AGENDA
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October 17, 2019
October 18, 2019
October 16, 2019
Reception @ North Shore Community Park from 4:00 – 7:00 pm
8:00 am Registration, coffee & pastries
8:30 Welcoming remarks - Gina Nestande, Mayor Pro Tem, City of Palm Desert
8:45 The Salton Sea & the Colorado River – Chris Harris, CO R Bd of Calif., moderator
- Colorado River storage & drought – Dan Bunk, Reclamation
- Arizona and the threat of shortage – Tom Buschatzke, Ariz. DWR
- SDCWA & the QSA – Dan Denham, SDCWA
- IID & the need for storage – Tina Shields, IID
10:00 Break
10:20 Hydrology – Michael Cohen, Pacific Institute, moderator
- Recent & projected inflows – Sujoy Roy, Tetra Tech
- Modeling inflows – Hoori Ajami, UC Riverside
- Water Quality – Doug Barnum
11:00 Ecology – Carol Roberts, US F&WS, moderator
- Salton Sea Fish – Nasseer Idrisi, DFW
- Shoreline habitats & bird species richness – Robert McKernan, Oasis Bird Observatory
- General avian use trends – Dan Orr, Audubon
- Avian mortality – Tom Anderson, US F&WS
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12:30 pm Lunch
1:00 Keynote Speaker – Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources
2:00 Air Quality & Health – Tara Nordgren, UC Riverside, moderator
- Regional air quality & dust sources – Earl Withycombe, Air Resources Board
- Current & potential playa emissions – Brian Schmid, Formation Environmental
- Toxics/chemical composition in playa dust – William Porter, UC Riverside
- Public health impacts – Shohreh Farzan, USC
3:20 Break
3:40 Dust Control Projects & Planning – Kevin Durkee, SCAQMD, moderator
- Owens Lake dust control – Adam Solis, LA DWP
- Imperial County APCD rules & regulations – Matt Dessert, ICAPCD
- QSA JPA/IID dust control projects – Jessica Humes, IID
- SSMP dust control projects – Vivien Maisonneuve, DWR
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Comments from Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (video: starting at 01:10:30 )
5:00 Reception and Poster Session
6:00 Community Engagement forum
7:30 Adjourn
8:30 Registration, coffee & pastries
8:45 Welcoming remarks
9:00 State & local activities – Celeste Cantú, moderator
- Salton Sea Management Program – Arturo Delgado, Natural Resources Agency
- Red Hill Bay project – Chris Schoneman, US F&WS
- North Lake project – Tom Levy
- SSMP Science Oversight, Monitoring and Adaptive Management – Ramona Swenson, Environmental Science Associates​
10:30 Report back from community engagement forum – Sahara Huazano, Alianza Coachella Valley
10:50 Break
11:10 Politics, Policy, and Purse-strings – Kurt Schwabe, UC Riverside, moderator
- Imperial County – Supervisor Ryan Kelley
- IID – Henry Martinez, General Manager
- Salton Sea Authority – Phil Rosentrater, General Manager
- NGO – Miguel Hernandez, Comite Civico Del Valle
- California Natural Resources Agency – Arturo Delgado, Assistant Secretary
- US Bureau of Reclamation – Terry Fulp, Lower Colorado Regional Director
1:00 pm Closing remarks & video of the conference
1:30 Students event/forum (ends by 4:30)