2004 Water Resources Research Institute Conference

• March 30, 2004 Preconference Symposium Agenda
• March 31, 2004 Main Conference Agenda
• Poster Presentations
• Co-Sponsors
• Sponsors

Preconference Symposium
Watershed Management in North Carolina:
Successes and Challenges

Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Jane S. McKimmon Center
Raleigh, NC

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12:30 PM Registration and Exhibits Open

1:00 PM Welcome
Greg Jennings, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Director of Water Resources Research Institute of UNC

• Model for Successful Watershed Management
  Suzanne Klimek, Planning Coordinator, Ecosystem Enhancement Program & Greg Jennings
• Building Local Support & Coordination Capacity
  Christy Perrin, Program Coordinator, Watershed Education for Communities and Local Officials, NCSU

2:20 PM Case Studies - Local Watershed Management

• Neuse River, Greg Jennings, WRRI
• Mitchell River, Dick Everhart, NRCS - Surry County
• Watauga River, Wendy Patoprsty, NC CES - Watauga County
• Lower Catawba River, Rusty Rozelle, Mecklenburg County
• Changing Behaviors in Local Watersheds, Craven Hudson, NC CES - Gaston County

4:40 PM Wrapup

Annual Conference
Watershed Assessment and Restoration:
Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Jane S. McKimmon Center
Raleigh, NC

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7:45 - 8:45 AM Registration

8:45 AM General Session

• Welcome, Kenneth Reckhow, Ph.D., Director, Water Resources Research Institute of UNC
• Keynote Address:
• Historical Perspective On Water Resource Management In North Carolina And Future Directions Of Watershed-Based Management, David Moreau, Ph.D., Chair, Dept of City & Regional Planning, UNC Chapel Hill
• Watershed Assessment And Restoration: Vision For North Carolina, Ron Ferrell, Director of Operations , Ecosystem Enhancement Program

10:00 - 10:30 AM Break (Posters and Exhibits Open)

10:30 - 12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions

Session A: Social/Economic Issues
Moderator: Darlene Kucken, Division of Water Quality, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Raleigh, NC

• Linking Chemical, Biological, And Geomorphological Data To Economic Activities Relevant To Watershed Assessment, Jaren C. Pope, V. Kerry Smith, Raymond B. Palmquist, Daniel J. Phaneuf, CEnREP, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
• Water Quality Problems Are Solvable With River Basin Based Taxation, Don Yelton, Montreat College, Montreat, NC
• Social And Economic Perspectives: The Effectiveness Of The Tar-Pamlico River Basin Riparian Buffer Rules, Dwayne Jones, Pitt County Planning Department, Greenville, NC
• Statewide Water Resources Inventory and Data Management Project, Jean Crews-Klein, North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, and Paula Thomas, AMEC Earth and Environmental, Raleigh, NC

Session B: Water Quality Assessment
Moderator: David Toms, Division of Water Quality, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Raleigh, NC

• Defining Water-Quality Criteria For Seagrass Habitats Using A Bio-Optical Indicator, Patrick Biber, Hans W. Paerl, Institute of Marine Science, UNC-CH, Morehead City, NC, Charles L. Gallegos, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, and W. Judson Kenworthy, NOAA Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, NC
• Urban Stream Restoration Using a Natural Channel Design Approach, Barbara Doll, NC Sea Grant, Raleigh, NC, Daniel R. Clinton, NCSU Cooperative Extension, Raleigh, NC, James W. Jenkins, Jr., Jan M. Patterson, Earth Tech, Raleigh, NC, and N. Jill Coleman, Facilities Planning and Design, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
• Impact Of Microbial-Particle Interaction On Microbial Fate and Transport in Stormwater, MacKenzie Dilts, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
• Evaluating BMPs For Treating Stormwater From NC DOT Facilities, Daniel Line, NCSU Water Quality Group, NCSU, Raleigh, NC

Session C: Watershed Planning 1
Moderator: Hal Bryson, Western Regional Planning Supervisor, Watershed Planner, Ecosystem Enhancement Program, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Raleigh, NC

• The Ecosystem Enhancement Program's Approach to Local Watershed Assessment And Planning, Bonnie Duncan and Hal Bryson, Ecosystem Enhancement Program, NC DENR, Raleigh, NC
• Watershed Analysis To Identify Water Quality Improvement Potential And Specific Sites For Stream And Wetland Restoration, Vicki Jones, William A. Kreutzberger, CH2M HILL, Charlotte, NC, Kristin Cozza and Suzanne Klimek, Ecosystem Enhancement Program, NC DENR , Raleigh, NC
• Watershed Planning In Rapidly Urbanizing Areas - Hitting a Moving Target (or A Three Legged Gerbil On The Exercise Wheel of Life), Steve Bevington, Rajpreet Butalia, and Suzanne Unger, Buck Engineering, Cary, NC
• Targeting Stream And Agricultural Best Management Practices Within A Watershed Planning Context: A Case Study in the Upper Yadkin River Basin of North Carolina, Neal Flanagan, Tetra Tech, Inc., RTP, NC, and Kristin Cozza, Ecosystem Enhancement Program, NC, DENR, Raleigh, NC

12:00 - 1:15 PM Lunch Provided (Posters and Exhibits Open)
NCWRA will present graduate student poster awards.

1:15 - 2:45 PM Concurrent Sessions

Session A: Water Resources
Moderator: Leila Goodwin, Water Resources Manager, Town of Cary, Cary, NC

• Land Use Planning To Meet Water Quality Objectives For A Water Supply Watershed, Jim Parajon, Betsy Pearce, Leila Goodwin, Town of Cary, Cary, NC, Ruth Swanek, Peter Elkan, CH2M HILL, Raleigh, NC, Bill Kreutzberger, CH2M HILL, Charlotte, NC , Dawn Abercrombie, CH2M HILL, Atlanta, GA
• River Basin Scale Planning For Flood Hazard Mitigation: Assessing Flood Hazard Vulnerability Due To Development Management Policy Distribution In The Tar Riverbasin Of North Carolina, Katherine Eschelbach, Christy Edmonson, and David Brower, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC
• Surface Water Hydrology Of The Tar River During The Summer 2002 Drought: Evidence For Tidal Fluctuations During Low Flow Conditions In Greenville, NC, Richard Spruill, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
• River Flow, Floodplain Inundation, And Instream Dissolved-Oxygen Concentrations In The Lower Roanoke River, North Carolina, Jerad Bales, U.S. Geological Survey, Raleigh, NC

Session B: Groundwater
Moderator: Cam McNutt, Division of Water Quality, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Raleigh, NC

• Effectiveness Of Riparian Buffers In Controlling Discharge Of Nitrate To Streams In Selected Hydrogeologic Settings Of The North Carolina Coastal Plain, Timothy B. Spruill, U.S. Geological Survey, Raleigh, NC
• Spatial And Seasonal Variability of Recharge In Shallow Coastal Plain Aquifers, North Carolina, Alissa L. Coes, U.S. Geological Survey, Charlotte, NC, and T.B. Spruill, U.S. Geological Survey, Raleigh, NC
• Investigating Groundwater Resource Sustainability In Wake County, North Carolina, Mark Bailey, Water Quality Division, Wake County Department of Environmental Services, and John Boyer, Camp Dresser & McKee, Raleigh, NC
• The Southern Coastal Plain Comprehensive Ground Water Study And Assessment, Jim Perry and Cheryl Ross, Lumber River Council of Governments, Lumberton, NC

Session C: Watershed Planning 2
Moderator: Jocelyn Elliott, Watershed Planner, Ecosystem Enhancement Program, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Raleigh, NC

• Complexities And Consequences Of Habitat Degradation - Lessons From The Mud Creek Watershed Assessment Project, Andrea Leslie, NC Division of Water Quality, Asheville, NC
• The Use Of Water Quality Monitoring In Watershed Planning And Assessment: Lessons From Recent State Agency Experiences, Jim Blose, NC Division of Water Quality, Raleigh, NC
• Land Use Analysis For Local Watershed Characterization, Mike Schlegel and Dave Cour, KCI Technologies, Raleigh, NC
• Maximizing Opportunities To Restore North Carolina's Most Polluted Urban Watershed, Jason L. Dorn, CDM, Charlotte, NC

2:45 - 3:15 PM Break (Poster and Exhibits Open)

3:15 - 4:45 PM Concurrent Sessions

Session A: Ecosystem Restoration
Moderator: Ken Carper, President of North Carolina Water Resources Association and P.E., Dewberry, Raleigh, NC

• Defining And Improving Standards in Ecological Restoration, Mark A. Taylor, EcoLogic Associates, P.C., Greensboro, NC
• The Effect of Restoration On Urban Stream Water Quality And Macroinvertebrate Community Structure, E.C. Lynam and A.E. Hershey, Dept. of Biology, UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
• Evaluation of Root Wad Designs Used for Stream Restoration, William Harman, Buck Engineering, Cary, NC
• NCSU Centennial Campus Outdoor Field Laboratory: Demonstrating Stream Restoration Using Natural Channel Design, Storm Water Management And Exotic Species Control In A Rapidly Developing Watershed, Jean Spooner, Melanie Carter, Danie Wise Johnson, Karen Hall, Bill Hunt, Kriss Bass, Dan Line, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, NCSU, Doug Frederick, Rick Hamilton, Dept. Forestry, NCSU, Barbara Doll, NC Sea Grant, NCSU, Ed Maxa, NCCES 4H and Youth Development, Lucy Laffitte, NCSU Centennial Campus, Jean Marie Luginbuhl, Crop Science and Animal Science, NCSU, Raleigh, NC

Session B: River Nutrient Monitoring
Moderator: Julie Jackson, Division of Water Quality, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources

• Seasonal Analysis Of The Influence of Nutrient Reduction on Phytoplankton Biomass And Primary Production In the Middle Cape Fear River, Lindsay Dubbs, E. Fischer, P. Benson, and S. Whalen, Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
• Waterfowl And Urban Runoff Drive Nutrient Loading In Eutrophic Greenfield Lake, Michael Mallin, Virginia L. Johnson, and Ellen J. Wambach, Center of Marine Science, UNC-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
• Rivernet: A High Resolution In-Situ Water Quality Monitoring Program In The Neuse River Basin, NC, William J. Showers, Brian Usry, and David J. DeMaster, Dept of MEAS, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
• Water Quality Impairment In The Neuse Estuary From Nutrient Loading: Progress and Ongoing Challenges, JoAnn Burkholder, Howard Glasgow, Greg Melia, Carol Kinder, and Robert Reed, Center of Applied Aquatic Ecology, NCSU, Raleigh, NC

Session C: Watershed Planning 3
Moderator: George Norris, Watershed Planner, Ecosystem Enhancement Program, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources

• Modeling Indicators Of Channel Condition For Local Watershed Planning To Target Stream Restoration And Management Efforts, Jason C. Doll and David V. Pizzi, Tetra Tech, Inc., RTP, NC
• Linked Reservoir-Watershed Modeling: Establishing The Technical Basis For Management Decisions, Edward Holland, Orange Water and Sewer Authority, Carrboro, NC, and Trevor Clements, Tetra Tech, Inc., RTP, NC
• Jordan Lake Watershed Model, Jonathan B. Butcher, Tetra Tech, Inc, RTP, NC
• New Hanover County Local Watershed Planning Initiative, Joe Pfeiffer, Jr. , KCI Associates of NC, PA, Raleigh, NC

Posters

1. Hydrogeological Characterization of Restored Riparian Buffers in the Piedmont And Blue Ridge Regions of North Carolina, Ben Butchart, Donna Allen, C.J. Allan, M.J. Thomasson, Dept of Geography and Earth Sciences, UNC-Charlotte, J. Wu, Dept of Civil Engineering, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2. Collaborative Watershed Planning In The Upper Cape Fear River Basin, Patrick Beggs, NC Cooperative Extension - WECO, Raleigh, NC
3. Influence Of Nutrient Reduction On Phytoplankton Primary Production And Standing Stock In The Lower Neuse River, P.L. Benson, L.L. Dubbs, E.N. Fischer, and S.C. Whalen, Dept. Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC
4. Little Sugar Creek Environmental Restoration Initiative - Phase 1: Building Monitoring Needs Into The Project Design, Andrew Burg, EGAPS, Charlotte, NC
5. Human Impact On The Silica Cycle: Reduction Of Dissolved Silica Inputs Into The Ocean As A Result Of Increasing Impervious Cover, S. Loucaides, Lawrence B. Cahoon, E.J. Henry, L.A. Leonard, and J.D. Willey, Dept of Biological Sciences, UNC Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
6. Updating a USGS RASA Model of the Atlantic Coastal Plain Aquifer System of North and South Carolina, Alissa L. Coes, U.S. Geological Survey, Charlotte, NC, and Bruce Campbell, U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia, SC
7. Constructed Stormwater Wetland Design: Balancing The Urban Landscape Form With Water Quality And Research Functions, Melanie Carter, Bill Hunt, Jean Spooner, Robert Evans, Karen Hall, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept., NCSU, and Doug Frederick, Forestry Dept., NCSU, Raleigh, NC
8. Has Water Quality Gotten Better or Worse In The Raleigh-Durham Area Over The Last 30 Years?, Ornella Darlington and Brian Currier, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
9. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis As A Decision Tool For Targeting Stream Restoration And Agricultural BMPs In The Upper Yadkin Local Watershed Plan, Heather Fisher, Neal Flanagan, Scott Job, Tetra Tech, Inc., RTP, NC , and Kristin Cozza, Ecosystem Enhancement Program, NC DENR, Raleigh, NC
10. Storm Runoff Study Of The Mint Hill City Park LID EPA-319 Project Site, Marty D. Frisbee and Craig J. Allan, Dept. of Geography and Earth Sciences, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
11. Proximate Landuse Influence On Primary Productivity In Estuarine Nursery Creeks, Thomas Gallo, Michael Piehler, and Hans Paerl, Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC
12. Physiological Ecology Of The Bloom Former, Scrippsiella trochoidea, A Diel Vertically Migrating Dinoflagellate Common In the Neuse River Estuary, Nathan Hall, Luke Twomey, and Hans Paerl, Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC- Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC
13. Hydrologic Budget Of A First Order Forested Coastal Plain Watershed, South Carolina, Scott Harder, Environmental Studies Program, College of Charleston, Devendra Amatya, Carl Trettin, USDA Forest Service, Center for Forested Wetlands Research, Timothy Callahan, Dept of Geology and Environmental Geoscience, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
14. Satellites, Cities, And Census: An Innovative Approach To Quantifying Land Use In Jordan Lake Subwatersheds, Scott Job, Jon Butcher, and Jason Doll, Tetra Tech, Inc., RTP, NC
15. Groundwater Dating In Confined Aquifers Of The North Carolina Coastal Plain, Casey Kennedy, David P. Genereux, Department of Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, NCSU, Raleigh, NC , and L. Niel Plummer, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
16. A Farmer's Guide To Agriculture And Water Quality Issues, Laura Lombardo, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept., NCSU, Raleigh, NC, Jean Spooner, Theodore Feitshans, Brandon King, Michael Burchell, Kristopher Bass, NCSU, Don Meals, Ice.Nine Environmental Consulting, Burlington, VT, Robert Williamson, Ellen Smoak, NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, Peter Wright, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Brent Hallock, Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, CA, Bernard Engel, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Mark Sobsey, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
17. Is there a better way to define swamplands in the Coastal Plain and Sandhills?, Jera Mendenhall and Audria Humes, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
18. Developing And Calibrating An Indicator For Biogeochemical Condition Of Headwater Riparian Ecosystems, R.D. Rheinhardt, M.M. Brinson, R.R. Christian, K.H. Miller, Greg Meyer, and J.E. O'Neal, Dept of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
19. Diversity And Activity Of Epiphytic Nitrogen-Fixers On Standing Stems Of The Salt Marsh Grass Spartine Alterniflora Based On Phylogenetic Analysis Of Nifh Sequence, Microscopy, And Rate Measurements, Pia Moisander, Michael F. Piehler, and Hans W. Paerl, Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC
20. Annual Time-Scale Measurements of Thermohaline Exchange in the
    Pamlico Sound, NC, Jonathan Molina and Tom Sawyer Hopkins, Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
21. Long And Short Time Scale Variability In Water Surface Elevation In The Neuse Estuary, North Carolina, USA, Robert Reed, Howard B. Glasgow, JoAnn M. Burkholder, Carol A. Kinder, Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
22. Improving The Dewaterability Of Biosolids Using Heat Treatment And Cation Addition, Matthew Skidmore, and Francis de los Reyes III, Dept of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
23. Withdrawn
24. Evaluating A Distributed Hydrologic Model Across A Physiographic Gradient In North Carolina Forests, Ge Sun, Jianbiao Lu, Southern Global Change Program, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC, Steven G. McNulty, Dept Forestry, NCSU, Raleigh, NC, and James M. Vose, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Otto, NC
25. Withdrawn
26. Numerical Simulations Used To Test The Effect Of Recharge Rates On
    Temperature Profiles Beneath Ephemeral Streams In Southern Arizona, M.J. Thomasson, Dept of Geography and Earth Science, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, J.P. Hoffmann, U.S. Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, P.A. Ferre, Dept. Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
27. Nutrient-Phytoplankton Relationships At The Chlorophyll a Maximum Of The Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, Valerie Winkelmann, Lexia M. Valdes, Nathan S. Hall, Amy Waggener, Michael F. Piehler, Hans W. Paerl, Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC

Co-Sponsors

• Hydrolab
• North Carolina Association of Environmental Professionals (NCAEP)
• North Carolina Water Resources Association (NCWRA)

Sponsors

• North Carolina American Waterworks Association/
  Water Environment Association (NCAWWA/WEA)
• North Carolina Cooperative Extension
• North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• North Carolina League of Municipalities
• Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill
• Sea Grant of North Carolina
• UNC Environmental Finance Center

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