| Liaison Committee Information - Fourth Meeting |
Below is an excerpt from the agenda of the Great Plains Foundation Symposium meeting.
| Tuesday, April 2, 2002 Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center Auditorium |
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| 8:00 AM | Registration | |
| 8:30 AM | Introductions: Steve Evett, Ph.D. Color Guard: Boy Scout Troop #10, Amarillo, Texas Welcome: H. Jan Scoggins-Waite, Great Plains Foundation |
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| 8:45 AM | General Session I: Water Resources, Protection ans Utilization | |
| Utilization with Conservation | ||
| Moderator: | Bill Payne, Ph.D. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station |
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| Speakers: | Kevin Dennehy Hydrologist, USGS Lynne Fahlquist Hydrologist, USGS High Plains Regional Groundwater Quality Assessment Bill Hargrove, Ph.D. Director, Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment Regional Water Use Terry Howell, Ph.D. New Ideas for Irrigation Water Use Efficiency |
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| New CAFO Regulations | ||
| Moderator: | Ross Wilson Texas Cattle Feeders Association |
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| Speakers: | Jean-Mari Peltier Agricultural Advisor to the US EPA Administration New CAFO Regulations Tom McDonald Environmental Manager Conti Group, Dalhart, Texas Industry Response to Proposed CAFO Regulations |
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| 12:00 Noon | Catered lunch with student poster session (poster titles and student biographies may be found at the end of this program book) | |
| 1:15 PM | Depart for tour of Concervation and Production Research Laboratory | |
| Tour Leader: | Richard W. Todd, Ph.D. USDA Agricultural Research Service |
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| 1:30 PM | ARS-TAES Experimental Feedyard
N. Andy Cole (ARS), Beef Cattle Nutrition and Air Quality |
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| 2:10 PM | Large Wind Turbines/Center Pivot
Byron Neal (ARS), Wind Energy |
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| 2:50 PM | Cropping Systems Area
Louis Baumhardt (ARS), Dryland Cropping Systems and Water Conservation |
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| 3:30 PM | CPRL Conference Room for Wrap-up and Poster Viewing
Nolan Clark, Ph.D. USDA Laboratory Director, Bushland Research Station |
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| 4:45 PM | Depart from Ambassador Hotel parking lot for evening cookout | Wednesday, April 3, 2002 Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center Auditorium |
| 1:00 PM | Concurrent Sessions | |
| Session A: | State Perspectives | |
| Moderator | Stephen W. Waite, Professor, Dodge City Community College | |
| Speakers | Stefan Schuster, Texas Water Development Board Hal Simpson, Colorado Natural Resources Duane Smith, Oklahoma Water Resources Board Hank Ernst, Kansas Water Office Jeff Vonk, Iowa Department of Natural Resources |
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| Session B: | Technical Abstracts and Poster Session | |
| Moderator | Greta Schuster, Ph.D., West Texas A&M University | |
| Debra Baker, Central Plains Center for BioAssessment The Central Plains Center for BioAssessment--Facilitating Aquatic Expertise in the Central Plains Region Ray Brady, Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District Aquifer Responses to Agricultural Pumping in the Northeast Texas Panhandle Breton Bruce and Gretchen Oelsner, USGS and University of Wyoming respectively Contrasts in Water Quality from Paired Domestic and Public-Supply Wells Alan Cherepon, Texas Natural Res. Cons. Commission Atrazine Monitoring of the High Plains Aquifer by Immunoassay Arden Colette, Ph.D., West Texas A&M University Evaluation of Irrigation and Other Production Technologies for Increasing Returns and Reducing Risk for Winter Wheat Producers on Pullman Clay Loam Soils in the Texas Panhandle Monte Dozier, Ph.D., Texas Cooperative Ext. Specialist Detemining the Presence of Fecal Coliform Bacteria in Private Water Well Samples of Texas Jason Gurdak and Sharon Qi, USGS A Holistic Approach to Ground-Water Quality Assessment in the High Plains Natalie Houston, USGS Ground Water Digital Atlas for Texas Peter McMahon and J.K. Böhlke, USGS Radiocarbon Ages, Denitrification, and Paleorecharge Conditions in Central High Plains Aquifer Wells in the Ogallala Formation, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas |
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| 4:00 PM | Adjournment | |