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SESSIONS
Cultural
Resources & Brownfields
Geographic
Information Systems Part 1
Geographic
Information Systems Part 2
Project
Management & Implementation
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND
IMPLEMENTATION
Title:
Environmental
Planning for Mine Cleanup and Demolition Activities
Authors: Brian Buck, Vice President, JBR
Environmental Consultants, Inc. and Matt
Zietlow*, Environmental Manager, Homestake Mining
Company
Title:
Mine
Reclamation Using Dredged Materials and Coal Ash
Authors: Andrew S.
Voros*, Executive Director, NY/NJ Clean Ocean And Shore Trust; Paul
Linman, Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation; Ernest F.
Giovannitti, Former Director, PADEP Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation;
and Steven C. Sands, President, Consolidated Technologies,
Inc.
Title: Approaches
to Mine Subsidence in Four U.S. Communities
Author:
Len
Meier*, Physical Scientist, Office of Surface Mining, Mid Continent
Regional Coordinating Center and Robert Gibson, Abandoned Mine Land
Emergency Program, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Southern Illinois
University
Title:
Survey
Data Collection Associated with an AML Emergency
Program
Authors: Bruce
Schottel*, Engineer, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Abandoned
Mined Lands Reclamation Division and Robert Gibson, Illinois Department
of Natural Resources, Abandoned Mined Lands Reclamation
Division
PARTNERSHIP /
POLICY
Title: Federal-State
Relations in the Mining Regulatory Arena: Pursuing
Productive Partnerships
Author: Gregory E.
Conrad*, Executive Director, Interstate Mining Compact
Commission
Title: A
Team Approach To Evaluating State Abandoned Mine Reclamation
Programs
Author: Ronald N.
Sassaman*, Environmental Protection Specialist, OSM - Denver Field
Division
Title: EPCAMR:
Building Coalitions Through Partnerships in the Eastern PA
Coalfields
Author: Robert E. Hughes*, Regional Coordinator,
Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation
Title: San
Juan County AML Partnerships
Authors: Loretta E.
Pineda*, Public Information Officer and Dave Bucknam, Director,
Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program, Colorado Division of Minerals and
Geology
ACID MINE DRAINAGE - PART
1
Author: Mark B.
Carew*, Registered Geologist, Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine
Lands
Title:
The
Tonoma Passive Mine Drainage Treatment Project
Authors: Eric
Cavazza*, Design Section Chief and Richard L. Beam*, P.G.,
Licensed Professional Geologist, Pennsylvania DEP Bureau of Abandoned Mine
Reclamation
Title: Rapid-Flow
Biological Wastewater Treatment System Pilot Project (Jerome): Research
Plan
Author: Jan C.
Allbright*, President, Arizona Wetlands Research
Foundation
Title:
Spenceville
Mine Closure
Authors: Daniel
Wanket*, Project Manager, GEI Consultants, Inc.; Alberto Pujol*,
PE, Project Manager, GEI Consultants, Inc.; and William Walker*, PhD,
Senior Geochemist, Vice President, Walker & Associates
STREAM RESTORATION
Title: Natural Channel
Design, Construction and Planting on the Middle Fork South Platte River
Authors: John T.
Windell*, Professor Emertius, Biology Department, University of
Colorado, Boulder and Eric August, EIT, Aquatic and Wetland Company,
Consulting Division
Title: Natural
Channel Design Process Using RIVERMorph Stream Restoration
Software
Authors: Brian Belcher, PE, Senior Project
Engineer, Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott and May Engineers, Inc. and George
Athanasakes*, Associate, RIVERMorph, LLC
Title: A
Categorization of Approaches to Natural Channel
Design
Author: Peter
Skidmore*, P.G., Hydrologist, Fluvial Geomorphologist, Inter-fluve,
Inc.
Title: Abandoned
Mine Land Restoration in a North Idaho Stream: A Geomorphological
Perspective
Authors: Mike
Stevenson*, Hydrologist, USDI-BLM; Steven W. Moore, Bureau of
Land Management, Idaho State Office; G. Mathias Kondolf,
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning University of
California, Berkeley; and Hervé Piégay, CNRS- UMR
5600
BIOLOGY / VEGETATION
Title: Effects
of Cadmium on White-tailed Ptarmigan in Colorado
Author: Dr. James R.
Larison*, Professor and Avian Ecologist, Dept. of Fisheries and
Wildlife, Oregon State University
Title: Monitoring
and Evaluating the Results of Bat Protection Efforts
Authors: K.W.
Grandison*, Associate Professor Biology, Southern Utah University;
J.M. Diamond, Southern Utah University; G.F. Diamond,
Southern Utah University; V.J. Tyler, Southern Utah
University; and M.R. Mesch, Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and
Mining
Title: Revegetation
of Nine Square Miles of Copper Tailings
Authors: Henry
Sauer*, Environmental/Soil Scientist, Greystone Environmental
Consultants, Inc. and Tom Williams, Golder Associates
Inc.
Title: Vegetative
Community Analysis of Biosolids Test Plots After Five Years of
Growth
Authors: Rick
Black*, Senior Ecologist and Biological Programs Manager, HDR
Engineering, Inc. and Richard K. Borden, Kennecott Utah
Copper
Title: Rooting
Characteristics of Vegetation Established on a Refuse
Pile
Authors: Priscilla W.
Burton*, Soils Reclamation Specialist III; Paul Baker, Susan
White, Utah Division of Oil, Gas & Mining; Bob Postle, OSMBWRCC;
and Patrick Collins, honorary member, Mt. Nebo
Scientific
PARTNERSHIP /
PROJECTS
Authors: Pamela J.
Milavec*, Water Pollution Biologist 3, PA Department of Environmental
Protection, Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation and Daniel R. Seibert*,
Resource Conservationist, USDA – Natural Resources Conservation
Service
Authors: Brian Buck, Geological Engineer,
JBR Environmental Consultants, Inc. and Jeffrey L.
Jones*, Minerals Management Specialist/Geologist, USDA, Forest
Service
Title: Ohio
DNR and Cuyahoga Valley N. P.: A
Partnering Success Story
Authors: Mark
Smith*, Environmental Specialist/ Project Officer, Ohio Division of
Mineral Resources Management-AML Section and Kim Norley*, Landscape
Architect, National Park Service
Title: Watershed
Coalition Power in Appalachia - Keepers of the Land and
Water
Authors: Kelley
Sponaugle*, Assistant State Conservationist, USDA – Natural Resources
Conservation Service and Patrick C. Park, AML&R Liaison, West
Virginia Office of Abandoned Mine Lands & Reclamation
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS - PART
1
Title: GPS for
GIS for Applications
Author: Carma
Ingram*, GPS/GIS Specialist, Monsen Engineering
Authors: Hugo
Aparicio, P.E., Project Manager; Michael E Anderson*, GIS
Manager, Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott and May Engineers, Inc.; Pamela M.
Stachler, Forest Hydrologist; Rebecca R. Ewing, Forest Biologist,
USDA – Forest Service, Wayne National Forest; Linda L. Tracy, Forest
Geologist, USDA – Forest Service, Monongahela National Forest; Steve
Brewster, P.G., Project Manager; and Steve Spagna, P.G., Geologist;
USACE-Huntington District
Title:
*
Authors: Erica
Mignone* and Matthew Reid*, State University of New York at
Purchase College, New York and New Jersey Clean Ocean And Shore Trust
(COAST)
Title: The
Characterization of the Kempton Mine Complex, Maryland and West Virginia, Using
GIS Technology
Authors: Tamara P. Davis, Natural
Resources Planner and GIS Specialist, Research and Development Section, Maryland
Department of the Environment, Water Management Administration, Mining Program,
Bureau of Mines and Constance
Lyons*, Natural Resources Planner V, Maryland Department of the
Environment, Bureau of Mines
Title:
Abandoned
Mine Safety and Mining Reclamation Education Materials Development
Projects
Authors: Edward A.
Dalton*, Ed.D., President and CEO, National Energy
Foundation
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS - PART
2
Title: GIS-Based
Statewide Inventory for Wyoming
Author: Chris
Arneson*, GIS Hydrologist, TriHydro Corp.
Title: GIS as
a Prioritization and Planning Tool in Abandoned Mine
Reclamation
Authors: Megan Southwick, Reclamation
Specialist, Daniel Smith*, GIS Programmer; and Chris
Rohrer, Senior Reclamation Specialist, Utah Division of Oil, Gas &
Mining
Title: Use of
Integrated GPS and GIS Systems in Mine Reclamation
Author: Oliver P.
Wesley*, P.E. and Allen G. Steckelberg,
Managing
Partners, Opal
Group, L.L.C.
Title: Developing
Abandoned Mine Lands
Author: John Husted*, Ohio AML Program Director
ACID MINE DRAINAGE - Part
2
Title: An Ongoing Evaluation
of Bauxsol at the Gilt Edge Mine, South Dakota
Authors: Jim
Jonas*, Geochemist, CDM Federal Programs Corporation; Ken
Wangerud; and David McConchie
Title: Rehabilitation
of the Old Bevier Passive Treatment Wetland, Macon County,
Missouri
Authors: Paul T. Behum
Jr.*, Hydrologist; Kwang “Min” Kim, Hydrologist; Kevin W.
Garnett, Mining Engineer; Len Meier, Physical Scientist, Office of
Surface Mining, Mid-Continent Regional Coordinating Center; and Angela
Glascock*, Environmental Specialist, Brian Hicks, Hydrologist,
Michael Mueller, Reclamation Specialist, and Michael Phillips,
P.E., Civil Engineer, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Air and Land
Protection Division
Title: Progress
of BLM-Funded Acid Rock Drainage Research
Authors: William White*, Physical Scientist, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake Field Office, Kim A. Lapakko, Principal Engineer, Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources, Lands and Minerals Division; and Edward M. Trujillo, Associate Professor, University of Utah, Chemical and Fuels Engineering Dept.
ENGINEERING AND
DESIGN
Title: Manning
Canyon Tailings Removal Action
Authors: Karl
Ford*, National Remediation Projects Advisor, U.S. Bureau of Land
Management and Tim Ingwell, Project Manager, Bureau of Land Management,
Salt Lake Field Office
Title: Dangerous
Atmosphere Created by Strip Mine Spoil
Author: William C.
Ehler*, P.G., Geologist/Project Manager, Office of Surface Mining,
Federal Reclamation Programs
Title: Designing
for 1000 Years, Erosion Protection
Author: Christopher
E. Sanchez*, Senior Project Engineer and Steven D. Anderson*,
P.E., President, Anderson Engineering Company, Inc.
Title: Zortman
and Landusky with 20/20 Hindsight
Author: Bill
Maehl*, P.E., Vice-President, Spectrum-Engineering
Inc.
WATERSHED SYSTEMS
Title: Abandoned
Mine Site Restoration on Pine Creek, Coeur d’Alene Basin, Northern
Idaho
Authors: David
Fortier*, P.E., Environmental Protection Specialist, USDI, Bureau of
Land Management, Coeur d’Alene Field Office and Steven W. Moore, Bureau
of Land Management, Idaho State Office
Title: Mercury Contamination
of Water, Sediment, and Biota in Watersheds Affected by Historic Hydraulic Gold
Mining in California
Authors: David
Lawler*, Abandoned Mine Lands Coordinator, BLM – California State
Office; Janine Clayton, U.S. Forest Service, Resources Division;
Charles N. Alpers, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division;
Michael P. Hunerlach, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division;
Roger L. Hothem, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division;
and Jason T. May, California State University Sacramento
Foundation
Title: High
Ore Creek Watershed Restoration
Authors: Mike
Browne*, Abandoned Mine Land and Hazardous Materials Program Leader,
Bureau of Land Management, Butte Field Office; Ben Quinones, Montana
Department of Environmental Quality, Mine Waste Cleanup Bureau; and James
Madison, Assistant Research Professor, Montana Bureau of Mines and
Geology
POLITICS
Title: The
EPA Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research Center (RMRHSRC)
Authors: Thomas
Wildeman*, Professor of Chemistry and Geochemistry and D. L.
Macalady, Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of
Mines; C. D. Shackelford and S. L. Woods, Department of Civil
Engineering, Colorado State University
Title: Recent
Court Rulings on Takings and the Possible Impact on the AML
Program
Author: Vaughn P.
Girol*, Realty Specialist, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement, Appalachian Regional Coordinating Center
Title: The Politics of a
Mega-Project: Institutional
Resistance to Innovative Ideas
Author: Andrew S.
Voros*, Executive Director, NY/NJ Clean Ocean And Shore
Trust
ACID MINE DRAINAGE - PART
3
Authors: Briant A.
Kimball*, Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, West Valley
City; Robert L. Runkel and Katherine Walton-Day, U.S. Geological
Survey, Denver; and Dana J. Bove, U.S. Geological Survey,
Denver
Author: James J.
Gusek*, P.E., Sr. Project Manager, Knight Piesold and
Co.
Title: Longevity
of Mine Discharges From Above-Drainage Underground
Mines
Authors: Jeff Skousen*, Professor of Soils, West Virginia University; Jennifer Demchak; and Louis McDonald
CULTURAL RESOURCES AND
BROWNFIELDS
Title: Uranium Mining in
Cottonwood Wash: A Quick Look at
50+ Years
Author: Lee
Bennett*, Archaeologist/Manager, Bennett Management Services,
LLC
Title: Abandoned Mine
Reclamation in Culturally Sensitive Areas:
An Example from Cottonwood Wash, Utah
Author: Kathy
Huppe*, Cultural Resources Coordinator, Cottonwood Wash Abandoned Mine
Reclamation Project, Bureau of Land management
Title: A
Brownfields Redevelopment Opportunity at an Abandoned Mine Lands
Site
Author: Joseph
Gendron*, Brownfields Coordinator/Trails & Open Space Coordinator,
Town of Silver City, New Mexico
Title: Economic
and Community Development Opportunities for Mine-Scarred
Lands
Author: Christopher M.
LaRosa*, Community Revitalization Policy Specialist, Marasco Newton
Group Ltd.