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| Source: USDA NRCS |
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Draft Agenda
| Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| 7:30am - 9:00am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast
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| 9:00am - 10:10am |
Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Harold Leggett, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
Carlton Dufrechou, Lake Pontchartrain
Susan Holdsworth, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/OWOW
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| 10:10am - 10:30am |
Break
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 1: Plenary Presentations
- Hypoxia What is Being Done
Phil Bass, Gulf of Mexico Program Office
- The CSREES-CEAP Synthesis and Preliminary Lessons Learned
Don Meals, Tetra Tech, Inc.
- National Monitoring Program (NMP): Long-Term Monitoring Projects Documenting Water Quality Improvements from Best Management Practices
Jean Spooner, North Carolina State University
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
Lunch included
Jack Henkels, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Reserve
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| 1:15pm - 2:45pm |
Mini-Workshop 1: Nonpoint Source Monitoring Workshop Social Indicators (details)
Ken Genskow, University of Wisconsin
Linda Prokopy, Purdue University
Session 2: Monitoring Methods
- Introducing a New Soil Test Methodology to Determine Nitrogen Fertilizer Rates: Enhancing On-Farm Profitability and Environmental Quality
Daren Harmel, U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS
- Implementation Monitoring: Use of Automated Samplers to Effectively Document Water Quality Improvements
Brooks Tramell, Oklahoma Conservation Commission
- Equipment and Methods used for Effective Wintertime Monitoring for Edge-of-Field Sites at Discovery Farms and Pioneer Farm, Wisconsin
Todd Stuntebeck, U.S. Geological Survey, Wisconsin Water Science Center
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| 2:45pm - 3:10pm |
Break
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| 3:10pm - 4:45pm |
Mini-Workshop 1 (continued)
Session 3: Upper Mississippi River Evaluation and Assessment
Jerry Lemunyon, Natural Resources Conservation Service—U.S. Department of Agriculture
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| 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
Welcome Reception
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| Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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| 7:30am - 8:30am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast
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| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Mini-Workshop 2: Agricultural Nutrient Management Tools (details)
Chris Gross, Natural Resources Conservation Service—U.S. Department of Agriculture
Chad Ingels, Iowa State University
Session 4: Source Identification/Assessment
- Volunteers and Their Data - What We Know About Blue Thumb Streams
Jean Lemmon, Oklahoma Blue Thumb
- Sediment and Phosphorus Evaluation of an Urban Watershed in the Illinois River Watershed
Sandi Formica, Watershed Conservation Resource Center (WCRC)
- Runoff Patterns and Water-Quality Characteristics at Edge-of-Field Sites, Discovery Farms and Pioneer Farm, Wisconsin
Matt Komiskey, U.S. Geological Survey, Wisconsin Water Science Center
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Break
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Mini-Workshop 3: Analysis of Imperfect Data (details)
Don Meals and Steve Dressing, Tetra Tech, Inc.
Session 5: Nutrient Issues in Louisiana
- Pollution Source Tracking in Lake Pontchartrain Basin Sub-Watersheds
Andrea Bourgeois-Calvin, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation
- History of Rural Nonpoint Source Programs in Southeast Louisiana
Donny Latiolais, Capital Resource Conservation & Development Council, Hammond, Louisiana
- St. Tammany Parish Watershed Alternatives Analysis Tool
Sabrina Schenk, St. Tammany Parish Engineering Department, Louisiana
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Luncheon Speaker—"Haunted New Orleans"
Kalila Smith, Founder of the New Orleans Paranormal & Occult Society
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Mini-Workshop 4: Introduction to the Watershed Central Web Site and the Watershed Central Wiki (details)
Joe Williams, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/ORD
Session 6: Watershed/Field Scale Monitoring
- Water Quality Trends in Response to Implementation Plan Activities within the North Bosque River Watershed
Jimmy Millican, Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research (TIAER)
- Demonstrating Success: Oklahoma's Beaty Creek Watershed Implementation Project
Greg Kloxin, Oklahoma Conservation Commission
- Nutrients in Surface-Water Runoff from Frozen Fields at a Crop and Livestock Farm in Southwest Wisconsin
Dennis Frame, University of Wisconsin-Discovery Farms Program
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Break
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Mini-Workshop 5: Urban Tools: Approaches Towards Effective
Stormwater BMP Targeting
(details)
Bruce Cleland, Tetra Tech, Inc.
Session 7: BMP Performance
- Long-Term Nutrient Performance in a Bioinfiltration Raingarden
Dr. John Komlos, Villanova University
- Influence of Aspect on Runoff from Paired-Basins at UW-Platteville Pioneer Farm
Dennis Busch, University of Wisconsin-Platteville Pioneer Farm
- Bayou Lafourche Fecal Coliform Sources from Home Sewage Systems
Marilyn Kilgen, Nicholls State University
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| 6:00pm |
Haunted New Orleans Tour
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| Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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| 7:30am - 9:00am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast
|
| 9:00am - 10:10am |
Mini-Workshop 6: Flow Duration Curves: Using Hydrology to Communicate Data as Information (details)
Bruce Cleland, Tetra Tech, Inc.
Session 8: Watershed Restoration
- Evaluating Progress at the Watershed and Field Scale in the Corsica River Watershed
John McCoy, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
- Illinois EPA Tests Nutrient Reduction by Modifying Sediment Best Management Practices—as Illustrated in Two EPA National Watershed Monitoring Projects
Amy Walkenbach, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
- Demonstration of an Urban Stream Restoration Project to Reduce Sediment and Nutrient Loadings in the Illinois River Watershed
Matthew Van Eps, Watershed Conservation Resource Center (WCRC)
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| 10:10am - 10:30am |
Break
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Mini-Workshop 7: Effectiveness of Drainage Water Management (Controlled-Drainage) for Subsurface-Tile and Open-Ditch Drainage Systems (details)
Dr. James Fouss, ARS/U.S. Department of Agriculture
Session 9: Lessons Learned from NPS Monitoring
- Comparison of Water Quantity and Quality between Subsurface-Tile and Surface-Water Runoff from a Wisconsin Discovery Farm
Eric Cooley, University of Wisconsin-Discovery Farms Program
- Lessons Learned from Monitoring and Modeling Nonpoint Source Pollution in the Bayou Plaquemine Brule Watershed in Southwestern Louisiana
Durga D. Poudel, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana
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| 12:00pm - |
Lunch
|
| 1:00pm - 5:15pm |
State Nutrient Reduction Plans Workshop (details)
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| 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Workshop Overview
Tom Davenport, USEPA/National Expert & Regional Agricultural Advisory
Facilitator: Jay Sauber, USEPA/Acting Chief, Environmental Sciences Section
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Session: Programs
- Mississippi's Approach to Reducing Nutrient Impacts In-Basin and to the Gulf of Mexico
Richard Ingram, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
- Nutrient Reduction Best Management Practices in the Mississippi Delta
Trey Cooke, Delta F.A.R.M./Delta Wildlife
- EQIP 2010 Hypoxia Initiative
Tom Christensen, Natural Resources Conservation Service Regional Conservationist (Central)
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| 3:00pm - 3:15pm |
Break
|
| 3:15pm - 4:45pm |
Session: Water Quality Trading
- Water Quality Trading Past & Present: Is there a Future?
Mark S. Kieser, Kieser & Associates, LLC
- Lessons Learned from the Kalamazoo River Phosphorus Trading Project
Elizabeth Binoniemi-Smith, Gun Lake Tribe
- Tracking Implementation on a Watershed Scale
Russell Gibson, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
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| 4:45pm - 5:15pm |
Wrap-Up
Jay Sauber, USEPA/Acting Chief, Environmental Sciences Section
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| Thursday, September 17, 2009
|
| 7:30am - 9:00am |
Registration
|
| 9:00am - 11:30am |
Workshop continued
Facilitator: Lyn Kirschner, Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Building Alliances for Better Results
Karen Scanlon, Conservation Technology Information Center (Purdue University)
- Evaluating the Initial Application of Field-Edge Denitrifying Bioreactors in Northeast Iowa
Chad Ingels, Iowa State University
- Ditches and Streams 101: Permits, prices and real life considerations for stream restoration
Russell Gibson, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
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| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Other Opportunities and Summary
Tom Davenport, USEPA/ National Expert & Regional Agricultural Advisory
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| 12:00pm |
Closing Remarks
Katie Flahive, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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