Dredged Material Assessment and Management Seminar
Detroit, MI
September 15 - 17, 2009

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September 15, 2009

• Overview of Corps National Dredging Program & Regulations - Joe Wilson
• Introduction to DOTS - Doug Clarke
• Dredging and Dredged Material Disposal Overview - Tim Welp
• Risk-Informed Decision Making - Todd Bridges
• Dredged Material Evaluation and Testing Overview - Jeff Steevens
• Problem Formulation and Conceptual Model Development for Aquatic Placement - Burton Suedel
• Water Column Evaluation - Al Kennedy
• Benthic Toxicity Evaluations - Dan Farrar
• Bioaccumulation Evaluations - Jacob Stanley
• Open Water Site Management and Controls - Susan Bailey
• Dredged Material Fate Models - Joe Gailani

September 16, 2009

• Upland Disposal: Management of Confined Disposal Facilities - Trudy Estes
• Upland Disposal: Problem Formulation and Conceptual Model Development - Trudy Estes
• Design and Management of CDFs: Effluent and Runoff Quality - Susan Bailey
• Contaminant Pathways Evaluations for Upland Confined Placement: Leachate and Volatilization - Paul Schroeder
• Biological Pathway Evaluations - Dave Johnson
• Beneficial Uses of Dredged Material - Richard Price
• Habitat Restoration and Dredged Material - Rich Fischer and Craig Forgette
• Long Term CDF Management - Richard Price and Tom Hempfling
• Contaminated Sediment Assessment and Management - Trudy Estes and Dave Bowman
• Protecting Walleye: Assessing and Managing Risk - Doug Clarke and Scott Pickard
• DOER Risk Focus Area - Todd Bridges
• Environmental Resource Protection - Doug Clarke
• DOER Operations Technologies Focus Area - Tim Welp
• Dredged Material Management - Joe Gailani

September 17, 2009

• Dredging Resuspension: Defining the Issues - Doug Clarke
• Addressing Resuspension Risks as a Decision Problem - Igor Linkov
• Problem Formulation: Endpoints and Conceptual Models for Assessing and Managing Risks from Resuspension - Burton Suedel
• Sediment Characterization for Exposure Processes, Source Description and Exposure Screening - Paul Schroeder and Joe Gailani
• Effects Characterization - Doug Clarke
• Projecting Risks and Addressing Uncertainties - Paul Schroeder
• Risk Management Through Engineering and Operational Controls - Tim Welp
• Environmental Windows as a Risk Management Practice - Doug Clarke
• Risk-informed Decision Making - Igor Linkov
• Monitoring and Adaptive Management - Paul Schroeder
• Willamette River Case Study - Tahirih Lackey