8:30-9:00am: Registration

9:00-9:15am: Welcome & opening remarks

9:15-9:45am: Connecting movement to management – insights from lake trout and lake whitefish near Good Harbor Bay
Ben Turschak, Fisheries Research Biologist, Michigan Department of Natural Resources

9:45-10:30am: Grand Traverse Band projects
Brett Fessell, Restoration Section Leader & River Ecologist, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians
Madeline Baroli, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians

10:30-10:45am: BREAK

10:45-11:15am: A microplastics survey of northern Michigan – and a C.U.R.E
Nick Roster, Biology Instructor, Northwestern Michigan College
Finn Sutherland, student, Northwestern Michigan College

11:15-11:45am: Wet spot in the woods – vernal pool conservation in Michigan
Abby Pointer, Associate Director of Partnership and Community Engagement, Michigan Nature Association

11:45am-12:45pm: LUNCH

12:45p-1:50pm: LIGHTNING TALKS
FishPass + Michigan’s Blue Tech Innovation Hub
Leah McCallum, FishPass Community Engagement Officer, Great Lakes Fishery Commission

Grand Traverse Bay shoreline survey
Heather Smith, Grand Traverse Bay WATERKEEPER, The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay

White sucker tracking
Finn Sutherland, student, Northwestern Michigan College

Restoring connectivity to the Rapid River and Chain of Lakes
Tom Vitale, Project Manager, Conservation Resource Alliance

New microbial source tracking markers and rapid testing on Grand Traverse beaches
Maggie Petersen, Great Lakes Environmental Center

Limnological data
Inland Seas Education Association

1:50-3:00pm: COASTAL RESILIENCY PANEL
Coastal resiliency background
Ronda Wuycheck, Program Manager, Michigan Coastal Management Program, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy

Planning and zoning
TBD

Nature-based stormwater solutions
Brian Majka, Senior Restoration Ecologist, GEI Consultants

3:00pm: Evaluation & adjourn