Past Events
2011
Increasing the Delivery of Residential Stewardship Practices in Urban Watersheds
A webcast focusing on how local governments and watershed groups can engage the public to improve the quality of runoff from their homes and yards.
Stormwater Retrofits to Maximize Nutrient Reduction
A webcast discussing how to maximize nutrient reduction through a wide range of urban stormwater retrofits and featuring a recommended process to find, evaluate, design and construct stormwater retrofits across an urban watershed.
LID Changes Everything: The New Stormwater Maintenance Paradigm
A webcast addressing LID maintenance problems and managing local stormwater maintenance programs to meet future challenges.
Surviving Your Local WIP: A Practical Guide to Nutrient Accounting for the Chesapeake Bay TMDL
A webcast designed to guide local governments through the process to prepare watershed implementation plans in 2011 and 2012 for the Chesapeake Bay nutrient TMDL.
Improving the Selection of Stormwater Best Management Practices: Making Decisions Under Multiple Uncertainties
This workshop reviewing the current body of science and research needs regarding the cost, performance, maintenance, reliability, and management of Low Impact Development practices and introducing a tool designed to assist in selecting appropriate stormwater controls based upon partial and uncertain information.
Cryptosporidium, Cattle & Drinking Water
A webcast, hosted in partnership with the Potomac River Basin Drinking Water Source Protection Partnership, to discuss how farmers can protect the health of their cattle and the public from Cryptosporidium infections. The information from this webcast was subsequently highlighted in the Lancaster Farming news.
2010
Environmental Site Design: Tools and Practices to Verify On-site Compliance
A webcast reviewing the basics of ESD in Maryland, with an intensive focus on design of ESD credits and micro-practices.
Handling ESD at Redevelopment Sites
A webcast reviewing the challenges and special design approaches needed to effectively comply with ESD requirements at redevelopment sites.
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Water Resources in the Mid-Atlantic
A regional science workshop to discuss (1) how climate change will affect agricultural production and water resources in the Mid-Atlantic, and (2) the decision-making tools needed to address production, environmental management, and policy needs.
Chesapeake Bay Goal Line 2025: Opportunities for Enhancing Agricultural Conservation
A 2-day forum for representatives from academic institutions, governmental agencies and the private sector to discuss and evaluate opportunities for enhancing existing agricultural conservation systems, as well as the adoption of “next generation” tools for across the Bay watershed. Co-sponsored by the MAWP.
TMDL 2010: Watershed Management to Improve Water Quality
A 3-day conference which included sessions on Pollution Control Methods, Modeling, and TMDL Development and Implementation. Co-sponsored by the MAWP.
2009
Ecosystem Based Management: the Chesapeake and Other Systems
A regional conference to review the implementation of ecosystem-based management in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Co-sponsored by the MAWP.
2008
Carbon Sequestration on Farm and Forest Lands
A regional symposium for policy makers and non-profit organizations to discuss how to develop carbon trading/offset programs for the Chesapeake Bay region. Co-sponsored by the MAWP.
BMP Forum
A forum to present the revised and newly developed BMP definitions and effectiveness estimates, and BMP development process, were devised for the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program.
2007
Biofuels and Water Quality
The region’s first discussion on the use of corn-based ethanol and the potential impacts on water quality.
Nutrient Trading
A series of workshops to review the benefit and costs of nutrient trading programs and their utility in the Mid-Atlantic.
Mid Atlantic Composting and Compost Use Conference
The MAWP co-sponsored this conference, which discussed composting and compost use for sustainable low impact development.
2006
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds: The ABCs of EDCs
A regional review of research and dialogue on Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs).
2004
Mid-Atlantic Agricultural Ammonia Forums
Educational forums to create awareness of the role agricultural ammonia emissions play in nitrogen pollution to the atmosphere and receiving waters, and the best management practices to contain or reduce these emissions.