologist, NJ Natural Heritage Program, NJDEP Division of Parks and Forestry, Office of Natural Lands Management, Trenton, NJ
  • Thomas Belton, Research Scientist, NJDEP - Science and Research, Trenton, New Jersey
  • David Velinsky, Senior Scientist and Vice President, Patrick Center for Environmental Research
    The Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, PA
  • Christopher Bason, Science & Technical Coordinator, Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, Rehoboth Beach, DE
  • Martha Maxwell-Doyle, Barnegat Bay National Estuary Program, Toms River, NJ
  • Danielle Kreeger, Science Director, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Wilmington DE

Session 3: Panels on rapid assessment and fix monitoring stations

Down load a flyer for the workshop here.

 

Please stay tuned for updates of speakers presentations

 

More Information

For questions please contact: Danielle Kreeger (DKreeger@DelawareEstuary.org) or

Martha Maxwell-Doyle(mmdoyle@ocean.edu)

 

     
Freshwater tidal wetlands are one of the most diverse types of marsh in the Delaware Estuary, and they are nationally rare. Invasive species such as phragmites have altered the ecology and character of many tidal marshes in the Delaware Estuary.

 

For more information, please contact Angela Padeletti at (800) 655-4990, extension 103, or APadeletti@DelawareEstuary.org.