Keynote – Benjamin Grumbles, President, Clean Water America Alliance
Policies, Politics, and Prospects for Growing Green and Saving Blue
PANEL – Best of the Southwest: green infrastructure policy from three states
Steve Glass, CPSWQ, CMS4S, Chairman, Ciudad Soil & Water Conservation District
Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development in Arid Climates: The Albuquerque Experience
Andrew Earles, Ph. D., P.E., VP Water Resources, Wright Water Engineers, Denver, CO
Terry Baus, P.E., MPA, CH2M-Hill, Denver, CO
The LID Whisper – The political debate in a regulatory environment
Bill Couch, P.G., AICP, Director of Planning, Seguin, TX
LID Practice for Central Texas – Technical Guidance and Implementation Strategies
PANEL – The Tucson Trajectory: from guerrilla gardens–to big box parking lots–to planned communities
Brad Lancaster, Principal and Author, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands
Regenerative rights-of-way: local harvest and enhancements in our community commons
Gregory R. Shinn, RLA, GRS Landscape Architects, Tucson
Tucson’s water harvesting ordinance from the industry perspective
Evan Canfield, Ph. D., P.E., CFM, Chief Hydrologist, Pima County Regional Flood Control District, & Irene Ogata, RLA, Urban Landscape Manager, City of Tucson
Putting the LID on stormwater in Tucson and Pima County
PANEL – Green infrastructure from the ground up: community-based approaches and innovative partnerships
Edith de Guzman, Research & Analysis Manager, Natural Urban Systems Group, TreePeople
Unlikely Partners: Increasing Local Stormwater Capture in Los Angeles
Pamela Berstler, Managing Member, Green Gardens Group (G3) POWER to the PEOPLE: Do Green Infrastructure Workdays Really Change Community Behavior?
Lisa Shipek, Executive Director, Watershed Management Group Using Green Infrastructure as a Community-Building Tool: The Trickle-Up Effect
Keynote – USEPA Office of Research and Development’s Green Infrastructure Field Research Highlights
Alice Gilliland, Ph.D., Assistant Laboratory Director for Water, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development
Michelle Simon, Ph.D., P.E., Chief, Urban Watershed Management Branch, Water Supply Water Resources Division, US Environmental Protection Agency
PANEL – Arid Green Infrastructure Research
Marie Light, Principal Hydrologist, Pima County Department of Environmental Quality Southwestern Climatic and Geologic Influences on Surface Water Flows
Erika Gallo, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Idaho State University and Biosphere 2, University of Arizona Landscape controls on urban runoff quality and quantity of semi-arid catchments
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, Research Scientist & Assistant Professor, B2 Earthscience, University of Arizona Ecological interactions and indices in green infrastructure soils
Sharon Harlan, Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Environmental Injustice in a Desert City: Green Spaces, Heat and Social Inequality
Eileen Alduenda, Project Manager, Council for Watershed Health, Los Angeles, CA The Los Angeles Basin Water Augmentation Study and the Elmer Avenue Neighborhood Retrofit Projects
Keynote – Andy Lipkis, Founder and President, TreePeople
Green Infrastructure 3.0: From Prototype to Full Scale Integration
PANEL – Putting it all together: integrated approaches to green infrastructure
Trevor Clements, MEM, Water Resources Director, Tetra Tech, Research Triangle Park office
Green infrastructure and LID in the Context of the New Water Paradigm in the Arid Southwest
Hal Sprague, Water Policy Manager, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Recognizing green infrastructure’s monetary benefits
Christine Ten Eyck, FASLA, Principal, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects
The Memory of Water