Powerpoint

Kent Askren, Kansas Farm Bureau

Ben Postlethwait, The Nature Conservancy

Jordan Martincich, Pheasant Forever, Inc. and Quails Forever

Erika Devore, Kansas Recreation and Parks Association

Day Two

Breakout Session I

Water Quality Monitoring and Trends

Moderator: Erin Seybold (University of Kansas)

• Water Quality Responses to Recent Crop Conversion in Northeastern Kansas, - Amy Hansen, University of Kansas
• Water-Quality Trends in the Kansas River, Kansas since the Clean Water Act - 1972 through 2020 – Thomas Williams and Brian Klagar; U.S. Geological Survey
• An Assessment of Lake Springfield Dam and Lake Water Quality – Priya Iyengar and Matt Bardol, Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.

Moderator: Keri Harris (Franklin County Conservation District)

• Public Participation and Water Resources Management – Andrea Gebhart and Alyssa Vaughan, JEO Consultants
• 4-H Water Ambassadors – Holly Dickman, City of Hays; Jessica Feyerherm, 4-H Water Ambassadors
• IN THE MOOOOOOD FOR LIVESTOCK WATERING OPTIONS? – Stacie Edgett-Minson and Herschel George, Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources & the Environment

Drought Assessment and Planning

Moderator: Matthew Sittel (Kansas State University)

• Monitor or Mitigate: Making Drought Plans Actionable – Mary Baker and Phil Luebbert, JEO Consulting Group
• Modernizing Missouri’s Drought Mitigation and Response Plan – Brian Shepard, CDM Smith
• Leveraging In-Situ Soil Moisture Information to Improve the Assessment of Drought Conditions – Andres Patrignani, Kansas State University

Groundwater Monitoring, Planning, and Reporting

Moderator: James Butler (Kansas Geological Survey)

• Southwest Kansas GMD No.3's Irrigation Climate and Resource Evaluation Project – Brownie Wilson, Kansas Geological Survey; Trevor Ahring, Groundwater Management District #3; Shannon Dick, Finney County Economic Development Corporation
• Status of the High Plains Aquifer in Kansas– Donald Whittemore, Kansas Geological Survey
• Optimal Irrigator Strategies and Adaptive Decision-Making Under Groundwater Pumping Restrictions and Uncertain Conditions - Qiuyun Cecilia Yu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Kansas Irrigation Updates

• Addressing the Future of Irrigated Agriculture in the Context of Variable Supplies and Competing Water Needs through Comprehensive Watershed Planning Efforts in Kansas and Nebraska– Jim Schneider, Olsson
• The Value of Irrigation Groundwater Right Attributes – Nathan Hendricks and Gabriel Sampson, Kansas State University
• Status of Irrigation Systems in Kansas: Road Survey Report – Johnathan Aguilar and Jacob Thompson, Kansas State University

Breakout Session II

Kansas Healthy Watersheds

Moderator: Libby Albers (Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams)

• Watershed Wide Soil Health: The Next Frontier in Catching Rain Where it Fails to Improve Climate Related Hazard Resiliency – Scott Satterthwaite, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
• Soil Health in NRCS – Candy Thomas, National Resources Conservation Service
• Kansas Healthy Watersheds: Land Use Incentives for Our Soil and Watershed Planning – Brian Rast, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Water Conservation Measures

• Policy, Hydrological, and Economic Factors and Outcomes Underlying the SD-6 LEMA's First Decade – Malena Orduna Alegria, Kansas Geological Survey
• Creating Fresh Approaches to Water Use Efficiency for Communities and Wildlife in the Rattlesnake Creek Basin – Heidi Mehl, The Nature Conservancy; Carol Baldwin, Kansas State University
• Water Recycling and Conservation: A Critical Path towards Sustainable Resource Management– Jas Dale, Western Kansas Irrigation; Aviv Vered, Amiad Water Systems

Tuttle Creek Lake Water Injection Dredging

Moderator: Josh Olson (Kansas Water Office)

• Update on the Tuttle Creek Lake Water Injection Dredging Demonstration Project – John Shelley, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
• Tuttle Creek Lake Water Injection Dredging Demonstration Biological and Water Quality Monitoring Plan – Logan Rowley, Kansas State University; Keith Gido, Kansas State University; and Marvin Boyer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Effect of Water-Injection Dredging Operations on Water Quality Downstream from Tuttle Creek Reservoir: Pre-Water-Injection Dredging Water-Quality Assessment – Ariele Kramer and Thomas Williams, Kansas Water Science Center

Tools in the Agricultural Toolbox

Moderator: Katie Durham (Groundwater Management District #1)

• Technology Tools and Management Strategies – Jack Polifka, Northwest Kansas Technical College
• Farming through Playas: A Look into the Costs & Benefits– Jude Kastens, Kansas Biological Survey
• DropXL Sorghum: A Toolbox for Water Smart Crop Seed Technologies – Mohammed Abduallah al Bari and Sarah Sexton-Bowser, Kansas State University

Surface Water Algae Bloom Monitoring

Moderator: Dan Wells (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)

• Monitoring Effects of Bioremediation in a Kansas Urban Pond with Persistent Toxic Cyanobacterial Bloom – Lydia Zeglin, Kansas State University
• A Framework for Evaluation Monitoring Data and Application to State-wide, Long-term Algae Monitoring in Kansas – Victoria Reed, PEC
• Are Harmful Blue-green Algae Blooms Increasing in Kansas Lakes? – Ted Harris and Jennifer Moody, Kansas Biological Survey

Navigating Challenges with Perseverance and Partnerships

Moderator: Mike Armstrong, Kansas Water Authority

• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step- How a diverse group of stakeholders working together with the Corps of Engineers to protect the Missouri River– Darci Meese, WaterOne; Tom Jacobs, Mid-America Regional Council; Jennifer Switzer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (former)

Breakout Session III

Extreme Events and Mitigation

Moderator: Jude Kastens (Kansas Geological Survey)

• 2D Watershed Modeling: Flood Risk Identification and Beyond – Sarah Smith, Johnson County; Tom Morey, Stantec
• Training the Missouri River: 140-Year History of the Missouri River Navigation Project from Rulo, Nebraska to Its Mouth – Kari Bigham, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers

• By the Numbers: Severe Weather Events & Disasters in Kansas – Kenneth Ekpetere and Jude Kastens, Kansas Biological Survey

Municipal Water Resources

Moderator: Dwight Haney (Water Assurance District #1)

• Preparing Kansas Communities for Economic Development – Lindsey Douglas and Jake White, Burns and McDonnell
• Toilet to Tap – The Water Supply of the Future? – Daryn Martin and Jason Solomon, Kansas Rural Water Association
• Environmental Justice: Tips for Municipalities to Benefit from New Federal Tools for Addressing Water Resources, Climate and Resilience Needs in Underserved and Underrepresented Communities – Julie A. MacLachlan, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, FEMA, BIL-IRA, Water Programs

Erosion and Reservoir Sedimentation

Moderator: Kristin Kloft (Division of Conservation)

• Evaluation of Streambank Stabilization Structures on Upstream and Downstream Bank Erosion – Corben Monzon, Kansas State University
• Sediment Fingerprinting of Sources of Reservoir Infilling in an Eastern Kansas Basin, USA – Admin Husic, University of Kansas; Kyle Juracek, Kansas Water Science Center
• Kansas River Reservoirs Flood and Sediment Study – A Shared Vision for the Future – Laura Totten, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers

Emerging Issues

• NEON in Kansas: Aquatic Data and Resources to Understand Changing Ecosystems – Amber Arias, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle
• Development of Passive PFAS Samplers for Detection in Natural Waters – Edward Peltier and Nathaniel Sheehan, University of Kansas
• Maximizing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – Vanessa Lamoreaux, Kansas Department of Transportation; Matthew Hanson, Witt O’Brien’s

Groundwater Modeling and Data

• Recent Improvements in Groundwater Modeling for Southwest Kansas GMD 3 – Gaisheng Liu, Brownie Wilson, Jim Bulter, Kansas Geological Survey
• Evaluating Irrigator-driven Groundwater Conservation Practices using Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration Data – Sam Zipper, Kansas Geological Survey
• Approaches to Groundwater and Fate and Transport Modeling to Incorporate Climate Change and Basin Management - Maria Vishnevskiy and Julie Chambon, Geosyntec Consultants