April 9-11, 2025
Symposium Chair
Richard Cochran, TN Section President
Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation
Division of Water Resources
Mystery photo (left) provided by TN State Parks.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Amanda Rosenberger, PhD
" Mussel Power: How Freshwater Mussels
Shape Our Water Resources and Future in Tennessee "
Amanda is a fisheries biologist whose research interests are in the ecology and conservation of freshwater biota, including fish, mussels, and crayfish, with an emphasis on the role of ecological processes in shaping aquatic organisms’ distributions, population characteristics, and community structure. Conservation problems are best addressed at multiple scales; therefore, she is interested in the spatial and temporal dynamics of these patterns at both local and landscape scales. She is particularly interested in investigating mechanistic relationships between aquatic biota and physical and biotic features of the environment and how human intervention, nonnative species, and climate change can alter those relationships.
Lunch Speaker
Andy Carroll
"Development of Tennessee’s Wetland Screening Tool "
Andy Carroll is Co-Founder and CTO at Skytec, a remote sensing and geospatial technology company specializing in the application satellite monitoring and spatial data analytics for natural resource management. Prior to Skytec, Andy managed and directed the Interdisciplinary Geospatial Technology Lab at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and served as a Project Manager at the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. Andy is a licensed Professional Geologist, a certified GIS Professional and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Lyndhurst Foundation and the Appalachian Carbon Exchange.