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Day 1 (Sept 22nd) Opening Plenary Welcome Session, ICOET Representatives, Keynote: Washington State Secretary Millar
2:00 to 3:00 pm

Plenary: Keynote #2 Catrin Einhorn (New York Times)
3:00 to 3:40 pm

Break
3:40 to 3:50 pm

Technical Session 1: Climate & Aquatic Infrastructure: Going with the Flow
3:50 to 5:20 pm

Measuring Rapid Shoreline Change Threatening Infrastructure
Kimberly Andrews, University of Georgia
Tidal Restrictions: Tools, Resources, Policies and Practices for Avoidance and Removal
Mike Ruth, Federal Highway Administration
Piloting the National Green road infrastructure guidelines in Colombian Amazon: an approach to climate and vulnerability analysis
WWF Colombia
Assessing the Passability of Road-Stream Crossings for Terrestrial Wildlife in the Northeastern United States
Scott Jackson, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Technical Session 2: Dispatches from the Global Village I
3:50 to 5:20 pm

Mexico’s New Handbook for Planning, Design and Construction of Wildlife Passages In Transport Infrastructures
Vinicio Andrés Serment (Eng.), Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos. Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes
Strategic Alliances with the Public and Private Sector for the Conservation of Wildlife on Roads, two case studies in Costa Rica
Esmeralda Arévalo-Huezo, Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
Improving Transport Infrastructure for Species and Ecosystems: Transport Working Group for Latin America and the Caribbean
Daniela Araya-Gamboa TWG-LAC, Panthera and Wildlife Friendly Roads Group
A Global Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Transport and other Linear Infrastructure
Lazaros Georgiadis, Infrastructure and Ecology Network Europe (IENE), Greece

Technical Session 3: Decision Support Systems for WVC Reduction
3:50 to 5:20 pm

Linking Research and Decision-Making: How Research is Influencing Wildlife Crash Reduction and Wildlife Corridor Initiatives in Virginia
Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Transportation Research Council
The “Wildlife Crossing Calculator” -- Economic Analysis Decision-Support for Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Reduction
Graham Porter, Road Ecology Center, UC Davis
Coordinated Efforts in Florida to Create Decision-making Tools to Identify and Prioritize Wildlife-Vehicle Conflict Locations and Guidelines for Mitigation Measures
Daniel J. Smith, University of Central Florida
A Regional, Interagency Approach to Prioritizing and Implementing Wildlife Mitigation: Colorado’s Western Slope Wildlife Prioritization Study
Tony Cady, Colorado Department of Transportation
Wyoming’s Wildlife Crossing Prioritization Process
Jill Randall, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

Panel 1: It Takes a Village: Bringing Industries Together Around Monarch Conservation
3:50 to 5:20 pm

Panel Presentations -- It takes a Village: Bringing Industries Together Around Monarch Conservation
Panel Group

Sponsor Meet-up
5:20 to 6:10 pm

Technical Session 4: Steering Stormwater Towards Excellence
6:10 to 7:40 pm

Nationwide Peer Exchange on Reducing Plastic in Erosion Control
Peter Leete, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Aquatic Conservation through Streamlined Construction
Chris Goodson, Georgia Department of Transportation
Highway stormwater ponds : sites to be taken into account in the ecological networks of amphibians
Laura Clevenot, Panthéon Sorbonne University
Stormwater, Climate Change, and Roadside Ditch Management –Thinking at the Watershed Scaleshed Scale
Sara Reynolds-Davis, Cornell University

Technical Session 5: Recovering the Endangered Florida Panther through Transportation and Conservation Planning
6:10 to 7:40 pm

Hot Spots Mapping: Creating a Resource for Transportation Planners to Identify Significant Panther-Vehicle Collision Areas in South Florida
Nicole Cribbs, Faller, Davis & Associates, Inc.
Wildlife Crossing Location Decision Making along the Interstate 4 Corridor
Nicole Monies, Florida Department of Transportation
Using Least Cost Path Modeling to Identify Potential Road Conflict Locations for the Florida Panther in Central Florida
Daniel J. Smith, University of Central Florida
Retrofitting Existing Bridge Crossings to Promote Wildlife Connectivity and Prevent Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions
Brent Setchell, Florida Department of Transportation
The Role of Transportation Planning and Mitigation in Florida Panther Recovery
Elizabeth Fleming, Defenders of Wildlife

Technical Session 6: Oncilla and Ocelots and Tapirs….Oh My!
6:10 to 7:40 pm

Consequences of Road Networks Towards the Survival of Ocelots
AnnMarie Blackburn, Caltrans
Road Crossing Patterns of Ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) Along A Urban-Wildland Gradient
Jason V. Lombardi, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University
Circuit Theory to Estimate Road Crossings for the Endangered Ocelot
Amanda Veals, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
Finding evidence of a 70 years old road effect on the wildlife of a Complex of Protected Areas
Daniela Araya-Gamboa

Technical Session 7: On the Wing with Bats and Birds
6:10 to 7:40 pm

Lesser horseshoe bat mitigation on a major road scheme in South Wales
Richard Green. Richard Green Ecology Ltd
Thinking Outside the Box (Culvert): Bat Roosts in Culvert Structures and Strategies for Mitigation
Jill M Carpenter, LSA Associates
Linear infrastructures affect bird communities in a dry-mixed evergreen forest
Dishane Hewavithana, University of Miami
Roost selection, roost availability and gene flow among culvert roosts of a trawling bat, the large-footed myotis (Myotis macropus)
Vanessa Gorecki, Queensland University of Technology

Break
7:40 to 7:50 pm

Workshop 1: Creating a Playbook for Adapting Drainage Structures into Cost- Effective Wildlife Passages
7:50 to 9:20 pm

End of Sessions (Day 1)
9:20 to

California Department of Fish and Wildlife Training
9:30 to 10:30 pm