50 Years of Soil and Water Research
in a Changing Agricultural Environment

September 3-5, 2008

Oxford Conference Center, 102 Ed Perry Blvd, Oxford, MS 38655

Technical Program
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Wednesday, September 03, 2008  
Session A - Plenary Session
 Keynote Addresses
Begin End   Speaker Affiliation & Presentation Title
8:00 AM 8:05 AM Welcome Deborah Brennan Associate Area Director, USDA ARS Mid South Area
8:05 AM 8:20 AM speaker 1 Matt Römkens National Sedimentation Laboratory - "National Sedimentation Laboratory Research:  Past and Present"
8:20 AM 8:40 AM speaker 2 Homer Wilkes Natural Resources Conservation Service - "Conservation--Past, Present and Future"
8:40 AM 9:00 AM speaker 3 Don Underwood Mississippi Soil & Water Conservation Commission - "The Value of Government Research in an Era of Privatization and Downsizing"
9:00 AM 9:20 AM speaker 4 George Hopper Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute - "MS Water Resources Institute:  Mission, Programs, and Accomplishments"
9:20 AM 9:40 AM speaker 5 Dean Pennington Yazoo MIssissippi Delta Joint Water Management District - "Balancing the Delta's Water Budgets"
9:40 AM 10:00 AM Break    
10:00 AM 10:20 AM speaker 6 David Shaw Northern Gulf Institute - "Land-Coast-Ocean-Atmosphere Contiuum – Research in the Northern Gulf Region"
10:20 AM 10:40 AM speaker 7 Tommy Hengst U. S. Army Corps of Engineers -"Mississippi Delta Headwaters Project"
10:40 AM 11:00 AM speaker 8 Hank Bass - Jim Sabatier National Center for Physical Acoustics - "A Brief Bistory of Agroacoustics"
11:00 AM 11:20 AM speaker 9 Sam Wang National Center for Computational Hydroscience & Engineering - "Sediment Transport Modeling at NCCHE"
11:20 AM 11:40 AM speaker 10 Ray Highsmith University of Mississippi Field Station - "Nature’s Laboratory at Ole Miss: The UM Field Station"
11:40 AM 12:00 PM speaker 11 Richard Ingram MS Dept. of Environmental Equality - "Connecting the
Dots:  From Nutrient TMDLs to Nutrient Reduction Strategies to Gulf Hypoxia"
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch    
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center  
Wednesday, September 03, 2008  
Session B - Water Quality Sampling Methods Sean J. Bennett, Chair
    Professor, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo
    Buffalo, NY
Begin End   Speaker Title
1:00 PM 1:20 PM 1 Jerry C Ritchie Cesium-137 - A tool for determining sedimentation rates, estimating soil redistribution rates and patterns, and determining sediment sources
1:20 PM 1:40 PM 2 John Gray A U. S. Geological Survey Protocol to Compute Suspended-Sediment Discharges from Continuous Turbidity and Water-Discharge Data
1:40 PM 2:00 PM 3 Elizabeth Pappas An Optimized Atrazine Sampling Regime
2:00 PM 2:20 PM 4 Greg McCarty Use of remote sensing to monitor nutrient uptake by winter cover crops in the Choptank River Watershed
2:20 PM 2:40 PM 5 Roger Kuhnle Sediment Transport Research at the USDA National Sedimentation Laboratory
2:40 PM 3:00 PM 6 Cristiane Surbeck Occurrence of fecal indicator organisms in surface waters and what they mean for water quality management
3:00 PM 3:20 PM Break    
3:20 PM 3:40 PM 7 Kevin Barry Field Methods for Determining Settling Velocity for an Adaptive Sediment Transport Model
3:40 PM 4:00 PM 8 Lili Carpenter Improved survival and growth of Salix nigra cuttings demonstrated in soaked treatment in greenhouse and field studies
4:00 PM 4:20 PM 9 Bruce Roddan A time integrated passive fluvial suspended sediment sampler evaluated in an instream flume
4:20 PM 4:40 PM 10 Daniel Wren Reservoir Sedimentation Research at the National Sedimentation Laboratory
4:40 PM 5:00 PM 11 Febi Varghese Coir Geo-Textiles :A natural Solution for Soil Erosion and Degradation
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Wednesday, September 03, 2008  
Session C - Modeling and Ephemeral Gully Erosion Jim Fouss, Chair
    Research Leader, Soil and Water Research
    Baton Rouge, LA
Begin End   Speaker Title
1:00 PM 1:20 PM 1 Richard Lowrance Estimation of riparian buffer effectiveness in the Stemple Creek Watershed, California
1:20 PM 1:40 PM 2 Robert Prager Application of Soil Bearing Capacity Analysis to Surcharge Effect of Trees on Streambanks
1:40 PM 2:00 PM 3 Glenn Wilson The Role of preferential Flow Through Soil Pipes in Ephemeral Gully Erosion
2:00 PM 2:20 PM 4 Fenli Zheng Evaluation of WEPP for Steep Loess Slopes in China
2:20 PM 2:40 PM 5 Antonio Cerdeira Leaching Risk Evaluation of Herbicides Used in Sugar Cane in Guarany Aquifer in Brazil
2:40 PM 3:00 PM 6    
3:00 PM 3:20 PM Break    
3:20 PM 3:40 PM 7 Robert Wells Morphodynamics of Migrating Headcuts by Concentrated Flow
3:40 PM 4:00 PM 8 Dalmo Vieira Modeling Flow Patterns in Tilled Fields
4:00 PM 4:20 PM 9 Lee Gordon Modeling ephemeral gully erosion as a discrete process at the sub-cell scale
4:20 PM 4:40 PM 10 Seth Dabney Predicting ephemeral gully erosion with RUSLE2
4:40 PM 5:00 PM 11 Kossi Nouwakpo Pore water effects on soil erodibility and its implication in modeling ephemeral gully erosion
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Thursday, September 04, 2008  
Session D - Landscape Effects:
Biologic and Aquatic Considerations		 Tammo Steenhuis, Chair
    Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering
    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Begin End   Speaker Title
8:00 AM 8:20 AM 1 Doug Shields Nutrient Transport in the Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi
8:20 AM 8:40 AM 2 Richard Coupe The Conservative Transport of Nitrate in the Mississippi River
8:40 AM 9:00 AM 3 Robert Zablotowicz Effects of land management practices on water quality in Mississippi Delta oxbow lakes: Biochemical and microbiological aspects
9:00 AM 9:20 AM 4 Richard Lizotte Pesticide Trapping Efficiency of a Modified Backwater Wetland Using a Simulated Runoff Event
9:20 AM 9:40 AM 5 Matt Moore A Decade in the Ditch:  Ten Years of Vegetated Drainage Ditch Research
9:40 AM 10:00 AM 6 Antonio Cerdeira Herbicide in Water and Uptake Modeling in Sugarcane
10:00 AM 10:20 AM Break    
10:20 AM 10:40 AM 7 Samuel Pierce Effects of Hydrology and Species-Specific Ditch Plant Characteristics on Soil and Water Chemistry
10:40 AM 11:00 AM 8 Peter Smiley Implications of fish-habitat relationships for developing conservation plans for channelized headwater streams in the midwestern United States
11:00 AM 11:20 AM 9 John Schwartz Use of Fish Autecological Data with Sediment and Channel Stability Metrics to Identify Ecologically-Relevant Thresholds for Impairment due to Stream Siltation
11:20 AM 11:40 AM 10 Robert Gillespie Relationships among Macroinvertebrate Community Variables and Water Quality Parameters in Modified Agricultural Receiving Streams in the Midwestern United States
11:40 AM 12:00 PM 11 Peter Smiley Influence of gully erosion control on amphibian and reptile communities within riparian zones of channelized streams
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch    
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Thursday, September 04, 2008  
Session E - Erosion and Sedimentation Research John Gray, Chair
    Sediment Specialist/Hydrologist, US Geological Survey 
        Reston, VA
Begin End   Speaker Title
8:00 AM 8:20 AM 1 Mathias Römkens Grain transport mechanics in shallow overland flow
8:20 AM 8:40 AM 2 Drew Baird Initial Response of the Middle Rio Grande near Bernalillo NM, to River Rehabilitation
8:40 AM 9:00 AM 3 Sean Bennett Linking downstream sediment quality to upstream channel erosion and degradation: The Yalobusha River Basin and Grenada Lake, MS
9:00 AM 9:20 AM 4 Robert Mussetter An Analytical Procedure for Evaluating Sediment Sluicing Options for the San Clemente Dam Fish Ladder, Carmel River, California
9:20 AM 9:40 AM 5 Fenli Zheng Quantification of Gully Erosion Development on the Loess Plateau of China
9:40 AM 10:00 AM 6 Chia-Chun Wu Effect of erect grasses on inflow hydraulics and sediment retention within a creeping grass strip
10:00 AM 10:20 AM Break    
10:20 AM 10:40 AM 7 Chi-hua Huang for Zuhair Masri Reducing the impact of tillage on soil and water erosion in degraded olive orchards at NW Syria
10:40 AM 11:00 AM 8 John Ramirez-Avila Assessment of soil and nutrient losses in an Oxisol in the Eastern Savannas of Colombia
11:00 AM 11:20 AM 9 Ron Bingner Impact of Research Performed on Goodwin Creek Experimental Watershed
11:20 AM 11:40 AM 10 Jan Boll CEAP: Synthesis and analysis of 13 CSREES CEAP projects
11:40 AM 12:00 PM 11 Jairo Diaz-Ramirez Evaluation of Storm Sediments in Rio Grande de Arecibo Watershed, Puerto Rico
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch    
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Thursday, September 04, 2008 Auditorium
Session F - Watershed Modeling Sam Wang, Chair
    Director, National Center for Computational Hydroscience &
    Engineering, The University of Mississippi, University, MS
Begin End   Speaker  
8:00 AM 8:20 AM 1 Bing Zhao Sedimentation Engineering Methodologies in Maricopa County, Arizona
8:20 AM 8:30 AM   Discussion  
8:30 AM 8:50 AM 2 Yafei Jia Simulating Curved Channel Flows and Associated Bank Erosion Process Using a Depth Averaged Model
8:50 AM 9:00 AM   Discussion  
9:00 AM 9:20 AM 3 Xiaobo Chao Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Water Quality and Sediment-Related Processes with Application to a Delta Lake
9:20 AM 9:30 AM   Discussion  
9:30 AM 9:50 AM 4 Hsun-Chuan Chan Experimental Investigation of Near-Bed Turbulent Structure around Submerged Spur Dike
9:50 AM 10:00 AM   Discussion  
10:00 AM 10:20 AM Break    
10:20 AM 10:40 AM 5 Weiming Wu Numerical Analysis of Effects of Large Wood Structures on Channel Morphology and Fish Habitat Suitability in Little Topashaw Creek
10:40 AM 10:50 AM   Discussion  
10:50 AM 11:10 AM 6 Yan Ding Optimal Control of Flood Diversion in Watershed Using Nonlinear Optimization
11:10 AM 11:20 AM   Discussion  
11:20 AM 11:40 AM   Xinya Ying Improved Implementation of the HLL Approximate Riemann Solver for Two-dimentional Dam and Levee Breach Flow
11:40 AM 11:50 AM 10 Discussion  
         
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch    
         
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Thursday, September 04, 2008  
Session G - Watershed Management and Conservation Richard Lowrance, Chair
    Research Ecologist, Southeast Watershed Research
        Tifton, GA
Begin End   Speaker  
1:00 PM 1:20 PM 1 Mustafa Altinakar BMP Planning Tool with GIS Capability Based on Coupled Watershed and Channel Network Simulation
1:20 PM 1:40 PM 2 Michael Harvey Geomorphic, Hydraulic and Sediment Transport Challenges Facing Restoration of the Upper San Joaquin River from Friant Dam to the Merced River, California
1:40 PM 2:00 PM 3 David Bosch Conservation Practices Impacts within the South Georgia Little River Experimental Watershed
2:00 PM 2:20 PM 4 Jim Selegean Modeling the impact of dams and land-use change on sediment delivery and harbor sediment trapping from pre-European settlement to present in the St. Joseph River Watershed, Michigan/Indiana
2:20 PM 2:40 PM 5 Timothy Appelboom Riverine Nutrient Load Reduction Through Modeling/Simulation Directed Field Targeting of Best Management Practices
2:40 PM 3:00 PM 6 Tammo Steenhuis An Interactive Web Tool Model for Siting Best Management Practices in Humid Areas
3:00 PM 3:20 PM Break    
3:20 PM 3:40 PM 7 Scott Knight Effects of watershed conservation practices on oxbow lake water quality
3:40 PM 4:00 PM 8 Carlyle Ross Economic Assessment of Benefits and Costs of Alternative Beneficial Management Practices for the Lower Little Bow River Basin
4:00 PM 4:20 PM 9 Michael Harvey Modeling Sedimentation Rates at Proposed Lake Ralph Hall, North Sulphur River, Texas
4:20 PM 4:40 PM 10 Jurgen Garbrecht Sediment reduction due to Conservation Practices at the Watershed Scale
4:40 PM 5:00 PM 11 Dale Hebb Phosphorous and Suspended Solids in a Complex Annapolis Valley Watershed and Agricultural BMP impacts
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Thursday, September 04, 2008  
Session H - Modeling: Data and
Geotechnical ConsiderationsI		 Chi-hua Huang, Chair
    Research Leader, National Soil Erosion Research 
    West Lafayette, IN
Begin End   Speaker  
1:00 PM 1:20 PM 1 Jean Steiner Data management to enhance long-term watershed research capacity
1:20 PM 1:40 PM 2 Sue Niezgoda Applying Alluvial Channel Modeling to Stream Restoration: Examining the Long-Term Impacts of Rigid In‑Stream Structures on Channel Processes
1:40 PM 2:00 PM 3 Robert Mussetter Development and Application of a Sediment Routing Model for the Middle Rio Grande between Angostura and Isleta Diversion Dams
2:00 PM 2:20 PM 4 K Van Wilson Long-term geomorphic channel change in selected reaches of Mississippi streams
2:20 PM 2:40 PM 5 Doug Smith The St. Joseph River Watershed CEAP Project:  Highlights of recent refocusing of our efforts
2:40 PM 3:00 PM 6 Eddy Langendoen Assessing the impact of riparian processes on streambank stability
3:00 PM 3:20 PM Break    
3:20 PM 3:40 PM 7 Cami Johnson Evaluation of an in situ measurement technique for streambank critical shear stress and soil erodibility
3:40 PM 4:00 PM 8 Natasha Pollen-Bankhead Geotechnical Implications for the use of Alfalfa in Experimental Studies of Alluvial-Channel Morphology and Planform
4:00 PM 4:20 PM 9 Yongping Yuan A  Review of Effectiveness of Riparian Buffers in Agricultural Areas
4:20 PM 4:40 PM 10 Leslie Clark A field method for measuring boundary shear stress along vegetated streambanks
4:40 PM 5:00 PM 11 Andrew Simon Application of Process-Based Numerical Approaches to Analysis of Bank Stability and River Restoration
CEAP Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Friday, September 05, 2008  
Session I - CEAP Workshop CEAP I
Begin End    
8:00 AM 8:05 AM  Welcome Ed King ARS Mid-South Area Director
8:05 AM 9:20 AM

Activities at other agencies relevant to CEAP
      Brook Harker and Terrie Scott Canada WEBs
      Ignacio Sanchez Cohen Mexico INIFAP
      Elly Brouwers US Geological Survey - North Central Area, Minneapolis, MN
      Gary Bentrup Forest Service, Agroforestry Center, Lincoln, NE
      Randy Bruins Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Cincinnati OH
9:20 AM 10:05 AM Other CEAP Projects in ARS  
      Mark Weltz Grazinglands
      Mark Walbridge Wetlands
      David Bosch Tropical
10:05 AM 10:20 AM Break    
10:20 AM 10:25 AM   John Sadler Short update on JSWC Special Issue
10:25 AM 11:45 AM Team Reports  
    Team 1 Jean Steiner and Jerry Hatfield "STEWARDS data system"
      Greg Wilson OCIO detailee to NRSAS, "ARS-wide data effort, beyond STEWARDS"
    Team 2 Martin Locke and Mark Tomer "Watershed scale monitoring of effects"
    Team 3 Jeff Arnold, Ron Bingner, and Tim Strickland "Hydrologic modling of effects"
    Team 4 ChiHua Huang and Jerry Whittaker "Economics of effects"
    Team 5 Laj Ahuja, Matt Römkens and Jim Ascough "Regionalized models"
    Team 6 Ray Bryant and Norm Fausey "QA/QC"
11:45 AM 12:00   Mark Walbridge "Future of ARS Cropland CEAP project"
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch   Adjourn meeting, boxed lunch provided with a tour of Goodwin Creek
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Friday, September 05, 2008  
Session J - Acoustic Techniques for Soil Research Craig Hickey, Chair
    Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Physical Acoustics
    University of Mississippi, University, MS
Begin End   Speaker  
8:20 AM 8:40 AM 1 Keith Attenborough A review of UK research related to the acousto-seismic deduction of soil properties
8:40 AM 9:00 AM 2 Michael Oelze An acoustic backscatter technique for estimating soil roughness
9:00 AM 9:20 AM 3 James Chambers Estimation of Concentration and Particle Size Distribution of Natural Sands Suspended in Water Using Acoustic Backscatter
9:20 AM 9:40 AM 4 Zhiqu Lu Acoustic study of the effects of compaction on soils
9:40 AM 10:00 AM 5 David DiCarlo Acoustic Techniques for Studying Soil-surface Seals and Crusts
10:00 AM 10:20 AM Break    
10:20 AM 10:40 AM 6 Carl Frederickson Measurement of surface soil porous parameters using acoustic level difference techniques
10:40 AM 11:00 AM 7 Doru Velea Elastic Wave Velocities in Partially Saturated Ottawa Sand:  Experimental Results and Modeling
11:00 AM 11:20 AM 8 Wheeler Howard Investigation of the Near Subsurface Using Acoustic to Seismic Coupling
11:20 AM 11:40 AM 9 David DiCarlo Acoustic Emissions during Soil Drainage
11:40 AM 12:00 PM      
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch    
Technical Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Friday, September 05, 2008  
Session K - Acoustic Techniques for Soil Research Keith Attenborough, Chair
      Research Professor in Acoustics, The Open University
Begin End   Speaker Milton Keynes, UK
1:20 PM 1:40 PM 1 Del Leary Development of an Acoustic Probe for Measuring the In-situ Acoustic Speeds
1:40 PM 2:00 PM 2 Zhiqu Lu Acoustic study of the climate effects on field soil properties: A two years survey
2:00 PM 2:20 PM 3 Craig Hickey Time Lapse Seismic Refraction Tomography of an Earth Dam during Breaching
2:20 PM 2:40 PM 4 Brian Carpenter Field Measurements of Suspended Sediments in a Fluvial Environment Using Acoustic Backscatter
2:40 PM 3:00 PM 5 Craig Hickey Seismic Refraction Tomography of Drewery Lake Dam
CEAP Meeting, The Oxford Conference Center
Friday, September 05, 2008  
Session I - CEAP Meeting CEAP II
Begin End    
1:00 PM 4:00 PM Tour   Tour of CEAP Watershed -Goodwin Creek, MS
Posters
         
  Posters 1 Claire Baffaut Scaling up a model: impact of soil map resolution and watershed discretization
  Posters 2 Lili Carpenter Resprouting responses of Salix nigra following shoot removal and soil moisture treatments
  Posters 3 Hsun-Chuan Chan Experimental Investigation of Turbulent Flow over a Rectangular Permeable Structure
  Posters 4 Robert Cullum Water Quality Assessment of Conservation Reserve Program on Oxbow Lake in Mississippi Delta: Case Study of Beasley Watershed
  Posters 5 Emily Greer Influences of black willow (Salix nigra) cutting diameter size on growth, survival and initial root development in various soil moisture treatments
  Posters 6 Dean Hively Developing crop rotation maps from satellite imagery for use in modeling water quality in the Choptank River watershed
  Posters 7 Jaepil Cho Evaluation of Long-Term Impacts of Conservation Practice within the Little River Watershed using the SWAT model
  Posters 8 Laura Keefer Illinois Benchmark Sediment Monitoring Network:  26 Years of Long-term Sediment Transport Monitoring
  Posters 9 Megan Lang The Choptank Watershed Wetland Conservation Effects Assessment Project:  Monitoring the Effect of Wetland Conservation Practices on Water Quality
  Posters 10 Patrick Starks Progress and Findings to Date in the Fort Cobb Reservoir Watershed
  Posters 11 John Ramirez-Avila Evaluation and prediction of sediment loads within the Town Creek watershed.
  Posters 12 Paul Rodrigue NRCS and ARS-NSL Collaboration in Mississippi
  Posters 13 Sammie Smith, Jr. Water Quality Assessments in the Mississippi Delta:  The Mississippi Delta MSEA Project
  Posters 14 Sanjay Vediya Physico-chemical Characteristics of Thaltej Lake and Sola Lake Situated at Ahmedabad, Gujarat
  Posters 15 Gerald Whittaker A Malmquist Index Approach to Construction of a Water Quality Index
  Posters 16 Glenn Wilson Subsurface Flow Impacts on Ephemeral and Edge-of-Field Gully Erosion
  Posters 17 Allen Gellis Fingerprinting Sources of Fine-Grained Sediment in Three Watersheds draining to the Chesapeake Bay
  Posters 18 Doug Smith Factors Influencing Nutrient Losses in the St. Joseph River Watershed
  Posters 19 Bo Zhu Processes and fluxes of nitrate leaching loss from hillslope cropland in the central Sichuan Basin, China: Results from in situ monitoring
  Posters 20 Bruce Roddan Riparian Exclusion Fencing for Cattle Impacts on Suspended Sediment in the Salmon River, Southern Interior British Columbia, Canada
  Posters 21 Fred Rhoton Identification of Suspended Sediment Sources Using Soil Characteristics in a Semiarid Watershed
  Posters 22 Melanie Small Stream Ecology and Channel Evolution

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