21st Century Watershed Technology Conference and Workshop
21st Century Watershed Technology Conference and Workshop Improving Water Quality and the Environment The University of Waikato - New Zealand November 1 - 6, 2014 Saturday 1 November: Workshop S-BLOCK 10:00 - 3:00pm Room: 1.03 SPARROW and CLUES: Spatially Explicit Watershed Modeling Tools Organized by: Dr. Dale Robertson, Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey Dr. Sandy Elliott, Physical Scientist, Catchment Processes, NIWA Dr. Aroon Parshotam, Research Fellow, Environmental Research Institute, The University of Waikato Dr. Annette Semadeni-Davies, Urban Aquatic Scientist, NIWA R-BLOCK 10:00 - 3:00pm Sunday 2 November: Workshops Room: R.G12 Room: R.G11 Water Supply, Pond Design and Levee Pond Economic Analyses Workshop Organized by: Ernest W. Tollner, Professor of Natural Resources Engineering, U.S. University of Georgia From 3:00pm Registrations Open: S-Block 5:00 - 7:00pm Pre-Conference Welcome Function: S-Block Nutrient Tracking Tool* - A User-Friendly Tool for Calculating Nutrient Losses under Various Agricultural and Forestry Management Practices Organized by: Ali Saleh, Associate Director/Professor, Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research, U.S. Tarleton State University Monday 3 November: Conference From 7:45am Registrations Open: S-Block 8:30 - 10:20am Welcome: S-Block Opening Speaker: Tukoroirangi Morgan, Kahui Ariki representative Te Arataura executive Opening Speaker: Guy Beatson, Deputy Secretary Policy, Ministry for the Environment 10:20 -11:00am Keynote Speaker: Dr. Liz Wedderburn, AgResearch, "Farm and Catchment Solutions to nutrient loss entering New Zealand waterways" 11:00 11:40am Morning Tea: S-Block S-BLOCK Room: S1.02 Room: S1.04 Room: S1.05 Solutions for increasing stakeholder involvement in the water quality/quantity process Chair: Sandy Elliott Wetlands, stream and river restoration, biomonitoring and land use impacts on downstream water bodies Chair: Ali Saleh Watershed implementation planning Chair: Aroon Parshotam Constructing flow preference curves to enable the identification of flows necessary to maintain the attributes of river flow essential to protecting cultural values Gail Tipa Tipa and Associates Assessment of the remediation potential of Wairarapa Moana Edge Wetlands Past, present and future urban water: the challenges in creating more beneficial trajectories James Sukias NIWA Iain White University of Waikato Meeting water quality and quantity standards to sustain cultural values Phosphorus in Lake Rotorua: from Headwaters to Lake Sediment Establishing interdisciplinary roots through collaborative research: A unique undergraduate summer program at the Virginia Tech Stream Lab Garth Harmsworth David Hamilton, Jonathan Abell, Chris McBride University of Waikato Session 11:40 -12:00pm 12:00 -12:20pm Landcare Research NZ Ltd Leigh-Anne Krometis Virginia Tech S-BLOCK 12:20 -12:40pm 12:40 - 1:00pm Room: S1.02 Room: S1.04 Room: S1.05 Using Bayesian Networks to support stakeholder-led water planning in New Zealand east coast watersheds Richard Storey Quantifying nutrient and sediment loads from intensivelyfarmed agricultural catchments to shallow peat lakes Rebecca Eivers Implementing practices to improve water quality in an agricultural watershed in the Central United States Daniel Devlin National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research University of Waikato Kansas State University Orange Takiwa (health territory): A whanau approach to restoration of aquatic habitats across a takiwa (tribal territory) Gail Tipa Tipa and Associates Managing floodplains for multiple goals: balancing the effects of humans and invasive fish on ecological functions Empowering behaviour change towards low-input regenerative farming systems Kevin Collier University of Waikato Nicole Masters Integrity Soils Watershed implementation planning Chair: Richard Storey Emerging water quality/quantity case studies Chair: Doug Booker 1:00 - 2:00pm Lunch: S-Block Session Waikato Tainui Session 2:00 - 2:20pm Nga Puna Whakaata o Ngati Koroki-Kahukura - Challenges and Solutions Framework to facilitate conservation planning in agricultural watersheds using precision GIS technologies Watershed influence on factors responsible of cyanobacteria proliferation episodes in lacustrine waters (Brittany, Western France, Europe) Linda Te Aho Ngati Koroki-Kahukura Mark Tomer USDA-Agricultural Research Service An adaptive targeting approach for adoption of agricultural conservation practices Estelle Baures French School of Public Health Margaret Kalcic University of Michigan Max Gibbs NIWA Development of an erosion and sedimentation model for New Zealand catchments - SednetNZ A mass balance approach to setting nutrient load targets for lake catchments and informing management of community wastewater treatment options Chris McBride University of Waikato 2:20 - 2:40pm 2:40 - 3:00pm Dylan Tahau Tuwharetoa 3:00 - 3:20pm 3:20 – 4:00pm Afternoon Tea: S-Block Session Waikato Tainui Session Ko te mauri, ko te wai ora o Waipā, ko Waiwaia 4:00 - 4:20pm Ngahuia Herangi & Kura Stafford Ngati Maniapoto John Dymond Landcare Research Factors influencing cyanobacteria blooms: The curious case of Lake Horowhenua Integrated modelling with MIKE SHE: Successfully builiding subregional scale models in Canterbury Andrew Druzynski DHI Water and Environment Atmospheric deposition of nutrients in lakes in New Zealand, as a proportion of total nutrient loads Watershed implementation planning Chair: David Burger Emerging water quality/quantity case studies Chair: Dale Robertson Land use influences on suspended sediment yields and event sediment dynamics within two headwater catchments as indicated by long-term turbidity sensor data Andrew Hughes Soil fingerprints identify the sources of pollutants in the Whangamarino wetland NIWA NIWA Piet Verburg NIWA Max Gibbs S-BLOCK Room: S1.02 4:20 - 4:40pm 4:40 - 5:00pm Stephanie O’Sullivan Raukawa 5:00 - 5:20pm Room: S1.04 Room: S1.05 Green or brown? Stream ecosystem functioning affected by multiple agricultural stressors Andreas Bruder Trace elements in the Wakareao Estuary, Tauranga Harbour When, where and why? Julien Huteau University of Otago University of Waikato Exploring Solutions Focus for farm water quality action plans Trace metal content in 11 temperate lake sediments reflect their catchment type Alfred Theodore Kpodonu University of Waikato Characterising denitrification in the subsurface environment of the Manawatu Catchment, New Zealand Aldrin Rivas Massey University Lucy McKergow NIWA Greenhouse gas emission from a eutrophic lake in agricultural landscape Arianto Santoso University of Waikato 5:30 – 7:00pm Welcome Function: The Academy, The University of Waikato Tuesday 4 November: Conference From 8:00am Registrations Open: S-Block 9:00 - 10.00am Opening & Keynote Speaker – S-Block Mark R. Walbridge, USDA/ARS, "The Long-Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) Network: Current status and future trends" 10:00 10:40am Morning Tea: S-Block S-BLOCK Room: S1.02 Room: S1.04 Room: S1.05 Session Agricultural BMP effectiveness at multiple scales Chair: Piet Verburg Economic implications of water quality/quantity Chair: Mark Tomer Performance and validation of models for water quality/quantity Chair: Paul Davidson Can riparian planting mitigate catchment-level stressors? Application of integrated environmental and economic simulation models using CEEOT to evaluate BMPs at the field and watershed levels Ali Saleh Assessing the performance of HSPF when using the high water table subroutine to simulate hydrology in a low-gradient watershed Brian Benham Virginia Tech Balancing water quality and land use intensification: ecological and social damage costs of ecosystem decline for Lake Rotorua, New Zealand Hannah Mueller University of Waikato Application of ANN and fuzzylogic algorithms for streamflow modeling of Savitri Catchment 10:40 -11:00am Elizabeth Graham NIWA 11:00 -11:20am MitAgator: a farm-scale tool to estimate and mitigate the loss of contaminants from land to water Rich McDowell AgResearch 11:20 -11:40am 11:40 -12:00pm 12:00 - 1:00pm Targeted Water and Fertigation Applications Using GIS Soil Information Systems Mahesh Kothari College of Technology and Engineering, MPUAT Modeling pathogen fate and transport in surface flow with bare and vegetated surfaces Caroline McKinney Farm system economic effects of transformation toward sustainable hill country pastoralism: Whatawhata case study Mike Dodd Trimble Navigation AgResearch University of Illinois Integration of Microbial Water Quality Impacts into Existing Decision Support Tools Alum dosing protocol and monitoring regime for Lake Rotorua, New Zealand Richard Muirhead AgResearch Andy Bruere Bay of Plenty Regional Council What is the possible step for mitigating eutrophication in a large shallow polluted Lake Taihu - a model case study Liancong Luo Jinan University Lunch: S-Block Rabin Bhattarai S-BLOCK Room: S1.02 Room: S1.04 Room: S1.04 Session Agricultural BMP effectiveness at multiple scales Chair: Brian Bingham Field and watershed scale modelling Chair: Ali Saleh Emerging water quality/quantity case studies Chair: Ernest Tollner 1:00 - 1:20pm Nitrate losses in an irrigated watershed after 40 years of management changes SPARROW watershed modeling in the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin Variability of farm dairy effluent quality and quantity in New Zealand Dave Bjorneberg Dale Robertson U.S. Geological Survey Stephan Heubeck NIWA Removal of infective pathogens from surface water sources using vegetative filter strips Predicting the effects of land use intensification on stream nutrients and periphyton - the Tukituki River Kit Rutherford NIWA Use of previous concrete as gravity filter media 1:20 - 1:40pm Paul Davidson University of Illinois 1:40 - 2:00pm 2:00 - 2:20pm “Disconnects and Tipping Points” Crossing the silos of economics, ecology and reality: Is production at a profit, or a cost? CLUES modelling of E. coli concentrations in the Waikato and Waipa River catchments Alison Dewes & Barrie Ridler Annette Semadeni-Davies Emeka-Chris Engr. Headlands Mitigating nutrient loss from pastoral farmland in the Rotorua lakes district of New Zealand John Paterson Bay of Plenty Regional Council NIWA Hydrological modeling of critical source areas of soil erosion in the Gadarwara Watershed (India) Mapping of arsenic pollution in Burkina Faso using a new field measurement technique Sumit Sen Dept. of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee 2:20 - 3:20pm Afternoon Tea & Poster Session : S-Block Session Water management and re-use Chair: Ali Sadeghi Emerging water quality/quantity case studies Chair: Mark Tomer The potential of greywater reuse in irrigation Different interpretations of the same water abstraction limits can lead to different outcomes Adesoji Tunbosun Jaiyeola Mangosuthu University of Technology Investigation of water quality for consumption and irrigation purpose Doug Booker NIWA Changes in sediment discharge in the sediment-rich region of the Yellow River from 1955 to 2010: implications for further soil erosion control Juying Jiao Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Impact of heavy rainfalls on global nutrients export during the fertilization period in a coastal agricultural watershed Jean Causse French School of Public Health Modupe Ruyh Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin 4:00 - 4:40pm Evaluation of crop coefficient for cotton under Akola region from 6:30pm Modelling the impacts of mitigation on sediment and contaminant loads to the Kaipara Harbour Annette Semadeni-Davies NIWA Use of SWAT to evaluate effects on in–stream nutrients of effluent irrigation scenarios in a New Zealand forest catchment Wang Me University of Waikato Sources, fate and persistence of catchment soil erosion preserved in estuarine sediment records Impacts of water management on eel fisheries Bringing SWAT to stakeholders for conservation scenario development Michael Holmes Eel Enhancement company Margaret Kalcic University of Michigan Land-to-water transfer to nutrients: What knowledge can be gained by combined analysis of river water quality and flow records? Simon Woodward Lincoln Agritech Ltd Sandip Nage Dr. PDKV, Akola, MS, INDIA 4:40 - 5:00pm Franck Ialanne 2iE Fondation Field and watershed scale modelling Chair: Mark Walbridge 3:20 - 3:40pm 3:40 - 4:00pm Hansa Jeswani Sardar Patel College of Engineering ImpacSwats of atmospheric corrosion in harvested rainwater quality in selected parts of Imo State, Nigeria Conference Dinner - Hamilton Gardens Andrew Swales NIWA Wednesday 5 November: Conference From 8:00am Registrations Open: S-Block 9:00 - 10.00am Opening & Keynote Speaker – S-Block Dr. Gary Jones, e-Water Australia, "Global river management & technologies: Trends and best practices in the world’s rivers" 10:00 10:40am Morning Tea: S-Block S-BLOCK Room: S1.02 Room: S1.04 Room: S1.05 Session WA Bioremediation systems for agriculture Chair: David Hamilton Field and watershed scale modelling Chair: Aroon McBride Data collection, mining, quality and management Chair: Rupert Craggs Biological enhancements to improve the performance of agricultural effluent treatment ponds Rupert Craggs OVERSEER – a tool to help farmers manage nutrients to improve productivity and reduce losses to the environment Caroline Read Communication of water quality data: standards and vocabularies an international context NIWA Overseer Management Services Horizons Regional Council Retro-fitting wetlands back into agricultural watersheds – challenges and potential pollutant load reductions Chris Tanner NIWA Microalgal nutrient removal and recovery from dairy farm effluent Van Vu Thi Khanh NIWA Comparison watershed selection when applying the AllForX Approach for sediment TMDL development Brian Benham Virginia Tech Watershed Assessment Model (WAM) - Florida applications Stream monitoring by volunteers and professionals: do they tell the same story? 10:40 -11:00am 11:00 -11:20am 11:20 - 1:40am 11:40 -12:00pm Del Bottcher Soil and Water Engineering Technology, Inc. An integrated modelling approach to support the quantification and management of nutrient loads from agricultural catchments in New Zealand: Case study Waituna catchment (Southland, New Zealand) David Burger Dairy NZ 12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch: S-Block Session Effects of climate change on water resources and water quality Chair: David Hamilton Pollution control/management practices for point and nonpoint sources Chair: Sandy Elliott Modelling the efficacy on inlake and catchment remediation actions for restoration of a small, eutrophic lake Pollution and situation of rivers in the western highlands of Cameroon: a consequence of farmland erosion by runoff Ryan Mallett University of Waikato Assessing climate change Impacts on river basins in New Zealand using model-based downscaling and regional climate modelling Henri Grisseur Djoukeng Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Unexpected net export of E. coli from a constructed wetland intercepting drainage water in an agricultural watershed: implications for water quality and health Rebecca Stott NIWA 1:00 - 1:20pm 1:20 - 1:40pm Zammit Christian NIWA Sean Hodges Aslan Wright-Stow NIWA The journey towards data maturity: Horizons' water quality data management story Amy Shears Horizons Regional Council A database approach to national aquatic ecological monitoring program in Korea Meilan Jiang Konkuk University Field and watershed scale modelling Chair: Richard Storey Simulation of phosphorus loading from the rural Onkaparinga watershed (South Australia) by a spatially-explicit ensemble of SWAT models as prerequisite for land-use specific scenario analysis Manoj Shrestha University of Adelaide Multi-Model approach for hydrological prediction in a watershed Shailesh Singh NIWA S-BLOCK 1:40 - 2:00pm 2:00 - 2:20pm 2:20 - 3:00pm Session WC 3:00 - 3:20pm 3:20 - 3:40pm 3:40 - 4:00pm 4:00 - 4:20pm 4:45 - 5:15pm Room: S1.02 Room: S1.04 Room: S1.05 Developing Rainfall Inputs for the IDEAL Water Quality Model for the Continental United States John Hayes Clemson University Tool for obtaining projected future climate inputs for the WEPP and SWAT models Challenges/Progress in distributed watershed modeling: Applications of the AgroEcoSystem-Watershed (AgES-W) Model Mark Tomer USDA-ARS Dennis Flanagan USDA-Agricultural Research Service Analysis and technology review on industrial and domestic wastewater in South Africa as a water scarced country Joseph Bwapwa Improving & parameterising macronutrient models for application of LUCI in New Zealand Martha Trodahl Mangosuthu University of Technology Victoria University of Wellington Afternoon Tea: S-Block Data collection, mining, quality and management Chair: John Hayes Watershed implementation planning Chair: Clive Howard-Williams GIS tools for watershed assessment Chair: Doug Booker Effects of sampling frequency and nutrient load estimation methods on the assessment of annual nutrient loads Management of greywater for reuse in irrigation. A Review Remote sensing of vegetation adjacent to Lake Benmore Ahuriri Arm Ahmed Elwan Adesoji Tunbosun Jaiyeola Mathew Allan Massey University Mangosuthu University of Technology University of Waikato Regression alchemy for temporal disaggregation of mean annual loads A fair irrigation scheduling method prioritizing on the individual need of the crops and infrastructure limitations Sandy Elliott Dilini Delgoda CHES: A GIS modelling tool to compare the catchmentwide effects of water-use scenarios on water-take reliability and in-stream environmental values Jan Diettrich NIWA The University of Melbourne NIWA Application of recurrent neural networks for predicting water quality constituents of collected runoff from windrow composing pad Ensuring food security in India through efficient water management: Challenges under a changing climate Extending a Monte Carlo dairy farm stream E. coli model to catchment scale Ernest Tollner Shadananan Nair Graham McBride University of Georgia Nansen Environmental Research Centre (India) Trends and variability of daily temperature extremes during 1960-2012 in the Yangtze River Basin, China NIWA Simon Woodward Fenli Zheng Hayley Vial Lincoln Agritech Ltd Northwest A&F University SA WATER Land-to-water transfer of nutrients: What knowledge can be gained by combined analysis of river water quality and flow records? Conference Closing: S1.04 Investigating source water Cryptosporidium concentration, species and infectivity rates during rainfall-runoff events in a multi-use catchment Thursday 6 November: Field Trips 9:00am - 3:00pm Whatawhata – Application of science at land-water interface Departs from the Novotel Hotel 9:00am - 6:00pm Rotorua - Lake restoration Departs from the Novotel Hotel
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