Keynote: Technology and Innovation in Agricultural Groundwater Management

Presented by Nicholas Brozovic, Ph.D., Director of Policy, Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln​

9:25 a.m. Drought Resiliency Solutions for Alluvial Wellfields
Nathan Holt
9:45 a.m. Managing Long-Term Groundwater Quality in the Food and Beverage Sector Using Managed Aquifer Recharge
Sean Cassidy
10:05 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Conjunctive Water Management in Nebraska: Recharging Aquifers through Excess Surface Water Diversions
Jessie Strom
10:50 a.m. NGWA Best Suggested Practices for Managed Aquifer Recharge
William Alley, Ph.D.

2:00 p.m. Mississippi’s Approach to Address Declining Groundwater Levels
Kay Whittington, PE
2:20 p.m. Restoring Stream Flow and Reducing Groundwater Use Through Conservation Irrigation
Julie Blackburn
2:40 p.m. High Frequency Nitrate Concentrations Measured in Two Iowa Springs Fed by Intense Row Crop Agriculture
Keith Schilling
3:00 p.m. Technical Analyses that Inform Groundwater Policy Decisions in the Nebraska Panhandle
Thad Kuntz, PG
3:20 p.m. Break
3:50 p.m. Iowa Experience With Agricultural Drainage Well Inspection, Testing, Permitting, and Closure
Michael K. Anderson, PE
4:10 p.m. Multiple Isotopes Reveal Spatial Complexities of Baseflow Sources in the Wabash River Watershed in Indiana and Ohio
Marty Frisbee
4:30 p.m. Data-Based Sustainable Agriculture: Small-Scale Irrigation Development in Africa
William Alley, Ph.D.