Wednesday, April 28
Program Schedule
| Scientific, Legal and Economic Perspectives on the Value of Saline Systems | |
| 7:15 | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 | Welcome |
| 8:10 | Nurturing Resilience – Lessons from Managing Complex Ecosystems Lance Gunderson (Keynote) |
| 9:00 | Conservation and Management of the World’s Increasingly Threatened Salt Lakes Robert Jellison |
| 9:40 | BREAK |
| 10:10 | The Legal and Ethical Case for a Conservation Pool for Great Salt Lake Robert W. Adler |
| 10:50 | Valuing Ecosystem Services in River and Lake Systems: Methods and Case Studies from the Western US, including Mono Lake, California John Duffield |
| 11:50 | LUNCH
Awarding of 2010 Doyle Stephens Scholarship 2009 Scholarship Recipient Presentation |
| Restoration Efforts on Three Saline Lakes in the West – Mono Lake, Owens Lake, Walker Lake | |
| 1:20 | The Importance of Western Wetland Basins to Aquatic Migratory Birds Gary L. Ivey |
| 2:10 | Beyond Victory – Restoration, Policy Development, and Building Public Awareness for Mono Lake Geoff McQuilkin |
| 2:50 | Public Trust and the Legal Framework at Mono Lake, California Richard Roos–Collins |
| 3:30 | BREAK |
| 4:00 | Dust Storms from a Dry Lakebed Drives Owens Lake Mitigation and Restoration Efforts Peter Pumphrey |
| 4:40 | Economic Viability of Low Water-Use Crops in the Walker River Basin Kynda Curtis |
| 6:30–9:30 | BANQUET – ALTA CLUB
Linking Communities, Wetlands and Migratory Birds |
The future of many saline lakes will be decided over the next several decades as the direct economic value of fresh water inflows are weighted against the less easily measured ecosystem goods and services provided by these unique ecosystems. – Bob Jellison, International Society for Salt Lake Research.
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