AGENDA
Western States Water Council
Water Information Management Symposium
November 17-19, 2009
Hilton San Diego Mission Valley
901 Camino del Rio South
Tuesday, November 17
12:00 Registration
1:00 Welcome and introductions, symposium overview
1:30 Topics of special interest
Climate change adaptation (Jeanine Jones, California Department of Water Resources)
Water/energy nexus (Lorraine White, California Energy Commission)
Emerging drinking water contaminants (Betty Olson, University of California Irvine)
ARRA SRF funding – green projects (Cheryl McGovern, US Environmental Protection Agency)
Demographic trends in the West (David Plane, University of Arizona)
3:15 Break
3:30 Climate activities at the state level
Western Governors’ Association actions (Tom Iseman, WGA)
California’s climate change adaptation plan (John Andrew, CDWR)
Incorporating climate change in the Bay-Delta planning (Francis Chung, CDWR)
Colorado’s climate change action plan (Veva Deheza, Colorado Water Conservation Board)
Planning for sea level rise in Washington (Spencer Reeder, Washington Department of Ecology)
5:30 Adjourn
6:00 Reception
Wednesday, November 18
8:30 Federal actions relating to USGS Circular 1331 (water sector climate change adaptation)
Dave Raff, US Bureau of Reclamation
Rolf Olsen, US Army Corps of Engineers
Earl Greene, US Geological Survey
Jim Verdin, National Integrated Drought Information System Program Office
10:15 Break
10:30 Applications from remote sensing
Landsat applications (Jim Verdin, USGS)
Remote sensing applications for snow cover and snow water equivalent (Simon Yueh, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory)
NASA Ames Ecological Forecasting Lab (Forrest Melton, NASA)
11:45 Lunch
Pending congressional legislation on climate change, Tom Iseman, WGA
1:15 Climate change & ecosystem/fishery implications
National Marine Fisheries Service planning activities (Tim Beechie, NMFS)
Climate change and anadromous fish in California’s Central Valley (Larry Brown, USGS)
Climate change impacts on Pacific Northwest salmonids (Gordon Reeves, US Forest Service)
Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies Climate Change State Wildlife Action Plan Guidance
Document (Arpita Choudhury, AFWA)
3:00 Break
3:15 Monitoring & data needs
Upgrading the California Irrigation Management Information System (Kent Frame, CDWR)
Remote sensing tool for water use estimation (Bryan Thoreson, Davids Engineering)
Remote sensing applications for groundwater (Tom Farr, JPL)
Nested regional climate model development (Greg Holland, National Center for Atmospheric
Research)
5:00 Adjourn
Thursday, November 19
8:30 Research programs and activities
North American regional climate change assessment program (Linda Mearns, NCAR)
Atmospheric rivers (Tim Schneider, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Capacity building for water users (Andrea Bair, National Weather Service)
9:45 Break
10:00 Adaptation Planning and Projects
Updating flood flow frequencies (David Ford, David Ford Consulting Engineers)
California reservoir system reoperation (Art Hinojosa, CDWR)
NOAA’s coastal program activities (Becky Smyth, NOAA)
Climate data support from state climatologists (Dennis Todey, South Dakota State Climatologist)
11:45 Closing Remarks
12:00 Adjourn