IWC21
2021 Agenda
Day 1
9:00 am Welcome and Opening Comments, Iowa Water Center
9:10 am Lessons learned from COVID-19 for building climate-change resilient communities
Eugene Takle
Peter Thorne
Silvia Secchi
10:00 am Awards Ceremony
Watershed Awards
10:45 am Break
11:00 am A Mississippi River Farmer-Fisherman Collaboration
Margaret Krome
Dan Smith
11:50 am Break
12:45 pm – 3:30pm Breakout Sessions
Breakout 1: Climate Change and Climate Services Session
| 12:45-12:50p | Sign on/Welcome | Dennis Todey |
| 12:50-1:05p | Regional Climate Change Overview | Ray Wolf |
| 1:05-1:20p | RFC/Climate Change and MS River | Steve Buan |
| 1:20-1:35p | Hydrologic Extremes in Iowa/Midwest | Trent Ford |
| 1:35-1:50p | Climate Change and Agriculture | Dennis Todey |
| 1:50-2:10p | Panel Q/A and Discussion | Ray Wolf, Steve Buan, Trent Ford, Dennis Todey |
| 2:10-2:25p | BREAK | |
| 2:25-2:40p | Iowa Climate Services | Justin Glisan |
| 2:40-2:55p | Regional Climate Services | Doug Kluck |
| 2:55-3:10p | Midwest Drought Services | Molly Woloszyn |
| 3:10-3:30p | Panel Q/A and Discussion | Justin Glisan, Doug Kluck, Molly Woloszyn |
Breakout 2: Water Resource Mapping and Modelling
| 12:45-1:15 | Charlie Cigrand | Flood-inundation maps associated with near real-time stage information from U.S. Geological Survey streamgage and National Weather Service hydrologic forecast |
| 1:20-1:50 | Kelly M Suttles | The Dual Role of Natural Infrastructure: Improving Water Quality and Reducing Flood Risk |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Paul H Rydlund | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Streamflow- and Precipitation-based Flood Warning and Inundation Mapping integrated with USGS “Water Alert” and “Water Watch” Tools for Selected Communities in Missouri. |
| 3:05-3:35 | Dan Gilles | Modeling the 2019 Missouri River Floods |
Breakout 3: Ag BMP Adoption
| 12:45-1:15 | Chris Morris | Iowa Farmers and Targeted Conservation: Investigating Changes in Support Over Time |
| 1:20-1:50 | Lijing Gao | Understanding Farmers’ Adoption of Nutrient Management Best Management Practices: A Social Cognitive Framework |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Suraj Upadhaya Paige Frautschy |
A Multi-level Analysis of Individual and County-level factors Influencing Farmers’ Use of 4Rs Plus Nutrient Management Practices |
| 3:05-3:35 | Laurie Nowatzke | Iowa Row Crop Farmers’ Future Intention to Adopt Cover Crops for Water Quality |
Breakout 4: Emerging Contaminants
| 12:45-1:15 | Margaret Carolan | Risk to Private Well Users from Combined Radium in Iowa Groundwater |
| 1:20-1:50 | Wendong Zhang | The Economic Value of Less Harmful Algal Blooms: New Survey Results of Iowa Farmers and General Public |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Carrie Givens | Antibiotic Resistent Microbes |
| 3:05-3:35 | Riley Mullins | Identifying Environmental Health Blind Spots: A Local Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Study in Private Wells |
Breakout 5: Urban and Rural Partnerships
| 12:45-1:15 | Travis Anderson | Water Quality Trading: Requirements, Case Studies, and Lessons Learned |
| 1:20-1:50 | Adam Schnieders, Michael Kuntz | Paying Attention: The Wastewater Plant in Context. An Exploration of the Watersheds of Iowa |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Bartlett Durand, Adam Schnieders, Eric Schmechel | Iowa’s New Watershed Approach to Wastewater Permit Compliance – Trust but Verify |
| 3:05-3:35 | Adam Kiel, Mark Lambert, Michael Kuntz | Bringing Money to the Table: Iowa Soybean’s Foray into Ecosystem Service Markets |
3:45-4:45 pm Networking Hour
Day 2
8:00 am Yoga Session
9:00 am Welcome and Opening Comments, Iowa Water Center
9:10 am Integrating Social Resilience into Community Flood Resilience
Eric Tate
10:00 am Awards Ceremony
Iowa Stormwater Education Partnership Award
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Prioritizing Resources to Meet Water Quality Goals
Heidi Peterson
11:50 am Break
12:45 – 3:30 pm Breakout Sessions
Breakout 1: Green Infrastructure
| 12:45-1:15 | Todd Shoemaker Eric Osterdyk | Does your Stormwater Model Account for Soil Compaction? |
| 1:20-1:50 | Breanna Marmur | Impacts of Urban BMPs on Stormwater Quantity and Quality for Residential Areas in Iowa |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Craig Clarkson | Market District Green Infrastructure: Transforming an Industrial Area into a Green Infrastructure(lined, walkable, mix-use residential, retail, and entertainment district) through Public-Private Partnership |
| 3:05-3:35 | Melissa Campbell | Sioux City Green Infrastructure Project Experience – EXPO Center |
Breakout 2: Community Engagement/Education
| 12:45-1:15 | Steve Konrady, Amy Foster, John Swanson | Water Quality Awareness & Education Campaigns – Two Iowa Pilots |
| 1:20-1:50 | Stephen K Hopkins | Using Creek Signs to Build Awareness of Creeks, Lakes, and Watersheds in Iowa |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Craig Ficenec | Assessing Needs of Watershed Leaders in the Upper Mississippi River Basin |
| 3:05-3:35 | David De La Torre, V Fixmer-Oraiz | Community Organizing & Equity Approaches in Flood Resilience |
Breakout 3: Soil/Water Connection
| 12:45-1:15 | Ellen M Audia | Mapping the Soil Vulnerability Index Across Broad Spatial Extents to Guide Conservation Efforts |
| 1:20-1:50 | Margaret Krome Scott Marlow |
Measuring Societal Benefits from Soil Health Practices |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | John Shanahan | Adoption of Soil Health Management Systems by Farmers: Show Potential to Improve Economic and Water Resiliency for Iowa Communities |
| 3:05-3:35 | Ji Yeow Law | Comparison of Nutrient and Sediment Export in Paired Agricultural Catchments with Different Levels of Conservation Practices |
Breakout 4: Public/Private Partnerships
| 12:45-1:15 | Bethany Brittenham, Spencer Pech | How to Incorporate Water Quality Practices into Drainage District Infrastructure: A Multi-County Case Study |
| 1:20-1:50 | Adam Schneiders, Justin Clark | Agency Partnership for Cover Crop Seed Production and Practices |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Sean McMahon, Johnathon Swanson, John Norwood, Keegan J Kult | Going Big on Saturated Buffers: Replicating Success in Scaling Up |
| 3:05-3:35 | Derek Franklin | Nutrient Reduction Strategy Development and Implementation in the Upper Mississippi River Basin: A Multi-State Comparative Case Study |
Breakout 5: Panels
| 12:45-1:45 | V Fixmer-Oraiz, Maria Perez, Mary Skopec, Ingrid Gronstal Anderson, Silvia Secchi, Rai Tokuhisa | Womxn Leadership in Iowa’s Water Resilience: A Gender-Inclusive Panel |
| 1:45-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30-3:30 | Kay Stefanik, Chaoqun Lu, Marshall McDaniel, Michelle Soupir | Iowa Nutrient Research Center: Current Research and Research Impacts |
Breakout 6: Nutrient Management
| 12:45-1:15 | Chris Jones | Cyberinfrastructure Framework to Support Large-scale Water-quality Data integration, Analyses, and Visualization in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB) |
| 1:20-1:50 | Antonio P Mallarino | Confronting the Challenge: Reducing Dissolved Phosphorus Loss from Fields when BMPs effectively reducing Nitrate, Soil, or Sediment-bound P Loss May Not Do It |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Nate C Lawrence | Agricultural Depressions as Hotspots of Nitrogen Loss |
| 3:05-3:35 | Shane A Wulf | Expanding Wetland Opportunities from Landscape to Programming in Iowa |
3:45 – 4:45 pm Tours
| 3:45-4:45 | Tour of Iowa Watershed Approach Practices |
| 3:45-4:45 | Tour of Green Infrastructure Practices from the Iowa Stormwater Education Partnership |
| 3:45-4:45 | The Driftless Flyathlon: “Run, Fish, Beer” for Coldwater Conservation |
Day 3
9:00 am Welcome and Opening Comments, Iowa Water Center
9:10 am COVID-19 and Dramatic Decisions: Tales from the front lines of Iowa’s Largest Drinking Water Utility
Ted Corrigan
10:00 am Awards Ceremony
Essay Contest/Photo Contest/Poster Contest
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Breaking Through: A Decade and A Half of Stormwater Research
James Houle
11:50 am Break
12:45 – 3:30 pm Breakout Sessions
Breakout 1: Wastewater
| 12:45-1:15 | Antonio P Mallarino | Sustainable Disposal or Utilization of Residuals from Wastewater Processed for Phosphorus Reduction based on the Crop Availability of the Phosphorus |
| 1:20-1:50 | Gregory H. LeFevre | Pharmaceutical Complex Exposure Mixture Occurrence and Dynamics in a Temperate Region Wastewater Effluent-Dominated Stream: Muddy Creek, Iowa |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Adrian Holmes | Nutrient Reduction Alternatives for Muscatine |
| 3:05-3:35 | Martin Gross, Jens Dancer | Algae Wastewater Treatment for Nutrient Removal and Recovery |
Breakout 2: Water Resource Mapping and Modelling
| 12:45-1:15 | Antonio Arenas-Amada | Could the 2008 flood have been worse? |
| 1:20-1:50 | Chris E Kahle, Scott Ralston | Iowa DNR Statewide Two Dimensional Base Level Engineering |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Antonio Arenas-Amada | Des Moines River Upstream Mitigation Study |
| 3:05-3:35 | Keith Schilling | Using Baseflow to Quantify Groundwater Recharge and Drought in Iowa |
Breakout 3: Iowa Watershed Approach Stories and Successes
| 12:45-1:15 | Hacer Karamese, Huan Liu, Valerie Decker | Building Community Flood Resilience and Safety: The Bee Branch Healthy Homes Resiliency Program |
| 1:20-1:50 | Valerie Decker, Asih Asikin-Garmager | Understanding IWA Outcomes from an Evaluation Perspective |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Dan Fricke | Iowa’s Western Edge Meets Record Flooding |
| 3:05-3:35 | Cara Morgan | A Holistic Approach to Partnerships Within a Watershed |
Breakout 4: Regenerative Agriculture and Ecoystems
| 12:45-1:15 | Michael Heller, Doug Sheeley | Developing a Multi-use Restoration Plan for Midwest Streams |
| 1:20-1:50 | Judith E. Joyce, Brian Ritter | Funding Water Quality Improvements at Nahant Marsh: Thinking Outside the Box |
| 1:50-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Emily Martin | Resilient Farming across Iowa Landscapes |
| 3:05-3:35 | Nate Hoogeveen, Reid Stamer, Judith E. Joyce | Case Study: Bear Creek Restoration SRF Project Using Iowa’s River Restoration Toolbox |
Breakout 5: Funding and Partnership Workshops
| 12:45-1:45 | L. James Marwedel | How to use BRICs to Build Natural Infrastructure and Reduce Flooding |
| 1:45-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30-3:30 | Mary Beth Stevenson, Kate Giannini, Adam Rodenberg, Jennifer Fencl, John Swanson | Building a Successful Watershed Community |
Breakout 6: Emerging Water Issues Workshops
| 12:45-1:45 | James Houle | Minding our Ps and Ns |
| 1:45-2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:30-3:30 | Linda Shenk, Bill Gutowski | Watershed Community: A Simple Simulation Tool for Building Community Relationships for Resilience |
3:40 pm 2021 Mississippi River Expedition
Hank Kohler
Jared McGovern
The 2021 speaker email directory and their PowerPoint presentations are available here.