Session Presentations
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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Session
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Presentations
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9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
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Biological Resources Working Group’s Regulatory Update followed by a story of Alaskan Restoration from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
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9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
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Remaking Robert Moses: Infrastructure Redevelopment Projects in New York
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9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
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Integrating Section 106 with the NEPA Updates
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9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
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Coastal Erosion and Sea Level Rise Driving Purpose and Need
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10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
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Collaborative Approaches to Advancing Site Cleanup and Brownfields Redevelopment in Alaska
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10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
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Integrating Brownfields Management with Waterfront Resiliency for the ESCR Project
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11:30 AM – 01:00 PM
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Cutting-Edge Technologies Transforming Environmental Practice: AI, IoT, Geospatial Technology, and Digital Twins
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11:30 AM – 01:00 PM
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AEP Sustainability Plan/Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Climate Initiatives
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11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
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Strategies and Lessons Learned for Permitting Large Infrastructure Projects
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11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
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Smart From the Start: Building a Sound Foundation For a Successful NEPA Process Under the Revised Guidelines
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12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
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Responsible Development and Cook Inlet Beluga Whales: ESA and MMPA
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12:30 PM – 01:00 PM
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Dickinson Bay Island II: A Restoration Success Story in the Texas Gulf Coast
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02:45 PM – 04:15 PM
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Recent NEPA Case Law (2025)
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Slide Deck
Handout
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02:45 PM – 03:15 PM
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ArcGIS Hub for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in Alaska
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02:45 PM – 03:15 PM
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Can Stormwater Management Co-Exist with Wetland Restoration? Yes!
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02:45 PM – 03:15 PM
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Programmatic Permitting, Enduring Effects, and the "World Without Us" Framework
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03:15 PM – 03:45 PM
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The Hidden Architecture of Environmental Collaboration
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03:15 PM – 03:45 PM
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Providing Decision Support Tools to Metropolitan Communities for Greenspace Planning
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03:15 PM – 03:45 PM
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Wetlands, Not Just For the Birds: A Wastewater Treatment Story
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03:45 PM – 04:15 PM
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Bridging the Gap: Guiding Regulators Through Unique Projects Without Conflict
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03:45 PM – 04:15 PM
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Leveraging Public Data & Open-Source Tools for Natural Systems Inventories
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03:45 PM – 04:15 PM
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What Lies Below: Using Geophysics to See What's Beneath the Surface
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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Session
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Presenations
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09:30 AM – 11:00 AM
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Landscape-Scale Prioritization of Wildlife Crossings for Highway Safety
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09:30 AM – 10:30 AM
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Tools in Your Toolbox: Section 106 Program Alternatives
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09:30 AM – 10:30 AM
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Environmental Reviews and Community Benefits: More Than an Agreement
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09:30 AM – 10:30 AM
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PELs under the Northern Lights: Linking Planning and Environmental in Alaska
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10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
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Starting Strong - The Importance of Purpose and Need
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10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
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Adapting Community Analyses in a Changing Regulatory Environment
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11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
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Federal Environmental Policy - Is This the New Normal?
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11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
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Funding for Cleaning Up ANCSA Conveyed Contaminated Lands
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11:30 AM – 01:00 PM
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The NEPA Assignment Landscape: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities Moving Forward
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11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
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Environmental Misconduct and Socioeconomic Impacts on the Duwamish
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12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
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Integrating Biodiversity Into Urban Shorelines
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12:30 PM – 01:00 PM
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Use of Programmatic Evaluations for Efficient NEPA Reviews
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Slide Deck
Handouts
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12:30 PM – 01:00 PM
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Insights on What Triggers Revision Requests in Delegated Environmental Reviews
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12:30 PM – 01:00 PM
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Finding Patients at Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Oregon
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02:45 PM – 04:15 PM
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Developing Modern AI and Permitting Technology in a Shifting Regulatory Environment
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02:45 PM – 04:15 PM
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Exploring Career Paths for Emerging Professionals in Environmental Practice
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02:45 PM – 04:15 PM
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Utilizing Categorical Exclusions to Successfully Navigate the NEPA Compliance Process
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02:45 PM – 03:15 PM
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Environmental Justice Is Not Extinct: Integrating Disproportionate Impacts within NEPA Documents
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03:15 PM – 04:15 PM
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Let's Talk About a Better Bridge: Infrastructure, Ecosystem and Community Health
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Thursday, May 14, 2026
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Presentations
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08:00 AM – 08:30 AM
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Restoring Railroads Under Pressure: Managing Concurrent Permitting and Construction in Rail Emergencies
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08:00 AM – 08:30 AM
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A Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment Revitalizing the Underserved Southside Chicago Community
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08:00 AM – 08:30 AM
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Beyond the Hype: The dark side of AI
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08:00 AM – 08:30 AM
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Planning for Resilient Flood Solutions through CWA and NEPA Integration
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08:30 AM – 09:00 AM
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Racing Mother Nature: A Collaborative Approach to Emergency Permitting
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08:30 AM – 09:00 AM
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Dock Underwater - Resilient Solution Involved Relocation on Brownfield Site
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08:30 AM – 09:00 AM
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Accelerating Environmental Permitting Through AI-driven Data Enrichment: The NEPATECv2.0 Framework
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08:30 AM – 09:00 AM
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Managing Change While Maintaining Schedule: Is it Possible?
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09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
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Unit 4 Disaster Resilience Program
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09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
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Cold Realities: Overcoming Challenges of Winter Dewatering in Anchorage, Alaska
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09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
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Beacon: Digital Pathways to Smarter Environmental Compliance
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09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
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NEPA Assignment Program: Perspective on Benefits, Risks, and Future Directions for Transportation NEPA
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10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
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AASHTO's Role in Supporting Environmental Professionals at State DOTs
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10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
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NEPA GIS: Digitizing Historic NEPA Layers Using GeoAI
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10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
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The Interior Alaska Veterans Cemetery: A Multi-Stakeholder Success Story
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10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
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Practitioner Perspectives on NEPA Implementation and Permitting Reform
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10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
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Closing the Participation Gap: Real Time, Place Based PIP Strategies
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10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
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The Art of Figuring It Out: from To-do to Ta-da
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10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
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Honoapi'ilani Highway Resilience Amid Crisis and Federal Changes
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11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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Multi Agency Success on Chateau Road Reconstruction: Medora, North Dakota
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11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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WriteNEPA: Human AI Collaboration Tool for Drafting and Auditing Environmental Reviews
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11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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Negotiating Paradise: Looking Forward After 65-year Military Leases
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Posters
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Mitigation of Earth's Climate Change through the Reverse of Solar Radiation from World Urbanization
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Large-scale review on the use of ecology and trends in NEPA environmental impact statements
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Engaging Stakeholders to Strengthen Research-Informed Collaborations for Better Decisions
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Spatial Intelligence (SI) and Participatory Geographic Systems (pGIS): A Socio-technical Bridge to Increase the Inclusion and Participation of Indigenous Communities in Critical Infrastructure and National Security Planning
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AI-driven NEPA GIS tool leveraging authoritative data to forecast project obligations and costs
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Divergence of the Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts – Lessons from the Florida Manatee Case
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Boats and Manatees, How Can We Coexist?
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Race, Redlining, and Environmental Inequality in St. Louis
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Eliminating PFAS from contaminated water sources using plant-based polymers.
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Understanding Alternative Stable States and Regime Shifts Between Macrophyte and Cyanobacteria Dominance
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Forest Cover Loss and Biodiversity Decline in Pakistan: Policy Gaps and Global Environmental Implications
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Hydrocarbon Groundwater Plume Stability and Persistence: Lessons learned from 29 sites and 5 million data points
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Tools and Techniques for Streamlined Environmental Permitting in Wildfire Mitigation
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Comparing Microplastics in Ghana and Trinidad & Tobago: Fish Contamination, Public Awareness, and Policy Responses - A PhD Research Proposal
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Lessons Learned from an Air Force Megaproject
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