**Preliminary program for Soils in Restoration Ecology Conference**

**DePaul University 18-20 December 2006**

**MONDAY, December 18^th^**

**INTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOME**

0800-0900 Registration (Student Center, DePaul University)

0900-0915 Introductions (Mac Callaham and Liam Heneghan)

0915-0930 Welcome

0930 1020 Plenary Address, Professor Richard Hobbs, Murdoch University,
Perth, Australia

1020-1040 Break

**SESSION I: Invertebrates in Ecosystem Restoration**

1040-1110 Earthworms in Soil Restoration: Case Studies from the UK

Kevin R. Butt, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

1110-1140 Earthworms, Millipedes, Isopods\... and Restoration?

Bruce A. Snyder, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

1140-1200 Soil Invertebrates as Help and Hindrance in Ecosystem
Restorations.

Mac A. Callaham, Jr. and Liam J. Heneghan, USDA Forest Service and
DePaul University

1200-1330 Lunch on your own

**SESSION II: Manipulating Soil Resources to Facilitate Restoration**

1330-1400 Manipulating Soil Resources to Improve Prairie Restoration
Success: Challenges from Plant Composition Dynamics and Changing
Belowground Processes Through Time

Sara G. Baer, Southern Illinois University

1400-1430 Effects of Soil Amendments on the Nitrogen Dynamics of
Japanese Barberry (*Berberis thunbergii*) and Japanese Stiltgrass
(*Microstegium vimineum*) in New Jersey Forests.

Kristen A. Ross, Joan G. Ehrenfeld, and Manisha V. Patel, Rutgers
University

1430-1500 Amendment Treatments Direct the Development of Soil Food Web
Structure and Function in Restoration

Lori A. Biederman and Steven G Whisenant, Texas A&M University

1500-1530 High Density Seeding as a Method to Jump-start Plant
Establishment and Restoration of Soil Nutrient Fluxes

Valerie Eviner and Maria Uriarte; UC Davis, and Columbia University

1530-1550 Break

**SESSION III: Restoration in Soils Impacted by Invasive Plants**

1550-1620 Integrating Soil Communities of Sagebrush Steppe and *Bromus
tectorum*-Invaded Ecosystems with Restoration Efforts Across the Great
Basin

Nicole M. DeCrappeo and David A. Pyke, US Geological Survey, Corvallis
OR

1620-1650 Negative Feedbacks Influence the Success of an Invasive Tree

Somereet Nijjer, Evan Siemann, and William E. Rogers; Rice University
and Texas A&M University

1650-1720 Can Native Plants Outcompete *P. arundinacea* During the
Establishment of Restored Sedge Meadow Communities by Reducing Limiting
Resources?

Basil Iannone and Susan Galatowitsch, University of Minnesota

1720-1730 General Discussion

1730 Adjourn

**TUESDAY, December 19^th^**

0830-0900 Registration and coffee

**SESSION IV: Beyond Bioremediation**

0900-0930 Growth of *Robinia pseudoacacia* and *Amorpha fruticosa*
Seedlings Following Fertilization in Soils of Abandoned Metalliferous
Mines

Kyung-Won Seo, Yowhan Son\*, Nam Jin Noh, Koong Yi, and Jeong-Gyu Kim;
Korea University, Seoul

0930-1000 The Potential for Boron Phytotoxicity in Produced Water
Contaminated Tallgrass Prairie Soils

Dan Weber, Eleanor Jennings, Kerry Sublette, Kenneth Roberts, Bryan
Tapp,

and Greg Lohrke; University of Tulsa, OK

1000-1030 An Investigation into the Prevention of Vertical Capillary
Transport of Salt from

Brine Contamination

Carla Landrum, J. Berton Fisher, Eleanor Jennings, Shoeb Munshi, Kerry
Sublette, Bryan Tapp and Dan Weber, University of Tulsa, OK

**SESSION IV: Beyond Bioremediation (continued)**

1030-1100 Lessons Learned in Remediation and Restoration in the Oklahoma
Prairie

Kerry L. Sublette, J. Bryan Tapp, J. Berton Fisher, Eleanor Jennings\*,
Kathleen Duncan, Greg Thoma, Josh Brokaw, and Tim Todd; Univ. of Tulsa,
Univ. of Oklahoma, Washington State Univ., and Kansas State Univ.

1100-1120 Break

**SESSION V: Restoration and Soil Carbon**

1120-1150 Chronosequence of Soil Carbon Fluxes and Stocks During Forest
Development After Harvest in the Great Lakes Areas

Jianwu Tang, Paul V. Bolstad; Chicago Botanic Garden and Univ. Minnesota

1150-1220 The Influence of Topography and Plant Species Composition on
Soil Carbon Recovery in Restored Grasslands

Sarah L. O'Brien, Julie D. Jastrow, and Miguel A. Gonzalez-Meler;
University of Illinois at Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

1220-1230 General discussion of morning sessions

1230-1400 Lunch on your own

**SESSION VI: Spatial Considerations -- All Soils Are Not Created
Equal**

1330-1400 Edaphic Analogy: A Tool For Landscape Restoration Planning

John P. Tandarich and William J. Sluis; Dominican University and The
Wetlands Initiative, Chicago

1400-1430 Understanding the Soil-Vegetation Relationship Through an
Ecosystem Approach

Thomas B. Simpson, McHenry County Conservation District

1430-1500 Soil Variability: An Understudied and Under-appreciated
Control over Prairie Restoration of Drained Agricultural Basins in
Southern Wisconsin

Nick J. Balster and Ana J. Wells, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1500-1530 Coffee Break

1530-1700 Poster Session and General Discussion

1700 Adjourn

**WEDNESDAY December 20^th^**

0830-0900 Coffee

**SESSION VII: Soils and Wetland Restorations**

0900-0930 Prairie Wolf Slough Wetland: A Case Study of Soils As An
Afterthought in Wetland

Restoration Design and Management

James A. Montgomery, J. Marshall Eames, Kimberly Frye; DePaul University
and Loyola Universtiy

0930-1000 Re-establishing Ecosystem Services in Restored Wetlands:
Recovering Soil

Biogeochemical Cycles Following Cultivation

Erin McGuire, M. Gonzalez-Meler, D. Hey, and S. Oleynik; University of
Illinois at Chicago

1030-1200 General Discussion and Synthesis of Workshop.

Topic: Where do we go from here?

1200 Adjourn