2025 VWMC CONFERENCE
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Virginia Public Safety Training Facility, Knox Hall – Hanover, VA
PROGRAM: Thank you to our conference presenters! Click the name of the presenter to see the presentation slides:
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- Restoring Virginia’s Native Bivalve Bounty – Tiffancy Leach, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
- James River Watch Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring: Proactively Detecting Elevated Levels of Bacteria – Michael Gillert & Tom Dunlap, James River Association
- Citizen Science Programs at Smith Mountain Lake – Mary Colligan, Smith Mountain Lake Association
- Road Salt and Water Quality Monitoring in Prince William County – Veronica Tangiri and Tom Ligon, Prince William Soil and Water Conservation District
- Can Stormwater Management Regulations Protect Channel Stability Following Development? – Tess Thompson, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
- Urban Stream Restorations Along a Chronosequence: Floodplain Carbon and Nutrient Retention Over Time – Katt Napora, George Mason University
- Meeting PFAS Compliance with Existing Infrastructure: Pilot Testing of Conversion of Anthracite Gravity Filters to Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) at a Surface Water Treatment Plant – Mark Titcomb, Newport News Waterworks
- Virginia DEQ’s Groundwater Monitoring Program – Matthew C. Richardson, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
SCHOLARSHIPS:
Ken Brooks Scholarships – The VWMC provided two scholarships to college students to cover their conference registration fees in memory of VWMC Steering Committee member Ken Brooks. The recipients of the 2025 Ken Brooks Scholarships were:
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- Kyleigh Johnson – Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Sav Brown – Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
Water Center Scholarships – The Virginia Water Resources Research Center (Water Center) provided two scholarships to college students to cover their conference registration fees. The Water Center’s scholarship recipients were:
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- Olivia Long – Biology, James Madison University
- Nick Duellman – Biology, Longwood University
EXHIBITORS: Thank you to our conference exhibitors!
Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. 
PARTNERS: Thank you to our conference partners!
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality 
Virginia Public Safety Training Center 
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay 
Virginia Water Resources Research Center 
RECENT CONFERENCES: To learn more about past VWMC conferences, click the link below for the respective year. Recordings of several past VWMC Conferences can be found on the VWMC’s YouTube Channel.