Nitrogen Pollution & Solutions Symposium

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.: Breakfast

9:00 - 9:10 a.m.: Welcome remarks from Dean Barros

9:10 - 10:50 a.m.: International Legal Regimes (moderated by Royal Gardner)

• Dr. David Kanter (virtual)
• Student presentations on International Treaty regimes addressing nitrogen pollution
• Cheyanne Sharp: Montreal Protocol
• Maria Assimakopoulos and Katrina Marrero: Paris Agreement
• Leann Browning: UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Sommer Brokaw and Blake Kahn: Ramsar Convention
• Lola Coutelle and Audrey Timmins: Convention on Biological Diversity

11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.: U.S. Federal and State Legal Regimes panel discussion (moderated by Royal Gardner)

• Jon Mueller (Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law)
• David Cwiertny (University of Iowa)
• Andrew Gershon (Assistant Attorney General, Senior Counsel, Enforcement, Office of the New York State Attorney General, Social Justice|Environmental Protection Bureau)
• Angela Xu (Illinois Environmental Council)

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch and Biodiversity Lecture - Science Driven Policy: Protecting Orange County’s Wetlands

• Tim Hull (PWS, Orange County Environmental Protection Division)

1:45 - 3:15 p.m.: The Science of Nitrogen Pollution and Solutions (moderated by Katherine Pratt)

• Dr. Miles Medina (ECCO Scientific)
• Sebastian DiGeronimo (College of Marine Science, University of South Florida)
• David Kochan (Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute)
• Dr. Jason Evans (Stetson University): Stormwater and nitrogen: Are there pathways to meaningful load reductions in the existing built environment?

3:30 - 5:15 p.m.: The Policy of Nitrogen Pollution and Solutions (moderated by Jaclyn Lopez)

• Jen Lomberk (Matanzas Waterkeeper)
• Jason Totiou (Center for Biological Diversity)
• Maya Burke (Tampa Bay Estuary Program)
• Ryan Smart (Florida Springs Council)

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.: Film Screening, Dinner, and Discussion: A Splash of Color: Getting Black in the Water