The Minnesota Stormwater Seminar Series provides an opportunity to learn about the most recent research, discoveries, and case studies around urban stormwater management specifically for an audience of stormwater practitioners, professionals, and researchers. Seminars include a presentation, panel discussion, and Q&A with participants.
2026/2027 Seminars
- September 10, 2026: Elizabeth Fassman-Beck, Data-Driven, Unbiased Metrics to Evaluate BMP Water Quality and Hydrologic Mitigation Performance
- October 12, 2026 - SPECIAL SEMINAR: Liv Haselbach, A Broader Look at Low Impact Development
- October 22, 2026: Jon Hathaway - Real-Time Control For Enhanced Urban Stream Health: Promising or Over-Promising?
- November 12, 2026: John Chapman, Pond forebays and John Gulliver, Pond remediation
- December 17, 2026: Randy Neprash, The Value and Importance of MS4 Permittee Coalitions
- January 21, 2027: MN Research Spotlight: Andy Erickson - biofiltration and CECs
- February 18, 2027: Bridget Ulrich - biochar & CECs
Seminars
Real-Time Control For Enhanced Urban Stream Health: Promising or Over-Promising?
This presentation will investigate real time control (RTC) at the site and system scales, providing a real-world case study of multiple controlled stormwater assets in one watershed, and observation of in-stream dynamics during control.
A Broader Look at Low Impact Development
Low Impact Development (LID) is a way of mimicking natural hydrologic processes when developing or modifying the land. This presentation will give an overview of some of the concepts of LID and briefly list some traditional urban practices. Then it will bring a deeper dive into actual pervious concrete pavement system applications from several different locations in the USA. However, LID can be applied in many other settings than urban. Concepts for applying LID to linear projects and some unique rural applications focusing on recent flooding in the Hill Country of Texas will be explored.
Data-Driven, Unbiased Metrics to Evaluate BMP Water Quality and Hydrologic Mitigation Performance
Applying the BMP Performance Index to field monitoring data from the Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition’s Regional BMP Monitoring Network, this seminar will show how the Performance Index is informing regional management decisions in relation to TMDL compliance.