Possible education hours - 6.5
(4 hours for morning and lunch presentations, 2.5 for afternoon concurrent sessions)
Agenda
Oral Presentation abstracts- 7:00 a.m.
- Poster Setup
- 8:00 a.m.
- Registration opens
- 8:30 a.m.
- Welcome
Daniel Devlin, Director of KWRI and KCARE - 8:40 a.m.
- Vision for the Future of Kansas Water Resources
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (videotaped) - 8:50 a.m.
- Current and Projected Conditions of the Ogallala/High Plains Aquifer
Brownie Wilson, Kansas Geological Survey - 9:20 a.m.
- Break and Poster Viewing
- 9:50 a.m.
- Wichita Water 2050: A Plan for Sustainable Water Resources
Debra Ary, City of Wichita - 10:25 a.m.
- Trends for Water Use in the U.S.
Eric Evenson, USGS WaterSmart Program Leader - 11:00 a.m.
- Dealing with Drought and Water Resources in Texas
Weir Labatt, Texas Water Development Board - 11:40 a.m.
- Poster Viewing
- Noon
- Lunch
My Experience with International Comparative Water Law
Speaker: John Peck, University of Kansas Law School
Announcement of Student Poster Award - 1:15 p.m.
- CONCURRENT SESSIONS
- Ogallala Sustainability
Moderator: Jim Butler, Kansas Geological Survey - 1:10 p.m.
- Evolution of groundwater management practices in the
Kansas High Plains aquifer towards sustainability
Mario Sophocleous, Kansas Geological Survey - 1:30 p.m.
- Interpretation of hydrographs from the index well sites in the High Plains Aquifer in western Kansas
Jim Butler, Kansas Geological Survey - 1:50 p.m.
- Fuzzy aquifer subunits – A concept for water right reallocations in Southwest Kansas GMD#3
Brownie Wilson, Kansas Geological Survey - 2:10 p.m.
- Recent research on the Ogallala Aquifer
David Steward, Kansas State University - The Future of Public Water Utilties
- Moderator: Don Snethen
- 1:10 p.m.
- Managing Water in 2050: Implications of Macrotrends
Edward Means, ARCADIS/Malcom Pirnie - 2:10 p.m.
- Salina Water Supply Master Plan
Martha Tasker, City of Salina - Sedimentation of Kansas Reservoirs I
- Moderator: Edward Martinko, Kansas Biological Survey
- 1:10 p.m.
- Kansas base line sediment overview
Chris Gnau, Water Office - 1:30 p.m.
- Use of continuous turbidity and modeling to quantify the effect of altered reservoir release strategies on sedimentation in John Redmond Reservoir from 2007-2010
Casey Lee, U.S. Geological Survey - 1:50 p.m.
- Bathymetric Mapping and Sediment Studies in Kansas Reservoirs: 2010–2011
Edward Martinko, Kansas Biological Survey - 2:10 p.m.
- Development of automated extraction of reservoir pre-impoundment surfaces from acoustic echosounder data
Jude Kastens, Kansas Biological Survey - Quality of Surface and Groundwater
- Moderator: Marcia Schulmeister, Emporia State University
- 1:10 p.m.
- Uranium in the Upper Arkansas River and impact on the Ogallala High Plains Aquifer
Don Whittemore, Kansas Geological Survey - 1:30 p.m.
- Nutrient losses in surface runoff from claypan soil receiving turkey litter and fertilizer
Dan Sweeney, Kansas State University - 1:50 p.m.
- Determining reference conditions of wetlands in the Central Plains
Donald Huggins, Kansas Biological Survey - 2:10 p.m.
- Water Quality Results From BMP Implementation In The Little Arkansas River Watershed
Ron Graber, Kansas State University - Reservoir and Watershed Economics
- Moderator: Lane Letourneau, Kansas Department of Agriculture
- 1:10 p.m.
- Economic benefits of recreation at three Kansas reservoirs and impacts to the quality of recreation due to navigation releases
Natalie Postel, CDM - 1:30 p.m.
- Tillage date for Kansas: results from 2010 survey
DeAnn Presley, Kansas State University - 1:50 p.m.
- Economic analysis of crop rotation net returns and water quality in the Cheney Lake watershed
Michael Langemeier, Kansas State University - 2:10 p.m.
- Economics of Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Strategies for Tuttle Creek Lake
Craig Smith, Fort Hays State University - Assessment Tools and Benchmarks
- 1:10 p.m.
- Kansas Weather Data Network
Mary Knapp, Kansas State University - 1:30 p.m.
- Conservation status of reference streams in Kansas
Robert Angelo, Kansas Department of Health and Environment - 1:50 p.m.
- RESonate: A new ArcGIS® toolbar designed to facilitate rapid and low-cost hydrogeomorphic assessments at the river-valley and river reach scales
Bradley Williams, Kansas Biological Survey - 2:10 p.m.
- Application of Rosgen's BANCS model for northeast Kansas and the development of predictive streambank erosion curves
Chris Sass, Kansas State University - Stream Bank Erosion and Restoration
- 1:10 p.m.
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects for bank erosion and sediment management in the Kansas River Basin
John Shelley, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - 1:30 p.m.
- The influence of stream active channel width or riparian forest species composition within the Delaware River watershed
William Beck, Kansas Forest Service - 1:50 p.m.
- Red cedar revetments for bank stabilization
Charles Barden, Kansas State University - 2:10 p.m.
- Stream channel succession and sediment yield, Black Vermillion River, Kansas
Tim Keane, Kansas State University - 2:30 p.m.
- Break
- 2:45 p.m.
- CONCURRENT SESSIONS
- Irrigation Management Research
- Moderator: Joe Harner, Kansas State University
- 2:45 p.m.
- Crop response to limited irrigation
Norman Klocke, Kansas State University - 3:05p.m.
- Preseason irrigation with diminished irrigation capacities
Alan Schlegel, Kansas State University - 3:25p.m.
- Crop selection and irrigation scheduling decision tools for limited water resources
Norman Klocke, Kansas State University - 3:45 p.m.
- Irrigation management in Kyrgyz Republic
Nazgul Sharshenova, Kansas Water Office - Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources
- Moderator: Susan Stover, Kansas Water Office
- 2:45 p.m.
- Changing climate means more or less water for the future of Kansas?
Charles Rice, Kansas State University - 3:05 p.m.
- Agricultural and Rural Community Perspectives on Climate Change
Ben Champion, Kansas State University - 3:25 p.m.
- Simulating the effects of a changing climate on water resources
Andrea Brookfield, Kansas Geological Survey - 3:45 p.m.
- Farmer's land use decisions adaption to climate change
Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas - Sedimentation of Kansas Reservoirs II
- Moderator: Susan Metzger, Kansas Water Office
- 2:45 p.m.
- Role of streambank restoration in reservoir sustainability
Susan Metzger, Kansas Water Office - 3:05 p.m.
- Bathymetric and sediment surveys of Augusta City Lake and August – Santa Fe Lake
Mark Jakubauskas, Kansas Biological Survey - 3:25p.m.
- Continuous monitoring for suspended-sediment transport to and from small impoundments in northeast Kansas, March 2009–May 2011
Guy Foster, U.S. Geological Survey - 3:45 p.m.
- Modification of the V* method of estimating sediment in low gradient streams
Robert Everhart, Kansas Biological Survey - Water Quality Biological Properties
- Moderator: Andrew Ziegler, U.S. Geological Survey
- 2:45 p.m.
- Cyanobacterial blooms: tastes, odors, and toxins
Jennifer Graham, U. S. Geological Survey - 3:05 p.m.
- Ecological responses to hydrogeomorphic fluctuations in the Kansas River: consequences of river alteration
Brian O'Neill, Kansas Biological Survey - 3:25p.m.
- Examining the Kansas River phytoplankton community
Sara Schmidt, Kansas Biological Survey - 3:45p.m.
- Preliminary Assessment of Cyanotoxin Occurrence in the United States
Keith Loftin, U. S. Geological Survey - WRAPS and Other Resources for Watershed Management
- Moderator: Jaime Gaggero, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
- 2:45 p.m.
- Kansas WRAPS now and in the future
Jaime Gaggero, Kansas Department of Health and Environment - 3:05 p.m.
- Roll out the rain barrels
Stacie Minson, Kansas State University - 3:25p.m.
- Watershed restoration and protection in the Upper Wakarusa Watershed: a vision for 2050
Tom Huntzinger, Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams - 3:45 p.m.
- Wichita WRAPS
Becky Lewis, City of Wichita, and Brian Meier, Burns & McDonnell - Kansas Water Resources Institute
- Moderator: Dan Devlin, KWRI
- 2:45 p.m.
- Understanding grant opportunities through the Water Resources Institute of Kansas
Dan Devlin, KWRI - 3:05 p.m.
- Kansas Weather Data Network
Mary Knapp, Kansas State University - 4:00 p.m.
- Conference Ends