Groundwater Issues and Science Affecting Policy and Management in the Southwest

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Monday, February 26, 2018

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7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Registration

8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.

Welcome and Keynote: Holly Richter, Ph.D.

Holly Richter, Ph.D.

8:30 a.m. Adaptive Management of Groundwater Resources in the Arid Southwest

Holly Richter, Ph.D.

9:20 a.m.-2:20 p.m.

Groundwater Sustainability

Stacy Timmons and Fred Rothauge

9:20 a.m. Simplified Stream Accretion Modeling for Sustainable Groundwater Management: An Interactive Approach

Deborah L. Hathaway, PE

9:40 a.m. Energy Storage Investigation at Groundwater Banks

Lon House, Ph.D.

10:00 a.m. Groundwater in Unconfined New Mexican Aquifers

Alex Rinehart

10:20 a.m. Refreshment Break

10:45 a.m. Mapping Deep Channel Deposits in the Ogallala Aquifer Using Electrical Resistivity Surveys

John Jansen, Ph.D., PG

11:05 a.m. An Overview of the NMBGMR Collaborative Groundwater Monitoring Network and How to Get Involved

Sara Chudnoff, PG

11:25 a.m. Lifetime Projections for the High Plains Aquifer in East-Central New Mexico

Alex Rinehart

11:45 a.m. Lunch Break (provided)

1:00 p.m. Potentiometric Surface Maps in the Middle Rio Grande Basin: Rising Water Levels in the Production Zone

Lucas Curry

1:20 p.m. Siting, Design and Construction of a Horizontal Well for Industrial Water Supply in the Ogallala Aquifer

James Beach, PG

1:40 p.m. Developing 3-Dimensional GIS Models for Visualizing Aquifer Systems in New Mexico

Colin Cikoski

2:00 p.m. Investigating Groundwater Sustainability in Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico

Steve Rice, PG

2:20 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Groundwater/Surface Water Interaction

Ronald Green, Ph.D., PG

2:20 p.m. Groundwater Management in Texas: Considering Flows to Springs and Streams

Larry French, PG

2:40 p.m. Aquifer Systems that Recharge the Texas Reach of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo

Ronald Green, Ph.D., PG

3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break

3:20 p.m. Hydrologic and Temperature Indicators of Surface Water Groundwater Exchange, Sandia Canyon Wetland, Los Alamos NM

Kevin Reid, PG

3:40 p.m. Uncertainty in Runoff and Recharge for Surface-Water/Groundwater Models in the Arid and Semiarid Edwards Plateau, Central Texas

Beth Fratesi, Ph.D.

4:00 p.m. Preferential Flow Pathway Controls on Groundwater Discharge in the Devils River of Texas

Nathaniel Toll

4:20 p.m. The Evolution of Unmanned Aerial System (Drones) in Water Science

Richard Brose

4:40 p.m. Valuing Groundwater Recharge as an Attribute of Watershed Restoration: A Focus on Willingness to Pay for Project Attributes

Adrienne Soder

5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Meet and Greet

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

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8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Registration

8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.

Natural and Anthropogenic Contaminants

William Alley, Ph.D.

8:30 a.m. Observed Variability in Groundwater Quality in the Rincon Valley, NM through High-Frequency Monitoring

Laura Bexfield

8:50 a.m. Quality of groundwater used for public supply in principal aquifers of the Southwestern U.S.

Celia Rosecrans

9:10 a.m. Quality of groundwater used for public supply in the aquifers of the Edwards-Trinity aquifer system

Marylynn Musgrove

9:30 a.m. Pre-Regulatory Closed Landfill Care: Albuquerque’s Experience

Ken Ziegler

9:50 a.m. Presence of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Water, North Central New Mexico

Patrick Longmire, Ph.D.

10:10 a.m. Mobilization of Naturally Occurring Uranium to Water Supply Wells, Southern Tucson Basin

Michael Barden

10:30 a.m. Refreshment Break

10:50 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Multi-Jurisdictional, Integrated Water Management

Alex Rinehart

10:50 a.m. GIS-Based Dynamic Database for Water Rights Administration in the Gila River Valley, NM

April Jean Tafoya

11:10 a.m. Brackish Groundwater Desalination Projects in Texas: The El Paso and San Antonio Strategies

Brad Cross, PG

11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Drought Management/Managed Aquifer Recharge

Robert D. Marley

11:30 a.m. A New (old) Method to Measure Layered Vadose Zone Permeability at Field Scale for Managed Aquifer Recharge

Daniel Sola

11:50 a.m. Lunch Break (on your own)

1:20 p.m. Understanding the Role of Decision Support Tools for Assisting Managed Aquifer Recharge in California’s Central Valley

Zachary Sugg, Ph.D.

1:40 p.m. Mitigating Drought Impacts on Estuary Inflows using Aquifer Storage and Recovery

James Dodson

2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.

Transboundary Aquifers

Laura Bexfield

2:00 p.m. Integration of Science and Policy in the Management of Transboundary Water Resources with Specific Approaches on Transboundary Aquifers along the U.S. and Mexico

Gilbert Anaya

2:20 p.m. Geochemical and isotopic investigation of deep groundwater in the Mesilla Basin, New Mexico

Andrew Robertson

2:40 p.m. The Transboundariness Approach and Prioritization of Transboundary Aquifers between Mexico and Texas

Rosario Sanchez

3:00 p.m. Using Heat as a Tracer to Estimate Deep Saline Groundwater Inputs to the Rio Grande in the Mesilla Basin, New Mexico, USA

Jeff Pepin