2023 OLA Conference

Start
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
9:30 AM
End
Thursday, November 16, 2023
3:00 PM
Location
Oregon State University, Horizon Room in the Memorial Union Bldg.
Registered
75 registrants

Registration

1b. In-Person: OLA Member (after 11/07) – $120.00
2b. In-Person: Non-Member (after 11/07) – $155.00
3. Zoom: Non-Student – $75.00
4. In-Person or Zoom: Student – $20.00
5. Complimentary
6. Bronze Sponsorship – $250.00
Benefits include:
Meeting registration for one (1) attendee to the annual conference, exhibit space at OLA's annual conference, promotional materials in the conference program, web listing in the Members Directory, and advertising in the Lake Wise newsletter
7. Silver Sponsorship – $500.00
Benefits include:
Meeting registration for two (2) attendees to the annual conference, exhibit space at OLA's annual conference, promotional materials in the conference program, web listing in the Members Directory, and advertising in the Lake Wise newsletter
8. Gold Sponsorship – $750.00
Benefits include:
Meeting registration for three (3) attendees to the annual conference, exhibit space at OLA's annual conference, promotional materials in the conference program, web listing in the Members Directory, and advertising in the Lake Wise newsletter

Registration is closed

Fall 2023 OLA Conference

November 15-16, 2023

Oregon State University
Horizon Room in the Memorial Union Building
Remote Participation via Zoom
VIDEO LINKS BELOW

Read the Abstracts

Wednesday, Nov. 15 VIDEO FROM DAY 1

9:30 Welcome: Theo Dreher (OLA President)

Reservoir Biology Convener: Ivan Arismendi

9:40 Christina Murphy, USGS & Univ. of Maine, Phytoplankton to fish: An ecological exploration of reservoirs
10:20 Chris Caudill, Univ. of Idaho, Linking concepts of adaptive capacity to ESA-listed salmon and steelhead

10:40-11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 James Peterson, USGS & Oregon State Univ., Unexpected Threats: Parasite Infections in Reservoir-rearing Juvenile Chinook Salmon in Willamette Basin Reservoirs
11:30 Gwen Bury, USGS (emeritus), Northwestern Pond Turtles in and below Reservoirs: Management and Information Needs

11:50-1:00 Lunch

Reservoir Management and Monitoring Convener: Desiree Tullos

1:00 Greg Taylor, US Army Corps of Engineers, History and Evolution of Water management at the Willamette Project, OR
1:40 Brett VandenHeuvel, Brett VandenHeuvel Strategies, A time of change for Upper Willamette Valley reservoirs
2:00 Dalton Hance, US Geological Survey, Biological and environmental studies in Lookout Point Reservoir populations in tributaries of the Upper Willamette River with high-head dams
2:20 Kurt Carpenter, US Geological Survey, The Timeline of Impacts from a 2023 Harmful Algae Bloom in the Ross Island Lagoon and Downstream Willamette River

2:40-3:40 Coffee Break and student mentorship opportunity!

3:40 Posters:
- Kylee Brevick, Portland State University, Discovery of diverse freshwater picophytoplankton populations using flow cytometry
- Roger Edwards, Reservoir Management Can Begin at Home
4:30 Ron Larson, book launch and signing: A Natural History of Oregon's Lake Abert in the Northwest Great Basin Landscape, University of Nevada Press

5:00 – 6:30 Social hour sponsored by CD3 Inc. Auction Fundraiser: Columbia Mouth salmon fishing trip with OLA member Steve Wille. Thank you CD3 and Steve!!

Thursday, Nov. 16 VIDEO FROM DAY 2

8:00-9:00 Breakfast

Lakes under Stress Convener: Andy Schaedel

8:40 Jay Munyon, US Forest Service, Extreme events: The 2021 heat dome effect on an Oregon coastal lake
9:00 Haley Tobiason, OR Natural Desert Association, Lake Abert: Migratory Bird Population Dynamics at Oregon's Salty Desert Oasis
9:20 Todd Jarvis, Institute for Water & Watersheds, OSU, Rethinking Laws, Rights of Nature, Roles of Leadership, and Reservoirs as Responses to Drying Lakes

General Lake Science Convener: Lori Campbell

9:40 Timothy Clark, Herrera Environmental Consulting, Making Your Lake Data Shine - Dashboards for Data Visualization and Interpretation in R Shiny
10:00 Evan Bredeweg, OSU, The dark underside of floating solar panels: Iterative runs of CE-QUAL-W2 models as an assessment tool for understanding the effects of floating photovoltaic arrays on reservoir limnology
10:20 Jamila Baig, Univ of Oregon, Paleotemperature, Vegetation Change, Fire History, and Lake Productivity for the Last 14,500 Years at Gold Lake, Oregon.

10:40-11:15 Coffee Break and student mentorship opportunity!

CyanoHABs Convener: Dan Sobota

11:15 Dan Sobota, OR DEQ, Five years of monitoring cyanobacteria blooms in lakes and reservoirs of the Upper Deschutes Watershed
11:35 Mathew Titus, ClearWater Analytica, Assessing HAB Risk Using Explainable AI
11:55 Lindsay Collart, OSU, Proof of concept: Volatile Organic Compounds Reveal Community Composition and Microcystin Contamination
12:15 Theo Dreher, OSU, Complete genome sequences of Gloeotrichia echinulata strains from the US Pacific Northwest reveal a species with low genetic diversity

12:30 Lunch and OLA business meeting open to all. Convener: Theo Dreher, OLA President

OLA activities: what have we been doing during 2023?
Treasurer and other committee reports
OLA special award
Slate of OLA directors for 2024
OLA in 2024: ideas for what we could be doing?

Pricing

	Thru 11/07/23	After 11/07
1. In-Person: OLA Member	$100	$120
2. In-Person: Non-Member	$135	$155
3. Zoom: Non-Student	$75
4. In-Person or Zoom : Student	$20