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2011 Annual Symposium: "Watersheds Near and Far"

September 18-20, 2011
High Country Conference Center, Flagstaff, Arizona

Monday Morning

This session schedule and moderators will be updated as needed. Last updated August 28, 2011.

Monday Morning

Agassiz

Fremont

Doyle

Rees

Time

Schultz Fire Drainage I - Moderator Dana Downs-Heimes

Watersheds/Drought/Restoration - Moderator Floyd Marsh

Water Supply I - Moderator Donald J. Bills

Water Chemistry/Quality I - Moderator Robert Hart

10:30 to 10:50

Ted Lehman - Schultz Fire Drainage Master Plan - Hydraulics & Sediment Analyses

Abe Springer - Sustainable Large-Scale Forest Restoration Treatments in Arizona with Watershed Benefits: The Groundwater Story

Brad Hill - City of Flagstaff Water Resources Current Challenges, Long-Term Needs and Economic Analysis of Future Options

William Vernieu - Physical and Chemical Data for Water in Lake Powell and from Glen Canyon Dam Releases, Utah-Arizona, 1964–2011

10:50 to 11:10

Dan Neary - Rill and Gully Formation Following the 2010 Schultz Fire

Dominic La Roche - Effects of Severe Drought on a Desert Riparian Woodland

Ed McGavock - Future Water Supplies in Verde Valley

Mike Tomlinson - Using principal component analysis to identify element sources in Hawaiin watersheds

11:10 to 11:30

Ann Youberg - Rainfall and Geomorphic Aspects of Post-Fire Floods and Debris Flows – Schultz Fire 2010

Jon Phillip - The Amargosa Conservancy’s Amargosa River Hydrologic Survey, Amargosa River Basin, California & Nevada

Vic Heilweil - Evaluating sources of water to Littlefield Springs, Arizona

Kimberly Beisner - Preliminary assessment of metal contamination in water at Tavasci Marsh, Arizona

11:30 to 11:50

Dan Neary - Rock Gabion, Rip-Rap and Culvert Treatments: Successes and Failures in Post-Fire Erosion Mitigation, Schultz Fire 2010

Mark T. Murphy - The Nature and Protection of Dryland Watersheds

Dave Carr - Groundwater Resource Evaluation for the Sonoran Solar Energy Project

James Callegary - Surface-to-groundwater transport of contaminants at Tumacácori National Historical Park

11:50 to 12:10

 

Kelly Mott Lacroix - Arizona Water Management Along the Adaptive Cycle: What Can the Ebb of Water Governance Teach Us About Future Flow

Blake Abts - Wells 16 & 17 Installation and VFD Design, City of Douglas, AZ

Doyle Wilson - Monitoring Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products at an Effluent Injection Site, Lake Havasu City, Arizona

 

 

 

 

 

Monday Afternoon

Schultz Fire Drainage II  - Moderator Dana Downs-Heimes

Watershed/Climate Modeling  Moderator - Ed McGavock

Numerical Modeling I - Moderator Abe Springer

Water Chemistry/Quality II - Moderator Robert Hart

1:30 to 1:50

Karen Koestner - Depositional Characteristics and Sediment Availability Resulting from the Post-Schultz Fire Floods of 2010

Chris Courtney - The Agua Fria National Monument (AFNM) Intra Basin Water Management (IBWM) Project

David Sampson - A coupled surface and groundwater water management model for Metropolitan Phoenix

Jeff Bower - Short Course for Arsenic Removal: Practical Planning & Design for Removing Arsenic from Groundwater Production Wells

1:50 to 2:10

Jamie Macy - Geophysical Investigation of Cinder Lake to Determine Depth of Unconsolidated Cinders and Potential Storage Capacity, for Runoff Events Exacerbated by the Schultz Fire, 2010, Coconino County, AZ

Frank Postillion - Protection of Shallow Groundwater Dependant Riparian Ecosystems in Pima County

Shuyun Liu - Development of an Updated Regional Groundwater Flow Model for Pinal Active Management Area, Arizona

Doug Bartlett - Heisenberg and Groundwater Plumes: How the Investigation of a Plume Can Change It

2:10 to 2:30

Steve Skotnicki - Characterization of the Subsurface at Cinder Lake using CSAMT, TEM, and nanoTEM

Aregai Tecle - Hydrologic Modeling to Determine Water Yield from an Arizona Forested Watershed

Dale Mason - Tucson AMA Groundwater Flow Model - 2011 Update

 

2:30 to 2:50

 

Wes Swaffer - Payment for Watershed Services: A Tool for Supporting Southwestern Watershed Stewardship?

Keith Nelson - Prescott AMA Groundwater Flow Model - 2011 Provisional Update

 

2:50 to 3:10

 

Kevin Werner - Forecasting for the Future

Bradley Garner - Water Budgets for the Middle Verde River Watershed, Arizona, Showing Possible Effects of a Future Groundwater Withdrawal and Recharge Scenario, 2005-2110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geophysical Investigations Moderator - Jamie P. Macy

Climate Change and Watershed Management Moderator - Bradley Garner

Numerical Modeling II -Moderator Abe Springer

 

3:30 to 3:350

Greg Bushner - What to Drill: Red or Blue? Using CSAMT and NSAMT in Siting Groundwater Production Wells in Southeastern Nevada

William Miller - Predicting future regime shifts in streamflow over the Gunnison River Basin

Alexander Baish - Participatory Modeling for Hydrologic Planning: An Application to Catastrophic Flooding in Nuevo Leon, Mexico after Hurricane Alex

 

3:50 to 4:10

Norman Carlson - Groundwater exploration in the Edgewood, New Mexico using CSAMT

Daniel Bunk - Changing evaporative and ET demands in the lower Colorado River basin under different climate scenarios

Jeffrey Kennedy - Arizona flood frequency analysis: updated tools and products

 

4:10 to 4:30

Chris Jones - TDR-EC: A Rapid Subsurface Characterization of Particle Size & Hydrologic Properties

AdrianHarpold - Changes in Snowmelt Timing and Snow Water Partitioning in the Intermountain West

Brent Travis - Riverbank groundwater respond to storm events: an analytical solutions and applications

 

4:30 to 4:50

 

Seshadri Rajagopal - Assessing Impacts of Climate Change in a Semi Arid Watershed Using Statistically Downscaled IPCC Climate Output

Dr. Triana - Use of a River Basin Simulation Model and Decision Support System to Evaluate Water Supply Alternatives for a Planned Mine Expansion in an Arid Region of Southern Peru

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday Morning

 

 

 

 

 

Groundwater Recharge and Replenishment                              Moderator - Ted Lehman

Paleo-Hydrology and Sedimentary Environments - Moderator Nancy Hornewer

Alternative Approaches for Water Supplies  Moderator - Greg Bushner

 

9:45 to 10:05

Deborah Tosline -The Enhanced Recharge Demonstration Project - Collaboration, Construction, and Monitoring of an In-Channel Recharge Project

Malcolm Alter - New Findings Related to Potential Groundwater Contamination from Mineralized Breccia Pipes on the Colorado Plateau

Michael Block - How to Buy a Recharge Project on Credits instead of Cash and What the CARFAX Revealed

 

10:05 to 10:25

Floyd Marsh - Sustainable Water Management through Reclamation and Recharge: Implementation Challenges of Three Case Studies

Dave Meko - A multi-century record of Little Colorado streamflow: Droughts, drivers, and duplication

David Christiana - FLOW – Water For People’s New Data Collection Tool

 

10:25 to 10:45

Jon Chorover - Interdisciplinary studies of the critical zone in the upper Colorado and Rio Grande River Basins

Philip Pearthree - Mapping Holocene River Alluvium along the Verde River, Central Arizona

Richard Shroads - A Proposed new category of water for Arizona: macro-harvested rainwater

 

10:45 to 11:05

Muniram Budhu - Predicting flow and groundwater movements from aquifer storage and recharge facilities

Kiyomi Morino - Paleohydrology Lower Basin Scenarios (PaLoBaScen) – A webtool for climate change planning in the Lower Colorado River Basin

 

 

11:05 to 11:25

 

Joseph Cook - Mapping Holocene River Alluvium along the Verde River, Central Arizona

 

 

 

2011 Symposium Sponsors


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2011 Symposium Planning Committee

The next AHS Symposium Planning Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 6:00 pm, Peabody Energy. 3001 W Shamrell Drive, Flagstaff. Please contact Brad Hill, City of Flagstaff, at bhill@flagstaffaz.gov for details.

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