Plenary Sessions

Pritchard Lecture: Dig It! The Secrets of Soil:
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Soils Exhibit Opening and the Traveling Tour
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Tuesday Plenary: Getting the Water Right: NRC Colloquium Revisited

Jerry Schnoor, University of Iowa, will lead a summary presentation and panel discussion of the National Research Council’s colloquium and subsequent report on “Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States.” The report draws conclusions about the water implications of biofuels productions based on discussions at the colloquium, written submissions of participants, the peer-reviewed literature, and the best professional judgments of the committee. The plenary panel will include presentations from Noel Gollehon (USDA/NRCS) and Liz Marshall (World Resources Institute).

A copy of the Report in Brief is available here:
http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/biofuels_brief_final.pdf

Posters

Hydrology, Climate Change, and the Bio-economy
• Evaporative Response to Lehmann’s Lovegrass Invasion in a Semiarid Watershed
• Hydrologic and Ecological Restoration Meets Cultural Values in the Toppenish Creek Watershed, Yakama Indian Reservation

Adaptive Management of Conservation Efforts
• Growers Learn about Adaptive Nitrogen Management Practices for Corn in Iowa
• Conservation and Environmental Policy and Program Design
• Negotiated Agricultural BMP Programs: Potency or Posturing?
• Streamlining the NEPA Compliance Process for NRCS Activities in New England
• Vegetation and Soil Properties as Indicators of Hydrology of Wetlands in Agricultural and Natural Landscapes

Conservation Education
• Classification & evaluation of soil and water quality at wadi As-Saul Al-Kabir in Taif area, Saudi arbia

Conservation in Urban Settings
• Urban Groundwater: Resident perceptions and understanding of non-point source pollution
• Validation of a Simplified Hydrologic Parameter Representing Impedance to Flow at the Subbasin Scale

Conservation Tools and Technologies
• A Design Aid for Determining Width for Filter Strips
• Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA): A GIS-Based Hydrologic Modeling Tool for Watershed Assessment & Analysis
• Comparison Of Two Soil Quality Indexes To Evaluate Cropping Systems In Northern Colorado
• Field-Scale Remote Sensing and Yield Monitoring to Characterize Corn Responses
• Landslide change detection using Formosat-II satellite imagery
• Phytoremediation Technology for Land Rehabilitation
• Precision soil and water conservation though LIDAR and multi-spectral imagery.
• Recovery of Soils Contaminated with Pesticides
• Reforestation and Biodiversity for Watershed Conservation: Agroforestry DSS and Farms on St Croix USVI
• Sustainable Cover Crop Rotations with Potential to Improve Yields, Crop Quality, and Nutrient and Water Use Efficiencies
• Watershed-scale analysis of terrestrial carbon sequestration potential, La Manga Canyon, NM

Soil Resource Assessment
• A Rugged and Portable Constant Head Soil Permeameter
• Assessment of Cropping System, Land Types and Suitability Impact on Land Degradation in South Western Nigeria (Modelling Approach)
• Long-term effects of nitrogen fertilization, rotation, and climate on corn grain yield in Minnesota
• Visual Soil Structure, Vane Shear Strength and Aggregate Distribution in Three Different Organic Matter Treatments
• Within-field spatio-temporal variability of soil phosphorus indicators in an experimental micro-watershed

Soil Resource Management and Conservation
• An Overview of Soil and Water Conservation for the Southeastern US
• Assessment of soil erodibility, degradation and its relation to land use practices in North Libya
• Efforts to Analyze Nutrient Management without the Use of Commercial Fertilizer
• Intercropping with kura clover improves soil quality in a pecan agroforestry system
• Native Soil Organic Carbon Distribution in the Soil Profiles of Central Maricopa County, Arizona
• Runoff and Erosion from No-till and Conventional Till at Hillslope and Drainage Scales, N.E. Oregon
• Soil moisture, Larrea tridentata seedling establishment and a taproot elongation threshold
• Soil Physical and Chemical Parameter Effects on Dust Generation Potential
• Soil Quality and Land Use Changes on a Humid Tropical Island - Palau
• Soil Translocation Estimates Calibrated for Moldboard Plow Depth
• Soil Water Retention within an Eroded and Restored Landscape Water Resources and Management
• How Near-Ground Solar Radiation Varies With Woody Plant Cover: Implications For Soil Evaporation Rates
• Management practices for urban storm runoff: Investigating roles of channel substrates in modifying water quality
• Shrub seedlings, stress and the potential for woody plant encroachment into grasslands I: seedling development
• Shrub seedlings, stress, and the potential for woody plant encroachment into grasslands II: seedling physiology
• Soil moisture decay and drought-induced tree mortality under different temperature regimes.
• Status of Generation, Reuse and Recharge of Treated Wastewater in Arizona; Evaluation of Programs, Data Sources and Utilization Opportunities
• Use of Municipal Wastewater to Produce Cellulosic-biofuels in West Texas

Oral Presentations

Hydrology, Climate Change, and the Bio-economy
• Adaptation of the WEPP Plant Model for Relative Yield Variability Prediction
• Characterization of phosphorus transport at spring melt in small agricultural watersheds of Eastern Canada
• Dairy Farm Pasture Management: A Comparison of Biofuel Conversion Opportunities to the Bio-economics of the Midwest and Northeast
• Environmental and Economic Impacts of an 18 Billion Gallon Corn Ethanol Industry
• Evaluating Water Quality Benefits of Multiple BMPs in a Prairie Watershed in Canada
• Farm and Community Scale Biodiesel
• Possibilities and Challenges for Modeling Flow and Pollutant Transport in a Karst Watershed with SWAT.
• The coupling effect of extreme rainfall and vegetation types on hydrological erosion process in the Chinese loess hilly region

Adaptive Management of Conservation Efforts
• Coordinated Management of Water Quality Management Practices and Food Safety Good Agricultural Practices
• How Adaptive is Conservation Tillage in Guam and what is the Effect of Conservation Practices on Severely Eroded Soils of Southern Guam
• Indiana Conservation Implementation Teams: An Innovative Conservation Delivery System

Conservation and Environmental Policy and Program Design
• A Multiple Criteria Decision System for Improving Federal Conservation Program Effectiveness
• Cash or Credit? Conservation Outcomes Under Alternative Funding Mechanisms
• Conservation Impacts of Expanding Access for Underserved Farmers in the 2007 Farm Bill
• Conservation Security Program: Participant Characteristics and Program Assessments
• Development of a prototype system of torrent management for restoration of a unique aquatic forest.
• Impacts of Riparian Buffers, Forage Conversion, Crop Rotation, and Tillage on Farm Economics of South Tobacco Creek Watershed, Manitoba
• Making Efficient use of the Private Sector--on your local conservation team--for Conservation Planning Opportunities of the New Farm Bill
• Natural Heritage Planning in the Lake Simcoe Watershed
• Prairie pothole wetlands: Valuing their impacts on greenhouse gases
• Regulating farmers: A three-state case study of nutrient management laws on the Delmarva Peninsula
• The Conservation Reserve Program and the Ethanol Boom: Potential Conversion of CRP to Cropland in Iowa
• The Effluent Limitations Guidelines and NPDES Permit Regulations for CAFOs: Status of Implementation, Coordination with USDA, and Response to the 2nd Circuit Court Decision
• Towards a more safe environment: (4) Disposability of uranium by some clay sediments in Egypt

Conservation Education
• An experiment in participatory development of a Soil Quality and Sustainable Agriculture educational website - www.soilquality.org
• SmartScape - Tucson’s Water-Conscious Landscape Training Program
• The Arizona Master Watershed Steward Program: a statewide tool for conserving natural resources through volunteer action.

Conservation in Urban Settings
• Effects of urbanization on the microclimatic function of riparian areas along ephemeral streams
• Getting Urban Dwellers Excited About Watershed Planning: Convening and Facilitating Recreation in Urban Watershed Planning
• Post-Fire Erosion Control, Flood Mitigation, and Burn Area Recovery: Griffith Park, City of Los Angeles
• Promoting Campus Sustainability through Interdisciplinary Cooperation: The Greening of the University of Arizona Visitor Center
• Raising a Green Umbrella: Parasol’s Collaborative Model for Sustainability at the University of Arizona
• Remote sensing based approach for monitoring urban growth in Mexico city, Mexico: A case study
• Stormwater BMPs in Urban Neighborhoods: Homeowner Perceptions
• Understanding Economics and Water Quality Impacts of Agricultural BMPs in a Suburban Watershed in New Jersey

Conservation Tools and Technologies
• A Guide for Planning Riparian Treatments in New Mexico
• A New Splash and Sheet Erosion Equation for Rangelands
• An Integrated Economic-Hydrologic Modeling System for Watershed Evaluation of BMPs
• Assessing manure management of organic dairy farms in U.S.
• Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA): A GIS-Based Tool for Watershed Assessment and Planning
• Concentrate Management: Estimating water-use by the salt-tolerant shrub, Atriplex lentiformis.
• Developing Water Erosion Risk Indicator for Use on Agricultural Landscapes in Canada
• Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Parallel and Conventional Terrace Layout for Improved Farmability.
• Implementation of a Water Accounting System to Assist Growers in Managing Current and Future Water Restrictions
• Integrating geospatial environmental data to assess the impacts of NRCS conservation programs in Michigan.
• LiDAR for Engineering Projects - Evaluating Appropriate use
• Management Effects On Nitrous Oxide Emissions From Irrigated Cropping Systems
• Managing Soil Moisture on Turf Grass Using a Portable Wave Reflectometer
• New Findings from AWCC: Developing, Testing and Transferring Fish and Wildlife Habitat Technology
• Preserving Water Quality Through Better Management of Livestock Mortality and Meat Waste
• Riverine nutrient load reduction through modeling-simulation directed field targeting of best management practices
• Sizing effectiveness of constructed wetlands for retaining tile-drain runoff and reducing nutrient inputs in watersheds.
• Soil loss evaluation index at small watershed scale: application and comparison with RUSLE
• The USDA/NRCS Bobwhite Restoration Project: Learning how to bring quail back
• Using Terrain Attributes to Identify Areas Suitable for Grass Waterways Soil Resource Assessment
• Dissemination of Land Use Planning Information from Soil Surveys with Google Maps and Google Earth
• Effects of woody plant canopy cover on dryland aeolian sediment transport
• Evaluation of Mine Soil Restoration Using Soil Quality Measurements
• Quantifying Soil Erosion and Resulting Nutrient Movements Under Natural Field Conditions: An Update
• Soil quality assessment under different organic fertilizers in Egypt
• Xterisation,Classification and Agricultural potentials of Soils formed from basement complex rock of South Western Nigeria

Soil Resource Management and Conservation
• Ag Based Energy Production Options in the Great Plains
• Benefit-Cost Evaluation of Alternative Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) for the Lower Little Bow River Basin
• Characterization of Cotton Soil-Plant-Water Relations with Two Irrigation Regimes
• Conservation Agriculture in South Asia
• Evaluation of sediment load reductions by forest BMP’s in Southeast forest using WEPP model
• Feasibility of Using Electromagnetic Induction To Assess Salinity in Golf Course Soils
• Hugh Hammond Bennett and the Creation of the Soil Erosion Service
• Improved RUSLE2 Descriptions of Perennial Vegetation and its Impact
• Integrated investigation and planning for watersheds of Hou-long stream and Zhong-gang stream in Miao-li, Taiwan
• Market-based approach to resource conservation
• Meeting the future climate challenge in southern Africa with a hand-based conservation farming system
• Michigan’s Voluntary Approach to Enacting Environmental Change on Small and Medium Farms
• Natural Resources’ Universal Pattern and Sustainability
• Nitrogen mineralization in mine spoils amended with poultry manure and paper mill sludge
• Relationship between farmland shelterbelts and water erosion in rolling-hill area of black soil region in Northeast China
• Restoration of Eroded Landscapes to Reduce Variability in Soil Properties Affecting Productivity
• Simultaneous Measurements of Wind and Water Erosion and Transport: Applications for Soil and Water Conservation
• Soil Conservation and Small-scale Food Production in Highland Ethiopia: A Stochastic Metafrontier Approach
• WEPPCAT: The Effects of Changing Precipitation Regimes on Erosion in the Black Earth Creek Watershed

Water Resources and Management
• A Decision Support System for Water Resources Management in Taiwan
• Alternative Livestock Water Access Method: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.
• Can Conservation Tillage Reduce Irrigation in Humid Climates?
• Cost-effective Assessment of Alternative Conservation Buffer Restoration Strategies in Agricultural Lands in Raritan Basin
• Creek Health Monitoring in Southwest Saskatchewan
• Effect of Water Salinity on Survival and Growth of Landscape Trees in Saudi Arabia
• Estimates of Evapotranspiration from Satellite images to improve Water Management in Semiarid region
• Evaluation of Modeling for Improved Surface Irrigation Management
• Expert-based reservoir sedimentation severity assessment and analyses of controlling factors: examples from Ethiopia and Ghana
• Finding Common Ground: Adapting watershed stewardship approaches to community interests
• Impacts on Stream Water Quality: A Multi-Scale Spatial Analysis of Impervious Cover, Geology and Soils
• Little Grave Creek - A Watershed Based Approach to Stream Restoration
• Modeling of BMP’s effects on hydrology, sediment and phosphorus yields into Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain.
• Salinity Dynamics of Cultivated Vertisols Irrigated with Waters of Different Quality, Egypt.
• Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Water Chemistry of Monsoonal Storm Runoff in the Tucson Basin
• The Application of Models in Integrated River Basin Management
• The Applications of Geographic Information In Dam Hazard Mitigation In Water Resources Management: The Case of Central Mississippi Region
• The Use of Bacteroides-Specific Molecular Markers to Quantify Sources of Fecal Contamination in Natural Waters: Words of Caution
• Towards a more safe environment (3) Phosphatic clays as solution for removing Pb2+ from wastewate
• Water Conservation Standards in Massachusetts - The Battle Between Aquatic Life and Green Lawns: Lessons Learned
• Water Conservation through Restoration of Soil Hydrological Properties
• Water quality management of Nhue River in Vietnam
• Watershed Central - A Web Site to Find and Use Watershed Information
• Watershed Conservation in Canada
• Watershed Management through Habitat Enhancement Incentives