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Continental Breakfast
7:30 to 8:30 am, Foyer

CDFW Transportation and Ecology Issues
7:30 to 8:30 am, Ventura

Plenary, Welcome Session
8:30 to 10:00 am, Ballroom ABC

Break
10:00 to 10:30 am, Foyer

Technical Session 1: Africa Emergent
10:30 to 12:00 pm, Ballroom D

Status of road ecology research in Africa: the scope of current knowledge and prioritising for the future.
Wendy Collinson, Endangered Wildlife Trust
Making the economic case to promote avoidance of environmental damage in road development in Africa and South America: cases from Uganda and Peru
Kim Bonine, Conservation Strategy Fund
Eskom/Endangered Wildlife Trust partnership 1996 - 2019, 23 years of partnering together to reduce impacts on business and on biodiversity
Kishaylin Chetty, Eskom & Lourens Leeuwner, Endangered Wildlife Trust
An analysis of Vulture mortalities on power lines in South Africa from 1996 to 2018
Lourens Leeuwner, Endangered Wildlife Trust

Technical Session 2: Reconnecting Cascadia
10:30 to 12:00 pm, Ballroom E

I-90 Snqoaulamie Pass East - Engineering Innovation
Brian White, Washington State Department of Transportation
Connectivity of Small Mammal Populations: Moving Through and Living in Wildlife Crossing Structures in the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project
Kristina A. Ernest, Central Washington University
Colonization by Fish and Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Restored Stream Channels Associated with The I-90 Snoqualmie Pass Project in Washington State
Paul W. James, Department of Biological Sciences, Central Washington University
Connections made: Monitoring amphibian movements in the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project
Jason T. Irwin, Central Washington University

Technical Session 3: Soup to Nuts
10:30 to 12:00 pm, Golden State

Efficient Planning for Conducting EIS Surveys Given the Complexities of Wildlife Species Detection
Kimberly M. Andrews, University of Georgia
Design and Construction of Next Generation of Arched Wildlife Overpass - Yoho National Park
Terry McGuire P Eng, McGuire Consulting
Applying Transportation Asset Management to Highway Roadsides/Balancing Ecological Opportunities with Operational Requirements
Raymond Willard PLA, Washington State Department of Transportation
The effects of interspecies interactions and human disturbances on wildlife in highway underpasses
Molly R. Caldwell, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Technical Session 4: All Abuzz About Pollinators
10:30 to 12:00 pm, Carmel

Creating climate resilient habitat for pollinators along roadways
Angela Laws, The Xerces Society
Arizona Department of Transportation Vegetation Management Guidelines
Kris Gade, Arizona Department of Transportation
Bumble Bee Communities Along Roadsides in the Metropolitan Area of Minnesota: Occupancy, Detection and Survey Methods
Michelle Boone, Entomology Department, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Pollinator Garden For Arid Regions - Great Basin Desert
Cathy Ford, Idaho Transportation Dept

Panel 1: Designing the San Jose to Merced Project Section of California's High-Speed Rail System to Support Wildlife Movement
10:30 to 12:00 pm, Big Sur

Plenary: Keynote Luncheon: Dan Sperling, Director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
12:00 to 1:30 pm, Ballroom ABC

Technical Session 5: Challenges in a Changing Climate
1:30 to 3:00 pm, Ballroom D

The U.S. Forest Service Transportation Resiliency Guidebook: Addressing Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Forest Service Transportation Assets
Benjamin Rasmussen, U.S. Department of Transportation, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Tracking Shoreline Change for Ecosystem and Infrastructure Adaptation to Sea Level Rise
Fraser M. Shilling, Road Ecology Center, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616 USA
Designing an Adaptive Pathway to Resilient Highways and Coasts
Alyssa Mann, The Nature Conservancy; Tiffany Cheng, Environmental Science Associates

Technical Session 6: Ocelots on the Brink
1:30 to 3:00 pm, Ballroom E

Ocelot Resource Selection in a Highly Fragmented Landscape
Amanda M. Veals, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Patterns in landscape characteristics surrounding ocelot-vehicle collision sites
AnnMarie Blackburn, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Estimating the expected crossing frequency of road mitigation structures in South Texas based on proximity and vegetation
T. Miles Hopkins, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
The Influence of Fences and Fence Gaps on the Distribution of Wildlife Road Mortalities on a South Texas Highway
Thomas J. Yamashita. School of Earth Environmental and Marine Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Technical Session 7: Betting on Biodiversity
1:30 to 3:00 pm, Golden State

Effects of road infrastructure on biodiversity: The good, the bad and the unknown.
Svenja B. Kroeger, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)
Science and solutions: systematically identifying priority road sections for improving human and wildlife safety in Alberta, Canada
Tracy Lee, Miistakis Institute, Mount Royal University
Are road verges corridors, biodiversity refuges or ecological traps?
António Mira, Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Évora, Portugal
Road verges and power line corridors support conservation of plants and pollinators in the landscape
Juliana Daniel-Ferreira, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Technical Session 8: Models, Take the Roadway!
1:30 to 3:00 pm, Carmel

Modelling potential wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) locations using environmental factors and human population density
Hoe Hun Ha, Auburn University
Risk Mapping Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions in the State of Montana
Matthew Bell, Western Transportation Institute, Montana State University
Prioritizing road sections for wildlife fencing: Considering scales, thresholds, and trade-offs
Jochen Jaeger, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University Montreal, Canada
Strategic minimization of road effects to the Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)
Florence Deffner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Panel 2: In it for the long-haul: Education and workforce development for wildlife friendly highways.
1:30 to 3:00 pm, Big Sur

Break
3:00 to 3:30 pm, Foyer

Lightning Session 1: Mitigation & Modeling for Transportation Projects
3:30 to 5:00 pm, Golden State

Differences in spatiotemporal patterns of vehicle collisions with wildlife and livestock
Tyler Creech, Center for Large Landscape Conservation
Sound and Light-Scapes Affect Wildlife Approaches to Crossing Structures
Amy Collins, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis
Modeling the full spectrum of habitat connectivity conservation and restoration opportunities in California
Dick Cameron, The Nature Conservancy
Integrating landscape connectivity modeling and field data for wildlife crossing design
Megan K. Jennings, Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management, San Diego State University
Incorporation of ecologically beneficial designs when there is only anecdotal evidence for need
Peter Leete, MnDNR
Compensatory Mitigation for Transportation Projects
Jeff Mathews
Caltrans Division of Environmental Analysis Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreement Process Improvements
Phil Stolarski, Chief, Caltrans Division of Environmental Analysis.
How reliable are your data? Verifying species identification of road-killed mammals recorded by road maintenance personnel in São Paulo State, Brazil
Fernanda Delborgo Abra, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"

Technical Session 9: California Dreaming
3:30 to 5:00 pm, Ballroom ABC

Development of a shading model for mapping impacts of over-water structures on submerged aquatic vegetation and mitigation planning
Mark S. Fonseca, CSA Ocean Sciences Inc.
The California Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (SFOBB) East Span Marine Foundations Removal Project
Stefan Galvez-Abadia, Caltrans
State of the Art Technology for Plume Mapping and Water Quality Monitoring in a Dynamic Bay Environment
Dragomir Bogdanic, Caltrans
Assessing the Effectiveness of a Bubble Curtain to Protect Aquatic Resources During Marine Blasting Demolition Work for the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay, CA
Tom Taylor, Environmental Science Associates

Technical Session 10: Wildlife and Roads in the Developing World
3:30 to 5:00 pm, Ballroom D

Development Corridors through Ecologically Sensitive Areas - in Kenya
Lucy Waruingi
Seeking coordination in the complexity: lessons from efforts to mitigate environmental impacts of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor in northern Kenya
Sarah Chiles, Grevy's Zebra Trust and Ewaso Lions
Mapping and Modelling of Wildlife and Livestock Roadkills from Kyumvi to Sultan Hamud (KENYA)
Peter Kibobi, University of Eldoret and Action for Cheetahs in Kenya
Landmark Railway and Conservation Project in a Developing Country: Bangladesh
Norris L. Dodd, Consultant to Asian Development Bank

Panel 3: Building the largest wildlife crossing in the world: the Liberty Wildlife Corridor Partnership
3:30 to 5:00 pm, Ballroom E

Workshop 1a: Railway Ecology Workshop
3:30 to 5:00 pm, Carmel

Workshop 1b: Developing an International Strategy on Engaging different Stakeholders for Mainstreaming Biodiversity Provisions for Sustainable Linear Infrastructure
3:30 to 5:00 pm, Carmel

ICOET Welcome Reception
6:00 to 9:00 pm, California Railroad Museum, Old Town Sacramento

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