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Agenda

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Plenary Sessions

• 25 Years of Progress in Kansas Water Policy: Kansas Governors Panel
  Former Governor John Carlin (1979-1987)
  Former Governor Mike Hayden (1987-1991)

• Well, Well, Well: The High Plains Aquifer
  David Pope
  Former Chief Engineer, Division of Water Resources
  Kansas Department of Agriculture

• Bioenergy and Water: Does It Make Cents/Sense?
  Dennis Kenney
  Former Director, Leopold Center, Iowa State University
  Senior Fellow, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Ames, Iowa

• Smart Growth: Can We Do It in Kansas?
  Stacy Hutchinson
  Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
  Kansas State University

• Sedimentation of Our Reservoirs: Are They Half Full or Half Empty?
  Mark Jakubauskas
  Kansas Biological Survey
  University of Kansas

• New Water Quality Challenges: Emerging Contaminants

  • Emerging Contaminants of Surface and Groundwater
    Mike Meyer
    U.S. Geological Survey
    University of Kansas

  • Occurrence of Antibiotics in Treated Wastewater Discharged to Surface Water in Kansas
    Alok Bhandari
    Department of Civil Engineering
    Kansas State University
    Sujatha Nagulapally
    Omaha, NE

  • Occurrence and Fate of Steroidal Hormones in Surface Waters Impacted by Cattle Grazing and Animal Agriculture
    Ed Kolodziej
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    University of Nevada

Concurrent Sessions

• Sedimentation of Our Federal Reservoirs

  • Adaptive Watershed Modeling: An Approach to Integrate Local Stakeholder Knowledge with Best Science
    Pouoyan Nejadeshemi and Kyle Mankin
    Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
    Kansas State University

  • BMP Auctions as a Tool for Targeting Implementation of Conservation Practices
    Craig Smith and John Leatherman
    Department of Agricultural Economics
    Kansas State University

  • Targeting Subwatersheds for Enhanced Sediment Assessments Using Existing Monitoring Data
    Chris Gnau
    Kansas Water Office
  
  
  • Approaches to Modern River Work
    John Shelley
    Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
    University of Kansas
  
  
• Water Quality: Urban and Rural

  • The Art and Science of Bioretention Cells: Lessons Learned from Lenexa, KS
    Mike Beezhold
    City of Lenexa
    Lenexa, Kansas

  • Alternative Urban Stormwater Management Research and Education Programs in Landscape Architecture at Kansas State University
    Lee Skabelund
    Department of Landscape Architecture
    Kansas State University

  • Minimizing the Adverse Effects of Water Reuse for Crop Irrigation Near Dodge City, Kansas
    Marios Sophocleous and Margaret Townsend
    Kansas Geological Survey
    Fred Vocasek
    Servi-Tech
  
  
  • Effects of Macropore Flow and Seasonal Variability on Water Quality at a Wastewater-Recharge Site
    Margaret Townsend, Marios Sophocleous, S. A. Macko, R. Ghijsen, and D. Schuette
    Kansas Geological Survey
  
  
• Bioenergy and Water

  • Bioenergy and Water Panel: Lessons Learned in Iowa, Applications in Kansas
    Rick Cruse
    Director, Water Center
    Iowa State University

    Dennis Keeney
    Senior Fellow, IATP
    Ames, Iowa

    Bill Hargrove
    Director, Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment
    K-State Research and Extension

  • The Future of Cellulosic Ethanol in Kansas
    Tom Robb
    Abengoa, Inc.
    Garden City, Kansas

  • Closed Cycle Processing of Natural Products: Possible Lessons from Pulp Production
    Peter Pfromm
    Department of Chemical Engineering
    Kansas State University

• High Plains Aquifer
  • Kansas Upper Arkansas River CREP and the Interest in Water Conservation
    Susan Stover
    Kansas Water Office
  
  
  • Storage Efficiency of Off-Season Irrigation
    Loyd Stone
    Department of Agronomy
    Kansas State University
  
  

  • Deficit Irrigation Management
    Freddie Lamm
    Northwest Kansas Research and Extension Center
    Colby, Kansas

Lunch Presentation

• Impacts of Climate Change on Kansas and the Central Plains
  Doug Kluck
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  Kansas City, Missouri

Poster Sessions

• Poster papers on a wide variety of water resource-related issues