WED WEDNESDAY APRIL 6, 2011

9:00–5:00 NY Natural Heritage Program's 2011 Invasive Species Database Symposium

12:00–9:00 Conference Registration Open 12:00–9:00 Conference Registration Open On-going Focus on Nature: Best of the Best exhibit in the NYS Twenty years of natural history illustration: an exhibit in the NYS Museum Museum during the Focus on Nature (FON) began as a small, three day exhibit of works by natural history illustrators with a connection to conference State. The purpose was to focus on the scientific values of the artwork for the benefit of the attendees of the 1990 Northeast Natural History Conference. From these humble beginnings, FON has grown to be an international, juried, biennial exhibit that attracts hundreds of submissions from dozens of countries. The notoriety of this exhibit highlights the increased interest in natural history illustration, the interconnectedness of illustrators all over the world, and the impressive talents of artists specializing in this genre. Artistic skill as well as the educational value of the FON artworks inspired the first Purchase Award. The pieces acquired through purchase and donation now number eighty- seven. Of these, the selected works are the curator's choice of those that best represent the long-standing goals of FON. This exhibit will be on display in the New York State Museum for the duration of the conference.

On-going Live Exhibition of Herps from the Northeast — in the Northeast Gallery New York State Museum Behind-the-Scene Tours: All tours start in the Museum lobby 1:00–2:00 DNA Lab 1:00–3:00 Ichthyology 1:00–2:00 Vascular Plants 2:00–3:00 Entomology 2:00–3:00 Mammalogy 3:00–4:00 Vertebrate Paleontology 3:00–4:00 Ornithology

3:00–5:00 Meeting of ANB Acting Executive Committee 3:00–5:00 Exhibitions set up 5:00–6:00 Meeting of ANB Acting Executive Committee with affiliates, sponsors, and exhibitors

Room 5 - Welcoming Remarks and Plenary Session: Is a National Biological Survey Achievable Now?: A History of Past Attempts and Recent 6:00–7:00 Advances in Technology and Collaboration John Kartesz, Director of Biota of North America Program (BONAP), and Robert W Lichvar, Research Botanist, US Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory; Director, National Wetland Plant List

The 126-year-old National Biological Survey (NBS) legacy reflects a desire of many generations to understand the natural history of our Nation by knowing what species occur where, how to identify them, how they interact, which ones need protection, which ones need to be eliminated, etc. Begun in 1885 under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with the goal of inventorying the biota of the U.S., the NBS was moved back and forth between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the USDA. In 1993, it was moved to the U.S. Geological Survey, where it was most currently housed. Although with great bias toward zoology, the legacy of the NBS left vast collections of voucher specimens of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, and other terrestrial vertebrates under curatorial care at institutions around the Nation. Today, although the NBS has been discontinued, we feel that because of the tremendous advances in botanical and zoological systematics, molecular genetics, and ecology, along with numerous profound advances in digital and other types of technology, we now have an opportunity to reopen a new chapter of the NBS and to understand more thoroughly our Nation’s biota than ever before. Our goal is to discuss some of these tools as well as ideas on how to proceed.

Welcome networking reception w/ beverages and buffet - ticketed event in Base of Egg (pre-registration 7:00–9:00 required) 7:00–9:00 Exhibitions open THUR THURSDAY APRIL 7, 2011

7:00–5:00 Conference Registration Open 7:00–8:00 PowerPoint preview and technology check for morning sessions - in the room in which your presentation will be given 7:30–8:15 Morning poster presentation set-up - in the Base of the Egg 8:00 Exhibitions Open 8:15–9:45 Concurrent Sessions - Early Morning Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 7 Ant Ecology I The National Ecological Natural History of Small Mammals Botany Biological Interactions of The New York Survey I: What Freshwater Fish Botanical Garden: Types of Data Interpreting an Exist Urban Old Growth Forest

Jessica Schuler Nishi Moderator Aaron Ellison Robert Lichvar David Halliwell Roland Kays Rob Naczi Rajakaruna Introduction and Introduction and Robert Schmidt Introduction to "The Introduction and Introduction Overview Overview Aspects of the Biology Natural History of Overview and Overview of Oriental The New York Weatherfish Botanical Garden" (Misgurnus Project anguillicaudaus) in the , NY

Israel Del Toro Dave Boufford Christopher Nack Wayne Cahilly Jorie Favreau Hazel Stark Ant Species Mapping the Condition and Diet of Four-hundred Years The Efects of Cover Plants and Diversity Along a Flora of New Larval American Shad of Forest Stewardship and Food on People of New Latitude and England in Four Different at The New York Snowshoe Hare England: Our Elevation Gradient Shallow Water Nursery Botanical Garden, or Movement Contemporary in the Northeastern Habitats in the Hudson Why Was This Not Behavior in the Reliance on United States River, NY Made Firewood? Adirondacks Traditional Knowledge

Aaron Ellison Jay Cordeiro Samantha Taylor Matthew Pace Celia Evans Jack Tessier The Ants of NatureServe Phylogeographic Rediscovering the Snowshoe Hare Mechanisms Nantucket and the Database Analysis of the Flora of the New York Browse Behavior in Controlling Ants of New Achievements in Blacknose Dace Botanical Garden the Adirondacks: Corm Depth in England: Freshwater (Rhinichthys) in West Forest, Using the The Role of Erythrnium Relationships Species Virginia Steere Herbarium Availability, americanum Between Local and Conservation Preference, and Regional Faunas Forest Structure

Shannon Pelini Panel Joseph Rachlin Jason Munshi- Howard Huynh Justin Gill Warm Ants: Ant Discussion An Ordination and South Review of the Correlations Responses to on the exciting Parsimony Analysis of Genetic Connectivity Introduction and among Warming Across potential for and Fish from Five Sites in of White-footed Establishment of Anthocyanin Northeastern US real challenges the Saw Mill River, Mouse Populations is the Eastern Gray and Chlorophyll Forests involved in Westchester County, Associated with Squirrel (Sciurus in Senescing developing a NY Urban Canopy Cover carolinensis) in Leaves of Red comprehensive in Nova Scotia, Maple NBS database, Canada: Biological with and Conservation John Kartesz Implications Bob Lichvar Joshua King Jay Cordiero Florian Reyda A Erik Zeidler Chris Collins James Pursuing the Links David Boufford Two-year Survey of Investigating the The Effect of Furlaud Between Ants, the Fish Parasites of Ecology of Disease and Taxonomic Plants, and Otsego Lake, NY Amphibians and Weather on Status of Stout Ecosystem Function Reptiles at The New Activity Patterns in Smartweed, in Southern New York Botanical White Footed Mice Persicaria England Forests Garden robustior (Polygonaceae)

9:45–10:30 Morning poster session and reception with beverages THUR THURSDAY APRIL 7, 2011 10:30–12:00 Concurrent Sessions - Late Morning Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 7 Ant Ecology II The National Freshwater Science and Bryophyte Ecology Plant Ecology Biological Ecology Stewardship in and Evolution Survey II: New York State Collaborative Parks Institutional Involvement

George Nishi Moderator Aaron Ellison John Kartesz Tim Mihuc Nancy Slack Robinson Rajakaruna Introduction and Introduction and Justin Ecret Introduction and Introduction and Introduction and Overview Overview Brook Trout Overview Overview Overview (Salvelinus fontinalis) Habitat Assessment and Dispersal Patterns in True Brook, NY

Robert Clark Chris Wood Yves De Casey Sean Robinson Tyler Cross Evidence for a Exploring Lafontaine Holzworth Immigration and A Comparison of Facultative Patterns of Bird Swarms of the Robert G. Wehle contemporary Removal Mutualism Distribution and Ponto-caspian State Park: What dispersal of the peat Techniques in between Occurrence at Mysid Hemimysis do you do When moss, Sphagnum Eliminating Aphaenogaster Multiple Spatio- anomala in You‚ are Awash pylaesii, in the Berberis picea and a Guild temporal Scales Montreal Harbour, in a Sea of Adirondack Mountains thunbergii and of New England Using eBird St. Lawrence River, Swallow-wort? Reducing Myrmecochores Canada Subsequent Germinations

Sara Demonstration Casey Binggeli Tom Hughes Warren Perdrizet Tony Eallonardo Lewandowski and Q & A The Effect of ESF Edaphic and Linking Plant Traits Behavioral and Period Invasive F.O.R.C.E.S.: A Phytosociological to Stress and Spatial Patterns of Macrophytes on Model for Factors Influencing Resource Formica glacialis Macroinvertebrate Engaging College Moss Species Gradients in Ants in the and Zooplankton Students in Distributions in a Inland Salt and Context of Communities in Natural Resource Mixed Hardwood Freshwater Marsh Parasitism by Lake Champlain Stewardship Forest Communities Slavemakers Projects

Jennifer Apple Panel Holly Waterford Robert O'Brien Michael Tessler Rick Van de Poll Spatial and Discussion Human Influences The Effectiveness Hymenodon Long-term Temporal on the potential on Species of Field Teams in (Orthodontiaceae): Ecological Dynamics of for collaboration Composition: Long- Creating Exploring Evolution Monitoring at a Interactions in developing a Term Change in Invasive Species and Disjunction in a Private Nature between comprehensive Otsego Lake, NY Prevention Zones Tropical Moss Genus Preserve - Trends Slavemaking Ants NBS database, in Soil pH and and their Hosts with Plant Dominance John Kartesz Discussion Bob Lichvar Taylor Raufus Mark Rogers Discussion Jay Cordiero The Road to Deer David Boufford Immortality: Management in Exploring Resting State Parks: The Stages of Native Letchworth and Non-Native Model Zooplankton in Seneca Lake, NY

12:00–1:00 Lunch on own in Concourse or pre-ordered box lunches in Base of Egg 12:00–1:00 Room 3 - Luncheon meeting of ANB Acting Executive Committee

Room 5 - 2011 NY Flora Association Annual Meeting - "New Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern 12:00–1:30 United States and Adjacent Canada" with Rob Naczi - All Welcome

12:00–12:45 Take down of morning poster presentations 12:15–1:15 PowerPoint preview and technology check for afternoon sessions - in rooms in which presentations will be given THUR THURSDAY APRIL 7, 2011

12:45–1:30 Afternoon poster presentation set-up - in Base of Egg 1:00–1:30 Room 3 - Open panel discussion about ANB 1:30–3:00 Concurrent Sessions - Early Afternoon Early Afternoon Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 7 Quaternary Biology of Ecological Status Shawangunk Conservation and Floristics Environments of Invasive and Recovery of Mountains Ecology of Bats the Northeast Species Acidified Geology, Climate Adirondack Change, and Surface Waters I Evolution

Guy Robinson Moderator Jennifer Dean Charles Boylen Michael Batcher Carl Herzog Troy Weldy Mary Egan Introduction and Introduction and Introduction and Introduction and Introduction and Introduction and Overview Overview Overview Overview Overview Overview

Guy Robinson David Werrier David Winkler Howard Feldman Ryan Von Linden Kerry Strout A Late Occurrence The Status of the Long-term Changes The Geology of the White-nose Northeast of Cervalces scotti Highly Invasive in Acidity and other Syndrome: A Status Regional Floristic Pollen Stratigraphy Grass Water Quality on the Mohonk Update from the Quality and AMS Dating Brachypodium Parameters in Preserve and Northeast and Assessment sylvaticum in Adirondack Lakes Environs Beyond Index Eastern North and Ponds America

Eric Littmann Joseph Rachlin Kevin Civerolo Kirsten Menking Kristen Watrous Kimberly Smith Pollen Distribution The Current A Comparison of Late-glacial to Current Rediscovery of Across a Major Status of the TIME (Summer) Holocene Climate Understanding of Bat Two Federally Metropolitan Area Palaemon and ALTM (Year- Variability and Activity and Mortality Listed Rare Plant macrodactylus: round) Programs Drought in the Mid- Patterns at Wind- Species in New An Exotic Visitor During 1992–2008 Hudson Valley Energy Facilities in York to the NY City Region of New York the Northeastern Estuarine System State United States

Andy Hamilton Robert Schmidt Daniel Josephson Shanan Smiley Michael Fishman Jerry Jenkins Unravelling the The Invasive Impacts of Acidic Species and Landscape Metrics of Does Adirondack Enigma of an Chinese Mitten Deposition on Climate Change at Indiana Bat (Myotis Old-growth Atlantic Prairie: Crab in Hudson Water Chemistry Mohonk, Ulster sodalis) Summer Contain Forest Evidence from River Tributaries and Fishes in the County, NY Habitat in Central NY Interior Plants Phytophagous Honnedaga Lake Bugs Watershed (Auchenorrhyncha)

Francis Robinson Meghan Brown Gregory Luis Espinasa Karen Vanderwolf Elizabeth Between the Spatial, seasonal, Lawrence Gigantism in Characterizing the Farnsworth Mountains and the and diel Comparison of Organisms from Winter Bat Go Botany! An Sea: An distribution Methods for the Ice Caves at Population, On-line Flora of Exploration of the patterns of the Estimating Critical Sam's Point Microclimate, and New England Champlain Sea and Mysid Hemimysis Loads of Acidic Preserve Mycobiota of Paleoindian Land anomala in New Deposition in the Hibernating Bats in Use in the York State's Western Adirondack New Brunswick Champlain Basin Finger Lakes Region of New York Caves

3:00–3:45 Afternoon poster session and reception with beverages THUR THURSDAY APRIL 7, 2011 3:45–5:30 Concurrent Sessions - Late Afternoon Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 7 Quaternary Invasive Species: Ecological Status Shawangunk Migratory Landbird Room Environments of Ecological and Recovery of Mountains Forest Ecology closed the Northeast II Management and Acidified and Habitat this Restoration Adirondack Surface Dynamics session Waters II

Guy Robinson Susan Elbin Moderator Jennifer Dean Charles Boylen Michael Batcher Mary Egan Chad Seewagen Introduction and Karen Lombard Introduction and Introduction and Lindsay Herlihy Overview Managing Invasions Overview Overview Investigating the over the Long Presence and Prevalence Term. Lessons of Borrelia burgdorferi in from Eight Years of Peridomestic Bird Phragmites Populations of Poultney, australis Control VT

Kathrin Sears Caroline Girard Donald Charles John Thompson Lindsay Nightingale Plant Macrofossil Intensive Changes in Vegetation Dynamics Aggressive Aerial Evidence of Rotational Targeted Phytoplankton of the Northern Interactions in the Ruby- Paleoclimate Events Grazing of Sheep Assemblages in 30 Shawangunk throated Hummingbird in No Bottom Pond, as a Control for the Adirondack Mountain Mountains, NY Due to at Artificial Feeding Nantucket Spread of Persicaria Lakes in Response to Changing Industry Stations perfoliata Decreasing Acidic Deposition

Dorothy Peteet Sandra William Shaw Les Lynn Susan Smith Strengths and Nierzwicki Evidence for Thirty Years of Forest Long-term Shifts in the Weaknesses of Discovery and Zooplankton Recovery Change in the Timing of Autumn Sutherland Pond vs. Eradication/Manage in Chemically Mohonk Preserve, Migration by Songbirds Fen Archive, Black ment Strategy for Recovering Acidified, New Paltz, NY: The in Southern New Rock Forest, NY Asian Clam Adirondack Mountain Fate of American England Invasion of Lake Lakes Chestnut (Castanea George dentata) (Marsh) Borkh.

Terryanne Jennifer Dean Robert Daniels Michael Batcher Pamela Hunt Maenza Innovations and Species Introductions Vegetation Response Using Auditory Virtual Challenges with and the Effect on to the 2008 Detections to Assess Paleoecology: From Compiling a Spatial Native Fish Overlooks Wildfire in Habitat Use in the Sediment Sampling Data Set of Distribution in the Shawangunks Eastern Whip-poor-will to Pollen Analysis in Invasive Species Adirondack Lakes (Caprimulgus vociferus) Two Hours

Discussion Jay Westerveld Jeremy Farrell Elizabeth Spencer Susan Elbin Keeping the Baby Brooktrout Lake Habitat analysis for Observations at the with the Bathwater: Fisheries and New York State Bird Roof: Effects of Powerful A Populational Macroinvertebrates Species of Greatest Lights on Birds Migrating Approach to from the Conservation Need in over New York City on Invasive Species Hydroacoustic the Northern September 11 Management Perspective Shawangunk Mountains

Chad Seewagen 4:45–5:15 Take down of afternoon poster presentations Cutting the Fat: Migratory Songbirds also Gain Substantial Lean Body Mass during Stopover Refueling in New York City Parks

5:30–7:30 Networking reception with beverages and buffet - ticketed event in Base of Egg (pre-registration required) Social evening with Field Naturalists' Free-for-All Open Musical Jam Session and cash bar. 7:30–9:30 Open for all musical types and levels. Bring a favorite musical instrument and play, sing, or just enjoy. All Welome — In Base of Egg. FRI FRIDAY APRIL 8, 2011

7:00–5:00 Conference Registration Open 7:00–8:00 PowerPoint preview and technology check for morning sessions - in rooms presentations will be given in 7:30–8:15 Morning poster presentation set-up - in Base of Egg 8:00 Exhibitions Open 8:15–9:45 Concurrent Sessions - Early Morning Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 7 Malacology Colonial Northern Cricket Forest Health Reconnecting Conservation of Waterbirds of Frog Decline: and Deer with Nature: an Urban Oasis: the Northeast: Research and Management: Grassroots, Albany's Pitch Gulls, Recovery Strategies Local Students, and Pine Scrub Oak Cormorants, and Perspective Citizen Science Barrens I Egrets

Christopher Moderator David Strayer Chip Weseloh Michael Mallon Troy Weldy Paul B. Hai Hawver Thomas Coote Introduction and Introduction and Introduction and Introduction and Introduction and The Overview Overview Overview Overview Overview Phylogeography of Marstonia lustrica: Glaciation and the Evolution and Distribution of a Rare Snail

John Burch Elizabeth Craig Jay Westerveld Jeffrey Ward Paul B. Hai Jason Bried Freshwater Waterbird Northern Cricket Frog Interaction of Reconnecting The Pine Bush as Limpets in Foraging Behavior Overwintering Habits: Invasive Plants and Children and Laboratory for Northeastern in an Urban Results of 2007–2010 Herbivory on Tree Nature: A National Innovative Pine- United States Estuary: A Stable Survey at Glenmere Seedlings and and State Oak Barrens Isotope Approach Metapopulation Habitat Herbaceous Plants Grassroots Management Indicate Requirements Movement for Protection and Recovery of NY Populations

Travis Cobb Susan Elbin Jonathan Micancin Mark Weckel Cornelia Harris Amanda Dillon Snail Shell Size Reservoir Birds: Decline of Acris gryllus Use of Cameras to More than an Bee Diversity in and Morphology Sink, Source, or in Sympatry with Acris Monitor Deer Ecological Scrub Oak Affect Crayfish Satellite? crepitans in North Populations Footprint: Students Patches Two Ingestion Dynamics of Two Carolina and Virginia Collect Data to Years after Mow Methods Small Colonies in Understand their and Herbicide Putnam County, School Ecosystem Treatment NY

Ethan Nedeau Dan Clark Gregg Kenney Keri Vancamp Chris Bowser Dylan Parry Status and Fidelity and Site Seasonal Upland Vassar College: The Hudson River Why Call Pine Conservation of Persistence of Habitat Use of Responding to Eel Project: Fish Barrens Home? the Brook Floater Ring-billed Gulls Northern Cricket Frogs Local Deer Conservation The Enigmatic (Alasmidonta to Non-breeding in NY State Impacts: Case through Citizen Ecology of the varicosa) in New Areas in Study of the Science Barrens England Massachusetts Vassar Farm and Buckmoth Ecological Preserve (Hemileuca maia)

David Strayer Chip Weseloh Jay Westerveld Dan Aitchison Jordan Alvin Breisch Causes of Roosting Habits The Role of the Westchester Youngmann The Effectiveness Recruitment and Post-fledging Delphacid Megamelus County Parks: Finger Lakes of Artificial Cover Failure in Pearly Dispersal of davisi and the Implementing a Regional Stream Objects as a Mussel Juvenile Great Collembolan Podura Regional Deer Monitoring Herpetofaunal (Unionidae) Egrets from the aquatica in Acris Management Program: Engaging Survey Technique Populations Lower Great Lakes Migration and Program Students In Field- in the Albany Pine Population Sustenance Based Learning Bush

9:45–10:30 Morning poster session and reception with beverages FRI FRIDAY APRIL 8, 2011 10:30–11:00 Concurrent Sessions - Late Morning Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 7 Freshwater Colonial Amphibian Forest Health Climate Change Conservation of Invertebrates Waterbirds of Ecology and and Deer and an Urban Oasis: the Northeast: Conservation Management: Albany's Pitch Terns Regional Pine Scrub Oak Perspective Barrens II

Mary Beth Christopher Moderator Tim Mihuc Lee Harper Troy Weldy Matt Schlesinger Kolozsvary Hawver Introduction and Introduction and Mike Rubbo Introduction and Artem Treyger Introduction and Overview Overview The Influence of Overview Changes in Tree Overview Larval Amphibians Sapling Composition on Mosquitoes in within Powerline Temporary Forest Corridors Appear to Ponds: Can be Consistent with Protecting Wetland Climatic Changes in Biodiversity Help to NY Minimize Human Disease Risk?

Tim Mihuc Stephen Kress Joshua Schwartz Edward Faison Jerry Jenkins Neil Gifford An Introduction to Restoration of Tests for Call Top-down Effects The Climate-driven Stable Isotope the Study of Regional Tern Restoration in the by Deer and Decline of Anemone Analysis of Fall Aquatic Insects Populations: A Gray Treefrog, Hyla Moose on Forest multifida, a Migration Stopover (Ephemeroptera, Model from the versicolor Regeneration in Subarctic Plant at Its by Passerines on Plecoptera, Gulf of Maine Southern New Southern Range an Inland Pitch Trichoptera) in NY England Limit Pine Scrub Oak State: Past and Barrens Present

Luke Myers Dave Moore Kimberly Vitale Gary Goff Matt Schlesinger Nancy Miorelli A Regional Review Long-term Movement Foresters' Vulnerability of At- Living on the of Ephemeroptera, Conservation Phenology of the Perceptions of risk Species to Edge: How Prairie Plecoptera, and Management of Four-toed Forest Climate Change in Warbler Fecundity Trichoptera Common Terns in Salamander Regeneration New York is Affected by Biodiversity in the Ontario: Three (Hemidactylium and Barriers to Edge Effects Case Studies scutatum) in Regeneration in and NY State Massachusetts NY State

Robert Hamilton Lee Harper Alexander Byrne Rebecca Shirer Hector Galbraith Scott Lapoint Macroinvertebrates Restoring the Abundance and Body Mapping the Adapting to Climate Ecological and of Intermittent Threatened Condition of status of forest Change in the Behavioral Surficial Waters of Common Tern by Plethodon cinereus regeneration in Northeast Adaptations in Northern Stark Improving in the Adirondack New York State Urban Fisher County, Ohio Nesting Habitat in Park: A Multivariate (Martes pennanti) Buffalo Harbor Analysis of Habitat and on Lake St. Use Lawrence, NY

Cornelia Harris Mark Labarr Meredith Atwood Jay Boulanger Christopher Hilke Kathleen The Ecology of Management of Laying the How Cornell is The Role of Logiudice Wrack: Common Terns on Foundation for Addressing Deer Vulnerability Decomposition and Lake Champlain, Freshwater Pool Damage to Assessments and Habitat Use by VT Construction: The Forest Climate-Smart Restoration Invertebrates on Effects of Bottom-up Regeneration Demonstration Sites Reduces the Risk Natural and Factors on and Other to State and of Lyme Disease: Engineered Amphibian Associated Regional Climate A Cost-Benefit Shorelines of the Development Impacts Adaptation Planning Analysis with a Hudson River Novel Benefit

12:00–1:00 Lunch on own in Concourse or pre-ordered box lunches in Base of Egg 12:00–1:00 Room 5 - Luncheon meeting of ANB Acting Executive Committee 12:00–1:30 Room 3 - “Big Night” Amphibian Brainstorming discussion FRI FRIDAY APRIL 8, 2011 12:00–12:45 Take down of morning poster presentations 12:15–1:15 PowerPoint preview and technology check for afternoon sessions - - in rooms presentations will be given in 12:45–1:30 Afternoon poster presentation set-up - in Base of Egg 1:00–1:30 Room 5 - Open discussion about ANB and ASB collaboration 1:30–3:00 Concurrent Sessions - Early Afternoon Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 7 Biology and Urban Ecology Reptile Ecology The Future of Monitoring Biodiversity Ecology of and Conservation I Deer and Conservation Dragonflies and Management Mitigating Damselflies in New York: Human (Odonates) Roundtable Impacts Discussion

Erin White James Danoff- Gary Kleppel Moderator Alvin Breisch Jeremy Hurst John Davis Paul Novak Burg Caroline Girard Introduction and Introduction and Alvin Breisch Introduction Introduction George Robinson Overview Overview Year of the Turtle: and Overview and Overview Biodiversity Development of a Distributions in NY New Conservation State Parks Paradigm

Erin White James Danoff- Julia Riley Jeremy Hurst John Davis Sarah Haggerty The New York Burg Too Hot, Too Cold, or New York State A Model of BioMap2: Conserving Dragonfly and How Native are Just Right: Deer Snowmobile the Biodiversity of Damselfly Survey the Ants of Evaluation of a Management: Traffic on a Massachusetts in a 2005–2009: Broadway? Urban Common Turtle Addressing National Changing World Distribution and Ecology of our Conservation Ecological Wildlife Refuge Status of the Terrestrial Technique, Nest- Impacts of in Odonates of NY Neighbors Caging Deer Northeastern Vermont

Jeff Corser Russell Burke James Paterson Roundtable Carrie Richard Gardner Origins, Zombie Turtles in Not Just Any Old Pile Discussion Osborne A New Paradigm for Biogeography, and our Cities of Dirt: Evaluating Beyond the Locating Native the Effects of the Use of Artificial Loon: Mercury Biocontrols for Non- Climate Change Nesting Mounds for Concentrations native Invasive Plants on a Hotspot of Turtles in Songbirds of Temperate the Odonate Diversity Northeastern in the US Northeastern US

Barbara Hager Donna Vogler Bryan Windmiller Karen Murray Gary Kleppel Bias of Reduced- Native Plants as Nest Protection and Mercury Invasive Plant Control effort Diversity Part of a Wildlife Headstarting as Tools Spatial with Livestock: From Surveys for Adult Hazard to Aid in the Patterns in Targeted Eradication Odonata of Lentic Management Plan Recovery of a Food Webs of to Ecosystem Waters for Airports Declining Blanding's Fishing Brook Restoration Turtle Population (Upper Hudson River Basin, NY)

Pamela Hunt Roland Kays Glenn Johnson Jerome Carr Christopher Martine Use of Exuviae to Camera Trap Alternatives to A Draft European Frogbit Determine Surveys Barriers and Wetland (Hydrocharis morsus- Dragonfly Species Comparing the Ecopassages in Stewardship ranae) in the Distributions along Diversity and Reducing Turtle Road Act for Adirondack / Lake New Hampshire's Abundance of Mortality Massachusetts Champlain Region: Major Rivers Wildlife in Reproductive Biology, Suburban and Ecology, and Wild Forests Eradication

3:00–3:45 Afternoon poster session and reception with beverages - in Base of Egg FRI FRIDAY APRIL 8, 2011 3:45–5:15 Concurrent Sessions - Late Afternoon Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 7 Rare Insects and Boreal Forest Reptile Ecology Forest Ecology Biological Tools and Their Birds and Impacts of Research to Conservation Conservation II Hydraulic Facilitate Fracturing in the Conservation Marcellus Shale and Management

Erik Kiviat and Hugh Jessica Arcate Moderator Jeremy Kirchman Glenn Johnson Karen Schneller- Jennifer Karberg McGuinness Schuler McDonald Introduction and Introduction and Kevin Jonathan Cale Introduction: Donald McAlpine Overview Overview Shoemaker Beech Thickets Framework for Establishing a Monitoring and Impact Northern Assessing Museum-based Restoring Bog Hardwood Forest Biodiversity Biodiversity Turtle Biodiversity Impacts of Inventory Metapopulations in Hydraulic Program in the NY Fracturing in the Protected Natural Marcellus Shale Areas of New Brunswick

Robyn Niver Jeremy Kirchman Kelly Claudia Knab- Jacqueline Frair Brent Kinal Karner Blue Historic Decline of Fitzsimmons Vispo The Impact of Oil Introducing the Butterfly Recovery Genetic Diversity in Leech Parasitism Floodplain Forests and Gas New York State at the Eastern the Adirondack on the Painted of Columbia and Development on Conservation Edge of its Range Population of Spruce Turtle and the Dutchess County, Large Mammals: Lands Database Grouse (Falcipennis Common Snapping NY: Distribution, Lessons From the canadensis) Turtle in Upstate Biodiversity, and West NY Classification

Steve Rice Joel Ralston Anne Stengle Joan Milam Richard Horwitz John Davis Does Nitrogen Forecasting the Movements and The Effect of Fuels Studies of Impacts A Hexagonal Grid Content of Blue Effects of Climate Body Temperature Reduction and of Marcellus Shale Layer for Natural Lupine Leaves Change on Genetic of the Eastern Habitat Drilling in Resource GIS in Affect the Diversity in a Boreal Black Ratsnake Restoration of Pennsylvania NY State Reproductive Forest Bird Utilizing Forest and Pitch Pine-Scrub Success of the Roadside Habitat Oak Barrens on Dependent Karner Native Bees Blue Butterfly?

Andrew Joseph Rachlin Kathy Michell Michael Gaige Nels Johnson Chad Jones McKenna and Status and Movements of Use of Abandoned Potential Habitat Evaluating the Lou Perroti Distribution of Timber Pasture-trees Impacts of Current Success of Seed Nantucket Island Lowland Boreal Rattlesnakes in (Wolf-trees) by and Future Sowing in a New American Burying Birds in the Metapopulations Birds and Marcellus Shale England Grassland Beetles: Will a Adirondack Park Divided by Major Mammals in Natural Gas Restoration Reintroduced Roadways Second-growth Drilling in Population Survive Forests of Pennsylvania Without Our Help? Vermont

Matt Schlesinger Stacy McNulty Kathy Michell Michael Woitech Panel Discussion Jennifer Karberg Status and Habitat Associations Evidence of Bark: A Field with Design and Conservation of an of Adirondack Potential Emerging Guide to Trees of Erik Kiviat Analysis of a Salt Imperiled Tiger Lowland Boreal Snake Disease the Northeast Karen Schneller- Marsh Restoration Beetle Fauna in Birds McDonald in the Medouie New York State Jacqueline Frair Creek Wetland Richard Horwitz Complex, Nels Johnson Nantucket, MA

5:15–6:00 Take down of afternoon poster presentations 5:15–7:00 Networking reception with cash bar - All Welcome - in Base of Egg 7:00–9:30 Gala Banquet and official founding of ANB - ticketed event (pre-registration required) - in Base of Egg SAT SATURDAY APRIL 9, 2011

7:00–9:00 ANB Executive Committee sit-down breakfast meeting

Workshop — Targeted Grazing: A Low Impact Approach to Invasive Plant Management and Ecosystem Restoration

Led by: Gary Kleppel, Caroline Girard, Jeffrey Mapes,of the University at Albany, SUNY,and Karin Verschoor of the Department of Environmental Conservation

Where: Normans Kill Farm 1000 Delaware Avenue, Albany (about 2.5 mi from the NY State Museum)

9:00–12:00 Targeted grazing (TG), the controlled use of livestock to accomplish specific vegetation management goals, has been used to reduce the spread of invasive plants, mitigate wildfire risks, maintain highway medians and even restore grasslands from desert. The approach is cost effective, non-toxic, and highly controllable. This workshop will provide general information about TG and will roll out a new, Intensive Rotational TG protocol that is being developed for the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation. Workshop participants will learn about selecting livestock for various management activities, as well as fencing, infrastructure and stock management protocols. The workshop will involve both classroom lectures and field demonstrations. The organizers are hoping to arrange for transportation to and from the workshop.

Bryophytes and Lichens Field Trip

Led by: Nancy Slack, Professor of Biology, Sage Colleges, NY

Where: Dyken Pond Preserve 9:00–12:00 Meet in front of the N.Y.State Museum on Madison Ave

Explore the beauty and diversity of Dyken Pond Preserve, a natural area with conifer and deciduous forest and a bog, to study the local bryophyte and lichen flora. To sign up or for more information about the field trip, contact Nancy at [email protected].

Albany Pine Bush Preserve Field Trip

Transportation will be provided and will leave the New York State Museum at 9:30 AM.

Located in the heart of the New York State Capital Region, the Albany Pine Bush Preserve supports one of the best remaining examples of an inland pitch pine scrub oak barrens and more than 45 wildlife Species of Greatest Conservation Need. Managed by the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission since 9:30–3:00 PM 1988, the Preserve is a model of contemporary urban conservation. A tour of the Preserve will highlight how the Commission and its public and private partners use prescribed fire and other techniques to restore viable barrens and recover endangered species. The field trip will include a visit to the Discovery Center, a LEEDS Gold certified state-of-the-art environmental education facility that serves as the gateway to the Preserve and a living classroom for thousands of visitors. If you've never been to the Pine Bush or have not visited in a while, this field trip is sure to be a memorable part of your conference experience.

Thank you for participating in NENHC 2011. We hope you enjoyed the conference and wish you a safe journey home.

SEE YOU AT THE NEXT NORTHEAST NATURAL HISTORY CONFERENCE!