Summit Agenda

Preliminary Agenda*

*Subject to change

 MST Pre-Summit Workshop Agenda (10/27)

 

Day 1 - Wednesday, October 28

7:30 a.m.

Registration & Continental Breakfast

Visit Exhibiting Sponsors

8:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks

8:45 a.m.

Welcome

9:00 a.m.

Keynote: International Ocean Sewage Crisis: Policy, Science, and Public Health Protection

Heather Buonomo, Director of Environmental Health, San Diego County

For decades, the Tijuana River has brought untreated sewage, industrial waste, and trash from Tijuana north to San Diego, contaminating water ways, closing beaching and impacting public health and wildlife.  This session will provide a history of the crisis, then focus in on the first use of ddPCR for regulatory beach water quality management decisions, as well as advocacy efforts and policy driving change in the Tijuana River Valley. 

9:45 a.m.

Break

10:00 a.m.

The State of Our Beaches

Panel: U.S., Canada, Tribes/First Nations, Europe
Andrea Contreras Balbuena, U.S. EPA
Gabrielle Parent-Doliner, Water Rangers, Canada
Lily Zolman, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
João Brandão, CE3C, Lisbon, Portual

Panel: State and Local Perspectives
Great Lakes; Gulf Coast; West Coast; East Coast; Territories

11:45 a.m.

Networking Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Track 1

Standards & MST

Moderator: Nishita D'Souza

  • Next Generation of Standards for Recreational Water Testing
    Stephanie Servetas, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Using NIST Standards to Harmonize Beach Monitoring Across Michigan
    Tayler Murphy, Michigan State Uinversity
  • Microbial Source Tracking for Bacterial Impairments at Public Beaches in Iowa
    Joel Stokdyk, U.S. Geological Survey; Jason Palmer, Iowa Department of Natural Resources
  • HF183 Is Exclusively a Marker of Untreated Sewage Pollution – True or False?
    Aldo Lobos, University of South Florida
  • Linking Indicators of Fecal Contamination to Human Health Risk in Southern California Stormwater
    Joshua Steele, Southern California Coastal Water Project
 

Track 2

Coastal Resilience

Moderator: Erin Dreelin

  • Full-Frequency Wave Observations and Evaluation of Coastal Hazards in Lake Michigan
    Alexa Yeo, Colorado School Mines
  • Illinois Beach State Park Shoreline Regeneration
    Jack Cox, Edgewater Resources
  • Delineation of Michigan's Critical Dune Areas
    Zach Chamberlin, EGLE Water Resources Division​​​​
  • The State of Beach Nourishment in Michigan
    Michael Morphey, Edgewater Resources, LLC
  • Good Things in Small Packages: Small Scale Shoreline Engineering
    Steven Howard, Foth Infrastrucure & Environment, LLC
2:40 p.m.

Break

3:00 p.m.

Track 1

Health Risk

Moderator: Joan Rose

  • Recreational Health Risk Screening in Marina del Rey Harbor, California
    Emily Campbell and Lauren Godinez​​​​​​​, Geosyntec Consultants
  • Source to Risk: Integrating MST and QMRA for Texas Gulf Coast Communities
    Anna Gitter, UTHealth Science Center, Houston School of Public Health
  • Quantifying Sources of Human Fecal Contamination in a Large Urban Watershed
    John Griffith, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
  • Hybrid Modeling Framework for Adaptive Beach Water Quality Management
    Amandine Declerck, Rivages ProTech SUEZ
  • Public Awareness of Waterborne Pathogen Risk from Recreational Exposure: Insights from the Galveston BEACH Survey (Beaches, Economic Activity)
    Virgie Greb, Coastal Scientist
  • A Microbial Sequencing Approach to Identify Contamination from Sewers in an Urban Watershed
    Joshua Steele, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
 

Track 2

TMDLs & AOCs

Moderator: Nicole Messacar

  • Explanation of Non-attainment, 303(d) List, TMDL Beaches, and AOC Beaches
    Kevin Goodwin, EGLE Water Resources Division
  • MST with E. coli TMDL Monitoring
    Molly Rippke, EGLE Water Resources Division
  • Wisconsin'sBeach Remediation Projects
    Greg Kleinheinz, University of Wisconsin, OshKosh
  • MST Case Study with Madison & Dan County/City of Milwaukee, and GT Molecular
    Nicole Messacar, Public Health Madison & Dane County
5:30 p.m.

Poster Session

Network with presenters and fellow attendees.

Day 2 - Thursday, October 29

8:00 a.m.

Networking Breakfast

Visit Exhibiting Sponsors

8:45 a.m.

Recap and Poster Winner Announcements

9:00 a.m.

Data Stories and Lessons Learned

  • Shining a Light on Water Quality Data and Beach Actions with BEACON
    Andrea Contreras Balbuena and Katie Davis, U.S. EPA
  • Florida Healthy Beaches Program 
    Dale Griffin, Florida Department of Health
  • Is Clear Water Healthy? Lessons from 37 Years of Citizen Science Data
    Lauren Sheffer, Inland Seas Education Association
  • Lake Michigan Beach Design and Monitoring Lessons
    Dan Veriotti, GZA Environmental
  • Ottawa County Water Quality Monitoring Program
    Sarah Bowman, Ottawa Conservation District
10:40 a.m.

Break

Visit Exhibiting Sponsors

11:00 a.m.

Bactiquick Panel

Moderator: Erin Dreelin Overview and analysis of the first year with Bactiquick in Michigan - Dr. Nishita D'Souza, Michigan State University

Implementation of Bactiquick at inland lake beaches - Michael Swain, Oakland County Health Division

  • With panelists: Maggie Petersen, GLEC; Jeffrey L. Ram, Wayne State University, Dr. Ishi Keenum, Michigan Technological University; Brian Scull, GVSU Annis Water Resources Institute.
11:45 a.m.

Networking Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Track 1

Rapid Testing

Moderator: Dale Griffin

  • Test Fast, Report Faster: Speed as a Beach Public Health Tool
    Drew Shaw, Ottawa County Department of Public Health
  • Gen-Spot®: a rapid molecular tool for proactive management of recreative water quality
    Audrey Commault    , Rivages Pro Tech SUEZ, 64210 Bidart, France
  • TLF Sensors for Real-Time Beach Notification: Multi-Site Validation Results
    Alex Johnson, Virridy
  • Developing a Water Intelligence Network
    Steven Senior, Molendotech, Ltd.
  • Optical Brighteners: Investigating a new/old method for bacterial source tracking.
    Brian Scull, GVSU Annis Water Resources Institute
 

Track 2

Community Engagement

Moderator: Gabrielle Parent-Doliner

  • Monitoring to Stewardship: How Local Science Builds Community Action
    Adrian Koski, City of Racine Public Health Department
  • Block the Flock: Reframing Natural Shorelines for Public Health and Beach Access
    Lauren Dey, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council
  • Building a Regulatory Pathway for Community Bacteria Monitoring
    Aspen Navarro and Tiffany Willrich, Texas State University
  • From Awareness to Accountability: Engaging Communities for Healthier Water Systems
    Precious Ekihalo Odijie, OPE-Your Environment Matters ​​
  • Building Michigan’s Infrastructure Workforce
    Ahmad Ramadan, Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth
2:40 p.m.

Break

3:00 p.m.

Track 1

Sand Quality and HABs

Moderator: Lauren Tehan

  • Sand Quality on Portuguese Blue Flagged Beaches: Contamination Across Two Bathing Seasons
    João Brandão, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes
  • Fungi and antifungals: an overlooked gap in wastewater surveillance and reuse regulation

    João Brandão, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes

  • Rapid qPCR detection of cryptic Ostreopsis blooms for improved coastal risk management in European Atlantic waters.
    Audrey Commault, Rivages Pro Tech SUEZ

  • Harmful Algal Blooms in Michigan: Health Impacts and State Coordinated Response
    Sarah Scheitler, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
  • By Land, Sea, and Air: Novel Routes of Microcystin Exposure at Beaches
    Garrett Moots, University of Toledo
  • Imaging flow cytometry rapidly identifies toxin-producing cells in harmful algal blooms
    Kevin Strychar, GVSU Annis Water Resources Institute

Track 2

Community Engagement

Moderator: Lucy Flores

  • Meeting Coastal Communities Where They're At: Coastal Resilience Outreach and Education
    Jena Johnson, Van Buren Conservation District
  • Community Science-Based Beach and Dune Erosion  Monitoring to Support Coastal Management in Michigan
    Ethan Theuerkauf, Michigan State University
  • Developing an Education-focused Great Lakes Celebration Day to Promote Environmental Literacy 

    Jill Bartolotta, Ohio Sea Grant and The Ohio State University Stone Laboratory

  • AI-enabled Enterococcus Predictor: The ePredictor
    Sathwika Edama, Harte Research Institute
  • Can Community Scientists Answer "Can I Swim Here?" Three Years of Testing Low-Cost E. coli Monitoring for Recreational Waters
    Gabrielle Parent-Doliner, Water Rangers

Day 3 - Friday, October 30

8:00 a.m.

Networking Breakfast

8:45 a.m.

Recap of Summit Proceedings

9:00 a.m.

Remediation & Mitigation

Moderator: Tami Sivy

  • Reducing Bacterial Contamination at Beaches – A Case Study in Grand Traverse Bay
    Sarah U'Ren, The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay
  • Dredging Impacts on Recreational Water Quality: Lessons Learned
    Adrienne Masterson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Spencer Ballard. Ottawa County Department of Public Health
  • Trash Removal Technologies Education and Research Program for the Great Lakes
    Christine Crissman, The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay 
  • Advocacy in Action: Leveraging business voices for Great Lakes protection
    Lisa Hirsch, Great Lakes Business Network
11:00 AM

AI and Predictive Modeling

Moderator: Dale Griffin

  • Smart Duck: AI-Powered Autonomous Water Quality Monitoring System
    Neha Suren Kumar, SORTYX
  • Virtual Beach: An R-Shiny Toolkit for Water Quality Predictive Modeling
    Mike Cyterski, U.S. EPA
  • Using Machine Learning and Aerial Imagery to Count Beach Users
    Emily Evenden, Industrial Economics, Inc
11:40 a.m.

Closing and Acknowledgements

12:00 p.m.

Adjourn