Agenda

7:30-8 a.m.

Poster/Display Setup

8-8:30 a.m.

Registration, Continental Breakfast
View Poster Displays

8:30-10 a.m.

Plenary Session

8:30-8:40 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Bill Hargrove, Director
Kansas Water Resources Institute

8:40-9 a.m.

Impacts of a New Administration: Challenges and Opportunities for Water Quantity and Quality
Ryan Flickner, Sen. Pat Roberts’ Office, Washington, D.C.

9-9:20 a.m.

Impacts of Climate Change
Johannes Feddema, Department of Geography, University of Kansas

9:20-9:40 a.m.

The Water-Energy Nexus: Report to the National Academy of Sciences
Michael Hightower, Sandia Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico

9:40-10 a.m.

The Water Footprint of Energy from Biomass
P.W. Gerbens-Leenes, University of Twente, The Netherlands

10-10:20 a.m.

Break

10:20-11:50 a.m.

PANELS/TOWN HALL MEETINGS 1,2,3,4
Panel presentations followed by discussion

Panel/Town Hall Meeting 1.
Impacts of Biofuels Production on Water
Moderator: James Butler, Jr., Kansas Geological Survey
Panel: Bill Simpkins, Iowa State University; Dennis Keeney, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Ames, Iowa; P.W. Gerbens-Leenes, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Panel/Town Hall Meeting 2.
Impacts of Conservation Practices on Soil and Water
Moderator: Gary Perzynski, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University
Panel: Dan Devlin, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University; Lyle Frees, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service; Harold Klaege, Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams

Panel/Town Hall Meeting 3.
Impacts of Climate Change
Moderator: Tom Stiles, Kansas Department of Health and Environment–Bureau of Water
Panel: Eric A. Bernard, Department of Landscape Architecture Regional and Community Planning, Kansas State University; Johannes Feddema, Department of Geography, University of Kansas; Ray Hammarlund, Kansas Corporation Commission

Panel/Town Hall Meeting 4.
Impacts of Aging Infrastructure
Moderator: Earl Lewis, Kansas Water Office
Panel: Larry Caldwell, USDA–Natural Resources Conservation Service, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Matt Scherer, Kansas Department of Agriculture–Division of Water Resources; Rod Geisler, Kansas Department of Health and Environment–Bureau of Water

11:50-12:50 p.m.

Lunch

12:50-2 p.m.

Poster Papers

2-3:20 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 5,6,7,8

Concurrent Session 5.
Impacts of Nutrient Loading in Streams
Moderator: Earl Lewis, Kansas Water Office

2–2:20 p.m.: Gulf Coast Hypoxia
Kyle Douglas-Mankin, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University
2:20–2:40 p.m.: Estimating Land Use Impacts on Nutrient Loading
Beau Burkitt and John Harrington, Department of Geography, Kansas State University
2:40–3 p.m.: Potential Effects of Anthropogenic Inputs Associated with Shoreline Development on Water Quality in Grand Lake, Oklahoma
Kevin Burgess and Joseph R. Bidwell, Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University
3–3:20 p.m.: Sources of Phosphorus Loading in Kansas Streams
Nathan Nelson, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University

Concurrent Session 6.
Sediment Loading in Streams
Moderator: Ed Martinko, Kansas Biological Survey

2–2:20 p.m.: Estimation of Sediment Sources in Agricultural and Urban Environments Using Chemical Tracers
Kyle Juracek, Casey Lee and Andy Ziegler, U.S. Geological Survey
2:20–2:40 p.m.: Riparian Area Condition and Sediment Loading in the Delaware River Basin
Jeff Neel, Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams
2:40–3 p.m.: Land Use and Management and its Impacts on Sediment Loading
Dan Devlin and Will Boyer, Kansas State University
3–3:20 p.m.: Biological Impacts of Sediment and Sedimentation in Aquatic Systems
Don Huggins, Kansas Biological Survey

Concurrent Session 7.
Twenty Years of Progress in Subsurface Drip Irrigation
Moderator: Gary Pierzynski, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University

2–2:20 p.m.: Basic Considerations for Adoption of SDI for Crop Production in Kansas
Dan Rogers, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University
2:20–2:40 p.m.: Progress with SDI for Crop Production in Kansas–A Twenty-Year Summary
Freddie Lamm, Northwest Research and Extension Center, Kansas State University, Colby, Kansas

3:20-3:40

Break

3:40-5 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 9,10,11,12

Concurrent Session 9.
WRAPS Case Studies
Moderator: Jaime Gaggero, Kansas Department of Health and Environment–Bureau of Water

3:40–4 p.m.: Little Arkansas River Watershed
Ron Graber and Dan Devlin, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University
4–4:20 p.m.: Delaware River Watershed
Marlene Bosworth, Coordinator, Delaware River WRAPS
4:20–4:40 p.m.: Marion Lake Watershed
Peggy Blackman, Flint Hills RC&D
4:40–5 p.m.: Upper Wakarusa Watershed
Tom Huntzinger, Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams

Concurrent Session 10.
Challenges for Water Resources Management
Moderator: Don Snethen

3:40–4 p.m.: Danger of Arsenic Waste Disposal from Water Well Filtration Units and Sustainable Solutions to the Arsenic Affected Nations
Meer Husain, Kansas Department of Health and Environment–Wichita District Office; Leslie Berryhill, Wichita Area Technical College; Ernie Morrison, Cowley County Community College; Miah M. Adel, University of Arkansas; Mahbub Alam, Kansas State University Southwest Research-Extension Center; Syed Musleh Uddin, Bangladesh Water Development Board, Dhaka Bangladesh, and M. Jasim Uddin, Dhaka, Bangladesh
4–4:20 p.m.: Sources and Transport of Suspended-Sediment in Urbanizing Watersheds, Johnson County, Kansas, 2006–2007
Casey J. Lee, U. S. Geological Survey; Lee J. Kellenberger, Johnson County Kansas Stormwater Management Program; Pat P. Rasmussen and Andrew C. Ziegler, U. S. Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas
4:20–4:40 p.m.: Residue Removal for Expanded Uses Increase Sediment and Nutrient Loss in Runoff
Humberto Blanco, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University
4:40–5 p.m.: Ground-water Model of the Smoky Hill River Valley below Kanopolis Reservoir
Brownie Wilson, Gaisheng Liu, Donald O. Whittemore, and James J. Butler, Jr., Kansas Geological Survey

Concurrent Session 11.
Kansas Groundwater Management Districts: Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Paul Graves, Kansas Department of Agriculture–Division of Water Resources

3:40–5 p.m.: Panel:
Dave Brenn, Groundwater Management Dist. No. 1
Tim Boese, Groundwater Management Dist. No. 2
Mark Rude, Groundwater Management Dist. No. 3
Wayne Bossert, Groundwater Management Dist. No. 4
Sharon Falk, Groundwater Management Dist. No. 5

Concurrent Session 12.
Kansas Water Resources Institute-Funded Research
Moderator: Walter Aucott, U. S. Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas

3:40–4 p.m.: A Real-time Permittivity Sensor for Simultaneous Measurement of Multiple Water-Quality Parameters
Naiqian Zhang, Ning Tang, Sarah Shultz, and Philip Barnes, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University
4–4:20 p.m.: Impact of Treated Wastewater for Irrigation on Nitrate Accumulation and Transport: Field Monitoring and Numerical Simulations
Marios Sophocleous and Margaret Townsend, Kansas Geological Survey; Fred Vocasek, Servi-Tech Laboratories, Dodge City, Kansas; Liwang Ma, USDA–Agricultural Research Service, Fort Collins, Colorado; and KC Ashok, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas
4:20–4:40 p.m.: Quantifying Groundwater Savings Achieved by Salt Cedar Control: A Demonstration Project in the Riparian Zone of the Cimarron River, Kansas
Gerard Kluitenberg, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University; James S. Butler, Jr., Donald O. Whittemore and Wei Jin, Kansas Geological Survey; David Arnold, Arnold Ranch; and Edward Reboulet, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas
4:40–5 p.m.: Assessment of Pumping-Induced Water Quality Changes in the Ozark Plateaus Aquifer System, Southeast Kansas
Peter A. MacFarlane, Kansas Geological Survey