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Below are the presentations from the 17th National Nonpoint Source
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| MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 Welcoming Remarks, Moderator Peter Monahan | |
Dr. Harold Leggett, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality |
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| Carlton Dufrechou, Lake Pontchartrain | |
| Susan Holdsworth, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | |
| Session 1: Penary 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 | |
| Monday, Luncheon Speaker | |
| Jack Henkels, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Reserve | |
| Mini-Workshop 1: Nonpoint Source Monitoring Workshop Social Indicators | |
| Social Indicators, Ken Genskow, University of Wisconsin and Linda Prokopy, Purdue University | |
| Session 2: Monitoring Methods, Moderator Kevin Coyne | |
| 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 Edgeof-Field Sites at Discovery Farms and Pioneer Farm, Wisconsin, Todd Stuntebeck, U.S. Geological Survey, Wisconsin Water Science Center | |
| Session 3: Upper Mississippi River Evaluation and Assessment | |
| CEAP-Conservation Effects Assessment Project: National/Regional Assessments of the Effects of Conservation Practices used on Cropland, Jerry Lemunyon, Natural Resources Conservation Service – Department of Agriculture | |
| TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 | |
| Mini-Workshop 2: Agricultural Nutrient Management Tools | |
| Chris Gross, Natural Resources Conservation Service - U.S. Department of Agriculture | |
| Developing and Implementing Cost-effective, Performance-based Incentives in NE Iowa Watersheds, Chad Ingels, Iowa State University | |
| Session 4: Source Identification/Assessment, Moderator jean Spooner | |
| 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 | |
| Mini-Workshop 3: Analysis of Imperfect Data | |
| Analysis of Imperfect Data, Don Meals and Steve Dressing, Tetra Tech, Inc. | |
| Session 5: Nutrient Issues in Louisiana, Moderator Reggie Coleman | |
| 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 | |
| Luncheon Speaker-(Haunted New Orleans, Kalila Smith, Founder of the New Orleans Paranormal & Occult Society | |
| Mini-Workshop 4: Introduction to the Watershed Central Web Site and the Watershed Central Wiki | |
| Introduction to the Watershed Central Web Site and the Watershed Central Wiki, Joe Williams, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/ORD | |
| Session 6: Watershed/Field Scale Monitoring, Moderator Don Meals | |
| 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 | |
| Mini-Workshop 5: Urban Tools: Approaches Towards Effective Stormwater BMP Targeting | |
| Urban Tools: Approaches Towards Effective Stormwater BMP-Intro, Bruce Cleland, Tetra Tech, Inc. | |
| Urban Tools: Approaches Towards Effective Stormwater BMP-Targetting, Bruce Cleland, Tetra Tech, Inc. | |
| Urban Tools: Approaches Towards Effective Stormwater BMP-BMP Analysis, Bruce Cleland, Tetra Tech, Inc. | |
| Session 7: BMP Performance, Moderator Steve Dressing | |
| 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 | |
| WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 | |
| Mini-Workshop 6: Flow Duration Curves—Using Hydrology to Communicate Data as Information | |
| Flow Duration Curves—Back to Basics Hydrology and Solutions, Bruce Cleland, Tetra Tech, Inc. | |
| Flow Duration Curves—Basics, Bruce Cleland, Tetra Tech, Inc. | |
| Flow Duration Curves—Extending to Water Quality, Bruce Cleland, Tetra Tech, Inc. | |
| Session 8: Watershed Restoration, Moderator Jan Boydstun | |
| 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) | |
| Mini-Workshop 7: Effectiveness of Drainage Water Management (Controlled-Drainage) for Subsurface-Tile and Open-Ditch Drainage Systems | |
| Effectiveness of Drainage Water Management (Controlled-Drainage) for Subsurface-Tile and Open-Ditch Drainage Systems, Dr. James Fouss, ARS/U.S. Department of Agriculture | |
| Session 9: Lessons Learned from NPS Monitoring, Moderator Peter Monahan | |
| 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 | |
| State Nutrient Reduction Plans Workshop, Facilitator: Jay Sauber, Acting Chief, Environmental Sciences Section | |
| Workshop Overview: Tom Davenport, USEPA/National Expert & Regional Agricultural Advisor | |
| Programs: Mississippi’s Approach to Reducing Nutrient Impacts In-Basin and to the Gulf of Mexico, Richard Ingram, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality | |
| Programs: Nutrient Reduction Best Management Practices in the Mississippi Delta, Trey Cooke, Delta F.A.R.M./Delta Wildlife | |
| Programs: EQIP 2010 Hypoxia Initiative, Tom Christensen, Natural Resources Conservation Service Regional Conservationist (Central) | |
| Water Quality Trading: Water Quality Trading Past & Present: Is there a Future? Mark S. Kieser, Kieser & Associates, LLC | |
| Water Quality Trading: Lessons Learned from the Kalamazoo River Phosphorus Trading Project, Elizabeth Binoniemi-Smith, Gun Lake Tribe | |
| Water Quality Trading: Tracking Implementation on a Watershed Scale, Russell Gibson, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency | |
| Wrap-Up: Jay Sauber, Acting Chief, Environmental Sciences Section | |
| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 | |
| State Nutrient Reduction Plans Workshop (Con't), Facilitator: Lyn Kirschner, Natural Resources Conservation Service | |
| Building Alliances for Better Results, Karen Scanlon, Conservation Technology Information Center (West Laayette) | |
| 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 | |
| Other Opportunities and Summary, Tom Davenport, USEPA/National Expert & Regional Agricultural Advisor | |
| Closing Remarks, Katie Flahive, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | |