**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, from DePaul Administration

**PLENARY ADDRESS**

0930 1030 Professor Richard Hobbs

1030-1045 Break

**SESSION I: Invertebrates in Ecosystem Restoration**

1045-1115 Earthworms in Soil Restoration: Case Studies from the UK

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

1115-1145 Earthworms, Millipedes, Isopods\... and Restoration?

Bruce A. Snyder and Paul F. Hendrix, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

1145-1215 Soil Invertebrates as Help and Hindrance in Ecosystem
Restorations.

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

1215-1330 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 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

1500-1530 Break

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

1530-1600 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

1600-1630 Negative Feedbacks Influence the Success of an Invasive Tree

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

1630-1700 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

1700-1730 General Discussion

1730 Adjourn

**TUESDAY, December 19^th^**

0800-0830 Registration and coffee

**SESSION IV: Beyond Bioremediation**

0830-0900 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

0900-0930 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

0930-1000 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

1000-1030 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.

\*presenting

1030-1100 Break

**SESSION V: Restoration and Soil Carbon**

1100-1130 Global Climate Change, Rates of Leaf-litter Decomposition, and
Ecosystem Restoration

David Wise; University of Illinois at Chicago

1130-1200 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

1200-1230 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

1230-1330 Lunch on your own

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

1330-1400 Understanding the Soil-Vegetation Relationship Through an
Ecosystem Approach

Thomas B. Simpson, McHenry County Conservation District

1400-1430 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

1430-1500 The Nature of Urban Soils and Their Role in Ecological
Restoration in Cities

Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1500-1530 Coffee Break

1530-1730 Poster Session and General Discussion

1730 Adjourn

**WEDNESDAY December 20^th^**

0800-0830 Coffee

**SESSION VI: Concluded**

0830-0900 Edaphic Analogy: A Tool For Landscape Restoration Planning

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

**SESSION VII: Soils and Wetland Restorations -- Interface and
Integrate**

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 Using NRCS Soils Data to Identify Highly Permeable
Recharge/Discharge Areas Influencing Neighboring Wetlands

Ders Anderson, Openlands Project, Chicago, IL

1000-1030 Morning Break

**SESSION VIII: Soil Microbes in Ecosystem Restoration**

1030-1100 Nitrogen Deposition, Ectomycorrhizal Fungi, and Oak Woodlands

G.M. Mueller, P.G. Avis, P.R. Leacock, and H. BassiriRad; Field Museum
of Natural History, Chicago, IL.

1100-1130 How Have Mycorrhizal Fungi Been Used in Reclamation and
Restoration and What

Are Their Limits?

Sarah Richardson, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

1130-1200 How Can the Soil Microbial Community Help Us Understand the
Restoration Process?

R. Mike Miller, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

1200-1230 General Discussion and Synthesis of Workshop.

Where Do We Go From Here???

1230 Adjourn

1330-until: Informal no-host excursion to Field Museum or other points
of interest in Downtown Chicago\...