| Conference Themes
Integrated Watershed and Basin Management
- Stakeholder involvement and coalition building
- Participatory approaches to planning, design, and setting goals
- Assessing current conditions: Assembling databases, using models, employing GIS tools
- Predicting outcomes of alternative actions: Assembling databases, using models, employing GIS tools
- Cost effective monitoring: Baseline data, impact assessment, citizen-based approaches
- Adaptive management: evaluation and feedback
- Long-term experimental watersheds: Roles, research, and outreach
- Organizational structures for basin management
Water Supplies for Ecology and Economy
- Recent changes, trends, and the future outlook for irrigated agriculture
- Ecological planning approaches for irrigated agriculture and healthy biological systems and sustaining agriculture profitability
- Field or watershed scale technical tools and innovations for water conservation and water quality enhancement in irrigated agriculture
- Forecasting drought conditions and reduced water supply
- Assessment of success: Has progress been made in water supply planning and management in large geographic areas for both surface and groundwater?
- Groundwater supplies for irrigated agriculture: Effects of irrigated agriculture on stream-aquifer connections
- Water budgeting, pricing, banking, credits, and competition for agriculture water supplies
- Integrated approaches to irrigation water management and incentives for irrigation water management practice adoption
- Potential for profitable low water requirement crops
Grazingland Health for Sustainable Production and Biological Diversity
- Grazinglands management for conservation buffers
- Ownership patterns and demographics of today’s grazinglands owners and managers
- Grass-based systems for small farmers
- Grazing-based nutrient management
- Alternatives and value-added products from grazinglands
- Decision support systems to achieve diverse grazinglands management objectives
Air Quality for Public Health and Economic Vitality
- Impact of ozone and particulate matter levels on agricultural production
- Economic impact of air quality regulation on agricultural production
- Conservation measures to reduce emissions from agricultural production
- Reducing emissions associated with animal production (odor, hydrogen sulfide, volatile organic compounds, and methane)
- Software useful in analyzing air quality issues for ecosystems
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2004 SWCS Annual Conference
July 24-28, 2004
Radisson Riverfront Hotel
St. Paul, Minnesota
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