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Agenda

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Plenary Sessions

• Impacts of a New Administration: Challenges and Opportunities for Water Quantity and Quality
  Mike Seyfert, Senator Pat Roberts’ Office, Washington, D.C.

• Impacts of Climate Change on Kansas Agriculture
  Johannes Feddema, Department of Geography, University of Kansas

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

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

Panels/Town Hall Meetings

1. Impacts of Biofuels Production on Water
   Panel: Bill Simpkins, Iowa State University; Dennis Keeney, IATP; P.W. Gerbens-Leenes, University of Twente, The Netherlands
2. Impacts of Conservation Practices on Soil and Water
   Panel: Dan Devlin, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University; Terry Conway, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service; Harold Klaege, Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams   
3. Impacts of Climate Change
   Panel: Chuck Rice, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University; Johannes Feddema, Department of Geography, University of Kansas; Ray Hammarlund, Kansas Corporation Commission
4. Impacts of Aging Infrastructure
   Panel:  Larry Caldwell, U.S. Department of Agriculture- Natural Resources Conservation Service, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Matt Scherer, Kansas Department of Agriculture

Concurrent Sessions

5. Impacts of Nutrient Loading in Streams
   1. Gulf Coast Hypoxia
      Kyle Mankin, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University
   2. Estimating Land Use Impacts on Nutrient Loading
      Beau Burkitt and John Harrington, Department of Geography, Kansas State University
   3. Impacts of Nutrient Loading on Grand Lake
      Mike Smolen, Oklahoma State University
   4. Sources of Phosphorus Loading in Kansas Streams
      Nathan Nelson, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University
6. Sediment Loading in Streams
   1. Sources of Sediment Loading in Kansas Streams
      Andy Ziegler and Kyle Juracek, U.S. Geological Survey
   2. Riparian Area Condition and Sediment Loading in the Delaware River Basin
      Jeff Neel, Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams
   3. Land Use and Management and its Impacts on Sediment Loading
      Dan Devlin and Will Boyer, Kansas State University
   4. Biological Impacts of Sediment and Sedimentation in Aquatic Systems
      Don Huggins, Kansas Biological Survey
7. Twenty Years of Progress in Subsurface Drip Irrigation
   1. Basic Considerations for Adoption of SDI for Crop Production in Kansas
      Dan Rogers, Kansas State University
   2. Progress with SDI for Crop Production in Kansas - A 20-Year Summary
      Freddie Lamm, Kansas State University, Colby, Kansas
   3. Improving Environmental Stewardship of CAFO Effluent Management with SDI
      Todd Trooien, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
   4. Economic Comparison of SDI and Center Pivot Sprinkler Irrigation
      Dan O'Brien, Kansas State University, Colby, Kansas
8. Policy Impacts
   1. Provisions Impacting Water Conservation and Protection in the New Farm Bill
      Eric Banks, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Salina
   2. Update on the Upper Ark Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
      Susan Stover, Kansas Water Office
   3. Update on Environmental Regulation of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO)
      Donna Porter, Environmental Protection Agency Region VII, Kansas City, Kansas
   4. Update on Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and Their Implementation in Kansas
      Tom Stiles, Kansas Department of Health and the Environment
9. Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) Case Studies
   1. Little Arkansas
      Dan Devlin and Ron Graber, Kansas State University
   2. TBD
10. Volunteered Papers (theme to be determined)
11. Kansas Groundwater Management Districts: Challenges and Opportunities
    1. Panel:
       Dave Brenn, Groundwater Management District (GMD) #1
       Tim Boese, GMD District #2
       Mark Rude, GMD #3
       Wayne Bossert, GMD #4
       Sharon Falk, GMD #5
12. Kansas Water Research Institute (KWRI)-Funded Research
    1. A Real-time Permittivity Sensor for Simultaneous Measurement of Multiple Water-Quality Parameters
       Naiqian Zhang, Ning Tang, Sarah Shultz, and Philip Barnes, Kansas State University
    2. Impact of Treated Wastewater for Irrigation on Nitrate Accumulation and Transport: Field Monitoring and Numerical Simulations
       Marios Sophocleous, Margaret Townsend, Fred Vocasek, Liwang Ma, and Ashok KC, Kansas Geological Survey and Servi-Tech
    3. Quantifying Groundwater Savings Achieved by Salt Cedar Control:
       A Demonstration Project in the Riparian Zone of the Cimarron River
       Gerard Kluitenberg, Jim Butler, Don Whittemore, Wei Jin, David Arnold, and Edward Reboulet, Kansas State University, Kansas Geological Survey, and Arnold Ranch
    4. Assessment of Seasonal, Pumping-Induced Water Quality Changes in the Ozark Plateaus Aquifer System, Southeast Kansas
       Allen MacFarlane, Kansas Geological Survey

Poster Sessions

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