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: Heather Buonomo, Director of Environmental Health, San Diego County

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

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 and Katie Davis, 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
  • 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: TBD

  • Recreational Health Risk Screening in Marina del Rey Harbor, California
    Jared Ervin, 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, 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

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

Implementation of Bactiquick at inland lake beahes - 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: TBD

  • 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
    Spencer Ballard, Ottawa County Department of Public Health
  • Trash Removal Technologies Education and Research Program for the Great Lakes
    Jill Bartolotta, Ohio Sea Grant and The Ohio State University Stone Laboratory 
  • Advocacy in Action: Leveraging business voices for Great Lakes protection
    Lisa Hirsch, Great Lakes Business Network
11:00 AM

AI and Predictive Modeling

Moderator: TBD

  • 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