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SALTON SEA SUMMIT 2022
New Opportunities and Persistent Challenges
UC Riverside/Palm Desert Campus - April 6-7, 2022
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Community and Salton Sea tours
5 pm Reception at the Salton Sea State Recreation Area
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 at UC Riverside/Palm Desert Campus
8:00 Registration
8:30 Opening Remarks – Tamara Hedges, Karina Quintanilla, Kurt Schwabe
Congressman Ruiz and Senator Boxer
8:45 Hydrology --- Timothy Lyons, UC Riverside – moderator
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Alan Butler, Reclamation - Colorado River System Projections
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Hoori Ajami, UC Riverside- Improving Water Resource Management
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Sujoy Roy, Tetra Tech- Considerations in Projecting Future Scenarios
10:15 break
10:40 Ecology – Tim Bradley, UC Irvine – moderator
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Tonya Marshall, California Department of Fish & Wildlife- Salton Sea Ecology
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Andrea Jones, Audubon- Audubon Salton Sea Bird Surveys
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Mia Maltz, UC Riverside- From the play to the air: Toxic dust and our lungs
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Jonathan Nye, UC Riverside- Chemistry & Ecology at the Salton Sea
12:00 lunch
1:30 Air Quality – Kevin Durkee, SCAQMD, moderator
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Will Porter, UC Riverside- Outside In: Impacts of ambient dust
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Brian Schmid, Formation- Salton Sea Air Quality Mitigation Program
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Ann Cheney, UC Riverside- Outside In: Impacts of ambient dust
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Amato Evan, UCSD- How Dusty a Future?
2:45 break
3:15 Public Health – Eric Reyes
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David Lo, UC Riverside- The Salton Sea: Dust Emissions, Lung Inflammation, and Asthma
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Ryan Sinclair, Loma Linda Univ.- Balloon Mapping
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Karla Lopez, Imperial County Public Health Department- Salton Sea 2022
5:00 Reception, celebrating Bruce Wilcox
6:00 Community Forum
Thursday, April 7th 2022 at UC Riverside/Palm Desert Campus
8:00 Registration
8:20 Welcoming Remarks – Thomas Tortez, Torres-Martinez Tribe
8:30 Lithium and Energy – Arun Raju, UC Riverside – moderator
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Mike McKibben, UC Riverside- Lithium Resources Beneath the Salton Sea
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Jonathan Weisgall, Berkshire Hathaway Energy- Lithium and Energy
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Mariela Loera, Leadership Counsel- Community Engagement in Lithium Valley
9:40 break
10:00 Community and Economic Development – Silvia Paz, Alianza – moderator
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Rebecca Zaragoza, Leadership Counsel- Why Inclusivity and Environmental Justice Matter
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Ryan Kelley, Imperial County Supervisor- Imperial County and Lithium Valley
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Juan Perez, COO, Riverside County- Community and Economic Development
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Chris Benner, UC Santa Cruz- Solidarity Economics and the Salton Sea
11:15 Keynote Address - Moisés Moreno-Rivera, Assistant Secretary for Equity and Environmental Justice, California Natural Resources Agency
11:45 lunch
12:45 Imports and Long-Range Planning – Peter Silva, Silva-Silva International
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Tom Sephton, Eco-Media Compass- Salton Sea Restoration
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James Newcomb, Department of Water Resources
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Maria-Elena Giner, IBWC
2:00 Local Projects – Mario Llanos, CNRA – moderator
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Vivien Maisonneuve, DWR
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Frank Ruiz, Audubon- Bombay Beach Wetland Project
3:15 break
3:35 Policy – Kurt Schwabe, UC Riverside – moderator
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Patrick O’Dowd, Salton Sea Authority
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Keith Cialino, Assembly
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Genevieve Johnson, Reclamation
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Michael Cohen, Pacific Institute
4:55 Concluding Remarks – Assemblymember Garcia