Water: Science, Practice and Policy 2012

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

at The Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln

This conference focused on the latest water-related research, programming, practice, and policy in Nebraska and the Great Plains.

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• Symposium Agenda
• Student Poster Competition Rules

Continuing Education Credits

• This program is approved for 6.5 hours of continuing education credit for all occupations under the Nebraska Water Well Standards and Contractors' Licensing Act. (Please note the Water Law Conference on Nov. 14 is approved for 7 hours of continuing education credit for all occupations under the Nebraska Water Well Standards and Contractors' Licensing Act.)

Posters

• Zablon Adane- Impact of Land Use Change on Groundwater Recharge in the Nebraska Sand Hills: Comparison Between Grassland and Nebraska National Forest
• Tonya Bernadt- Climate Masters of Nebraska: Community Stewardship Toward Environmental Sustainability
• Audry Boerner- Do Vegetated River Islands Remove Nitrate from the Platte River?
• Erica Colbert- Comparison of Water Quality Assessments and Survey-Based Health Assessments Between Flood Impacted and Non-Floor Impacted Domestic Wells
• Scott Dworak - Effects of Deficit Irrigation on Turf Quality and Function Groundwater Use
• John Gilley - Effects of Narrow Grass Hedges on Nutrient Transport Following Manure Application
• Aaron Hirsh - A Science-Based Approach for Routing Petroleum Pipelines: Keystone XL Pipeline, Nebraska
• Erin Kubicek - Using Normative Messages to Encourage Pro-Environmental Behaviors
• Yao Li - Analysis of Urban Water Use (Consumptive) in Nebraska
• Jessica Loke - Sophisticated Trustors: Investigating the Relationship Among Knowledge, Experience and Trust in Water Regulatory Institutions
• Racine Rangel - A Commercially Available Atrazine Testing Kit: Reliable Enough for Environmental Monitoring?
• Nathan Rossman - A Review of Regional Groundwater Flow Modeling in Heavily Irrigated Basins of the Western United States
• David Shelton - UNL Extension Stormwater Management Educational Resources
• Daniel Snow - Analytical Support for Water Resources Research!
• Daniel Uden - Potential Future Impacts of Climatic Change and Bioenergy Production on Agricultural Groundwater Use
• Michael Van Liew - Potential Future Impacts of Climatic Change and Bioenergy Production on Agricultural Groundwater Use
• Nicole Wall - Republican River Basin Water Sustainability Task Force: Final Update
• Haishun Yang - Maize-N: a Corn N Recommendation Decision-Support Tool That Helps Optimize Water use Efficiency While Minimizing Negative Environmental Impacts
• Gary Zoubek - Nebraska Agricultural Water Management Network (NAWMN) Update

Presentations - Plenary

• Jesse Bradley - A New Approach for Evaluating Fully Appropriated Basins in Nebraska
• Mark Buckley - The Economics of Green Infrastructure: Values and Case Studies
• Richard Cruse - Assessing the Health of Streams in Agricultural Landscapes: The Impacts of Land Management Change on Water Quality
• Eric Evenson - A Water Census for the Nation

Presentations - Breakout One

• Ezekiel Bahar - Microwave Remote Sensing to Monitor the Water Table
• Brian Barels - Shifting to Groundwater Irrigation in the Central Platte: The NRD Proposal and Potential Effects
• Ronald Bishop - Shifting to Groundwater Irrigation in the Central Platte: The NRD Proposal and Potential Effects
• James Cannia - Using Geophysical Data to Improve an Optimization Groundwater Model Evaluating the Effectiveness of Intentional Recharge in the North Platte River Valley, Western Nebraska, U.S.A.
• Thomas Franti, Steven Rodie - Hydrologic and Plant Performance of Residential Rain Gardens in Lincoln, Nebraska
• James Gilbert - Integrated Water Management Tools for the Determination of Fully Appropriated
• Ayse Kilic - Comparison of Consumptive Water Use from 1997 and 2007 Across Nebraska
• Don Kraus - Shifting to Groundwater Irrigation in the Central Platte: The NRD Proposal and Potential Effects
• Nathan Morris - INSIGHT, Integrated Water Management Project to Serve Data on the World Wide Web
• Mahesh Pun - Integrated Water Management Model for the Identification of the Difference Between Fully and Overappropriated
• Ronald Zelt - Hydrogeomorphic Contributions for Heavy Crude Oil Spill Response on Inland Water Bodies: Examples from the Kalamazoo River Oil Spill

Presentations - Breakout Two

• Mark Buckley - Ecosystem Services and Economic Benefits of Beaver Restoration in the Escalante River Basin, Utah
• Mark Burbach and Connie Reimers-Hild - Blending Water Policy and Science with Leadership
• Kendall DeJonge - Water Production Function Studies for Limited Irrigation Cropping Systems
• Lisa Durso - Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance in Runoff from Cattle Feedlots
• Brian Fuchs - The Role of Drought Risk Management During the 2012 Drought Across the United States
• John Gilley - Runoff Nutrient Loads as Affected by Residue Cover, Manure Application Rate, and Flow Rate
• Vaughn Hammond - Subsistence Farming in Afghanistan
• Jacob LaRue - Variable Rate Irrigation; Development of Performance Criteria
• Christine Reed - Implementing the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program
• Steven Shultz - Divergences between Local and Federal Evaluation of the Economic Feasibility of Flood Mitigation Projects
• Robert Swanson - The U.S. Geological Survey Midwest Area River Sediments and Nutrients Investigation