1:30 PM McDonald, Michael^*,1, Levinson, Barbara², ¹ Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program, RTP, NC, USA² STAR Grants Program, Washington, DC, USA Why do we need environmental indicators.

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1:55 PM Howe, Robert^*,1, Karr, James², Wolf, Amy¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI² University of Washington, Seattle, WA Historical and recent approaches to the assessment of ecological condition.

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2:20 PM Paerl, Hans^*,1, Pinckney, James⁶, Harding, Lawrence², Hopkinson, Charles³, Houde, Edward⁴, Kimmel, David ², Morris, James⁵, Valdes, Lexia¹, ¹ Univ. of North Carolina, Institute of Marine Sciences, Morehead City, NC⁶ Texas A&M University, College Station, TX² Univ. of Maryland, Horn Point Environmental Laboratory, Cambridge, MD³ Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods hole, MA⁴ Univ. of Maryland, Chesapeake Bay Laboratory, Solomons, MD⁵ Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Developing indicators to assess human vs. climatic impacts on Atlantic coastal water quality and ecological condition.

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2:45 PM Johnston, Carol¹, Bedford, Barbara², Bourdaghs, Michael³, Brown, Terry³, Frieswyk, Christin⁴, Vaccaro, Lynn², Zedler, Joy⁴, ¹ South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD² Cornell University, Ithaca, NY³ Natural Resources Research Institute, Duluth, MN⁴ University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Plants as environmental indicators in Great Lakes coastal wetlands.

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3:10 PM Break.

3:20 PM Hanowski, JoAnn^*,1, Howe, Robert², Smith, Charles³, Marks, David², Price, Steve², ¹ University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN² University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI³ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY What can birds and amphibians indicate about the ecological condition of coastal ecosystems?

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3:45 PM Wardrop, Denice^*,1, Brooks, Robert¹, Myers, Wayne¹, Patil, G.¹, Taillie, Charles¹, ¹ Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA Modeling ecological condition in upstream watersheds and downstream estuaries in the Atlantic Slope region.

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4:10 PM Niemi, Gerald¹, Danz, Nicholas^*,1, Regal, Ronald^{1, 2}, Hollenhorst, Tom¹, Brady, Valerie¹, Johnson, Lucinda ¹, Brown, Terry¹, Host, George¹, ¹ University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN² Sampling design for linking stress with response in the Great Lakes coastal ecosystem.

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4:35 PM Shortle, James ^*,1, O'Connor, Robert¹, Fisher, Ann¹, Finley, James¹, ¹ Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA Socioeconomic dimensions of environmental indicators and their applications to coastal resource management.

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