04. - Restoring Hamilton Harbour: Tilting at Windmills or a Possible Dream?

Date: Wednesday, Jun 20, 2018
Time: 8:40 AM - 3:40 PM
Location: SW309

Chair(s): Chris Marvin, Kristin O'Connor, Julie Vanden Byllaardt

Anoxic water upwelling potentially limits fish habitat in Hamilton Harbour: 3D hydrodynamic modeling
Bryan Flood, University of Toronto; Mathew Wells, University of Toronto Scarborough

Today's challenges of urban beach management
Jacqui Milne, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Sue Gilpin, City of Hamilton

Status assessment of the BUI �Degradation of Wildlife Populations� for the Hamilton Harbour AOC
�ve Gilroy, Green House Science; Marilyn Baxter, Hamilton Port Authority; Kristin O'Connor, Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan; Julie Vanden Byllaardt, Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan; James Quinn, McMaster University, Dept. of Biological Sciences; Dave Moore, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Laud Matos, Environment and Climate Change Canada

New approaches to tracking sources of contaminant loadings to Hamilton Harbour
Julie Vanden Byllaardt, Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan

Assessing toxicity and bioaccumulation of Hamilton Harbour sediments
Kathleen Stevack, University of Guelph; Paul Sibley, University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences; David Poirier, Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change

A status update on the eutrophication of Hamilton Harbour: Is recovery within reach?
David Depew, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Jacqui Milne, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Debbie Burniston, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Julie Vanden Byllaardt, Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan; Veronique Hiriart-Baer, Environment Canada; Murray Charlton

Keeping urban beaches open- A municipal odyssey
Gavin Norman, City of Hamilton; Tammy Karst-Riddoch, AECOM; Jillian Deman, AECOM; Zahra Parhizgari, AECOM; George Arhonditsis, University of Toronto Scarborough; Alex Neumann, University of Toronto Scarborough

Decades of tilting at Hamilton Harbour's PCBs
Tanya Long, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change

Seasonal and spatial variability of polyphosphate in the water column of Hamilton Harbour
Jiying Li, University of Toronto Scarborough; Arthur Zastepa, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Stefan Markovic, University of Toronto Scarborough; Susan Watson, University of Waterloo; Maria Dittrich, University of Toronto Scarborough

Predicting the likelihood of a regime shift in Cootes Paradise with statistical & mechanistic models
Cindy Yang, University of Toronto; Tianna Peller, McGill University; Laud Matos, Environment and Climate Change Canada; George Arhonditsis, University of Toronto Scarborough