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Liaison Committee Information - Fourth Meeting

NATIONAL WATER-QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM HIGH PLAINS REGIONAL GROUND-WATER STUDY FOURTH LIAISON MEETING AS PART OF THE GREAT PLAINS FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM MEETING

Amarillo, Texas April 1-3, 2002

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
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
8:45 AM General Session I: Water Resources, Protection ans Utilization
  Utilization with Conservation
  Moderator: Bill Payne, Ph.D.
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
  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
  New CAFO Regulations
  Moderator: Ross Wilson
Texas Cattle Feeders Association
  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
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
  1:30 PM ARS-TAES Experimental Feedyard

N. Andy Cole (ARS), Beef Cattle Nutrition and Air Quality
Wayne Greene (TAES), Improving Nitrogen Movement Through Feedyards
Richard Todd, Ph.D. (ARS), Quantifying Ammonia Emissions from Feedyards

  2:10 PM Large Wind Turbines/Center Pivot

Byron Neal (ARS), Wind Energy
Terry Howell, Ph.D. (ARS), Irrigation and Water Conservation
Leon New (TCE), Water Research

  2:50 PM Cropping Systems Area

Louis Baumhardt (ARS), Dryland Cropping Systems and Water Conservation
Wenxuan Guo (WTAMU), Feedyard Dust Effects on Adjacent Rangeland
Maria Balota (TAES), Variety Selection for Water Conservation

  3:30 PM CPRL Conference Room for Wrap-up and Poster Viewing

Nolan Clark, Ph.D. USDA Laboratory Director, Bushland Research Station

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
  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
4:00 PM Adjournment

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