Water Information Management Systems Workshop

Albuquerque, New Mexico

 

Wednesday, September 13

 

  7:30 a.m.         CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

 

  8:00 a.m.         Welcome and Introductions

 

Managing Water: What Manager’s Need to Know

Bill Alley, Chief, USGS Office of Ground Water

 

  8:45 a.m.         Modeling Runoff and Streamflow

George Leavesley, USGS National Research Program, Denver

 

  9:30 a.m.         BREAK

 

10:00 a.m.        Modeling Ground Water and Surface Water Interactions

Dave Prudic, USGS Nevada Water Science Center

 

10:45 a.m.        Ground Water Availability Studies in the Southwest

Stan Leake, USGS Arizona Water Science Center

 

11:30 a.m.        LUNCH

 

12:45 p.m.        Ground Water Recharge and Availability in the Albuquerque Basin

Doug McAda, USGS New Mexico Water Science Center

Peggy Barroll, New Mexico State Engineer Office

 

  1:45 p.m.         Optimization Modeling

Wes Danskin, USGS California Water Science Center

 

  2:30 p.m.         BREAK

 

  3:00 p.m.         Artificial Recharge and Water Quality

Eric Reichard, USGS California Water Science Center

 

  3:45 p.m.         Modeling Ecological Water Needs: Habitat and the Upper Salmon River, Idaho

Terry Maret, USGS Idaho Water Science Center

 

  4:30 p.m.         Tools to Put the Picture Together

Glenn Patterson, Coordinator, USGS Cooperative Water Program

 

  5:00 p.m.         Wrap Up

Bill Alley

 

  6:00 p.m.         Meet and Greet - Cash Bar

 

Thursday, September 14

 

  7:30 a.m.      CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

  

  8:00 a.m.      Welcome

  

Duane Smith, Chairman, Western States Water Council

  

  8:15 a.m.      New Mexico Water Issues

  

John D’Antonio, New Mexico State Engineer

 

   8:45 a.m.     New Mexico’s Evolving Water RIGHTS Information System - Joe Summers,

New Mexico State Engineer Office

  

  9:30 a.m.      USGS/NHD Stewardship Programs - Jeff Simley, USGS Denver

 

10:00 a.m.      BREAK

  

10:30 a.m.      State Presentations

  

Modeling Surface Water Availability in Southeast Kansas- Sam Perkins, Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Water Resources

  

Oklahoma’s Online Water Information Mapping System - Michael Sughru, Oklahoma Water Resources Board

  

                 Wyoming Well Monitoring Data- Jeremy Manley, Wyoming State Engineer Office

  

12:00 p.m.      LUNCH

  

  1:00 p.m.      Federal Presentations

  

                 Where’s the Data? The Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Model - Mike Roark, USGS New Mexico Science Center

  

Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Model and CWMS- Roberta Ball and Dennis Garcia, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District

  

GIS Tool Bar: Access to Other Databases- Ken Pathak, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Design Center, Vicksburg, Mississippi

  

NRCS Activities to Improve Water Supply Forecasts and New Data Products- Tom Pagano, Water Supply Forecaster, NWCC-NRCS-USDA, Portland, OR

  

  3:00 p.m.      BREAK


 

  

  3:30 p.m.      Federal Presentations

  

                 Reclamation’s ET Toolbox - Steve Bowser, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Albuquerque Area Office

 

  4:00 p.m.      Water Needs and Strategies for a Sustainable Future

 

  5:00 p.m.      ADJOURN

  

 

Friday, September 15

 

  7:30 a.m.      CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

 

  8:00 a.m.      State Presentations

 

                 Watershed Characteristics for Streamflow Modeling - Bob Harmon, Oregon Water Resources Department

 

Determining Surface Water Availability in Oregon - Ken Stahr, Oregon Water Resources Department

 

Water Availability Data Access: The WARS Program - Ken Stahr, Oregon Water Resources Department

 

  Idaho’s Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Ground Water Model- Michael Ciscell, Idaho Department of Water Resources

 

10:00 a.m.      BREAK

 

10:30 a.m.      State Water Resources Information Management Needs and Challenges

                 An Informal State Roundtable Discussion

    

12:00 p.m.      WRAP UP/ADJOURN

 

 [For more information, direct questions and comments to Tony Willardson at twillards@wswc.state.ut.us or (801) 561-5300]

  

 

 

 

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