Fourth annual Water Law, Policy and Science Conference

The Future of Water Use in Agriculture
Embassy Suites Hotels, Lincoln, Nebraska
March 26-27, 2007

2007 Conference Presentations

All files are MS-PowerPoints.

Session 1: Monday, March 26, 2007

• Growth, Environment, and Efficiency: Agricultural Water Futures; David Sunding, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif.
• Economic Perspectives on Irrigated Agriculture; Jason Henderson, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, Omaha
• A New Era for Agriculture?; Daryll Ray, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
• Thriving with Scarcity: Collaboration Instead of Competition for Water; Chad Smith, Trout Unlimited, Berkeley, Calif.

Session 2: Monday, March 26, 2007

• Virtual Watershed: Agricultural Landscape Evolution in an Adaptive Management Framework; Christopher Lant, Executive Director, Universities Council on Water Resources; Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.
• Evolving Climate and Its Impacts on Great Plains Water; Vikram Mehta, The Center for
  Research on the Changing Earth System, Columbia, Md.
• Estimates of Evapotranspiration Rates by Tamarisk Using a Combination of Ground and Remote Sensing Methods; Pamela Nagler, U.S. Geological Survey, Tucson, Ariz.
• Alternative Crop Water Use and Yield Under Varying Water Availability Conditions; David Nielsen, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Akron, Colo.
• Impact of Advances in Irrigation Engineering and Management; Derrel Martin, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, UNL
• Genetic Improvements in Drought Tolerance; Mark Lagrimini, Head, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL
• The Role of Climate on Western Water Institutions; Justice Gregory Hobbs, Colorado Supreme Court, Denver, Colo.

Session 3: Tuesday, March 27, 2007

• Food and Fuel for All: Realistic or Foolish?; Kenneth Cassman, Director, Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research, UNL
• Cellulosic Ethanol:  Opportunities and Challenges; Wallace Wilhelm, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service and UNL
• Minimizing Water Use in Crop Production; Thomas Sinclair, Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl.
• Economic and Community Impacts of an Expanding Bioeconomy; Daniel Otto, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Ia.
• Impact of the Biofuels Industry on Water Quality Issues Related to Livestock Production; Galen Erickson, Animal Science Department, UNL.