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DAY 1 – TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

TIME

ACTIVITY

PRESENTER(S)

7:45 – 8:20 AM Breakfast & Registration
8:20 – 8:30 AM Welcoming Remarks First Nations RepresentativeLael Parrott, UBC Okanagan and Anna Sears, Okanagan Basin Water Board
8:30 – 10:50 AM – SESSION 1 Connections between Science, Policy and the Public Session Chair: Lael Parrott, UBC Okanagan
The Role of Research Institutes: Opportunities and Risks Peter Millard, Landcare Research, New Zealand
An Ecosystems Approach to Species and Ecosystems at Risk Management in the Okanagan Josie Symmonds, MFNLRO
Modelling Biodiversity, Leadership, and Action for Mission Creek Todd Cashin, City of Kelowna
How to Flow Upstream: Eco Art Connecting Students to Learning Shimshon Obadia, UBC Okanagan
Northern Gateway Pipeline and Art Activism Nancy Holmes, UBC Okanagan
10:50 – 11:10 AM Coffee Break
11:10 AM – 12:30 PM – SESSION 2 Beyond Statistical and Agent-Based Modelling: What can we Learn from a Continuous Model? Session Chair: Rebecca Tyson, UBC Okanagan
Response of Poikilotherms to Thermal Aspects of Climate Change Rebecca Tyson, UBC Okanagan
Democratizing assessments of changing marine environments: applications of imaging micro-computers to quantify plankton movements in the laboratory and field Daniel Grünbaum, University of Washington
12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 PM – SESSION 3 Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change in the Greater Columbia Basin Session Chair: John Janmaat, UBC Okanagan
Evolving Land and Water Use in an Arid British
Columbia Watershed
Markandu Anputhas, UBC Okanagan
Where Does All the Water Go? The Ethnography of Groundwater Mounds in the Columbia River Basin John Wagner, UBC Okanagan
Water Governance in the Creston Valley of BC: Is Food Security Threatened? Joanne Taylor, UBC Okanagan
Has there been a Climate-Driven Hydrologic Regime shift in the Canadian Columbia Basin? Janice Brahney, UBC Okanagan
The State of Local Adaptation Planning in Canada Kevin Hanna, UBC Okanagan
Using Geo-Web to Map Experiences of Climate Change Adaptation John Corbett, UBC Okanagan
3: 30 – 3:45 PM Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:00 PM – SESSION 4 Communicating Complexity with Models and Games John Janmaat, UBC Okanagan, Anna Warwick Sears, OBWB, Todd Cashin, City of Kelowna, Drew Lejbak, Summit Environmental
6:00- 7:00 PM Reception followed by keynote presentation: Bob Sandford, EPCOR Chair of the Canadian Partnership Initiative in support of United Nations “Water for Life” Decade
7:00 – 8:30 PM Canada’s energized water cycle: climate change and its consequences

DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

TIME

ACTIVITY

PRESENTER(S)

7:45 – 8:20 AM Breakfast & Registration
8:20 – 8:30 AM Welcoming Remarks Lael Parrott, UBC Okanagan and Anna Sears, Okanagan Basin Water Board
8:30 – 10:00 AM – SESSION 5 Forest Disturbance, Climate and Water Resources in the Okanagan Session Chair: Adam Wei, UBC Okanagan
How Forest and Climate changes affect Water Resources in the BC Interior Adam Wei, UBC Okanagan
Forest Disturbance Effects on Water Supplies from Upland Forested Watersheds in South-Central BC Rita Winkler, MFNLRO
A Global Review on the Effects of Forest ad Climate Changes on Hydrology with Implications for the Okanagan John Li, UBC Okanagan
“Waning Wetlands: Evaluating the Decline of Closed-basin Ponds in British Columbia’s Semi-arid Grasslands” Aaron Coelho, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops
Effects of clearcut logging on benthic and drifting
invertebrate communities in headwater streams in the interior of BC
Brian A. Heise, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops
Wildfire Impacts on Hydrology in the Okanagan Dave Scott, UBC Okanagan
10:00 – 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 12:20 PM – SESSION 6 Water and Biodiversity Conservation Session Chair: Michael Russello, UBC Okanagan
How DNA Can Inform Biodiversity Conservation: Case Studies from the Okanagan Michael Russello, Evelyn Jensen and Matthew Lemay; UBC Okanagan
Modelling Habitat for the Rocky Mountain Ridged Mussel in the Okanagan Lake BC Roxanne Snook, UBC Okanagan
Keeping Nature in Our Future A Biodiverisity Conservation Strategy for the Okanagan Region Carol Luttmer, OCCP – Bryn White, SOSCP
Designing Change – Art in Science Communication Aleksandra Dulic, UBC Okanagan
Russian Olive Invasion of Riparian Habitat in Southern BC Jason Pither, UBC Okanagan
12:20 – 1:20 PM Lunch
1:20 – 3:20 PM – SESSION 7 Biodiversity and Water Resources in Agriculture Ecosystems Session Chair: Denise Nielsen, Agrifood Canada
Developing more resilient agro-ecosystems through improved understanding of water supply and demand in the context of a changing climate and competing requirements for water Denise Neilsen,  Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland
New digital (gridded) soil attribute mapping to support hydrologic and ecosystem modeling in the Okanagan Basin Scott Smith,  Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland
Can sap flow monitoring improve nutrient and water management for sweet cherry? Gerry Neilsen,  Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland
Can irrigation water be a source of carbon dioxide emissions? Kirsten Hannam,  Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland
Influences of micro-irrigation on belowground interactions at the root of vineyard and orchard productivity: Population dynamics of plant-parasitic nematodes Tom Forge,  Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre-Summerland
The Influence of Irrigations techniques on Plant and Soil Communities in the Okangan Taylor Holland, UBC Okanagan
3:20 – 3:40 PM Coffee Break
3:40 – 5:00 PM – SESSION 8 Sqilxw Apna (The People Now): Advancing a Model for Different Relationships and Empowered Decision-Making Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples in the Northern Okanagan Territory Session Chair: Margo Tamez, UBC Okanagan; with panelists Mariel Belanger, Rachel Parker Marchand and Erik Hrabovsky
6:00 – 7:00 PM Reception followed by keynote presentation: Daniel Pauly, UBC Vancouver
7:00 – 8:30 PM The Impact of Fisheries and Global Warming on Marine Ecosystems, with Some Emphasis on British Columbia