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National Water Quality Coordinators Conference "Building the Network, Strengthening Partnerships" January 12-15, 2003 Radisson Hotel, City Center Tucson, Arizona Sunday, January 12 Monday, January 13 Tuesday, January 14 Wednesday, January 15 |
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| Sunday, January 12 | ||
| (Pre-Conference Meetings) | ||
| 9:00-noon | Committee for Shared Leadership (CSL-WQ) Meeting | |
| 9:30-noon | Pollution Assessment & Prevention Theme Team meeting | |
| 1:00-5pm | Regional Meetings: | |
| New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands - Region II | ||
| Southern - Regions IV and VI | ||
| Great Lakes - Region V | ||
| Northern Plains and Mountains - Region VIII | ||
| Southwest States and Pacific Islands - Region IX | ||
| 7-9pm | Pollution Assessment & Prevention Theme Team Meeting | |
| Volunteer Monitoring Project meeting | ||
| Best Education Practices Project meeting | ||
| Sunday Conference Activities | ||
| 1:30-6pm | Registration | |
| 5:30-7pm | Opening Social | |
| Greeting, networking and Hors d'oeuvres | ||
| Monday, January 13 | ||
| 7-8am | Continental Breakfast & Poster Set-up | |
| 7:30-10am | Registration | |
| 8-9:30am | Opening General Session | |
| Moderator, Lloyd Walker (Northern Plains and Mountains Regional WQ Coordinator) | ||
 Welcome and description of the organization and structure of the Shared Leadership of
CSREES Water Quality Programs
Mark McFarland (Southern Region 6 WQ Coordinator and Co-Chair, CSL) |
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USDA - CSREES 406 Program
Current structure and description of current RFA Mike O'Neill (National USDA-CSREES Program Leader for WQ, and Co-Chair, CSL) |
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CAFO/AFO Regulations and Partnering Opportunities
Jeff Lape, Chief, Rural Branch, Water Permits Division, U.S. EPA |
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| 9:30-10am | Break & Poster Viewing | |
| 10-noon | CSL-WQ Subcommittees for Program Development Reports & Participants' Response | |
| Moderator, Kitt Farrell-Poe (Southwest States and Pacific Islands Regional WQ Coordinator) | ||
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Communications (Kelly Addy)
Policy and CSREES Relations (Jerry Miller)
Marketing (Bob Mahler)
Partnerships and External Relations (Tom Simpson)
Reporting/Evaluation (Robin Shepard)
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| Noon-1:30pm | Opportunity for informal small group breakout sessions in the context of lunch on your own | |
| 1:30-3pm | Integrated Research Education and Extension Project Reports | |
| (Note: These presentations are from posters on display January 13) | ||
| Session A | ||
| Moderator, Mark McFarland (Southern Region 6 WQ Coordinator) | ||
| Geoff Habron | MI | Information Exchange, Citizen Water Monitoring and Agricultural Best Management Practices | |
| Nancy White | NC | Monitoring and TMDL Modeling Techniques to Assess Bacterial Loading in Estuarine Environments and Improve Management Programs | |
| Larry D. Geohring | NY | Customizing and Validating the P Index in Whole Farm Plans for Soils of the Northeast | |
| Mike Hirschi | IL | Outcomes of N Fertilizer Management on Tile Drained Watersheds | |
| Melony Wilson | AR | Environmental Training for the Arkansas Livestock Industry | |
| Ray D. William | OR | Linking IPM and Resource Conservation to Improve Water Quality and Farm Profit | |
| Session B | ||
| Moderator, Greg Jennings (Southern Region 4 WQ Coordinator) | ||
| Robert Broz | MO | Improving Water Quality Through Integrated Watershed Management | |
| Adam Birr | MN | Paired Watershed Studies for Nutrient Reductions in the Minnesota River Basin | |
| Rene Germain | NY | New York City Watershed Water Quality/Model Forest Project | |
| Shulin Chen | WA | Improving Water Quality for Salmon Restoration through Integrated Research Education and Extension Efforts | |
| Jane Frankenberger | IN | What Are the Lasting Impacts of Water Quality Projects in Agriculture Watersheds? | |
| Richard Snyder | FL | Agricultural Runoff Impacts on Total Maximum Daily Loads and Water Quality: Field and Watershed Scale Studies and Science-Teacher Education | |
| 3-3:30pm | Break & Poster Viewing | |
| 3:30-5pm | Extension Education Project Reports | |
| (Note: These presentations are from posters on display January 13) | ||
| Session A | ||
| Moderator, Jeff Potent (NY, NJ, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands WQ Coordinator) | ||
| Richard Koelsch | NE | Livestock and Poultry Environmental Stewardship Curriculum Project | |
| J. L. Baker | IA | Understanding Nutrient Transport Through Monitoring of an Extensively Cropped 159 km2 Watershed | |
| James J. Hoorman | OH | Water Quality and Nutrient Management Education for Amish and Anabaptist Clientele | |
| Asmare Atalay | VA | Identifying Water Quality Issues in Under-Served Communities | |
| Jeff Schloss | NH | Top Down, Bottom Up, High "Tech", Low "Tech": Participatory Monitoring and GIS Watershed Inventories | |
| Gary Felton | MD | Urban Nutrient Management Programs in the Mid-Atlantic | |
| Session B | ||
| Moderator, Jerry Miller (Heartland WQ Coordinator) | ||
| Jesse C. LaPrade | AL | Alabama FarmASyst Program to Serve Small Farm Operators and Under-served Audiences | |
| Mike Daniels | AR | Watershed Education in Arkansas | |
| Steve Tonn | NE | Community Watershed Education in an Urban Setting | |
| David Shelton | NE | Accelerating Riparian Buffer Adoption to Enhance Water Quality and Farm Income | |
| Jeff Strock | MN | An Integrated Approach to Nonpoint Source Pollution and TMDLs in a Geographically Diverse Watershed | |
| Craig Runyan | NM | Protejer El Rio | |
| 5:30-7:30pm | Poster Session & Social with Hors d'oeuvres Highlighting: | |
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Integrated Research, Education & Extension Projects
Extension Education Projects
National Facilitation Projects
Other Projects
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| CLICK HERE for Jan. 13 Poster Titles | ||
| (Optional Conference Sessions) | ||
| 7:30-8:30pm | Discussion with Mike O'Neill on 406 RFA and strategies for successful grant writing | |
| 7:30-9pm | Feedback to the Best Education Practices Project presentation | |
| Tuesday, January 14 | ||
| 7-8am | Continental Breakfast & Poster Set-up | |
| 8-9:30am | Bridging the Extension/Research Gap: Examples from Multi State Partnerships | |
| Mike O'Neill | ||
| 9:30-10am | Break & Poster Viewing | |
| 10-noon | National Facilitation Projects panel and conference group discussion of critical questions regarding nationally facilitated projects | |
| Moderator, Robin Shepard (Great Lakes Regional WQ Coordinator) | ||
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Pollution Assessment & Prevention (Elizabeth Bird)
Volunteer Monitoring (Linda Green)
NEMO (John Rozum)
Water Outreach Education (Elaine Andrews and Kate Reilly)
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| 12-1:30pm | Opportunity for informal small group breakout sessions in the context of lunch on your own | |
| 1:30-2:30pm | Partnership Possibilities | |
| Moderator, Tom Simpson (Mid-Atlantic Regional WQ Coordinator) | ||
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EPA Ag Council and Ag Sector Contact Program
Hank Zygmunt, Special Assistant to the Counselor to the Administrator, U.S. EPA |
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The Role of Extension in EQIP
Mark Berkland, Division Director for Conservation Operations, USDA/NRCS |
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| 2:30-3pm | Break & Poster Viewing | |
| 3-5pm | Program Highlights from State WQ Coordinators | |
| (Note: These presentations are from posters on display January 14) | ||
| Session A Regions 1-5 | ||
| Moderator, Bob Mahler (Pacific Northwest WQ Coordinator) | ||
| John Jemison | ME | Keeping Agriculture Strong in New England | |
| George Loomis | RI | Onsite Wastewater BMPs to Protect Public Health and Watersheds | |
| Robert Graves | PA | Developing the Strategic Spatial and Temporal Framework for WQ Education and Coordination in PA | |
| Mark Risse | GA | Use of Compost to Control Runoff and Soil Erosion | |
| Greg Jennings | NC | Stream Restoration Demonstration and Training in the Southeast | |
| David Hansen | DE | Informing the Public: WQ and Nutrient Management Education in Delaware | |
| Christopher C. Obropta | NJ | Creating an Expert System for Addressing the Phase II Stormwater Permitting Regulations | |
| Deborah G. Grantham | NY | Water Quality Program Coordination in New York State: An Element of the Regional and National Water Quality Program | |
| Session B Regions 6-10 | ||
| Moderator, Jim Hafer (1994 Representative) | ||
| Jim Bauder | MT | Coal Bed Methane - A Regional Water Quality Issue as a Platform for Integrated Research, Education and Extension about Saline and Sodic Soil and Water Management in Montana and in Region VIII | |
| Billie Chambers | OK | Trailer-Mounted Stream Models Facilitate Watershed Education | |
| Nancy Mesner | UT | Educating Youth and Watershed Groups Using Monitoring and Other Hands-on Programs | |
| Jeffery Lorimor | IA | Soil Infiltration and Wetland System to Treat Open Beef Feedlot Runoff | |
| Mark Walker | NV | Coping with High Concentrations of Arsenic in Private Wells | |
| Daniel Devlin | KS | Utilizing Extension Watershed Specialists to Implement TMDLs in Kansas | |
| Robert Simmons | WA | Educating Real Estate Professionals: Changing Development Practices and Individual Behaviors | |
| Ed Martin | AZ | Application of Manure/Compost on Alfalfa | |
| 5:30-7:30pm | Poster Session & Social with Hors d'oeuvres Highlighting: | |
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State Water Quality Programs
Other Projects
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| CLICK HERE for Jan. 14 Poster Titles | ||
| (Optional Conference Sessions) | ||
| 7:30-10pm | Pollution Prevention Theme Team Social | |
| CSL Subcommittees for Program Development Meetings | ||
| Wednesday, January 15 | ||
| (Post Conference Meetings) | ||
| 8-10am | Regional Meetings: | |
| Heartland - Region VII | ||
| Northern Plains and Mountains - Region VIII | ||
| 10-noon | CSL-WQ meeting | |
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