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Tuesday, April 5, 2022 

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Community and Salton Sea tours 

 

5 pm Reception at the Salton Sea State Recreation Area 

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Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 at UC Riverside/Palm Desert Campus

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8:00 Registration  

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8:30 Opening Remarks – Tamara Hedges, Karina Quintanilla, Kurt Schwabe

 Congressman Ruiz​ and Senator Boxer

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8:45 Hydrology  ---  Timothy Lyons, UC Riverside – moderator

• Alan Butler, Reclamation - Colorado River System Projections

• Peter Nelson, Colorado River Board of California 

• Hoori Ajami, UC Riverside- Improving Water Resource Management

• Tina Shields, IID- The Salton Sea Challenge

• Sujoy Roy, Tetra Tech- Considerations in Projecting Future Scenarios

 

10:15 break 

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10:40 Ecology  –  Tim Bradley, UC Irvine – moderator 

• Tonya Marshall, California Department of Fish & Wildlife- Salton Sea Ecology

• Andrea Jones, Audubon- Audubon Salton Sea Bird Surveys

• Mia Maltz, UC Riverside- From the play to the air: Toxic dust and our lungs

• Jonathan Nye, UC Riverside- Chemistry & Ecology at the Salton Sea​​

  • Spanish Version​

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12:00 lunch 

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1:30 Air Quality – Kevin Durkee, SCAQMD, moderator 

• Will Porter, UC Riverside- Outside In: Impacts of ambient dust

• Brian Schmid, Formation- Salton Sea Air Quality Mitigation Program

• Ann Cheney, UC Riverside- Outside In: Impacts of ambient dust

• Amato Evan, UCSD- How Dusty a Future?

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2:45 break 

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3:15 Public Health  – Eric Reyes​

• David Lo, UC Riverside- The Salton Sea: Dust Emissions, Lung Inflammation, and Asthma

• Ryan Sinclair, Loma Linda Univ.- Balloon Mapping

• Karla Lopez, Imperial County Public Health Department- Salton Sea 2022

 

5:00 Reception, celebrating Bruce Wilcox

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6:00 Community Forum

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Thursday, April 7th 2022 at UC Riverside/Palm Desert Campus

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8:00 Registration 

 

8:20 Welcoming Remarks – Thomas Tortez, Torres-Martinez Tribe 

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8:30 Lithium and Energy – Arun Raju, UC Riverside – moderator

• Mike McKibben, UC Riverside- Lithium Resources Beneath the Salton Sea

• Jonathan Weisgall, Berkshire Hathaway Energy- Lithium and Energy

• Mariela Loera, Leadership Counsel- Community Engagement in Lithium Valley

• Deana Carrillo, California Energy Commission

 

9:40 break  

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10:00 Community and Economic Development – Silvia Paz, Alianza – moderator

• Rebecca Zaragoza, Leadership Counsel- Why Inclusivity and Environmental Justice Matter

• Ryan Kelley, Imperial County Supervisor- Imperial County and Lithium Valley 

  • Spanish Version​

• Juan Perez, COO, Riverside County- Community and Economic Development

• Chris Benner, UC Santa Cruz- Solidarity Economics and the Salton Sea

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11:15 Keynote Address -  Moisés Moreno-Rivera, Assistant Secretary for Equity and Environmental Justice, California Natural Resources Agency

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11:45 lunch 

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12:45 Imports and Long-Range Planning – Peter Silva, Silva-Silva International

• Tom Sephton, Eco-Media Compass- Salton Sea Restoration

• James Newcomb, Department of Water Resources

• Maria-Elena Giner, IBWC

• Adriana Resendez, CILA- Salton Sea Summit

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2:00 Local Projects – Mario Llanos, CNRA – moderator

• Vivien Maisonneuve, DWR

• Jessica Humes, IID- QSA Environmental Mitigation

• Frank Ruiz, Audubon- Bombay Beach Wetland Project

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3:15 break 

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3:35 Policy – Kurt Schwabe, UC Riverside – moderator

• Patrick O’Dowd, Salton Sea Authority

• Keith Cialino, Assembly

• Mario Llanos, CNRA

• Genevieve Johnson, Reclamation

• Michael Cohen, Pacific Institute

 

4:55 Concluding Remarks – Assemblymember Garcia

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