Nature Based Solutions Success Stories Conference

Join the North Santa Monica Bay Watershed Community, learn how our community is addressing water supply needsand improving water quality and help co-create opportunities for us to do better.

North Santa Monica Bay Watershed Community

How do we get to safe, clean water? Are creek restoration projects improving water quality? 
Explore nature based solutions based in nature.

Explore how the North Santa Monica Bay Watershed Community, including Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, pieces of Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County, Malibu, Topanga and Westlake Village are working towards co-creating safe, clean water.

Nature Based Solutions Success Stories: Exploring Water Quality Impacts of Creek RestorationProject Sponsors: California Watershed Network, Council for Watershed Health9:00 	Introduction by Melina Watts, Watershed Coordinator9:05	KEYNOTE Speaker: Dr. Erica GiesThe Role of the Hyporheic Zone, or the "Liver of the River," in Water Qualityby Dr. Erica Gies, Author of Water Always Wins9:45	Creating and Growing the Santa Barbara Creeks Division: How Did It Happen?Cameron Benson, Founder, Santa Barbara Creeks Division10:05	Change the Conversation, Change the Approach to Water Quality: The Santa Barbara Creeks Division Success StoryBy Dr. Jill Murray, Water Quality Research Coordinator, Santa Barbara Creeks Division10:25	The Lost Creeks of L.A. – a Hydrological History by Jessica Hall, Wildling Design11:00	Biodiversity and Water Quality: Putting the Nature in Nature Based Solutions	By Dr. John Randall, The Nature Conservancy (tentative)11: 20	Urban Stream Restoration: Where Can Nature Go in the City?	Dr. Ann Riley, Co-Director The California Urban Streams Partnership (tentative)11:40	Riparian Habitat Restoration: Arundo Donax Removal	By Jason Casanova, Council for Watershed HealthNoon	The Soul of Waterby Nadine Salas, Latinx / First Nations Poet12:15	First Annual North Santa Monica Bay Watershed PrizeSelected by the North Santa Monica Bay Watershed Area Steering CommitteePrize Awarded by Chair Dave Pedersen, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District12:20	Lunch at home or….12:30	Lunch at the Adobe Cantina	29100 Agoura Rd, Agoura Hills, CA 91301

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