Minnesota Stormwater Seminar Series
Plants for Stormwater Design, Interactive Selection Tool for Stormwater Professionals and the Public
Please join us in person or online on April 18, 2024 at 10am CST for the next Minnesota Stormwater Seminar Series event - a monthly experience featuring national, state, and local experts on stormwater and green infrastructure. This seminar series is a partnership between the University of Minnesota's St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Water Resources Center, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and made possible through the?Minnesota Stormwater Research and Technology Transfer Program in collaboration with the Minnesota Stormwater Research Council.
Title:?Plants for Stormwater Design, Interactive Selection Tool for Stormwater Professionals and the Public
Speaker: John Bly, Director of Operations and Special Projects at Metro Blooms; and Dan Shaw, Senior Ecologist and Vegetation Specialist with the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR).
Abstract: Green infrastructure (rain gardens, bioinfiltration) requires choosing the correct plants for the site, soils, and situation. Join us for this seminar featuring the results of a recently completed research project - Plants for Stormwater Design, Interactive Selection Tool for Stormwater Professionals and the Public. The project has filled a key need to develop an online resource allowing stormwater professionals to easily choose appropriate and successful native plant species for vegetated stormwater practices in different site conditions and state regions. The project has updated the Minnesota native plant search tool Blue Thumb Plant Finder to include all generally commercially available species of native plants in the state, adds information contained in the Plants for Stormwater Design reference, and pull in other available and relevant data (drought tolerance, erosion susceptibility, etc.) where possible. The tool will be linked to vegetated stormwater practice information currently being updated in the Minnesota Stormwater Manual, a comprehensive and still-growing collection of background and design information about stormwater Best Management Practices for stormwater practitioners across the state. It is also linked to a similar BWSR search tool for state seed mixes. The plant finder?s database has been structured so that it can be searched with a variety of filters and tags, so that practitioners can ?describe? a site that needs planting, including adverse site conditions and special parameters, and be given a detailed list of plant species that are most likely to succeed on the site. This project has been supported by the Minnesota Stormwater Research Council.
Date and Time:?Thursday, April 18, 2024, 10a - 12p US Central
In-person: St. Anthony Falls Laboratory Auditorium (2 Third Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN)
Online: https://z.umn.edu/mn-stormwater-seminar-series (active 10 minutes prior)
Registration: Click here to Register
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