Tentative Program

Wednesday, August 5

7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast/Registration
8:30 a.m.	Welcome George Hopper, Moderator
	Scott Mowery, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	NOAA Gulf of Mexico Climate Services related to SLR, climate change, impact of climate change on ecosystems, watersheds, and others
	Dean Pennington, Yazoo Mississippi Delta Joint Water Management District	Future of Water Supplies in the Mississippi Delta
9:30 a.m.	Poster Session Click the title to view the abstract
	Jason Barrett	Improving the Capacity of Mississippi’s Rural Water Associations Through Board Management Training
	Matthew R. Carr	Detection of Salmonella spp. from Mississippi Coastal Waters and Sediment
	Melissa Cook	Recycling CCA-Treated Wood Waste: Design and Operation of a Laboratory-Scale Pyrolysis System
	Christopher Flood	Using Human Specific Molecular Markers to Monitor Water Quality Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
	Rachel Jolley	Restoring Canebrakes to Enhance Water Quality Along the Upper Pearl River
	Kenny Langley	Science Education on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway: An Outreach Effort for K-12 Students and Teachers in Northeast Mississippi
	Richard Lusk	Electrokinetic Treatment of Mercury Contaminated Soil at the Mercury Refining Company Superfund Site
	James O. Palmer	Possible Correlations Among Simple Visual Disturbance Estimates and Hydrologic and Edaphi Parameters in Forested Headwaters of Mississippi
	Amy M. Parker	Environmental Impact and Disposal of CCA-Treated Wood Waste
	John J. Ramirez-Avila	Identification of Streambank Erosion Processes and Channel Changes in Northeastern Mississippi
	David R. Reed	Hydrologic Services Provided by the National Weather Service
	Guillermo Sanchez-Rubio	Oceanic-Atmospheric Modes of Variability and Their Effects on River Flow in the North Central Gulf of Mexico
	Amy Spencer	Preliminary Assessment of Ecosystem Services Provided by Moist-Soil Wetlands
	Jim Steil	A New Hydro-Enforced, 1:24,000 Digital Elevation Model for Mississippi
	C. Elizabeth Stokes	Molecular Identification of Pentachlorophenol (PCP) Tolerant Bacterial Communities in Contaminated Groundwater
	Heather Thomas	Life Cycle Assessment of Bio-Oil Production by Pyrolysis of Wood
	Heather Thomas	Evaluation of Phosphate Treatment Methods to Reduce Lead Mobility at Military Small Arms Training Ranges
9:50 a.m.	Technical Presentations (3 tracks) Click the title to view the abstract
	Session 1 Delta Water Quality Dean Pennington, Moderator	Session 2 Delta Ag Water Matt Romkens, Moderator	Session 3 Wetlands Jim Shepard, Moderator
	Stephanie Showalter Water Quality Trading: Is it Realistic for the Mississippi River?	Heather Welch Occurrence of Nitrate in the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer at a Site in Bolivar County, Mississippi	Gary N. Ervin Exploring Biologically Relevant Buffer Zones for Aquatic and Wetland Ecosystems in Northern Mississippi
	Billy Justus Water Quality of Least-Impaired Lakes in Eastern and Southern Arkansas	Jeannie R.B. Barlow Evaluating the Role of Groundwater and Surface-Water Interaction on the Transport of Agricultural Nutrients to Shallow Alluvial Aquifer Underlying Northwestern Mississippi	Casey N. Wilson Management of a Natural Floodplain Wetland for Mitigation of Nonpoint Source Pollution
	Karen Myers Methyl Mercury in Water and Fish Tissue in the Lower Yazoo Basin	Antonio L. Cerdeira Effects of Glyphosate-Resistant Crops on Water Quality	Cristina Nica A Study of Seagrass, Ruppia maritima and Halodule wrightii, at Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
	Shane Stokes Water Quality Monitoring Plan and Implementation, Lake Washington Mississippi, 2008	Jamie Dyer Influences of Land Surface Characteristics on Precipitation Over the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Plain	David R. Johnson Flooding or Precipitation: What is the Dominant Source of Moisture Sustaining a Backwater Bottomland Hardwood Forest?
		Charles Wax Climatological and Cultural Influences on the Potential for Conservation of Groundwater in the Mississippi Delta Shallow Alluvial Aquifer by Substituting Surface Water for Irrigation	Daniel Wren Transport of Non-Point Source Contaminants Through Riparian Wetlands in the Mississippi Delta Region
11:30 a.m.	Lunch Guest Speaker, Bruce Hanson, East Mississippi Community College Workforce Services Mickey Plunkett, Moderator
1:00 p.m.	Technical Presentations (3 tracks) Click the title to view the abstract
	Session 4 Delta Water Dean Pennington, Moderator	Session 5 Sediments Janet Dewey, Moderator	Session 6 Water Quality Jim Shepard, Moderator
	Charlotte Bryant Byrd Hydrogeology of the Central Delta	Trey Davis A Study of the Effectiveness of Various Sedimentation Solutions and Practices	Richard Rebich Sources and Transport of Total Nitrogen from Major River Basins of the South-Central United States, 2002
	Paul C. Parrish Ground Water-Surface Water Ineraction in the West-Central Delta (Washington County)	Christopher L. Hall Modeling Fluid Mud	Zhengzhen Zhou Composition and Size Distribution of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in River Waters as Characterized Using Fluorescence EEM and Field-Flow Fractionation Techniques
	James E. Starnes Mississippi River Bluff Line Streams	Michael S. Runner Turbidity as a Surrogate for the Estimation of Suspended-Sediment Concentrations in Mississippi Streams	Billy Justus Fish and Invertebrate Assemblage Relations to Dissolved Oxygen at 35 Sites in Southern Louisiana
	Olivier Bordonne Interaction of the Mississippi River with the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer in Northwestern Mississippi	John J. Ramirez-Avila Sediment Budget Analysis for Town Creek Watershed, MS	Bonnie Earleywine The Effects of Land Use on Streams Along the Natchez Trace Parkway Using Rapid Bioassessment Protocols
	Pat Mason Recharge in the Water Budget of the Delta’s Alluvial Aquifer	Byoungkoo Choi Headwater Hydrologic Functions in the Upper Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi	Alison Kinnaman The Use of Microcosm Studies to Determine the Effects of Sediments and Nutrients on Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Lake Water
2:40 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m.	Technical Presentations (3 tracks) Click the title to view the abstract
	Session 7 Non-Point Pat Deliman, Moderator	Session 8 Management/Sustainability Mary Love Tagert, Moderator	Session 9 Wood Treatment Jim Shepard, Moderator
	Scott Perry Urban Stormwater Runoff Phosphorus Loading and BMP Treatment Capabilities	Mary Love Tagert Support for a Northeast Mississippi Regional Water Management Plan	Lauren Mangum Treatment of Timtek Process Water by Co-Composting
	Maifan Silitonga Watershed Assessment and Education	Kelly Hurt The Oklahoma Water Bank Project	Amy M. Parker Environmental Impact and Disposal of CCA-Treated Wood Waste
	Sandra L. Ortega-Achury Water Quality Assessment in the Town Creek Watershed, Mississippi	Chad Miller Collective Action Regimes in Inland Marine Port Clusters: The Case of the Tenn-Tomm Waterway System	Heather Thomas Life Cycle Assessment of Wood Pyrolysis for Bio-Oil Production
	Marvin Washington Development of Water Correction Algorithm for Underwater Vegetation Signals	David T. Dockery III Sequence Stratigraphy, Depositional Systems, and Ground-Water Supply	Melissa Cook CCA-Treated Wood Waste: Design and Operation of a Laboratory-Scale Pyrolysis System
	Cristiane Surbeck Monitoring and Statistical Analysis of Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Lower Sardis Lake, Mississippi	Richard H. Coupe Anthropogenic Chemicals in the Source and Finished Water From Three Mississippi Communities That Use Surface Water as Their Drinking-Water Supply	Mark Bricka Laboratory-Scale Treatment of CCA-Contaminated Wood Waste
	Jairo N. Diaz-Ramirez Runoff Modeling of the Luxapaillila Creek Watershed Using Gridded and Lumped Models	Jason Barrett Drinking Water Systems in Mississippi: Public Owned or Government Owned?
3:00 p.m.	MWRA Board of Directors meeting
5:00 p.m.	Welcome Reception
6:00 p.m.	Dutch Treat Dinner at Hollywood Cafe

Thursday, August 6

7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.	Technical Presentations (3 tracks) Click the title to view the abstract
	Session 10 Non-Point Tom Bryant, Moderator	Session 11 Modeling Jim Shepard, Moderator	Session 12 Soil and Water Treatment Don Underwood, Moderator
	Renee Clary Gulf Coast Watersheds and Water Education: Outreach Alignment and Best Practices	Jim Steil A New Hydro-Enforced 1:24,000 Digital Elevation Model for Mississippi	Richard Lusk Electrokinetic Treatment of Mercury Contaminated Soil at the Mercury Refining Company Superfund Site
	Michael S. Runner Collection of Hydrologic Data on Tidally Affected Streams	John B. Czarnecki Conjuctive-Use Optimization Modeling of the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer: Evaluation of Groundwater Sustainable Yield	Heather Thomas Evaluation of Phosphate Treatment Methods to Reduce Lead Mobility at Military Small Arms Training Ranges
	Kenny Langley The Effect of Policy and Land Use Change on Water Quality in a Coastal Watershed City: An Analysis of Covington, Louisiana	Terrance W. Holland Arkansas’ Expanded Relational Water-Use Program	Mark Bricka Sulfate Removal From Ground Water
	Nathaniel Jourdan Drainage Improvement Project Development for Successful Hazard Mitigation Funding	Claire E. Rose Simulated Solute Transport and Shallow Subsurface Flow in Northwestern Mississippi	Rheannon M. Hart Use of Borehole Geophysics to Determine Zones of Radium Production in Northern Arkansas
	Casey DeMoss Roberts Protecting Water Quality in Your Community	Brian R. Clark The Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer Study (MERAS)—Model Construction, Simulation of Groundwater Flow, and Potential Uses of a Regional Flow Model	Wayne Kellogg Beneficial Use of Marginal Quality Water
9:40 a.m.	Break
9:55 a.m.	Plenary Session Deirdre McGowan, Moderator
	Duane Smith, Oklahoma Water Resources Board	Organization of Water Resources for Effective Management
	Eric Evenson, U.S. Geological Survey Water Census Initiative	Plans for a National Water Census
	Amy Larson, National Waterways Conference Inc.	Emerging and Current National Water Issues
	Gene Sullivan, Bayou Meto Water Management District	Arkansas Watershed Progress
11:55 a.m.	Lunch Guest Speaker Jimmy Palmer, Butler-Snow George Hopper, Moderator	Musings of a Recovering EPA Regional Administrator
1:00 p.m.	Activities
	Golf Tournament (tranportation on your own)
	Skeet Shooting (transportation on your own)
	Riverboat Museum Tour (transportation on your own
	Storm Water Management Workshop
6:30 p.m.	Transportation to Tunica RiverBoat Cruise
7:00 a.m.	Tunica RiverBoat Cruise

Friday, August 7

7:30 a.m.	Plated Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Plenary Session Dean Pennington, Moderator
	Colonel Smith, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers	National Levee Safety Program Implications for Mississippi Water Resources Infrastructure
	Commander Dan Norton, U.S. Coast Guard	Security Concerns at Our Ports and on the Inland Waterways
	Colonel Michael C. Wehr, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers	What's the 200 Year Vision for the World’s Third Largest Watershed?
10:00 a.m.	MWRA General Membership Meeting and Voting
10:30 a.m.	Adjourn