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2 pm GMT = 7 AM Pacific (-7), 10 AM East Coast (-4), 4 PM South Africa (+2), 7:30 PM in India (+5.5), and 12 AM in Sydney (+10)

Day 2 (Sept 23rd) Welcome and Orientation
2:00 to 2:10 pm

Plenary: Keynote #3 Nandini Velho -- Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India
2:10 to 2:50 pm

Break
2:50 to 3:00 pm

Multi-Media Session 1
3:00 to 4:30 pm

Anteaters & Highways II: Human, Political, and Institutional dimensions to reduce wildlife vehicle collisions
Arnaud Léonard Jean Desbiez, Institute for the Conservation of Wild Animals/ICAS
Are olfactory repellents reasonable alternatives to fencing along secondary roads in prevention of ungulate-vehicle collisions?
Michal Bíl & CDV - Transport Research Centre
Bringing science and technology together: Real-time road signs based on temporal AVC models
Victor J. Colino-Rabanal, University of Salamanca, Spain
Caltrans Wildlife Connectivity Assessment Tool - WildCAT - to Support Planners and Biologists in Identifying Potential Wildlife Crossing and Habitat Areas of Interest
Christopher Pincetich, Caltrans
Can resilience planning to be used to improve habitat connectivity on the landscape scale?
Anne Burroughs, NCDOT
Climate and Fiscal Impacts from Reduced Fuel Use during COVID-19 Mitigation
Fraser Shilling, Road Ecology Center, UC Davis
Climate Change, Transportation, and You 2021
Patricia Cramer, Wildlife Connectivity Institute
Comparison of Methods for Identifying Bobcats to Individual at Road Mitigation Structures
Victoria Hanley, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Emerging Best Practices to reduce road mortality and increase habitat connectivity for turtles in the northeastern US
Tom Langen, Clarkson University
Experimental Crossing Structures to benefit the Yosemite Toad – A Case Study on California State Route 108
Dannique Aalbu, Caltrans District 9
Finding the way: Costa Rican Road Ecology 10 years time line
Daniela Araya-Gamboa
Fire and Storm damages to roadways, best practices for emergency projects while protecting ecological resources (big horn sheep, santa ana sucker, mt yellow legged frog)
Newton Wong, Caltrans, Los Angeles CA
Herpetofauna roadkills in Transcarpathia (Ukraine): scale, consequences and protection
Ostap Reshetylo, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Innovative Infrastructure Technologies for Electric Vehicles
Michael R. Wright
Introducing ‘www.TransportEcology.info’: An online, open access resource to globally share information, knowledge and experience in ecologically-friendly linear infrastructure
Rodney van der Ree, WSP Australia Pty Ltd
Light Source Output Analysis Methods
Robert Stanley, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Monitoring Wildlife Road Mortalities during Construction of Wildlife Crossings Structures in Cameron County, Texas: Preliminary Results
Zachary M. Wardle, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Rapid Detection and Identification of Roadside Wildlife using CCTV with Artificial-Intelligence
Vedant Srinivas
Re-routing a major Indonesian mining road to spare nature and reduce development costs: an application of strategic land-use planning methods
Jayden Engert, Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science - James Cook University
Research Progress of Standards for Wildlife Crossing Structures in China's Linear Transportation Infrastructure Construction
Yun Wang, China Academy of Transportation Sciences
Same but different: contradictive use by different deer species at faunapassages at grade
Marcus Elfström, EnviroPlanning AB
Saving the night: How to reduce light emissions from streetlights
Annette Krop-Benesch
Smart and automated web-services to analyze wildlife image data
David Waetjen, Road Ecology Center, UC Davis
Streamlining Programmatic Consultation with Technology
Melissa Rottenberg, Arcadis
Temporal Partitioning as a Means for Wildlife to Persist Around a Road in South Texas
Thomas J Yamashita, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University – Kingsville
The Evidenced-based Case for Restricting Human Use of Wildlife Crossing Structures
Glen Kalisz - Washington State Department of Transportation
The Wonderful World of Wildlife Crossings
Marta Brocki, ARC Solutions
WILDCROSSDATA: a dataset on the use of crossing structures in Latin America
Bibiana Terra Dasoler (1, 2, 3)
Wildlife Connectivity, Movement, and Migration Around 101 Freeway (US-101) at Liberty Canyon Road
Francis Appiah, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)

Break
4:30 to 4:40 pm

Technical Session 8: Measuring Movement for Mitigation
4:40 to 6:10 pm

A Watershed Approach to Large-Scale Highway Project​ Mitigation: the SR 167 Completion Project and the Hylebos Riparian Restoration Program
George Ritchotte, Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Solar-Powered Science – Innovative Technology Leading to Multi-agency Benefits from a Newfound Understanding of the Natural History of Eastern Indigo Snakes
Hannah Held, Georgia Department of Transportation
Improving amphibian roadway mitigation structures to decrease mortality and increase connectivity: a comparison of two amphibian barrier-ecopassage structures
Kristine Harman, Ohio University
Effectiveness of Turnarounds in Changing the Trajectory of Reptiles, Amphibians, and Small Mammals
Cheryl Brehme, US Geological Survey

Technical Session 9: Dispatches from the Global Village II
4:40 to 6:10 pm

Cumulative impacts of roads, railways and other human development on semi-domestic reindeer and indigenous transhumance systems
Tomas Kuhmunen, Gabna Sami Village & Jan Olof Helldin, SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre
A comprehensive ESIA and fauna connectivity investigation for the Nairobi to Mau Summit highway project in Kenya
Rodney van der Ree, WSP Australia Pty Ltd
Defining a Critical Linkage Area for Connecting the Fragmented Orangutan Habitats by Linear Infrastructure
*Barano Siswa Sulistyawan & WWF Indonesia / Copernicus Institute of Utrecht University
Timely geospatial assessments to inform environmentally sensitive road infrastructure planning
Grant Connette - Smithsonian Institution

Technical Session 10: Engineering Ecological Connectivity Through Design and Evaluation of Wildlife Crossings
4:40 to 6:10 pm

Decision-support for evaluating and improving wildlife crossing of transportation corridors
Brock Ortega, Dudek
Wildlife-Responsive Crossing Design
Sean McDowell, Road Ecology Center, UC Davis
Cost Effective Long-term Wildlife Infrastructure
Andrew Runk, Contech Engineered Solutions
Effectiveness of wildlife crossing structures in the West – measuring success beyond the animals
Norris L. Dodd, AZTEC Engineering
Ecological connectivity and multi-taxa wildlife movement across I-90
Kristina Ernest, Central Washington University

Technical Session 11: On the Verge of Better Roadside Management
4:40 to 6:10 pm

How can road verges contribute to biodiversity conservation?
Svenja B. Kroeger, The Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)
An Analysis of Priority Vegetation Treatment Areas to Reduce Wildfire Risk in California’s State Highway System
Jason P. Whitney, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis
Arkansas Department of Transportation - Voluntary Prelisting Species Conservation Program
Kayti Ewing, Arkansas Department of Transportation
Planning for Monarch Butterfly Conservation on Roadsides: Development of a Statewide Milkweed Species Distribution Model for Arizona
Kris Gade - Arizona Department of Transportation

Sponsor Meet-up
6:10 to 7:00 pm

Technical Session 12: Keeping Aquatics Connected
7:00 to 8:30 pm

Assessing Barrier Effects of Road-Stream Crossings on Fish and other Aquatic Organisms in the Northeastern United States
Scott Jackson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Emory - GDOT Bottomless Culvert Viability Study
Ari Kaufman, Emory University
Twenty five Years Correcting Fish Barriers- Progress and Lessons learned
Paul J Wagner, Washington State Department of Transportation
Review of ICOET Proceedings (2009-2019) for Aquatic Organism Passage and Wildlife Connectivity Presentations to Support FHWA Gap Analysis
Daniel Buford, Federal Highway Administration

Technical Session 13: All About Herpetofauna
7:00 to 8:30 pm

15K dead newts later: what have we learned from four years of monitoring pacific newts migration in the Santa Cruz mountains, California
Merav Vonshak
Desert Tortoise Transportation Ecology Workshop
Florence M. Deffner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Monitoring techniques, key finding, and lessons learned from monitoring road mitigation for rare turtles and large animals in Ontario, Canada
Kari E. Gunson, Eco-Kare International
Improving Wildlife Fencing for Herpetofauna and Small Mammals to Ensure Effective Implementation: An Analysis of Global Mitigation Case Studies
Steve Bega - Animex International

Technical Session 14: Spatially Speaking: Modeling Wildlife Movement
7:00 to 8:30 pm

How valuable is a transportation structure for wildlife connectivity? Using a new circuit theory approach to model wildlife movement and inform transportation management in Vermont, USA
Caitlin E. Drasher, University of Vermont
Ungulate migration mapping focuses conservation planning
Lucas Olson, Mule Deer Foundation and Arizona Game and Fish Department
Exploratory Spatial Analysis for Safe Wildlife Passage in Southwestern Montana
Christopher Harris - Pennsylvania State University
Habitat linkages do not predict occurrence for common California wildlife species
Autumn Iverson, University of California, Davis

Panel 2: Applying Programmatic Mitigation Planning to Transportation Projects in Orange County, California
7:00 to 8:30 pm

Panel Presentations -- Applying Programmatic Mitigation Planning to Transportation Projects in Orange County, CA
Panel Group

End of Sessions (Day 2)
8:30 to

Social Hour and Awards
8:40 to 10:00 pm

Header image courtesy of Martin Gradjean -- Air Traffic Network

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