2018 Annual Water Resources Conference Schedule and Abstracts

November 4-8, 2018
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Speakers

JA
Jonathan Abelson
Civil Designer
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
SA
Sarah Ahmed
Water Resources Engineering Analyst
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB)
SA
Stephen Aichele
Geographer
US Geological Survey
KA
Khaled Akhtar
Alberta Environment and Parks
KA
Katherine Antos
Branch Chief
District Department of Energy and Environment
MA
Mike Antos
Watershed Manager
Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority
DA
David Arscott
Executive Director and Research Scientist
Stroud Water Research Center
SA
Scott Ator
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
MB
Matthew Bachman
Water Resources Engineer/Planner
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
CB
ChangYeon Bae
Researcher
National Disaster Management Research Institute
SB
Sen Bai
Senior Modeler
Tetra Tech Inc
MB
Matthew Baker
University of Maryland-Baltimore County
RB
Roger Barlow
Physical Scientist
US Geological Survey
AB
Amanda Bassow
Director, Northeastern Regional Office
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
BB
Brenda Bateman
2018 AWRA President & Technical Services Division Administrator
Oregon Water Resources Department
WB
William Battaglin
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
KB
Kenneth Belt
Hydrologist/Aquatic Ecologist
Ecohydrological Visions
JB
Jennifer Benjamin
Data Analyst
Corona Environmental Consulting
SB
Steve Bevington
Restoration Program Manager
NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
AB
Akta Patel Bianca Santos
AKRF, Inc.
CB
Claire Bleser
District Administrator
Riley-Purgatory-Bluff Creek Watershed District
MB
Matt Bliss
Sr. Water Resources Engineer
DiNatale Water Consultants
DB
David Blodgett
Hydroinformatics Coordinator
US Geological Survey
JB
Joel Blomquist
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
JB
John Bolten
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
NB
Nathan Boon
Program Officer
William Penn Foundation
SB
Sarah Brennan
Associate/Program Management Consultant
Booz Allen Hamilton
JB
Jamilya Briggs
Assistant Laboratory Manager
DeKalb County Government
CB
Chris Brooks
McCormick Taylor, Baltimore, MD
TB
Ted Brown
Biohabitats
RB
Robert Burgholzer
Surface Water Modeler
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
PB
Pam Bush
Delaware River Basin Commission
RC
Robert Caccese
Staff Attorney
Penn State University
SC
Sara Caldes
Severn Riverkeeper
Chesapeake Rivers Association, Inc.
JC
Jim Caldwell
Howard County Director of Sustainability, Ellicott City, MD
MC
Michael Campana
Professor
Oregon State University
MC
Michelle Canick
The Nature Conservancy
CC
Christopher Carlson
Assistant Director for Water & Aquatic Resources
USDA Forest Service Washington Office, Washington, DC
JC
Jennifer Carr
Director of Grants & Operations
South River Federation
LC
Lara Carter
Student
Oxbridge Academy
BC
Brian Caruso
Supervisory Hydrologist
US Fish and Wildlife Service
MC
Matthew Cashman
Geomoprhologist
USGS
TC
Tori Catalo
Student
Florida Gulf Coast University
TC
Tae Sung Cheong
Senior Researcher
National Disaster Management Research Institute
CC
Changwon Choi
Researcher
National Disaster Management Research Institute
LC
Liz Chudoba
Water Quality Program Manager
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
SC
Sally Claggett
USFS Liaison to the Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD
EC
Ed Clark
National Weather Service, Tuscaloosa, AL
Office of Water Prediction
SC
Sarah Clarke
Senior Associate
Institute for Conservation Leadership
SC
Shirley Clark
Professor of Environmental Engineering
Penn State Harrisburg
PC
Patrick Coady
Senior Director
Seale & Associates
CC
Carol Collier
The Academy of natural Sciences at Drexel University
MC
Mai-Brie Conklin
Student
Oxbridge Academy
JC
Joseph Copeland
Senior Consultant (Environmental Specialist)
Booz Allen Hamilton
CC
Chris Counsell
Principal Scientist
HR Wallingford
JC
Joseph Czernikowski
Student
Penn State Harrisburg
AD
Allison Danner
Civil Engineer (Hydrologic)
US Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region
AD
Andrew Dehoff
Executive Director
Susquehanna River Basin Commission
CD
Chris Delaney
Senior Engineer
Sonoma County Water Agency
SD
Sabrina Delgado Arias
Senior Research Scientist
Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - NASA GSFC
MD
Mark Devey
Undergraduate Researcher
Utah State University
PD
Patricia Doan
Environmental Protection Specialist
District Department of Energy and Environment
SD
Steven Domber
Acting Section Chief
NJ Department of Environmental Protection
MD
Matthew Draper
Draper, LLC
JD
Jon Duncan
Assistant Professor of Hydrology
Penn State University
CD
Charlotte Dungan
Environmental Engineering student
Mercer University
ME
Michele Eddy
Environmental Engineer
RTI International
ME
Matthew Ehrhart
Director of Watershed Restoration
Stroud Water Research Center
JE
Joanna Endter-Wada
Professor
Utah State University
RF
Russ Faux
Senior Vice-President, Growth Initiatives
Quantum Spatial, Inc.
EF
Eric Fitch
Dir, Env. Science Prgm
Marietta College - Environmental Science
LF
Lara Fowler
Senior Lecturer, Penn State Law; Assistant Director, Institutes of Energy and the Environment
Penn State University
JF
Jordan Fox
Watershed and Stormwater Technician
Center for Watershed Protection
PF
Paul Freedman
CEO
LimnoTech, Inc.
JF
John Furman
KCI, Baltimore, MD
LG
Li Gao
Project Manager
Brudis & Associates, Inc
NG
Negin Ghoseiri
Remote Sensing Senior Tech
Quantum Spatial
NG
Nancy Gibson
Research Assistant
North Carolina State University
RG
Ryan Gilliom
Graduate Research Assistant
Colorado School of Mines
MG
Marangely Gonzalez Cruz
PhD Student
Texas Tech University
PG
Peter Groffman
Professor
CUNY
HG
Hannah Guyer
Graduate Student
Iowa State University
AH
Anne Hairston-Strang
Associate Director
MD DNR Forest Service
MH
Miae HA
Assistant Hydrologist
Argonne National Laboratory
TH
Timothy Hawkins
Professor
Shippensburg University
LH
Lauren Hay
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
TH
Tommie Herbert
National Conservation Finance Lead
USDA Forest Service Washington Office, Washington, DC
NH
Nasser Heydari
Ph.D. Candidate
Lehigh University
MH
Mischa Hey
Senior Program Director
Quantum Spatial
RH
Roy Hoagland
Senior Program Officer
Virginia Environmental Endowment
SH
Sue Hoegberg
Senior GIS Project Manager
Dewberry
GH
Greg Hoffmann
Director of Stormwater Services
Center for Watershed Protection
MJ
Mohammadreza Jabehdari
Doctoral Student
Morgan State University
MJ
Michael Jasinski
Research Hydrologist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
MJ
Matthew Jones
Senior Associate
Hazen and Sawyer
CK
Chintamani Kandel
Geographer
US Geological Survey - Richmond, VA
SK
Sujay Kaushal
Associate Professor
University of Maryland
MK
Margaret Kearns
Senior Scientist
Corona Environmental Consulting, LLC
SK
Shamitha Keerthi
Nutrients and Water Quality Scientist
The Nature Conservamncy
JK
Jeni Keisman
Biologist
US Geological Survey
GK
Golnoosh Khajouei
P.h.D student
West Virginia University
YK
Yogesh Khare
Environmental Engineer
Everglades Foundation
MK
Mi Jung Kim
Researcher
National Disaster Management Research Institute
JK
Joseph Kleiner
Sr. Surface Water Modeler
DEQ
DK
Deborah Kratzer
Environmental Specialist
NJDEP
FK
Felix Kristanovich
Hydraulic Engineer
Ramboll
SK
Stefanie Kroll
Assistant Research Professor, Watershed Ecology Section Leader
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
SK
Scott Kudlas
Director, Office of Water Supply
VADEQ
KL
Katy Lackey
Research Manager
The Water Research Foundation
JL
Jacob LaFontaine
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
AL
Amarsinh Landage
Research Scholar
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DELHI
SL
Sara Larsen
WaDE Program Manager
Western States Water Council
JL
Jason Lillywhite
Water Resources Engineer
GoldSim Technology Group
LL
Laurence Lin
Research Assistant
University of Virginia
CL
Can Liu
Water Resources Modeler
Susquehanna River Basin Commission
SL
Sophia Lloyd-George
Student
Oxbridge Academy
SL
Sue Lowry
Executive Director
Interstate Council on Water Policy, Cheyenne, WY
CL
Christopher Lupo
Water Resources Engineer
RESPEC
BL
Bruce Lytle
President
Lytle Water Solutions, LLC
RM
Ronald MacGillivray
Senior Environmental Toxicologist
Delaware River Basin Commission
SM
Sriram Madabhushi
Senior Lead Technologist
Booz Allen Hamilton
MM
Mehrnoosh Mahmoudi
Postdoc Associate
Applied Research Center-FIU
EM
Emily Majcher
Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey
BM
Brendan Marencin
Lab Technician
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
MM
Morgan McCarthy
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
JM
John McKay
Natural Resources Planner
Maryland Department of the Environment
QM
Quinn McKenna
Student
Oxbridge Academy
JM
James McNair
Associate Professor
Annis Water Resources Institute
WM
Wendy McPherson
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
SM
Sharon Megdal
Director
Central Arizona Project, University of Arizona
SM
Sandra Meola
State Policy Director
Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed
SM
Shirley Micallef
Associate Professor
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
TM
Ted Mikalsen
Retired
Retired, Georgia Environmental Protection Division
JM
Joseph Mills
Acid Rock Drainage Specialist
Skelly and Loy, Inc.
OM
Owen Mills
Oklahoma Water Resources Board, Oklahoma City, OK, “Oklahoma’s Comprehensive Water Plan and Water for 2060 Initiative”
RM
Rebecca (Becky) R. Mitchell
Colorado Water Conservation Board, Department of Natural Resources
State of Colorado, Denver, CO
DM
David Mocko
Senior Research Scientist
SAIC at NASA/GSFC
JM
Joel Moore
Associate Professor of Geosciences
Towson University
TM
Todd Moses
Senior restoration specialist
Skelly and Loy, Inc.
KM
Kelly Mott Lacroix
Hydrologist
US Forest Service
KN
Kenneth Najjar
Director, Water Resource Management
Delaware River Basin Commission
MN
Martha Narvaez
Water Resources Center, University of Delaware
MN
Masoud Negahban-Azar
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
TN
Timothy Neher
Graduate Research Assistant
Iowa State University
EN
Elizabeth Nichols
Professor
NC State University
EN
Emmanuel Nzewi
Professor & Dept. Head
Prairie View A&M University
JO
Judith Okay
Riparian Specialist
J&J Okay Consulting
JO
Jeanne Ortiz
Manager Landscape Conservation
Audubon Pennsylvania
JO
Jason Oyler
usquehanna River Basin Commission, Harrisburg, PA
RP
Reed Palmer
Associate
Hazen and Sawyer
MP
Manashi Paul
Graduate Assistant
University of Maryland, College Park
CP
Chip Paulson
Principal Engineer
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
MP
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland, College Park
AP
Alexander Pelosi
Water Resources Engineer
AECOM
SP
Scott Phillips
USGS Chesapeake Bay Coordinator
U.S. Geological Survey
PP
Paul Pickett
Water Quality Engineer
Washington State Dept of Ecology
CP
Chad Pindar
Manager of Water Resource Planning
Delaware River Basin Commission
CP
Christiana Pollack
Environmental Scientist
Princeton Hydro
RP
Richard Pouyat
Ecologist
US Forest Service
JR
Jeff Raffensperger
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
JR
Jennifer Rapp
Geographer and GIS Specialist
US Geological Survey
JR
Jaclyn Rhoads
Assistant. Executive Director
Pinelands Preservation Alliance
ER
Emily Rice
Environmental Protection Specialist
District Department of Energy and Environment
MR
Matt Ries
Chief, Water Quality & Watershed Management
DC Water
JR
Jesse Roach
Sr. Water Resources Engineer
Tetra Tech Inc.
YR
Yiliannis Rodriguez
Student
Florida Gulf Coast University
ER
Eric Rosenberg
Associate
Hazen and Sawyer
RR
Rachel Rosenberg-Goldstein
Assistant Research Professor
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
JR
Joseph Rubsamen
Student
Oxbridge Academy
JR
Jae Ryu
Water Resources Engineer
University of Idaho
AS
Amy Sapkota
Professor
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
SS
Samuel Saxe
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
MS
Mary Schmidt
MS student
University of Maryland
SS
Stephen Schoenholtz
Virginia Water Resources Research Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
SS
Steve Schreiner
Senior Scientist
Versar Inc.
CS
Cherie Schultz
Director for CO-OP Operations
ICPRB
DS
Durelle Scott
Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
AS
Alimatou Seck
Water Resources Scientist
ICPRB
CS
Carrie Sessions
Policy and Legislative Analyst
Washington State Dept of Ecology
GS
Ghazal Shabestanipour
PhD student
University of Maryland
AS
Amy Shallcross
Manager, Water Resource Operations
Delaware River Basin Commission
AS
A. Michael Sheer
Senior Policy Analyst
HydroLogics, Inc.
GS
Gary Shenk
Hydrologist
USGS
MS
Mohsen Sherif
Professor
UAE University
AS
Adel Shirmohammadi
Professor
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
JS
Julie Shortridge
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech Department of Biological Systems Engineering
FS
Farshid Shoushtarian
Ph.D. student
University of Maryland, College Park
CS
Carl Simon
Director of Programs
Blue Water Baltimore
RS
Rioger Sims
Holland &Knight, LLP, Orlando, FL
MS
Marilyn Sobel
Research Scientist
Pinelands Commission
GS
Gary Speiran
Research Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
CS
Carlton Spirio
State Drainage Engineer
Florida Dept of Transportation
VS
Venkataramana Sridhar
Virginia Tech
AS
Alice Stanley
Resource Development Bureau Chief
Montana DNRC-CARDD
PS
Peter Steeves
GIS Specialist
US Geological Survey
LS
Luanne Steffy
Aquatic Ecologist
Susquehanna River Basin Commission
DS
Daron Stein
Global Head of Business Development
Source Molecular Corporation
JS
James Stribling
Director
Tetra Tech, Inc.
NS
Namsoo Suk
Director, Science and Water Quality Management
Delaware River Basin Commission
CS
Cristiane Queiroz Surbeck
2018 President of ASCE/EWRI
ASCE/EWRI, Oxford, MS
AS
Areba Syed
Graduate Research Assistant
Iowa State University
ZS
Zoltan Szabo
Research Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey
PT
Peter Tango
Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Coordinator
U.S. Geological Survey
JT
Jeremy Testa
Assistant Professor
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, UMCES
MT
Matt Thomasson
RKK, Baltimore, MD
DT
Darren Thompson
Director - Water Resources
San Antonio Water System
TT
Teresa Thornton
Coordinator of Scientific Research and Environmental Outreach
Oxbridge Academy
MT
Michelle Tomlinson
Oceanographer
NOAA's National Center for Coastal Ocean Science
ET
Enrique Triana
Senior Program Manager
RTI International
KT
Kevin Turpie
Research Associate Professor
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
VU
Venkatesh Uddameri
JAWRA Editor-inChief
Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX
DV
Daniel Van Abs
Associate Professor of Practice for Water, Society and Environment
Rutgers University
AV
Ashley Van Beusekom
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
LV
Lindsey Veas
Lead Scientist
Booz Allen Hamilton
CV
Christopher Victoria
Environmental Scientist
Anne Arundel County Watershed Protection and Restoration Program
BW
Blake Weger
Student
Oxbridge Academy
AW
Abigail Weinberg
Director of Conservation Research
Open Space Institute
WW
W. Joshua Weiss
Associate
Hazen and Sawyer
DW
Donald Weller
Senior Scientist
SERC
RW
Rachel White
Environmental Services Trainee
NJDEP
JW
Jared Wilkey
Student
Florida Gulf Coast University
AW
Anthony Willardson
Associate Director
Western States Water Council
KW
Karl Williard
Professor
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
CW
Caitlin Willoughby
Lead Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton
EW
Edward Wilson
Owner
Dr.
RW
Rebecca Winer-Skonovd
Managing Scientist
Brown and Caldwell
JW
June Wolfe
Associate Research Scientist
Texas A&M AgriLife Research
CW
Christopher Woltemade
Professor
Shippensburg University
CW
Cuiyin Wu
Scientific, Technical Assessment & Reporting Team Staffer
Chesapeake Research Consortium at the Chesapeake Bay Program
HX
Hui Xu
Postdoctoral Appointee
Argonne National Laboratory
YX
Yinhui (Lucida) Xu
Vice President
CPH, Inc.
DY
Dave Yake
Former Business & Technology Director, DuPont
Save Our Water
LY
Leslie Yetka
Director of Programs
Freshwater Society, St. Paul, MN
KY
Krystal Yhap
Graduate Assistant
University of Maryland
DY
Dwane Young
US EPA Office of Water, Washington, DC
Water Data Integration Branch
HZ
Harry Zhang
Program Director
The Water Research Foundation
HZ
Harry Zhang
Program Director
The Water Research Foundation
NZ
Ning Zhang
Associate Professor
Central State University
QZ
Qian Zhang
Assistant Research Scientist
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science / USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program
ZZ
Zhenxing Zhang
Hydrologist
Illinois State Water Survey
TZ
Tan Zi
Environmental Engineer
Tetra Tech Inc.
OZ
Omar Zohny
Faculty of Engineering
Ain Shams University

Sponsors

American Institute of Hydrology (AIH)
Gold
Black & Veatch
Gold
Stantec
Silver
Stevens
Silver
Michael Campana
Bronze
RK&K
Bronze
Skelly and Loy
Copper

Exhibitors

GoldSim Technology
Aquatic Informatics
Aquaveo
Biohabitats
Brundis & Associates, Inc. (BAI)
esri
Illinois State Water Survey
In-Situ
Juniper Systems
Kisters
Olsson Associates
Quantum Spatial
RK&K
Stevens
YSI, a xylem brand

Session Schedule

  • 04 November
  • 05 November
  • 06 November
  • 07 November
  • 08 November
08:30 AM
Workshop: Water Conflict Management and Transformation

08:30 AM 05:00 PM

06:00 AM
AWRA Conversation Corner

06:00 AM 07:00 PM Grand Ballroom

AWRA Function
07:00 AM
Conference Registration

07:00 AM 05:00 PM Grand Ballroom Pre Function Foyer

AWRA Function
07:00 AM
Speakers Preparation Room

07:00 AM 08:00 PM Orioles Boardroom

AWRA Function
08:00 AM
Exhibit Hall

08:00 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

AWRA Function
08:00 AM
SDI 12 Support Group Technical Committee Meeting

08:00 AM 05:00 PM Ravens

08:30 AM
Conference Opening Plenary Session: Navigating New Waters – Communicating Science in Today’s World

08:30 AM 12:00 PM West DEF

08:30 AM
Jobs and Resume Board

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

AWRA Function
10:00 AM
Networking Refreshment Break Sponsored by AIH

10:00 AM 10:30 AM ABC East

AWRA Function
Sponsored Event
12:00 PM
IWRM Technical Committee Meeting

12:00 PM 01:15 PM Harbor Room

AWRA Function
01:30 PM
Session 1: Modeling - Water Quality and Quantity

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 1

MB Matt Bliss

NG Nancy Gibson

CL Christopher Lupo

CS Cherie Schultz

Modeling Data and Tools
01:30 PM
Session 2: Chesapeake Bay Water Management

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 2

SA Sarah Ahmed

SB Sarah Brennan

RF Russ Faux

GS Gary Speiran

Regional Track
01:30 PM
Session 3: Women in Water Resources

01:30 PM 03:00 PM West DEF

BB Brenda  Bateman

CC Carol Collier

LF Lara Fowler

SL Sue Lowry

RM Rebecca (Becky) R. Mitchell

MN Martha Narvaez

CS Cristiane Queiroz Surbeck

Miscellaneous Topics
01:30 PM
Session 4: Water Supply Management

01:30 PM 03:10 PM Stadium 3

RP Reed Palmer

CP Chip Paulson

JR Jesse Roach

DV Daniel Van Abs

KY Krystal Yhap

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
01:30 PM
Session 5: Detection of New and Emerging Contaminants

01:30 PM 03:10 PM Stadium 4

MK Margaret Kearns

RM Ronald MacGillivray

SM Sriram Madabhushi

DS Daron Stein

ZS Zoltan Szabo

Water Quality Track
03:00 PM
Networking Refreshment Break Sponsored by AIH

03:00 PM 03:30 PM ABC East

AWRA Function
Sponsored Event
03:30 PM
Session 6: Modeling Part 2 - Water Quantity and Reservoir Operations

03:30 PM 05:10 PM Stadium 1

CD Chris Delaney

SD Steven Domber

JL Jason Lillywhite

EN Emmanuel Nzewi

WW W. Joshua Weiss

Modeling Data and Tools
03:30 PM
Session 7: Using High Resolution Modeling to Improve Chesapeake Bay

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 2

MB Matthew Baker

MC Matthew Cashman

JO Judith Okay

SP Scott Phillips

Regional Track
03:30 PM
Session 8: PANEL: AWRA State Water Plan Monograph – Planning in the Field, a View from the States

03:30 PM 05:00 PM West DEF

SK Scott Kudlas

OM Owen Mills

CS Carrie Sessions

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
03:30 PM
Session 9: Water Resources Management and Planning

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 3

SM Sharon Megdal

ER Eric Rosenberg

DT Darren Thompson

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
03:30 PM
Session 10: Emerging Contaminants

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 4

SC Shirley Clark

CK Chintamani Kandel

EN Elizabeth Nichols

JR Jennifer Rapp

JR Joseph Rubsamen

Water Quality Track
04:45 PM
Student Attendee Conference Orientation

04:45 PM 05:15 PM Grand Ballroom Foyer

MC Michael Campana

AWRA Function
05:00 PM
Opening Reception, Silent Auction, and Poster Session

05:00 PM 06:30 PM ABC East

AWRA Function
06:00 AM
AWRA Conversation Corner

06:00 AM 07:00 PM Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
06:30 AM
AWRA 5K Fun Run

06:30 AM 08:00 AM Hotel Lobby

AWRA Function
07:00 AM
Speakers Preparation Room

07:00 AM 08:00 PM Orioles Room

AWRA Function
07:00 AM
Past President's Breakfast

07:00 AM 08:30 AM Promenade Room

07:00 AM
Technology Technical Committee Meeting

07:00 AM 08:30 AM Harbor Room

AWRA Function
08:00 AM
Exhibit Hall

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

AWRA Function
08:00 AM
SDI 12 Support Group General Meeting

08:00 AM 05:00 PM Ravens Room

08:00 AM
Conference Registration

08:00 AM 05:00 PM Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
08:30 AM
Session 11: CONUS Hydrology Models - Part 1

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 2

LH Lauren Hay

JL Jacob LaFontaine

AV Ashley Van Beusekom

Modeling Data and Tools
08:30 AM
Session 12: Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 1

KA Katherine Antos

LS Luanne Steffy

DW Donald Weller

CW Cuiyin Wu

Regional Track
08:30 AM
Session 13: Urban Water Management

08:30 AM 10:00 AM West Ballroom

JB Jennifer Benjamin

MJ Mohammadreza Jabehdari

ET Enrique Triana

Urban Water Track
08:30 AM
Session 14: PANEL: Benefits and Challenges of Delivering Interdisciplinary Graduate and Undergraduate Education in Water Resources

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 3

MC Michael Campana

SM Sharon Megdal

SS Stephen Schoenholtz

KW Karl Williard

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
08:30 AM
Session 15: Water Quality in Agricultural Systems

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 4

SK Shamitha Keerthi

MP Manashi Paul

FS Farshid Shoushtarian

AS Areba Syed

Water Quality Track
08:30 AM
Jobs and Resume Board

08:30 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

AWRA Function
10:00 AM
Networking Refreshment Break Sponsored by AIH

10:00 AM 10:30 AM ABC East

AWRA Function
Sponsored Event
10:30 AM
Session 16: CONUS Hydrology Models - Part 2

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 2

WB William Battaglin

JR Jeff Raffensperger

SS Samuel Saxe

OZ Omar Zohny

Modeling Data and Tools
10:30 AM
Session 17: Modeling and Assessment of Complex Watershed-River-Estuary Systems: Chesapeake Bay as a Case Study of Ecosystem Restoration and Management

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 1

SA Scott Ator

JB Joel Blomquist

GS Gary Shenk

JT Jeremy Testa

Regional Track
10:30 AM
Session 18: Perspectives on Green Infrastructure

10:30 AM 12:00 PM West Ballroom

RG Ryan Gilliom

MP Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman

AP Alexander Pelosi

Urban Water Track
10:30 AM
Session 19: Education and Outreach or Reaching Your Stakeholder

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 4

JB Jamilya Briggs

PD Patricia Doan

JR Jae Ryu

TT Teresa Thornton

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
10:30 AM
Session 20: PANEL: Water Reuse in Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 3

SM Shirley Micallef

MN Masoud Negahban-Azar

RR Rachel Rosenberg-Goldstein

AS Amy Sapkota

AS Adel Shirmohammadi

Water Quality Track
12:00 PM
Policy Technical Committee Meeting

12:00 PM 01:30 PM Harbor Room

AWRA Function
01:30 PM
Session 21: PANEL: Open Water Data Initiative and the Internet of Water

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 3

DB David Blodgett

EC Ed Clark

AD Allison Danner

DY Dwane Young

Modeling Data and Tools
01:30 PM
Session 22: Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Standards Criteria Assessment for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity, and Chlorophyll-a: Method Development and Implementation for Ecosystem Management

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 1

LC Liz Chudoba

PT Peter Tango

QZ Qian Zhang

Regional Track
01:30 PM
Session 23: Natural Systems for Stormwater Management

01:30 PM 03:00 PM West Ballroom

Urban Water Track
01:30 PM
Session 24: PANEL: Shrinking Budgets and Growing Needs – Using Watershed Investment Partnerships to Close the Gap

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 4

CC Christopher Carlson

SC Sally Claggett

TH Tommie Herbert

KM Kelly Mott Lacroix

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
01:30 PM
Session 25: Watershed Monitoring and Restoration

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 2

Water Quality Track
03:00 PM
Networking Refreshment Break Sponsored by AIH

03:00 PM 03:30 PM ABC East

AWRA Function
Sponsored Event
03:30 PM
Session 26: Geospatial Water Technology Lightning Talks

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 3

DA David Arscott

DB David Blodgett

MC Matthew Cashman

CC Chris Counsell

AD Allison Danner

SD Sabrina Delgado Arias

RF Russ Faux

MJ Michael Jasinski

MK Margaret Kearns

SL Sara Larsen

AV Ashley Van Beusekom

WW W. Joshua Weiss

Modeling Data and Tools
03:30 PM
Session 27: Cutting Through the Tape – How NGOs are Leading the Way with Chesapeake Bay Restoration

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 1

TB Ted Brown

SC Sara Caldes

JC Jennifer Carr

CS Carl Simon

Regional Track
03:30 PM
Session 28: Stormwater Issues and Solutions - Part 1

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 2

JA Jonathan Abelson

LG Li Gao

FK Felix Kristanovich

CS Carlton Spirio

Urban Water Track
03:30 PM
Session 29: Innovative Funding Mechanisms

03:30 PM 05:00 PM West Ballroom

ME Michele Eddy

GH Greg Hoffmann

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
03:30 PM
Session 30: Chemical Management in Water Resources

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 4

MD Mark Devey

GK Golnoosh Khajouei

JM Joseph Mills

YX Yinhui (Lucida) Xu

Water Quality Track
06:00 PM
Bounty of the Chesapeake Reception

06:00 PM 08:00 PM Lord Baltimore Hotel - Bus from Marriott Camden Yards

AWRA Function
06:00 AM
AWRA Conversation Corner

06:00 AM 07:00 PM Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
07:00 AM
International Technical Committee Meeting

07:00 AM 08:30 AM Harbor Room

AWRA Function
07:00 AM
Speakers Preparation Room

07:00 AM 05:00 PM Orioles Room

AWRA Function
08:00 AM
Conference Registration

08:00 AM 05:00 PM Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
08:30 AM
Session 31: Decision Support Systems for Water Management

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 1

ME Michele Eddy

AS Alimatou Seck

AS Alice Stanley

Modeling Data and Tools
08:30 AM
Session 32: More Restoration vs More Protection: Is there a Magic Balance for Healthy Watersheds?

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 2

AB Amanda Bassow

PC Patrick Coady

ME Matthew Ehrhart

RH Roy Hoagland

AW Abigail Weinberg

Regional Track
08:30 AM
Session 33: Stormwater Issues and Solutions - Part 2

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 4

JF Jordan Fox

RG Ryan Gilliom

MJ Matthew Jones

RW Rebecca Winer-Skonovd

Urban Water Track
08:30 AM
Session 34: Engaging your Public in Water Planning Part 1

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 3

CB Claire Bleser

LY Leslie Yetka

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
08:30 AM
Session 35: Water Quality Management and Planning

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 5

EF Eric Fitch

YK Yogesh Khare

DK Deborah Kratzer

MS Marilyn Sobel

WW W. Joshua Weiss

Water Quality Track
10:00 AM
Networking Refreshment Break Sponsored by AIH

10:00 AM 10:30 AM Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
Sponsored Event
10:30 AM
Session 36: Improving Water Resources Decision Support Using Satellite-based Earth Observations and Hydrologic Data Asimilation Systems

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 1

JB John Bolten

SD Sabrina Delgado Arias

MJ Michael Jasinski

DM David Mocko

Modeling Data and Tools
10:30 AM
Session 37: Can NGOs Drive Progress While Government Takes a Backseat? The Case of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 2

NB Nathan Boon

PF Paul Freedman

SM Sandra Meola

EW Edward Wilson

Regional Track
10:30 AM
Session 38: Stormwater Issues and Solutions - Part 3

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 4

JF Jordan Fox

GH Greg Hoffmann

TZ Tan Zi

Urban Water Track
10:30 AM
Session 39: Engaging your Public in Water Planning Part 2

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 3

CB Claire Bleser

LY Leslie Yetka

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
10:30 AM
Session 40: PANEL: We Know People Care About Water, But How to Turn Interest into Action –Lessons Learned?

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 5

SC Sarah Clarke

CC Carol Collier

JO Jeanne Ortiz

JR Jaclyn Rhoads

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
12:00 PM
AWRA Annual Awards Luncheon

12:00 PM 01:30 PM ABC East

AWRA Function
01:30 PM
Session 41: Visualizing Watersheds

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 1

SL Sara Larsen

ER Emily Rice

MR Matt Ries

CW Caitlin Willoughby

Modeling Data and Tools
01:30 PM
Session 42: Delaware River - Part 1

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 2

KN Kenneth Najjar

CP Chad Pindar

AS Amy Shallcross

NS Namsoo Suk

Regional Track
01:30 PM
Session 43: Twenty years of Insights into Urban Water Quality from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Long-Term Ecological Research Project - Part 1

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 4

JD Jon Duncan

EM Emily Majcher

JM Joel Moore

Urban Water Track
01:30 PM
Session 44: Stakeholder Engagement in Water Resources

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 3

KA Khaled Akhtar

MA Mike Antos

LF Lara Fowler

AS A. Michael Sheer

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
01:30 PM
Session 45: Climate Change Impacts - CANCELLED

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 5

Miscellaneous Topics
03:00 PM
Networking Refreshment Break Sponsored by AIH

03:00 PM 03:30 PM Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
Sponsored Event
03:30 PM
Session 46: USGS 3-D Elevation Program

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 1

SA Stephen Aichele

RB Roger Barlow

MH Mischa Hey

SH Sue Hoegberg

Modeling Data and Tools
03:30 PM
Session 47: Delaware River - Part 2

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 2

DA David Arscott

TH Timothy Hawkins

SK Stefanie Kroll

CW Christopher Woltemade

Regional Track
03:30 PM
Session 48: Twenty Years of Insights into Urban Water Quality from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Long-Term Ecological Research Project - Part 2

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 4

KB Kenneth Belt

SK Sujay Kaushal

LL Laurence Lin

RP Richard Pouyat

Urban Water Track
03:30 PM
Session 49: PANEL: Navigating the Confines of Water Law in the Eastern United States

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 5

PB Pam Bush

RC Robert Caccese

MD Matthew Draper

LF Lara Fowler

JO Jason Oyler

RS Rioger Sims

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
03:30 PM
Session 50: Wetlands

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 3

MC Michelle Canick

BC Brian Caruso

JE Joanna Endter-Wada

Miscellaneous Topics
05:00 PM
Student & Young Professional Career Night: Panel of Professionals Discussion and Networking - Sponsored by Stantec

05:00 PM 07:00 PM ABC East

Sponsored Event
06:00 AM
AWRA Conversation Center

06:00 AM 03:30 PM Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
07:00 AM
Flowing Waters Technical Committee Meeting

07:00 AM 08:30 AM Harbor Room

AWRA Function
07:00 AM
Speakers Preparation Room

07:00 AM 03:30 PM Orioles Room

AWRA Function
08:00 AM
Conference Registration

08:00 AM 03:30 PM Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
08:30 AM
Session 51: Hydrological Modeling

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Salon ABC

MB Matthew Bachman

MB Matt Bliss

AL Amarsinh Landage

PS Peter Steeves

DY Dave Yake

Modeling Data and Tools
08:30 AM
Session 52: Flooding in Ellicott City, Maryland

08:30 AM 10:00 AM East Ballroom

CB Chris Brooks

TB Ted Brown

JC Jim Caldwell

JF John Furman

MT Matt Thomasson

Regional Track
08:30 AM
Session 53: Green Infrastructure

08:30 AM 10:00 AM West Ballroom

AB Akta Patel Bianca Santos

HZ Harry Zhang

Urban Water Track
08:30 AM
Session 54: Publishing JAWRA

08:30 AM 10:00 AM University 1 and 2

VU Venkatesh  Uddameri

Miscellaneous Topics
10:00 AM
Networking Refreshment Break Sponsored by AIH

10:00 AM 10:30 AM Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
Sponsored Event
10:30 AM
Session 55: Groundwater

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Salon ABC

MC Michael Campana

CD Charlotte Dungan

BL Bruce Lytle

HX Hui Xu

Miscellaneous Topics
10:30 AM
Session 56: Applying Earth Observations for Resource Management Around Chesapeake Bay Water Quality

10:30 AM 12:00 PM East Ballroom

JM John McKay

MT Michelle Tomlinson

KT Kevin Turpie

WW W. Joshua Weiss

Regional Track
10:30 AM
Session 57: International Water Issues

10:30 AM 12:00 PM West Ballroom

CC Chris Counsell

EN Emmanuel Nzewi

MS Mohsen Sherif

VS Venkataramana Sridhar

Miscellaneous Topics
10:30 AM
Session 58: AWRA Policy Committee - Water Allocation

10:30 AM 12:00 PM University 1 and 2

RC Robert Caccese

AD Andrew Dehoff

CS Carrie Sessions

AW Anthony Willardson

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
12:00 PM
Future Risk Technical Committee Meeting

12:00 PM 01:30 PM Harbor Room

AWRA Function
12:00 PM
Lunch On Your Own

12:00 PM 01:15 PM

01:30 PM
Session 59: Stream Restoration

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Salon ABC

SB Steve Bevington

JC Joseph Czernikowski

AH Anne Hairston-Strang

JS James Stribling

CV Christopher Victoria

Miscellaneous Topics
01:30 PM
Session 60: Managing Instream Flows in Virginia - Part 1

01:30 PM 03:00 PM East Ballroom

RB Robert Burgholzer

JK Joseph Kleiner

JR Jennifer Rapp

Regional Track
01:30 PM
Session 61 CANCELLED: Panel: Groundwater Discharges and Clean Water Act Compliance

01:30 PM 03:00 PM West Ballroom

Miscellaneous Topics
01:30 PM
Session 62: Flood Warning Systems

01:30 PM 03:00 PM University 1 and 2

CB ChangYeon Bae

TC Tae Sung Cheong

MK Mi Jung Kim

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
03:00 PM
Networking Refreshment Break Sponsored by AIH

03:00 PM 03:30 PM Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Foyer

AWRA Function
Sponsored Event
03:30 PM
Session 63: Stream System Assessment and Management

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Salon ABC

JM James McNair

TM Ted Mikalsen

PP Paul Pickett

Miscellaneous Topics
03:30 PM
Session 64: Managing Instream Flows in Virginia - Part 2

03:30 PM 05:00 PM East Ballroom

MM Morgan McCarthy

DS Durelle Scott

JS Julie Shortridge

Regional Track
03:30 PM
Session 65: Building Resiliency in the Face of Water Resources Risk Management

03:30 PM 05:00 PM West Ballroom

SB Sen Bai

CL Can Liu

ZZ Zhenxing Zhang

Miscellaneous Topics
03:30 PM
Session 66: Flooding and Risk Management

03:30 PM 05:00 PM University 1 and 2

CC Changwon Choi

MG Marangely Gonzalez Cruz

CP Christiana Pollack

LV Lindsey Veas

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management

Poster Schedule

  • 05 November
  • 06 November
08:30 AM
The Determination of the Pharmaceutical NSAID Flunixin in Drinking and Surface Water Sources as a Result of Large Animal Waste Runoff in Rural Communities of South Florida

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

LC Lara Carter

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Who Owns the Pond? Who Owns the Pollutants? Residential Stormwater Ponds in Southwest Florida

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

TC Tori Catalo

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Fecal Contamination in Private Well Water from Private Septic in the Flood Prone Residential Areas of Jupiter, Florida

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

MC Mai-Brie Conklin

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Water Contingency Planning in Skaneateles, NY: Watershed Resilience, Planning, and Management

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

JC Joseph Copeland

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
The Role of Model Complexity in Assessing Water Supply System Resilience

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

CC Chris Counsell

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Support Decision Making Under Uncertainty in Water Resource Management

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

CC Chris Counsell

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Solar Loading and Effective Shade Analysis Using Lidar Data and Components of the Heat Source Model

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

NG Negin Ghoseiri

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
CO2 Emissions Risk: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Manure and Fertilizer Inputs to Land in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1950-2012

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

JK Jeni Keisman

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Prevalence of Hexavalent Chromium in the End Use of Public Drinking Water Systems in Palm Beach County, FL

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

SL Sophia Lloyd-George

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
The Impact of Ecological Restoration on Chironomidae Genera Abundance and Diversity in the Lower Delaware River Basin

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

BM Brendan Marencin

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
The Quantification of Toxins β‐N‐methylamino‐l‐alanine (BMAA) and Microcystis Beyond the Visible Periphery of Algal Super Plumes in the Indian River Lagoon

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

QM Quinn McKenna

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Water Use Estimates in Maryland for 2015

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

WM Wendy McPherson

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Flood Mitigation with Decentralized Detention Ponds in Suburban Southwest Florida

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

YR Yiliannis Rodriguez

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Small Scale Water Footprint Analysis

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

MS Mary Schmidt

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Youghiogheny River Temperature Release Protocol for Operating Deep Creek Hydro Station for Trout Habitat: Twenty-three Years of Results

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

SS Steve Schreiner

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Sustainability Assessment in Urban Water Systems and the Approaches

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

GS Ghazal Shabestanipour

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Bioaccumulation of Methylmercury Levels in Southeastern Atlantic Scorpionades (Lionfish), as a Function of Fish Length and Mass

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

BW Blake Weger

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Developing New Ground Water Quality Standards in New Jersey: A Response to Emerging Contaminants

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

RW Rachel White

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Flooding in the Suburbs: Rapid Growth and Land Use Changes can Overwhelm Stormwater Drainage, Case Study for the Village of Estero, FL

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

JW Jared Wilkey

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Storm Runoff Factors Influencing Suspended Sediment Loads in a Highly Developed Urban Watershed

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

JW June Wolfe

Technical Poster Session
08:30 AM
Unconventional Hydraulic Fracturing Impacts on Surface Water Quality in Northeast Ohio

08:30 AM 06:30 PM ABC East

NZ Ning Zhang

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
The Determination of the Pharmaceutical NSAID Flunixin in Drinking and Surface Water Sources as a Result of Large Animal Waste Runoff in Rural Communities of South Florida

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

LC Lara Carter

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Who Owns the Pond? Who Owns the Pollutant? Stormwater Pollutant Monitoring in Suburban Southwest Florida

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

TC Tori Catalo

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Fecal Contamination in Private Well Water from Private Septic in the Flood Prone Residential Areas of Jupiter, Florida

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

MC Mai-Brie Conklin

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Water Contingency Planning in Skaneateles, NY: Watershed Resilience, Planning, and Management.

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

JC Joseph Copeland

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
The Role of Model Complexity in Assessing Water Supply System Resilience

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

CC Chris Counsell

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Support Decision Making Under Uncertainty in Water Resource Management

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

CC Chris Counsell

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Solar Loading and Effective Shade Analysis Using LiDAR Data and Components of the Heat Source Model

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

NG Negin Ghoseiri

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
CO2 Emissions Risk: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Erosion at the Base of a Gravel Embedded Vertical Retaining Wall

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

NH Nasser Heydari

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Manure and Fertilizer Inputs to Land in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1950-2012

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

JK Jeni Keisman

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Prevalence of Hexavalent Chromium in the End Use of Public Drinking Water Systems in Palm Beach County, FL

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

SL Sophia Lloyd-George

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
The Impact of Ecological Restoration on Chironomidae Genera Abundance and Diversity in the Lower Delaware River Basin

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

BM Brendan Marencin

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
The Quantification of Toxins β‐N‐methylamino‐l‐alanine (BMAA) and Microcystis Beyond the Visible Periphery of Algal Super Plumes in the Indian River Lagoon

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

QM Quinn McKenna

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Water Use Estimates in Maryland for 2015

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

WM Wendy McPherson

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Flood Mitigation with Decentralized Detention Ponds in Suburban Southwest Florida

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

YR Yiliannis Rodriguez

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Small Scale Water Footprint Analysis

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

MS Mary Schmidt

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Youghiogheny River Temperature Release Protocol for Operating Deep Creek Hydro Station for Trout Habitat: Twenty-three Years of Results

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

SS Steve Schreiner

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Sustainability Assessment in Urban Water Systems and the Approaches

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

GS Ghazal Shabestanipour

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Bioaccumulation of Methylmercury Levels in Southeastern Atlantic Scorpionades (Lionfish), as a Function of Fish Length and Mass

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

BW Blake Weger

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Developing New Ground Water Quality Standards in New Jersey: A Response to Emerging Contaminants

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

RW Rachel White

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Flooding in the Suburbs: Rapid Growth and Land Use Changes can Overwhelm Stormwater Drainage, Case Study for the Village of Estero, FL

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

JW Jared Wilkey

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Storm Runoff Factors Influencing Suspended Sediment Loads in a Highly Developed Urban Watershed

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

JW June Wolfe

Technical Poster Session
08:00 AM
Unconventional Hydraulic Fracturing Impacts on Surface Water Quality in Northeast Ohio

08:00 AM 03:30 PM ABC East

NZ Ning Zhang

Technical Poster Session
JA

Jonathan Abelson

Civil Designer
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
Achieving Stormwater Resource Management in Californian Communities in the Sierra Nevada,

Co-authors: Yung-Hsin Sun, Jonathan E. Abelson, Maritza Flores Marquez, Rebecca Guo, Kenneth Payne, Sarah Hamilton,

Stormwater is now recognized as an important resource that should be managed within the integrated water management structure to balance socioeconomic development and environmental protection all while considering climate change. This paradigm shift signals a proactive step beyond the recently expanded watershed approach for stormwater and dry weather runoff management, and further departs from the traditionally narrow focus on MS4 permit compliance and flood control. In fact, traditional rainfall runoff models have been erroneous when predicting late-season rain-on-snow runoff events. The recent historic drought in California prompted the State to implement timely adjustments to policy, regulations and guidelines to support managing stormwater as a resource, and to consider investments that provide significant progress in stormwater monitoring, capture, treatment and reuse, low impact development and green infrastructure, and groundwater augmentation in urban areas. Similar philosophy and investments are necessary in foothill areas with emerging urban development and changing landscapes for rural and agricultural communities, but would require capturing different opportunities and accommodating unique constraints presented by steep terrains, vast forest lands with high fire potential, and limited groundwater infiltration capabilities. This presentation summarizes the development of a comprehensive strategy to manage stormwater as a resource in the scenic County of El Dorado while assimilating the aforementioned opportunities and constraints. The resulting plan consists of a multipronged approach that is customized for its foothill setting including regional surface reservoirs, watershed management with a focus on forest fuel reduction, and integration of stormwater management from communities and major highways with wetland restoration. The plan also incorporates prioritized actions, affordability considerations, and nexus to other related resource planning and implementation efforts to support efficient and responsible implementation.

06 November

Session 28: Stormwater Issues and Solutions - Part 1

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 2

Urban Water Track
SA

Sarah Ahmed

Water Resources Engineering Analyst
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB)
Incorporating Human Impacts into Real-time Streamflow Forecasts for the Potomac River

Co-authors: C. Schultz, A. Seck,

Advances in streamflow forecasts are often made by improving their weather forecast and hydrologic model components, while marginalizing their lack in human activity data. Human activities, such as drinking water withdrawals, however, impact reservoir release decisions. The Washington metropolitan area’s three main water suppliers participate in a cooperative system of water supply management. During droughts they meet demand and maintain environmental flow-by requirements by coordinating their withdrawals from Potomac and off-Potomac intakes and by augmenting natural river flow with releases of shared water stored in upstream reservoirs. This presentation shows how streamflow forecasts could benefit from a real-time 14-day forecast of daily water withdrawals by these suppliers. The Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB) makes the forecast for each supplier by (1) estimating the annual average withdrawal from the previous six months of daily data, which is made available by an open source data portal developed by ICPRB (2) estimating a monthly average withdrawal from the annual average estimate using a factor, and (3) adding daily variations to the monthly average withdrawal estimate using linear regression equations that are fed real-time meteorological data from National Weather Service. ICPRB’s real-time Low Flow Forecast System uses these withdrawal forecasts. The system is built from the Chesapeake Bay Program’s watershed model and Deltares’ flood forecasting system (Delft-FEWS), which imports National Weather data to produce streamflow forecasts within the Potomac River basin. We recommend that these withdrawal forecasts also be used in the Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center (MARFC) continuous API model, which provides online products such as MARFC’s 3-day flow forecasts and the Meteorological Model Ensemble River Forecasts (MMEFS). We discuss our evaluation of the 14-day withdrawal forecasts’ performance compared to the standard 20-day running, monthly, and annual averages of historical withdrawal data for each supplier.

05 November

Session 2: Chesapeake Bay Water Management

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 2

Regional Track
SA

Stephen Aichele

Geographer
US Geological Survey
Developing a National Terrain Model and 3D National Hydrography Dataset

For over 100 years, the U.S. Geological Survey produced integrated topographic data in the form of analog maps. These maps became a mainstay of earth science and land and water management. With the advent of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), users sought to apply the analytical power of computers to these problems, and much of the past 30 years has been spent converting cartographic content from the topographic maps to the National Hydrography Dataset and the National Elevation Dataset, among others. A significant amount of time has also been spent correcting and overcoming the shortcomings of these conversions. In 2014, the USGS National Geospatial Program launched the 3D Elevation Program, an effort to collect high resolution elevation data nationwide on an 8 year cycle. In 2018 we are nearly halfway to that goal, and USGS is exploring two new concepts to enhance integration, alignment, and interoperability of national elevation and hydrography datasets: the National Terrain Model, an integrated digital elevation model of the landscape mapped both above and below waterbodies, and the 3D National Hydrography Dataset (3D NHD), the next generation of hydrography mapping for the nation. This presentation will focus on the user needs identified in the several user surveys NGP has executed in recent years, and provide some an overview of the future direction for terrain mapping in the US.

07 November

Session 46: USGS 3-D Elevation Program

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 1

Modeling Data and Tools
KA

Khaled Akhtar

Alberta Environment and Parks
A Prototype Serious Gaming tool, Bow River Sim for Integrated Water Resources Management

Co-authors: P. Grover , T. Tang , G. Magnusson , Q. Brander, B. Waddington, M. Desbiens

A Serious Game is a game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment and describes a wide variety of interactive digital products from flight simulators to city management games. In recent years, serious games have become an important part of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) as they allow stakeholders to experiment with the impacts of various water management decisions, including to help develop agreement regarding the use of shared water resources. Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) regulates activities related to water, public land, and the environment in the province of Alberta. The Water Resources Management Model (or WRMM) is a computer program that AEP developed over several years to support water resource management planning and incorporating the water allocation rules of the Alberta Water Act legislation. However, the model was not designed as an interactive and educational tool. To address this limitation AEP developed a serious game based on the WRMM. The Bow River Sim, developed by AEP in collaboration with BGC Engineering, displays the inputs and outputs from the actual WRMM program using a gamified interface. Therefore, when one uses the game they can simulate real-world scenarios. The Bow River Sim has three game play modes. The first is the WRMM mode in which a user may adjust numerous variables and then run the model to see the results. Input conditions from the years 1928 to 2001 are available for simulation and interactive graphs are generated showing weekly data for each stakeholder. The second mode, tutorials, provides two step-by-step tutorials that help the player understand water management concepts and the mechanics of game play. The third mode is a challenge mode which provides users with a specific goal to be achieved through water management decisions. Challenges help users to learn about the model by structuring play, limiting the complexity of the system and requiring insight into the model to achieve goals. This presentation will provide an overview of the Game and demonstrate how innovations such as serious gaming can promote dialog and discussion among stakeholders.

07 November

Session 44: Stakeholder Engagement in Water Resources

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 3

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
KA

Katherine Antos

Branch Chief
District Department of Energy and Environment
Developing A Chesapeake Watershed Implementation Plan In An Ultra-Urban Jurisdiction: The DC Experience 

The District of Columbia is one of seven jurisdictional signatories to the Chesapeake Watershed Agreement. As part of its commitment to achieving the Chesapeake Bay Program’s water quality goals, the city is developing a Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution and meet the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). However, the District is unique from other states in the watershed in that it is a city, approximately 90 percent of its pollutant load is from wastewater, and the remaining 10 percent is attributable to urban runoff. Projects to manage runoff must address site constraints of an ultra-urban environment and, as a result, can be the most expensive to implement per pound of pollutant reduced. Further, approximately one-third of the District’s land area is federally owned. Finally, almost all of the water bodies in the District are impaired. Many areas of the city where stormwater management and restoration efforts would have greater environmental benefit coincide with neighborhoods demonstrating lower income and higher unemployment levels. This presentation will describe the District’s innovative approaches to developing a Watershed Implementation Plan in light of these unique characteristics. In particular, the District Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) has been a leader in engaging federal facilities as partners in pollutant reductions. It has pioneered a market-based Stormwater Retention Credit program to leverage private capital for stormwater retrofits in areas of the city with greater water quality needs. DOEE has created incentive-based programs to encourage homeowners, faith-based institutions, and organizations not typically focused on the environment to become stewards and implement green infrastructure. The District is also testing innovative approaches to target activities where they can leverage co-benefits for local water quality, habitat restoration, workforce development, environmental education, climate resilience, and improving access to green space. The District of Columbia’s experience offers important lessons on advancing stormwater management, meeting TMDL allocations and cultivating stewardship while also building capacity of community-based organizations that support under-served and under-represented communities.

06 November

Session 12: Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 1

Regional Track
MA

Mike Antos

Watershed Manager
Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority
Ethnographically-informed Integrated Water Resource Planning

Co-author: E. Brooks

The Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA), in Southern California, is conducting a Disadvantaged Communities Involvement Program. This state-grant funded effort is occurring throughout California, the goal of which is to ensure members of disadvantaged, economically-distressed, and underrepresented communities are able to genuinely participate in integrated water resources planning. To conduct the first phase, a strengths and needs assessment, SAWPA is supported by the University of California Irvine and the California State University, among a broader partnership. The assessment is employing an ethnographically-informed instrument for engaging community members. Ethnographic research gathers case study evidence about the diversity of social and cultural experiences, and yields generalizable knowledge about social processes, cultural meanings, and the explanatory models people use in their everyday lives. The program partners including agency staff, academic faculty, staff and students, AmeriCorps fellows, and non-profit staff, are conducting ethnographic interviews to collect community members’ narratives of local water-related strengths, needs, and opportunities. These interviews are guided by a shared instrument: a set of carefully crafted, open-ended questions and prompts posed to all subject groups, and designed to elicit narrative responses on broad topics such as “community strengths” and “water stories.” This approach is creating an opportunity for respondents to talk about issues, strengths, and needs not already anticipated by SAWPA and its water-sector collaborators. Based on analysis of this data, recommendations for planning and implementation are made to existing watershed planning contexts. Engaging in this way will result in new relationships and increased trust, and set the stage for long-term engagement. Integrated water resources planning is fundamentally a political exercise requiring collaboration, compromise, and trade-offs. Ensuring that representative decision-makers are knowledgable about water resources opportunities and challenges, while ensuring too that constituents of those decision-makers are genuinely contributing to the decisions is a critical next horizon for IWRM. Drawing tools from the social sciences, like ethnographic interviewing, will greatly benefit efforts at achieving integration and collaboration in water resources management.

07 November

Session 44: Stakeholder Engagement in Water Resources

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 3

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
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David Arscott

Executive Director and Research Scientist
Stroud Water Research Center
An Open-Source Solution for Using Environmental Sensors to Monitor Water Quality with Real-Time Data Access

Co-authors: S. Hicks, S. Ensign, D. Bressler, S. Damiano, T. Muenz, A. Aufdenkampe, J. Horsburgh,

Scientists and educators around the world have been building their own dataloggers and devices using a variety of open source electronics platforms like Arduino®. Many of these efforts have advanced to the point that high quality scientific measurements can be made using relatively inexpensive and increasingly off-the-shelf components. Here we introduce resources and tools that you can use to build real-time, low-cost data loggers that can form the core of your DIY environmental monitoring system. Material available at http://EnviroDIY.org and http://EnviroDIY.org provide resources, tutorials, and data capture/visualization solutions that make building, deploying, and using a “home-built” environmental monitoring station a viable option for high-quality environmental monitoring. Monitoring stations that we have deployed to date around the world include a solar-powered datalogger connected to radio telemetry that connects to a variety of sensors, such as water depth, temperature, conductivity, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, precipitation, soil moisture, and soil redox conditions. With the development of these innovative systems comes the ability to generate large volumes of high-frequency monitoring data and the challenge of how to log, transmit, store, and share those resulting data. The web-based system, http://EnviroDIY.org was designed to enable citizen scientists and other DIY'ers to stream sensor data from a network of Arduino-based dataloggers. This system enables registration of new sensor nodes through the website. Once registered, any Internet connected device (e.g., cellular or WIFI) can then post data to the website through a web service programming interface. Data are stored in a back-end data store that implements Version 2 of the Observations Data Model (ODM2) and data are registered and made public via the CUASHI Water Data Center and HydroShare. Live data can then be viewed and downloaded from the website in a simple text format. While this system was purpose built to support an emerging network of Arduino-based sensor nodes deployed by citizen scientists in the Delaware River Basin (more than 60 stations installed in the Delaware to date), the architecture and components are generic and can be used by any Internet connected device capable of making measurements and formulating an HTTP POST request to send to data.envirodiy.org.

06 November

Session 26: Geospatial Water Technology Lightning Talks

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 3

Modeling Data and Tools

07 November

Session 47: Delaware River - Part 2

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 2

Regional Track
SA

Scott Ator

Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
Advances in Understanding Changes in Nutrient Fluxes from the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Co-authors: R. Smith, J.G. Chanat, A.M. Garcia, A.J. Sekellick, J.S. Webber

Water-quality and ecological conditions in Chesapeake Bay have been adversely impacted by nitrogen and phosphorus contributions from the bay watershed, and watershed restoration activities in recent decades have been insufficient to meet established ecological standards in tidal waters. Understanding past changes in nitrogen and phosphorus flux in bay tributaries is critical to effective watershed management, but is substantially complicated by the multitude of watershed nutrient sources and complex conditions affecting fate and transport interacting and evolving over multiple time scales. The continuing expansion and development of water-quality, streamflow, and other environmental data in the bay watershed support the development of innovative hybrid empirical and deterministic techniques to identify and quantify the major drivers of recent water-quality changes in Chesapeake Bay tributaries. In particular, spatially-referenced regression (SPARROW) modeling, which has traditionally been used to evaluate spatial patterns in stream chemistry, has been adapted and expanded to also support inferences about temporal changes. Insights developed from these techniques can be particularly informative to adaptive management intended to improve water quality in the bay and its watershed.

06 November

Session 17: Modeling and Assessment of Complex Watershed-River-Estuary Systems: Chesapeake Bay as a Case Study of Ecosystem Restoration and Management

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 1

Regional Track
MB

Matthew Bachman

Water Resources Engineer/Planner
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
Model Development and Application in Support of Basin-Wide Water Management and Adaptation Planning in the American River Basin

Co-authors: A. Draper, R. Hoang

The American River Basin Study (ARBS) is an ongoing study intended to develop a more detailed understanding of water supplies and demands in American River Basin, as well as identify potential imbalances between supplies and demands under a range of potential future climate conditions. Many water agencies in the study area divert water from the lower American River based upon a mix of water rights, Central Valley Project (CVP) contracts, and wholesale agreements. Regional water management actions must take place within the context of broader, statewide water management operations. Further, CVP operations must be coordinated with State Water Project (SWP) operations such that the two projects can meet both contractual obligations and in-basin needs, as prescribed in their water rights permits. Aligning the vision of water management in the American River Basin and adjacent areas needs to have both the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and local non-Federal Partners agreeing on the assumptions and tools which are intended to be used in the study. For the ARBS, CalSim 3 is being used as the main analytical tool to conduct the integrated surface water/groundwater analyses and regional and system-wide operations. The model has been developed by Reclamation and the California Department of Water Resources, and models detailed representation of the water supply portfolio of individual water agencies in the region. Additional key model and data developments for the study have included Global Climate Model (GCM) downscaling and hydrological modeling at an appropriately defined scale for regional modeling, and refining representations of upper watershed operations and infrastructure. The refined model will be used to evaluate the performance of various adaptation strategies under climate change conditions, as well as include the most updated baseline for the coordinated long-term operation of the CVP and SWP. The net result will be a more accurate picture of climate change effects on runoff from upper watersheds and inflow to Folsom Reservoir, allowing evaluation of the effects of climate change on the operation of the CVP, regional water supply reliability, fishery management in the lower American River, and Delta water quality.

08 November

Session 51: Hydrological Modeling

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Salon ABC

Modeling Data and Tools
CB

ChangYeon Bae

Researcher
National Disaster Management Research Institute
Establishment of Measured Based Floods Warning Criteria in Urban Area

Recent casualties and property damages are increasing with increased local floods due to climate changes in urban area. EM-DAT of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) shows that floods disasters are 74% of 354 natural disasters brought on 2017 in the world. However, floods in Korea is also increased in this century, specially damages of urban area are rapidly increased because existing warning system can not reflect urban floods characteristics well. This study is for enhancing the floods warning criteria to reflect the urban characteristics on floods. Urban flood warning criteria use critical storms data estimated by relation analysis between damages and rainfall obtained from the National Disaster Management System(NDMS). This study estimates critical storm data for 500 local communities of 27 cities and evaluates warning criteria of Jung-Gu and Bupyeong-Gu in Ulsan City and Inchun City with estimated critical storms data which Ulsan City had big damaged by typhoon Chaba in 2016. Evaluation results show that leading time is about 30~60min in Ulsan City which is enough to emergency response such as escaping from flood disaster area. Inchun City also has 5-10min leading time in spite of short duration time of 30min. This study has a limit of water level and discharge data in inundation area to estimate and evaluate the critical storms because measuring points are not enough. So, NDMI establish more water level sensor in Ulsan City and Busan City, Korea to measure inundation depth and water discharges at flood season. In future, if the monitoring points are increased it can be used to establish measured data based warning system.

08 November

Session 62: Flood Warning Systems

01:30 PM 03:00 PM University 1 and 2

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
SB

Sen Bai

Senior Modeler
Tetra Tech Inc
An Integrated Modeling Approach to Support Resilient Urban Water Management

Co-authors: T. Zi, T. Rafi, J. Ludwig, K. Muhmmad, L. Chen, S. Zhao

Water management faces challenges of flood control, increased water usage, pollutant yield and receiving water quality issues in urban areas along with the quick changes of land uses due to urban development and change of patterns of precipitation due to climate change. In the City of Calgary where the Bow River runs through, the goals of the urban water management not only include flood control, but also controls of loadings from the wastewater treatment facilities and from stormwater runoff to protect fish in the river. Wastewater and stormwater loadings may change dramatically along with the population increase and climate change. To support a resilient water management, all factors that contribute to the impact factors of fish health in the Bow River needs to be considered and feasibilities of achieving loading objectives need to be analyzed. An integrated modeling approach was proposed. In this approach, stormwater model simulates runoff from the entire city area (>800 square kilometer large) including all the stormwater ponds for flood control purposes. A hydraulic model simulates the flow in the river, and a water quality model considers TSS, nutrients, DO, phytoplankton, periphyton, and macrophyte. The water quality model determines the loading objectives of TSS and TP to control concentrations of daily TSS, seven-day average TSS, monthly TSS, and instantaneous DO and daily average DO in the river to the levels that fish is either not hurt or can be recovered after suffering short-term injury. The stormwater model was used to analyzed if the loading objectives of TSS and TP from stormwater runoff can be achieved and the options to achieve the loading objectives both in the near future and long term (2078). Population increase, land use changes, and margin of safety were all considered in the integrated modeling approach to ensure that capturing the potential future conditions to support a resilient water management plan.

08 November

Session 65: Building Resiliency in the Face of Water Resources Risk Management

03:30 PM 05:00 PM West Ballroom

Miscellaneous Topics
MB

Matthew Baker

University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Development and Application of Automated Channel Extraction From LiDAR in Chesapeake Bay Watersheds: Effects of Physiography and Land-use

Co-author: D. Saavedra

Accurate stream maps are critical for a variety of hydrologic, ecologic, and regulatory applications, yet despite high-resolution terrain models, extracting accurate hydrography remains a challenge. Existing approaches predict channel head locations using channel–forming processes or direct detection of local depressions from digital terrain. Process-based techniques involve thresholds of contributing area, local slope, or both to map stream heads, whereas direct detection methods typically involve terrain curvature or topographic openness. Process-based approaches are relatively easy to implement, but typically suffer from substantial errors of omission and commission, especially where a variety of channel forming mechanisms operate. Direct detection approaches rely upon objective thresholds to identify channel-like depressions and often reduce errors of omission, but also generate substantial errors of commission without subsequent filtering, especially in human-modified landscapes. We present a new method for automated stream channel mapping that relies on the computer vision concepts of line of sight to identify discrete terrain features termed geomorphons. This approach eliminates the need for objective, yet somewhat imprecise, thresholds that define the degree of relative elevation associated with channel features. Instead, our method interprets the pattern of relative elevation (higher, lower, or equal) in eight-directions away from each cell, integrating and analyzing terrain well beyond the local features detected by curvature functions. Unlike other detection approaches that rely on post-detection filtering to reduce errors of commission, we constrain our maps to be contiguous with broader river valleys. This approach is robust in that it is multi-scalar, generic in that it makes no assumptions about channel-forming processes, practical in that it incorporates ancillary information to overcome common routing challenges (e.g. road crossings), and computationally efficient. We summarize case studies from the Chesapeake Bay watershed to compare different delineation approaches and illustrate the complexity of automated hydrographic mapping across a range of physiographic and land-use contexts. Our case studies highlight important limitations in existing methods and the advantages inherent in our approach. However, our studies also underscore the prevalence of human terrain modifications and the challenges they pose for any automated technique.

05 November

Session 7: Using High Resolution Modeling to Improve Chesapeake Bay

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 2

Regional Track
RB

Roger Barlow

Physical Scientist
US Geological Survey
Bottom Hat Test Derivation of Hydrography from Lidar Data in the Raritan River Basin, New Jersey

Co-authors: S. Cauller, K Watson

Bottom Hat Test Derivation of Hydrography from Lidar Data in the Raritan River Basin, New Jersey Stephen J Cauller, Kara Watson, Roger Barlow The U.S. Geological Survey, New Jersey Water Science Center with financial and field support from the U.S. Geological Survey, National Geospatial Program (NGP) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), identified and evaluated an approach to improve the locational accuracy, connectivity, and precision of the existing New Jersey National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) local scale stream network thereby reducing the amount of heads-up digitizing of streams. This new stream derivation method applies raster processing filters to a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) following a series of steps described in Olson (2014), as well as Cho and others (2011). The process steps include creating a bottom hat filter, filling sinks,, and computing flow direction, flow accumulation, and a weighted flow accumulation. The resulting raster is converted to vector delineating the stream lines. Lidar-derived DEMs were used as primary source data for this study. DEMs were subsequently hydro-enforced to remove surface features at stream crossings such as road culverts, small water impoundments, and bridges, permitting unobstructed flow of water across the landscape. A bottom hat morphologic filter was applied to the enforced DEM datasets to derive local-scale hydrography in three 12-digit Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) basins in three different physiographic provinces within the Raritan River Basin. Stream lines derived in sub-watersheds in the Highlands, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain Physiographic Provinces within the Raritan River basin were compared to existing local scale National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) stream lines. The three sub-basins within the Raritan River basin were used as study areas due to their varied relief and stream characteristics. The local-resolution NHD in New Jersey was digitized by the NJDEP from visual inspection of 1:2,400 scale 1-foot pixel resolution color leaf-off orthophotography acquired in 2002. These datasets provided a unique opportunity to compare stream lines derived from lidar data to local-resolution hydrography derived from orthophotography. Field inspection at 76 verification sites provided ancillary information, such as channel type, width, flow characteristics, and type of control structures, further documenting the accuracy of the approach.

07 November

Session 46: USGS 3-D Elevation Program

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 1

Modeling Data and Tools
AB

Amanda Bassow

Director, Northeastern Regional Office
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
Panel 12: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure, But We Still Treat the Sick Patient

Communities everywhere struggle to find ways to sustain and even increase the delivery of ecosystem services such as clean water, clean air, food, and habitat, while simultaneously under pressure from growing populations, land use change and other stressors. It is easy to make the case that when faced with such challenges the first order of business is to keep what’s good, good – to hold the line. In the specific case of sustaining clean water in the Delaware River watershed, protecting the land that is most critical to delivering clean water from development is clearly a top priority. So is reducing pollution to waters that already are degraded (aka “restoration”). The reasons to invest in pollution reduction and restoration range for the practical to the ethical, and everything in between. On the practical side, some degree of population growth and land use change is inevitable. In order to “hold the line” there must be the equivalent pollution reduction and restoration to offset growth’s impact. This concept is codified in the Clean Water Act. Furthermore, even degraded streams can get worse. Small investments in pollution reduction and restoration can forestall the need for more significant investments in the future. As for the ethical, environmental justice and access to clean water are an essential part of the equation. How to invest cost-effectively in restoration is a question that drives the development of demonstration projects, decision support tools and basin-wide experiments like the Delaware River Watershed Initiative. A combination of natural and social science, field-based local knowledge, and capable champions all are essential to achieve cost-effective, sustainable results. This talk will discuss a few reasons why investments in pollution reduction and restoration are a priority in the Delaware, and the challenges associated with doing it cost-effectively.

07 November

Session 32: More Restoration vs More Protection: Is there a Magic Balance for Healthy Watersheds?

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 2

Regional Track
BB

Brenda Bateman

2018 AWRA President & Technical Services Division Administrator
Oregon Water Resources Department
Moderator: Martha C. Narvaez, Water Resources Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Panelists:
Brenda Bateman, 2018 AWRA President, Technical Services Division Administrator, Oregon Water Resources Department, Salem, OR
Sue Lowry, Executive Director of the Interstate Council on Water Policy, Cheyenne, WY
Cristiane Queiroz Surbeck, 2018 President of ASCE/EWRI, Oxford, MS
Lara Fowler, Assistant Director for Outreach & Engagement, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA
Rebecca (Becky) Mitchell, Colorado Water Conservation Board, Department of Natural Resources, State of Colorado, Denver, CO
Carol Collier, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Women make up a significant portion of AWRA membership and water resources professionals and students. Women play significant leadership roles in the water resources field internationally, nationally and at the state-level.This session will include a panel of women who have been actively involved in the water resources field and have proven to be strong leaders in the field as well as in AWRA and other professional associations.

Each panelist will be asked to provide a brief background on their education and professional experience. This will be followed by a Q&A regarding their experiences in the field. This will be an interactive panel and the intention is to provide the audience with a snapshot of their leadership and expertise as well as an opportunity to ask questions to a few of our most outstanding women leaders in the water resources field.

05 November

Session 3: Women in Water Resources

01:30 PM 03:00 PM West DEF

Miscellaneous Topics
WB

William Battaglin

Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
Hydrologic Conditions in National Parks in the Conterminous US

Co-authors: L Hay, P Norton

The National Hydrologic Model (NHM) infrastructure was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and configured for use with the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (NHM-PRMS). The NHM-PRMS is a modular, deterministic, distributed-parameter, physical process-based hydrologic simulation code that simulates the temporal and spatial distributions of all components of the water budget for the conterminous US, computing water flow and storage from and to the atmosphere, plant canopy, land surface, snowpack, surface depressions, shallow subsurface zone, deep aquifers, stream segments, and lakes. NHM-PRMS has 109,951 hydrologic response units linked to a stream network of 56,459 segments. There are 417 sites in the US National Park system. Many of these parks contain aquatic ecosystems and some contain threatened or endangered species which may be adversely affected by hydrologic change. Streamflow largely determines stream function, and is critical to sustaining aquatic and riparian ecosystems. The current extent of hydrologic change in the National Parks is unknown and there is a need to understand how within park flow regimes may change in the future. This study focuses on a subset of these parks, excluding those in AK, HI, and US Territories; very small parks; and parks in exclusively coastal settings. We demonstrate an automated procedure to: (1) identify all the gages within each selected park as well as those directly upstream and downstream from the park; (2) pull a subsetted NHM-PRMS model for each park; (3) provide NHM-PRMS model output (e.g., streamflow) for individual park selected components of the water balance for historical (1980-2016) conditions; and (4) provide a summary of CMIP3 and CMIP5 climate change projections of future climatic conditions in 2030, 2060, and 2090 for selected parks.

06 November

Session 16: CONUS Hydrology Models - Part 2

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 2

Modeling Data and Tools
KB

Kenneth Belt

Hydrologist/Aquatic Ecologist
Ecohydrological Visions
Stormwater Ecohydrology and GSI Design within the Urban Watershed Continuum

Co-author: S. Kaushal

The nexus of ecohydrological and socio-ecological urban ecosystem research offers a variety of opportunities for novel, collaborative work that could provide actionable science for rapidly expanding networks of engineered green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). Management of urban runoff largely depends on physical hydrological processes driven by large regulatory programs (e.g., TMDLs, MS4, CSOs, etc.) but ecologists could contribute to to strengthening biologically based processes because of their ecohydrological process perspective and collaborative work could greatly facilitate the use of biological unit processes for GSI designs, adding to GSI efficiency and sustainability. GSI systems, however, exist in a unique urban hydrological matrix of green and gray infrastructure. Addressing these is key to creating functional, sustainable urban watershed systems, and both ecologists and engineers would mutually benefit by collaborating to adapt ecohydrological processes to the unique flowpaths, connectivity, and gray infrastructure of the urban hydrosphere. Such innovative, collaborative research, monitoring and experimentation should start with new conceptual models that embrace the ecohydrological complexity of urban systems. Our research at the Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER project (Long Term Ecological Research) has used concepts like “Urban Karst” and the “Urban Watershed Continuum” (UWC) to guide research and provide a useful vehicle for communicating the complexity of urban water systems to the public, managers and researchers. For example, the UWC considers urban watersheds to be four dimensional features (3 spatial and time). This was prompted by understanding that underground “ghost” stream networks (storm drains with infiltrated groundwater and leaking water and sewage sources) could be as important as surface streams in terms of research and management. We discuss the UWC and how it would be useful for designing GSI networks and systems through the integration of ecohydrological processes into stormwater management practices and planning, and for explaining how urban water ecosystems work to a broad spectrum of people.

07 November

Session 48: Twenty Years of Insights into Urban Water Quality from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Long-Term Ecological Research Project - Part 2

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 4

Urban Water Track
JB

Jennifer Benjamin

Data Analyst
Corona Environmental Consulting
“The law may state whatever...": Methods for Increasing Access to Hazardous Chemical Storage Data for Source Water Protection and Risk Management

Co-authors: M. Kearns, E. Smith, A. McKeagney, J. Rosen

Certain data, such as those related to chemical storage, can significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of emergency response and source water protection plans. However, access to these data is hindered by regulatory and other barriers that prevent water utilities from easily leveraging this information. Obstacles include vague regulatory language restricting rights to access data, inconsistency in response to data requests for hazardous chemical storage data under the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA), resistance from source agencies concerned with releasing sensitive information, lack of understanding or technical capabilities at some source agencies for managing requests, and use of data formats with little adaptive capacity, among others. As part of an ongoing effort to identify and track threats upstream and to encourage data sharing among agencies involved in source water protection and emergency response, representatives of over 120 drinking water systems pursued hazardous chemical storage and other data from state and local emergency response agencies, with varied levels of success. The collective experiences acquired through the data request process have been used to identify more conducive methods for working with state and local agencies to acquire critical hazardous chemical storage data. These methods, as well as relevant regulatory efforts that may impact data access in the future, will be discussed.

06 November

Session 13: Urban Water Management

08:30 AM 10:00 AM West Ballroom

Urban Water Track
SB

Steve Bevington

Restoration Program Manager
NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
On the Shoulders of Giants - The Long History of Stream Restoration

Co-author: David M. Bevington

Fluvial geomorphology has been described as the science that seeks to investigate the complex behavior of stream and river channels. As many watersheds experience more or less constant disturbance to hydrology and land cover from human activities, efforts to investigate the natural processes of riverine systems are often linked to the developing practices of river management and stream restoration. Stream restoration practices, and the science behind them, continue to evolve and develop. However, it is clear that there is no consensus on how, or ever if, scientific research can guide the practice of stream restoration towards a set of generally accepted set of design approached and techniques. As with any young discipline, review of history of the development and implementation of stream restoration practice can provide valuable insight and guidance. Wohl et. al (2015) and others have provided reviews of the evolution of the science and practice of stream restoration over the past have century. This paper hopes to compliment this recent perspective with a board survey of art and literature illustrating how ancient texts and works of art contain insight into how critical thinking about river systems by philosophers, poets and artists has long ago begun the study and understanding of riverine systems. Examples drawn from classic Greek texts, medieval art, travel journals and other sources to demonstrating that people have spoken, written and painted intelligently about rivers, river management and fluvial processes throughout much of our history.

08 November

Session 59: Stream Restoration

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Salon ABC

Miscellaneous Topics
AB

Akta Patel Bianca Santos

AKRF, Inc.
Life Cycle Cost & Asset Management for Green Infrastructure

Co-authors: M. Southerland, S. Devkota, K. Flynn, L. Mastropolo, S. Szalay

For green infrastructure there is inadequate information on life cycle cost to inform decision making. For example, what implications do investments in pretreatment and sediment control have on green infrastructure service life? What reasonable assumptions can we make at this time? What can we do to advance this knowledge? In this talk, we will present methods, tools, and best practices that can be used to support informed, cost-based decision making for the complete life cycle of green infrastructure programs. Case examples will be provided from leading green infrastructure programs, including Philadelphia Water, DC Water, and the Prince George’s County Maryland Clean Water Partnership. We will address the following topics: • Frameworks to evaluate life cycle cost • Planning and design from a life cycle cost perspective • Construction impacts on life cycle cost • Asset management program set up and implementation • Operation and maintenance & replacement / end of life cycle planning

08 November

Session 53: Green Infrastructure

08:30 AM 10:00 AM West Ballroom

Urban Water Track
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Claire Bleser

District Administrator
Riley-Purgatory-Bluff Creek Watershed District
Engaging Your Public in Water Planning

Co-author: L. Yetka

Citizen involvement in local water resources management and decision-making has evolved over the past few decades, moving from general ‘raising awareness’ about policies, projects, and programs, to inclusion of perspectives in data collection and planning, to citizen participation as the norm in making decisions. We now find ourselves at a time where many citizens want to play a larger role in helping to identify local water management challenges as well as solutions to the complex issues communities are trying to address. And often, local government needs them to be a part of the process (whether acknowledged or not). Public input for planning and decision-making has a number of benefits: improved quality of information generated through collaborative input, enhanced legitimacy of decisions made to increase local buy-in, and increased capacity of those involved to understand issues and move solutions forward. It can be a powerful tool to build community capacity and create buy-in when initiating change. This workshop will introduce participants to the benefits and best practices for engaging your public in water planning, including tools, strategies, and lessons learned. A case study of the Riley-Purgatory-Bluff Creek Watershed public engagement for a ten-year Comprehensive Water Management Plan update will be used as a backdrop to facilitate hands-on activities demonstrating the important steps in developing and implementing a public engagement plan. These include, a) planning your engagement to meet the needs of you and your public, b) knowing your audience and who/how to engage, c) using effective engagement practices to engage everyone in a meaningful way, d) interpreting information gathered using feedback loops and qualitative data analysis for strategy development, and e) continuing the conversation beyond the formal planning effort. From design to implementation to analysis, participants will leave with concrete steps and tools to use in their own water planning, increasing the chance that planning efforts won’t end up on a shelf. This workshop extends over two sessions; participation in both is highly recommended. Agenda Part 7A: 1. Providing context: introducing a Public Engagement Plan 2. Planning your engagement: identify your need, purpose, principles, and people to determine the structure of your engagement efforts through a design process 3. Knowing your audience: complete a stakeholder analysis to guide your engagement efforts 4. Getting people to show up: craft the invitation and reaching your audience

07 November

Session 34: Engaging your Public in Water Planning Part 1

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Stadium 3

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management

07 November

Session 39: Engaging your Public in Water Planning Part 2

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 3

Water Resource Policy, Planning, Management
MB

Matt Bliss

Sr. Water Resources Engineer
DiNatale Water Consultants
Hydrologic Modeling Guidelines for Regulatory Permit Actions,

Co-authors: C. Peter, T. Smith

Water developed at set of hydrologic modeling guidelines (HMGs) for regulatory permit actions for the US Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. The HMGs are designed to assist permit Applicants and Corps project managers in identifying hydrologic analysis and modeling needs and requirements associated with water supply and management permit applications. The project was motivated by frequent differences in expectations between the Corps and its requirements for hydrologic modeling, and water providers who may have already performed hydrologic modeling to obtain a water right or determine the size of a proposed project. The HMGs are intended to add predictability and transparency to the aspects of the Corps' permitting process related to hydrologic modeling. The Corps Regulatory program evaluates hydrologic conditions to inform aquatic resource impacts analyses associated with water supply permit applications. Often, hydrologic analysis requires hydrologic modeling to adequately evaluate hydrologic conditions. Hydrologic analysis and modeling can also be used to develop and support the project need and define the project purpose, determine practicability of alternatives, and evaluate avoidance and minimization opportunities as well as compensatory mitigation strategies. The Corps evaluates permits for various actions including water supply and management projects involving discharges of dredge and/or fill material into waters of the United States. The permit evaluation process must address the requirements of NEPA, Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, Public Interest Review as well as other applicable statutes. The project deliverables included a checklist that allows Applicants and Corps regulators to quickly discern and discuss the important aspects of the hydrologic modeling specific to a proposed project. The project also resulted in a technical report that describes the details and rationale support each of the HMGs and several case studies where application of the HMGs would have helped decrease costs and delays that occurred on these projects. DiNatale Water also conducted two full-day workshops – one to Corps project managers in the Fort Worth District office and another to representatives of several key water providers, environmental non-governmental organizations and other regulatory agencies in Texas.

05 November

Session 1: Modeling - Water Quality and Quantity

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 1

Modeling Data and Tools

08 November

Session 51: Hydrological Modeling

08:30 AM 10:00 AM Salon ABC

Modeling Data and Tools
DB

David Blodgett

Hydroinformatics Coordinator
US Geological Survey
Open Water Data Initiative and the Internet of Water Panel Session

Panelists: AWRA Technology Technical Committee

Quantifying the availability, use, and risks to our national water resources is an effort of national importance for the present and the foreseeable future. The Open Water Data Initiative is a charge to federal agencies to design and build a national water data infrastructure of shared data services conveying water information in space and time. Since the Open Water Data Initiative (OWDI) was first featured at an AWRA meeting in 2015, the water information community has been hard at work to achieve the goals of the OWDI charge. Since that time, the broader community has assembled a special collection of papers in JAWRA put forward a vision for an Internet of Water to build on OWDI outcomes and other open water data. In this session, we will assemble a panel of leaders from federal agencies to hear brief status updates and have a discussion about progress on the initiative and their perspectives on the Internet of Water. This panel will provide a view into institutional and technical progress and hurdles related to providing open access to our countries water information.

06 November

Session 21: PANEL: Open Water Data Initiative and the Internet of Water

01:30 PM 03:00 PM Stadium 3

Modeling Data and Tools

06 November

Session 26: Geospatial Water Technology Lightning Talks

03:30 PM 05:00 PM Stadium 3

Modeling Data and Tools
JB

Joel Blomquist

Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
A History of Nutrient and Sediment Inputs to Chesapeake Bay, 1985-2016: Three decades of monitoring and coordinated restoration in the Chesapeake Watershed

Co-authors: J. D. Blomquist, R. M. Fanelli, J. L.D. Keisman, Q. Zhang, D. L. Moyer, M. J. Langland

For over three decades, Chesapeake Bay has been the focal point of a coordinated restoration strategy implemented through a partnership of governmental and nongovernmental entities. During this period, bay-restoration strategies have been supported by critically important monitoring programs on bay tributaries as well as throughout the estuary. The ecological condition of Chesapeake Bay and its numerous tributary embayments is largely moderated by external inputs of freshwater and associated nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended sediments. Since 2012, the U.S. Geological Survey has applied Weighted Regressions on Time Discharge and Season (WRTDS) at stream monitoring locations to report on progress on load reductions from the bay’s contributing watershed. WRTDS results are particularly useful in describing long-term changes in stream loads while accounting for changes in flow by using a metric called flow-normalized load. Conditions in the estuary, however, do not respond to flow-normalized loads as they are regulated by actual nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment inputs in the preceding days, weeks, and months. An ongoing examination of annual estimated loads in relation to reported flow-normalized loads is providing a better understanding of the changes the bay has experienced over the previous three decades. This analysis includes long term trends in annual river loads, changes in point sources, and atmospheric deposition from monitored as well as unmonitored areas. The purpose of this effort is to provide resource managers and estuarine scientists with a clearer perspective in the magnitude of changes in water quality within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed relative to the actual changes that Chesapeake Bay has experienced over this period of restoration.

06 November

Session 17: Modeling and Assessment of Complex Watershed-River-Estuary Systems: Chesapeake Bay as a Case Study of Ecosystem Restoration and Management

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 1

Regional Track
JB

John Bolten

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Societal Benefits of the GRACE and GRACE-FO Satellite Missions - John Bolten, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

Co-authors - M. Srinivasan, J. Reager, M. Jasinski

07 November

Session 36: Improving Water Resources Decision Support Using Satellite-based Earth Observations and Hydrologic Data Asimilation Systems

10:30 AM 12:00 PM Stadium 1

Modeling Data and Tools
NB

Nathan Boon

Program Officer
William Penn Foundation
Strategic Conservation for a River Basin Under Threat: What is Needed, What Can We Achieve?

Trends shown in over a decade of national satellite imagery have been confirmed by new high resolution data. The Delaware River Basin watershed, drinking water source to 5% of the U.S. population, is losing its drinking water source areas at an unimaginable rate. With a basin-wide forest loss rate of over 4,500 acres annually, the Delaware Basin is losing an area the size of 10 football fields every day, with significant losses to the Delaware Basin’s water supply, its communities, and its ecosystems. Several top universities and research institutes have completed analyses in recent years that further apportion basin-wide forest loss across leading drivers like residential development and fossil fuel pipeline construction. New data tells us more than ever about landscape-scale patterns in forest cover and projections for where forest loss is most likely to occur, enabling the conservation community to pursue increasingly focused preservation and restoration strategies to prioritize the most sensitive and vulnerable landscapes. This data also reveals the extreme magnitude of these cumulative threats, and presents a compelling case for the consideration of new approaches to secure or catalyze watershed conservation at a larger scale. With the rapid disappearance of forested landscapes, conservation practitioners in the Delaware River watershed are already embracing new data-driven approaches to strategically protect and restore lands that provide the greatest ecosystem services among those facing the most urgent threat of conversion. Practitioners are also benefiting from increased integration with advocacy groups that employ complementary policy strategies to protect thousands of forested acres across the basin through regulatory and legislative means. This session will provide attendees with an accessible overview of a selection of cutting edge landcover-based analyses that quantify forest loss rates across the Delaware River Basin, an inside perspective on integrating science and data into the practice of forest preservation and landscape restoration, and several examples of how policy and advocacy play complementary roles in stabilizing the natural landscapes responsible for clean water, and additional nature-based services that include habitat, flood protection, and much more.