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1 | This draft is no longer being updated; the final digital conference program can be viewed at the link below: | ||||||||||||
2 | https://www.watereducation.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/program_-_international_groundwater_conference.pdf?1718140432 | ||||||||||||
3 | Monday, June 17 | ||||||||||||
4 | Pre-Conference Workshops | ||||||||||||
5 | These optional workshops will serve as a platform for sharing experiences, tools, and insights from around the world and engaging in constructive discussions on each topic. Workshops are free for conference attendees, but you must register for them separately. | ||||||||||||
6 | PLEASE NOTE: THE ALL-DAY WORKSHOP RUNS CONCURRENTLY WITH THE HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS, SO YOU CANNOT REGISTER FOR ALL 3! | ||||||||||||
7 | All-Day Session (9:00-12:00 & 1:30-3:00) | ||||||||||||
8 | Implementing Groundwater Demand Management in Agricultural Regions | ||||||||||||
9 | led by Dr. Isaya Kisekka, University of California Davis | ||||||||||||
10 | Morning Session (9:00-12:00) | ||||||||||||
11 | Regulating, Monitoring and Managing Groundwater Nitrate and Salinity | ||||||||||||
12 | led by Ken Miller, Formation Environmental USA | ||||||||||||
13 | Afternoon Session (1:30-4:30) | ||||||||||||
14 | Tools and Strategies to Engage Stakeholders in Groundwater Management and Planning | ||||||||||||
15 | led by Dr. Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, BRGM France | ||||||||||||
16 | Registration Check-in / Badge Pickup 3:00-6:00 | ||||||||||||
17 | Tuesday, June 18 | ||||||||||||
18 | Tuesday 8:15 - 8:30 AM | ||||||||||||
19 | Welcome | ||||||||||||
20 | Thomas Harter, University of California at Davis | ||||||||||||
21 | Nick Gray, Water Education Foundation | ||||||||||||
22 | Opening Remarks | ||||||||||||
23 | Nancy Vogel, California Deputy Secretary for Water | ||||||||||||
24 | Tuesday 8:30 - 10:00 AM | ||||||||||||
25 | 1 | PLENARY SESSION: SUCCESS STORIES - Moderator Lisa Porta | |||||||||||
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27 | Conjunctive use of groundwater in the Gila River Indian Community | ||||||||||||
28 | Governor Stephen Roe Lewis, Gila River Indian Community | ||||||||||||
29 | SGMA Success: The MAGSA Approach to Sustainability - The 'Half-Full' Glass | ||||||||||||
30 | Matthew Hurley, McMullin Area GSA | ||||||||||||
31 | Nitrate response in Danish groundwater to agricultural N management and regulation since 1940 | ||||||||||||
32 | Birgitte Hansen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland - GEUS | ||||||||||||
33 | Cultivating Change: A 4th Generation Kansas Farmer’s Quest for Sustainability | ||||||||||||
34 | Dwane Roth, Big D Farms Inc/Front Porch Farms | ||||||||||||
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40 | Tuesday 10:30 AM - 12 Noon | ||||||||||||
41 | 2A | Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems and Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction | 2B | Best Practices for Groundwater Supply | 2C | Environmental Justice | 2D | Advancing Sustainable Water Management through FloodMAR | |||||
42 | Chair: Maurice Hall | Chair: Amal Talbi | Chair: Alvar Closas | Chair: Francisco Flores-López | |||||||||
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44 | A watershed-specific formula to predict coho salmon reproduction using river flow metrics | Combined, applied research & engagement frameworks to advance irrigation management | SGMA and Underrepresented Farmers - Impact of Groundwater Sustainability Plans on Small Farmers | Insights from the Merced Flood-MAR Reconnaissance Study (Moderator) | |||||||||
45 | Claire Kouba, UC Davis | Amy Kremen, Irrigation Innovation Consortium/Colorado State University | Ngodoo Atume, University of California, Agricultural and Natural Resources | Francisco Flores-López, CA Department of Water Resources | |||||||||
46 | Sustainable groundwater management in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia | Almond Irrigation Improvement Continuum: A Model Grower Outreach Program | Inequities in PFAS-Contaminated Pesticides Applied near Public Supply Wells in California, 2019-2021 | Development of a Headwater-to-Groundwater Integrated Modeling Toolset | |||||||||
47 | Andrew Ross, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University | Michael Roots, Almond Board of California | Clare Pace, University of California, Berkeley | David Arrate, CA Department of Water Resources | |||||||||
48 | Climate Adaptation and Interconnected Surface Water and Groundwater Stewardship in the Napa Valley | Management of Ground Water Resources for sustainable agriculture in the Nadhour Aquifer / Tunisia | Quantifying Water Requirements for Small-Scale Diversified Farms in the San Joaquin Valley | Assessing Climate Vulnerability | |||||||||
49 | Vicki Kretsinger Grabert, Luhdorff & Scalmanini Consulting Engineers | Manfred Matz, GIZ-Tunisie | Sara Qaderi, UCANR | Wyatt Arnold, CA Department of Water Resources | |||||||||
50 | Balancing Groundwater for Agriculture and Lakes in Wisconsin, USA | Benefits from a Century of Groundwater Stewardship in Southern California | Community-Engaged Research on Groundwater Nitrates: Perspectives from Rural Eastern Oregon | Enhancing Climate Resilience through Adaptive Flood-MAR Strategies | |||||||||
51 | Michael Fienen, USGS Upper Midwest WSC | Betsy Miller, San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District | Anne Thebo, University of Washington Climate Impacts Group; Kaleb Lay, Oregon Rural Action | Karandev Singh, CA Department of Water Resources | |||||||||
52 | Balancing Agriculture, Salmon, and Climate Change: Water Management in Scott Valley, California | Sustainable Agriculture in the SGMA Era | Distributional implications of nitrate contamination in drinking water | Setting a Template for Multi-Sector Coordination | |||||||||
53 | Leland Scantlebury, UC Davis | Ryan Flaherty, Sustainable Conservation | Deshamithra Jayasekera, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute | Jim Wieking, CA Department of Water Resources | |||||||||
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55 | LUNCH 12:00 - 1:30 | LUNCH SPEAKER: MARK ARAX | |||||||||||
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57 | Tuesday 1:30 - 3:00 PM | ||||||||||||
58 | 3A | Groundwater Quality Impacts from Agriculture Roundtable | 3B | Groundwater Governance Roundtable | 3C | Groundwater Management: Data and Modeling Roundtable | 3D | AgMAR: Engaging Private Landowners Roundtable | |||||
59 | Moderator: Thomas Harter | Moderator: Ellen Hanak | Moderator: Andrea Brookfield | Moderator: Daniel Mountjoy | |||||||||
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61 | Water use for irrigation changes quality of groundwater used for drinking water supply in California | Under pressure – the case of groundwater management in the Great Artesian Basin in NSW, Australia | Updates to Central Valley Hydrologic Model – a regional tool for Sustainable Groundwater Management | (Moderator) Agricultural Managed Aquifer Recharge-AgMAR: Engaging private landowners in replenishing groundwater | |||||||||
62 | Miranda Fram, U.S. Geological Survey | Alvar Closas, Independent Consultant | Claudia Faunt, USGS/CAWSC | Daniel Mountjoy, Sustainable Conservation | |||||||||
63 | A Framework for Understanding & Addressing Surplus Manure Nitrogen on Dairies in the Central Valley | Groundwater governance and the outlook for agriculture: A case study of Arizona | Evaluating Hydrologic Responses to Agricultural Water Management in the Lower Arkansas River Basin | Directing Recharge to Achieve Groundwater Sustainability Outcomes: Integrated Modelling Tools for Flood-MAR Planning | |||||||||
64 | Till Angermann, Luhdorff and Scalmanini Consulting Engineers | Sharon Megdal, The University of Arizona | Salam Abbas, Colorado State University | Ali Taghavi, Woodard & Curran | |||||||||
65 | USGS Monitoring of Groundwater/Surface-Water Interaction and Nutrients in the Illinois River Basin | Groundwater Governance Elements: Knowledge, Motivation, and Mechanisms | The Pendulum Swings: California’s Attempts to Find a Balance Between Fish/Feathers and Farms/Folks | Planning, managing and implementing AgMAR/FloodMAR as a water district | |||||||||
66 | David Lampe, U.S. Geological Survey | Ruth Meinzen-Dick, International Food Policy Research Institute | Jeffrey Davids, Davids Engineering | California State University, Chico | Wes Miller, Turlock Irrigation District | |||||||||
67 | Prioritizing Drainage Basins for Nutrient Studies: Importance of Spatial Variability | Assessment impact of intensification agricultural on groundwater resources in the Aquifer Massacre | Exploring Dynamics of Aquifers using Remote Sensing and Integrated Hydrologic Models | Doing the good deed: My AgMAR experience | |||||||||
68 | Christopher Green, US Geological Survey | Jeff Garcon, University Quisqueya | David Hyndman, University of Texas at Dallas | Christine Gemperle, Grower | |||||||||
69 | Agent-based modelling and decision-support for groundwater compliance and enforcement: BEACON | Preparing the grower (and everyone else) for AgMAR | |||||||||||
70 | Cameron Holley, UNSW | Sarah Woolf, Grower, Waterwise Consulting | |||||||||||
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73 | Tuesday 3:30-5:00 PM | ||||||||||||
74 | 4A | Best Practices to Improve Groundwater Quality | 4B | Climate Change Adaptation | 4C | Groundwater Management: Data and Modeling | 4D | Managed Aquifer Recharge | |||||
75 | Chair: Nandita Basu | Chair: Ken Belitz | Chair: Newsha Ajami | Chair: Helen Dahlke | |||||||||
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77 | Approaches to Groundwater Quality Management for Sustainable Rice Farming in California’s Sacramento | Assessment of Groundwater Droughts in the Colorado River Basin: Identifying Key Controlling Factors | Quantifying Groundwater Recharge in Mountain-Valley Aquifer System of the Kaweah River Watershed | Evaluation of an Agricultural Recharge Site by Mapping Sediment Type with an Electromagnetic System | |||||||||
78 | Lisa Porta, Montgomery & Associates | Karem Abdelmohsen, Arizona State University | Hoori Ajami, University of California Riverside | Meredith Goebel, Stanford University | |||||||||
79 | Improving leaching estimates from orchards by accounting for tree size and soil spatial variability | Flash Drought - A Growing Risk to Agriculture and Water Resources from Local to Global | Data-Driven, Field-Level Remotely Sensed ET in Critically Overdrafted Basins: 2022 & 2023 results | Stormwater storage to support sustainable irrigation | |||||||||
80 | Shahar Baram, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Newe Ya'ar Research Center | Jeffrey Basara, University of Massachusetts Lowell | Joel Kimmelshue, Land IQ | Lea Augustin, Technical University of Munich | |||||||||
81 | Using drainageways for subsurface nitrate processing in agricultural landscapes | Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture under a Changing Climate in Southwestern US | A re-examination of the hydrological impact of tile drainage using integrated modelling tools | How to have your cake and eat it too; a case study of recharging with Reverse Tile Drains | |||||||||
82 | Keith Schilling, University of Iowa | Isaya Kisekka, UC Davis | Jiangyue Ju, University of Waterloo | Mike Busby, LIDCO Inc | |||||||||
83 | Collaborative engagement and involvement of private water well owners in BMP development | Distributed sensing for monitoring greenhouse gases from agricultural land under climate change | Aquifer Parameter Estimation: Async/Distributed Bio-inspired Algorithms with Convolutional Layers | Automated Cloud Based Groundwater Basin Storage Tracking for Managed Aquifer Recharge Accounting | |||||||||
84 | Hugh Simpson, University of Guelph | Tissa Illangasekare, Colorado School of Mines and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Kiara Tesen Arambulo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | Mark Kram, Groundswell Technologies, LLC | |||||||||
85 | Impact of Cover Cropping on Nitrate Leaching from Potato Rotations | Riverbank filtration, groundwater transfer and injection in an intensively cultivated alluvial basin | |||||||||||
86 | Yefang Jiang, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada | Andy O'Reilly, USDA-ARS | |||||||||||
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89 | Tuesday 5:30 - 7:30 PM - Hosted Reception and Poster Session 1 | ||||||||||||
90 | Advancing the Groundwater Accounting Platform in California | Estimation of Model Uncertainty in View of the Groundwater Sustainability Indicators | Assessing social learning from a participatory groundwater planning process (Adour, France) | ||||||||||
91 | Hannah Ake, California Water Data Consortium | Giorgios Kourakos, UC Davis | Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, BRGM | ||||||||||
92 | Aquifer Recharge & Flow Dynamics: HYDRUS-1D & 3D Model Insights | Sustainable groundwater management across the urban-agricultural interface, Santa Clara County, CA | Can Satellite Time Series Data Discern Spatial Patterns in Dry Matter Yield in ‘Jose’ Tall | ||||||||||
93 | Alberto Casillas-Trasvina, UC Davis | Jason Gurdak, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Mauricio Soriano, CSU Fresno | ||||||||||
94 | Groundwater sustainability in Massacre agricultural plain through hydrogeochemical characterization | ||||||||||||
95 | Jeff Garcon, University Quisqueya | ||||||||||||
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97 | Wednesday, June 19 | ||||||||||||
98 | Wednesday 8:30 - 10:00 AM | ||||||||||||
99 | 5 | PLENARY SESSION: NORTH AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES - Moderator David Rudolph | |||||||||||
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