Presentations and Topics

(also see our final program)

Invited Speakers included (partial list):

Marco Acutis, Univ. of Milano, Italy
William Alley, Chief, U.S. Geological Survey Groundwater Program
Alice Aureli, UNESCO, France
Roland Barthel, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
John Boehlke, U.S. Geological Survey, Virginia
Jos Boesten, Alterra, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Scott Bradford, USDA Salinity Laboratory, California
John Bredehoeft, The Hydrodynamics Group (formerly: USGS)
Hans Peter Broers, Deltares/TNO, The Netherlands
Bret Bruce, U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado
Adriana Bruggeman, ICARDA, Syria
Marcus Buchanan, Buchanan Associates
Stefano Burchi, FAO
Jacob Burke, FAO, Italy
Karen Burow, U.S. Geological Survey, California
Michael Campana, Oregon State University
Steve Carle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Edwin Cey, University of Calgary
Frank Chapell, U.S. Geological Survey, North Carolina
Pamela Creedon, Regional Water Quality Control Board, California
Arnoud DeKlijne, RIVM, The Netherlands
John Dickey, Newfields Environmental, Sacramento, California
Brad Esser, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Guillaume Favreau, University of Montpellier
Laurel Firestone, Community Water Center, California
Graham Fogg, University of California Davis
Dico Fraters, Dutch Environmental Protection Agency, The Netherlands
Mark Giordano, International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
Noel Gollehon, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Michael Goss, University of Guelph
Chris Green, U.S. Geological Survey, California
Sarge Green, California Water Institute
Maurice Hall, The Nature Conservancy
Randy Hanson, U.S. Geological Survey, San Diego, California
Michael Hightower, Sandia National Lab
Klaus Hinsby, Geological Survey of Denmark
Qiuqiong Huang, University of Minnesota
Gev Israel, Israeli Water Authority
Brian Katz, U.S. Geological Survey, Florida
Leon Kauffman, U.S. Geological Survey
Avinash Kishore, Harvard University
Keith Knapp, University of California, Riverside
Vicki Kretsinger, Luhdorff, Scalmanini & Ass., GRAC
Dinesh Kumar, Hyderabad, India
Keith Loague, Stanford University, California
Elena Lopes-Gunn, Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Spain
Paul Martin, Western United Dairymen
Pep Mas Pla, Universidad Girona, Spain
Reed Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines
Jennifer McKay, Australia
Sharon Megdal, University of Arizona
Christine Milesi, NASA-AMES
Siwa Msangi, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC
Aditi Mukherji, International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka
Tom Nolan, U.S. Geological Survey, Virginia
David Orth, Kings River Conservation District
Sanjay Pahuja, World Bank
Tim Parker, Groundwater Resources Association of California
Gary Parkin, University of Guelph
John Peck, School of Law, University of Kansas
Somasekhar Rao Polisetti, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Jose Antonio Ramirez, City of Firebaugh, California
Jens Christian Refsgaard, GEUS, Denmark
William Robertson, University of Waterloo, Canada
David Rudolph, University of Waterloo, Canada
Cathy Ryan, University of Calgary, Canada
Bridget Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin
Chris Scott, University of Arizona
John Selker, Oregon State University
Tushaar Shah, International Water Management Institute, India
Paul Stackelberg, U.S. Geological Survey, New York
Michael Steiger, Earler&Kalinowski Inc., California
Jeff Stoner, U.S. Geological Survey, Minnesota
Richard Taylor, University College, London
Marcel Tchaou, UNESCO, Zimbabwe
Jim Tesoriero, U.S. Geological Survey
Kathy Thomasberg, Monterrey County, California
Laerke Thorling, GEUS, Denmark
Hugh Turral, Australia
Jan Vanderborght, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Avner Vengosh, Duke Univ. (formerly: Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Shilp Verma, Int. Water Mgmt Institute and TU Delft
Karen Villholth, Danish Geological Survey, Denmark
Reagan Waskom, University of Colorado
Rob Ward, Environmental Agency, England
Frank Wendland, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Mike Wireman, U.S. Environm. Protect. Agency, Int. Assoc. Hydrogeologists
MaryLynn Yates, University of California Riverside

CONFERENCE THEMES

Socio-Economic Aspects of Agricultural Groundwater

• Agricultural groundwater and livelihoods: socioeconomics, policy issues, and adaptation
• Environmental justice and human health related to groundwater use in rural areas
• Groundwater's role in global food production

Climate, Energy, and Agricultural Groundwater

• Groundwater and climate change, including land use issues, groundwater recharge, and farming security
• Groundwater and energy, including biofuels, energy efficiency, carbon footprint of agriculture, and the role of energy subsidies

Agricultural Groundwater Quality and Contamination

• Agricultural groundwater: Regulatory controls, compliance, and monitoring (groundwater quantity and quality)
• Drinking water source water protection (groundwater) in agricultural regions - policies, management, and economics at the urban-agricultural fringe
• Groundwater salinity, including intrusion, drainage issues, and secondary salinization
• Impacts, monitoring, regulation, best management practices (BMPs), policy, economics regarding specific agricultural contaminants:
• Nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus)
• Pesticides
• Pharmaceuticals in animal farming
• Pathogens and food safety
• Farm petroleum-product management and groundwater contamination
• Occurrence, management, and treatment of natural contaminants in agricultural groundwater

Conjunctive Use, Agricultural Water Use, and Groundwater Management, Policy, and Regulation

• Conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water
• Irrigation water delivery and use efficiency: groundwater impacts, sustainability of irrigated agriculture, soil salinization due to increased water use efficiency, and conservation
• Groundwater management approaches, including community/collective approaches, instrumental approaches (laws, regulations, prices), demand management, and indirect approaches (energy policy, agricultural policies, adaptation)
• Management of the groundwater-agriculture nexus around the globe
• Groundwater recharge, including managed aquifer recharge (MAR), aquifer replenishment in crop production areas, increased recharge under land conversion to crop land, policies for aquifer recharge
• Policies related to economics of shifting agricultural management to control groundwater depletion/contamination, etc.
• Source water protection (groundwater) in agricultural regions, including policies, management, and economics
• Regulatory compliance related to nonpoint source impacts to groundwater, ambient groundwater monitoring for groundwater protection, including vadose zone monitoring, nutrient balance monitoring, and groundwater monitoring
• Modeling and assessment tools for evaluating agricultural groundwater quality and quantity trends and forecasting future conditions

Groundwater at the Agriculture-Urban Interface

• Groundwater use, management, and quality at the agriculture-urban interface, including agricultural legacy contamination
• Reuse of wastewater and biosolids in agriculture, including water quality impacts, economic incentives, and sustainable management
• Groundwater quality and management issues in forestry

Groundwater Linkages to Surface Water and Estuaries

• Surface water/groundwater interactions: impacts to and from agriculture, farm/groundwater/stream ecology linkage
• Agricultural groundwater and estuary ecosystems