Northwest Washington GIS User Group Agenda
September 21, 2007

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
New Conference Room, 10441 BayView-Edison Road
Mt. Vernon , WA

(See Map & Directions below)

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9:00 – 9:45        Round Table

9:45 – 10:00      Break

10:00 – 11:50      PNNL’s Puget Sound Model of Circulation and Transport, a Land Use Planning Tool and it’s Proposed Application to Skagit and Padilla Bay System

                             Tarang Khangaonkar, Zhaoqing Yang, and Andrea Copping, Battelle

                             Predicting Salmonid Recolonization Patterns Following the Removal of the Elwha Dams

                             Jeremy Davies, Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center , NOAA Fisheries  

(addition:)          Developing a Watershed Based Management Plan for Birch Bay

                             Stephen Stanley, Washington State Department of Ecology  

11:50 – 12:00     Wrap-up

12:15                Optional Lunch at a nearby restaurant (TBA)…

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Map / Directions

Interstate 5 (from the North or South)

o     Take Exit 230 (Hwy 20, north of Mt. Vernon )

o     Go West on Hwy 20 about 6 miles (towards Anacortes)

o     Turn Right at the stop light onto Bay View-Edison Rd. (the Farm House Inn Restaurant is at this intersection on the Southwest corner)

o     Drive North on Bay View-Edison Rd. for about 5 miles, past Bay View State Park

o     Turn Right at the Breazeale Interpretive Center (1/4 mile past State Park)

o     If you get lost, call 360-428-1558