2006 WRRI Conference Agenda

• Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Presentations and Oral Abstracts
• Wednesday, April 5, 2006 Presentations and Oral Abstracts
• General Block Layout Agenda (pdf)
• Poster Abstracts

Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 12:00 - 5:30 pm

12:00 pm Registration (Posters and Exhibits Open)

1:00 pm General Session

• Welcome and Introductions
• Norma Mills, Legal Council to NC Senator Marc Basnight

2:15 - 2:30 Break (Posters and Exhibits Open)

2:30 - 4:00 pm Concurrent Session 1

Session A: Panel Discussion: Multiple Perspectives on North Carolina Preparedness

This panel discussion will address "How Prepared is North Carolina For a Natural or Manmade Disaster?" Representatives from the following agencies will be present: NC Emergency Management; Progress Energy; NC Institute for Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill; NC DENR Division of Land Resources; NC DENR Division of Water Resources, NC Dept. of Transportation and Army Corps of Engineers.

Session B: Flood Mitigation/Control

• Western North Carolina Flood Mitigation Planning Study
  Fred Royal, Sandra Slayton, Carter & Burgess, Inc.
• Flood Operations Planning for Water Supply Reservoirs
  Cathy Ball, City Engineer, and Leslie Carreiro, Superintendent of Water Production & Water Quality, City of Asheville; Jennifer Heard, Senior Engineer, and Marshall Taylor, Water Resources, Practice Leader, Brown and Caldwell
• An Historical Ecology of Flooding, Uncertainty, and the Falls Lake Project
  Danny de Vries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Overview of the North Carolina Dam Safety Program
  Maxwell Fowler, State Dam Safety Engineer, NC Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources Division of Land Resources
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Session C: Impacts of Coastal Urbanization

• Investigation of Microbial Contamination of Sediment and Water in a Marine Recreational Setting
  Renee Harrington, Lawrence Cahoon, and Michael Mallin, UNC Wilmington
• Fecal Contamination of Tidal Creek Sediments: Factors Controlling Indicator Bacteria Concentrations
  Byron R. Toothman, Lawrence B. Cahoon, Michelle L. Ortwine, and Michael A. Mallin, UNC Wilmington
• Sediment-Associated Phosphorus in Drainage Features in Southeastern North Carolina
  Lawrence B. Cahoon, S.M.K. Gill, UNC Wilmington; and J.E. Knowles, Duke University

4:00 - 5:30 pm Poster and Exhibitor Reception
Sponsored by Progress Energy

Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 7:30 - 4:30 pm

7:30 - 8:30 am Registration

8:30 am General Session

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

10:30 - 12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions 2

Session A: Panel Discussion: Local Government View on Preparedness

Moderator: Will Autry, Environmental Planner, Town of Carrboro

This panel discussion will address disaster preparedness from a local perspective. Local governments will be represented. Jack Moyer, URS Corporation, formerly City of Raleigh Deputy Public Works Director will open this session with a presentation on “Preparedness for Local Government after 9-11 and Katrina”. The panel will begin discussion after the presentation.

Session B: Disaster Impacts and Lessons Learned

• Boil Water Orders Encounter 21st Century Technology: Preparedness Lessons from the 2004 Water Crisis in Asheville, NC
  Gene Matthews and Carol Gunther-Mohr, School of Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill
• Dynamics Of Enterococci and Vibrio sp. Concentrations Associated with Estuarine Disturbance During Passage of a Coastal Hurricane
  J. Stephen Fries, Ginger Kelly, and Rachel T. Noble, Institute of Marine Science UNC Chapel Hill
• Impacts of a Raw Sewage Spill on Water and Sediment Quality in an Urbanized Estuary
  Michael A. Mallin, Lawrence B. Cahoon, Byron R. Toothman, Douglas C. Parsons, Matthew R. McIver, Michelle L. Ortwine, and Renee N. Harrington, UNC Wilmington

Session C: What’s Happening in the Neuse River Estuary?

• Microbial Productivity Across an Estuarine Gradient and in Response to Major Storm Events
  Benjamin L. Peierls and Hans W. Paerl, Institute of Marine Science, UNC Chapel Hill
• The Chlorophyll a Maximum of the Neuse River Estuary, NC: An Indicator of Closely-Coupled Estuarine Physical-Chemical-Biotic Interactions
  Amy Waggener, Hans Paerl, Inst of Marine Science UNC-CH; Valerie Winkelmann, and Lexia Weaver, NOAA, National Ocean Service
• Unattended Monitoring Programs as Tools for TMDL Assessment in the Neuse River Estuary
  Nathan S. Hall and Hans W. Paerl, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch

• NCWRA will present student poster awards
• Lucheon Speaker: Robin Smith, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Policy, NC Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources

1:30 - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions 3

Session A: Water Security Panel

Moderator: David H. Moreau, WRRI Director

This panel discussion will address water security. Representatives from water utility municipalities will be represented. Bob Griffin, Shield Engineering, will begin with a presentation on “ Performing a Vulnerability Assessment and Developing an Emergency Response Plan Using VSAT™ Software.” The panel will begin discussion after the presentation.

Session B: Sediment Control and Stormwater BMPs

• Developing a Best Management Practices (BMP) Manual for Implementation by the Local Development Community
  Steve Sands, UsInfrastructure of Carolina, Inc., Jeff Hieronymus, Charlotte Storm Water Services
• Low Impact Development (LID) is an Innovative Stormwater Management Approach with a Basic Principle that is Modeled After Nature: Manage Rainfall at the Source Using Uniformly Distributed Decentralized Micro-Scale Controls
  Dwane Jones, Southeast District Area Specialist Agent, NC Cooperative Extension Service, NC State University
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Effects of Large Storms on Sediment Export from Construction Sites
  Dan Line, NCSU Water Quality Group

Session C: A Closer Look at Surface Water

• Preparing the Framework for Evaluating Microbial Resistance in Surface Waters and Sediments
  Katherine Stauffenberg and Howard Weinberg, UNC School of Public Health
• Growth Dynamics and Management of the Cyanobacterium, Lyngbya Wollei, in North Carolina and Florida
  Jennifer J. Joyner, Hans W. Paerl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and William D. Frazier, City of High Point
• Molecular Ecology of Cyanobacterial Communities in Falls Lake, North Carolina and its Implications for Harmful Algal Blooms
  Anthony Yannarell, Hans Paerl, UNC Institute of Marine Sciences; Juli Dyble, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory; and Mina Shehee, North Carolina Dept. of Health and Human Services

3:30-4:20 pm: Concurrent Sessions 3

Session A: Cost of Water/Water Allocation

• Financial and Spatial Analysis of Residential Water and Wastewater Rates and Rate Setting Practices
  Jeffrey Hughes, Shadi Eskaf, and Rich Thorsten, UNC Chapel Hill
• Reducing the Cost of Meeting Water Demands with Inter-Utility Transfers
  Reed Palmer, UNC Chapel Hill

Session B: A Closer Look at Urbanization Impacts

• Modeling Nonpoint Source Pollution Impacts from Growth and Major Infrastructure Improvements in a Southeastern North Carolina Community
  J. Todd Kennedy and Jason C. Doll, Stantec Consulting
• Part 1
• Part 2
• A Property Parcel-Based Approach to Urban Land Cover Change Detection Using High-Resolution Quickbird Satellite Imagery
  Barry Hester, Siamak Khorram, Stacy A.C. Nelson, and Halil Cakir, NC State University

Session C: Hydrology: Evapotranspiration/Rainwater Management

• Evapotranspiration of a Mid-rotation Loblolly Pine Plantation and a Recently Harvested Stand on the North Carolina Coastal Plain
  Wenqiang Cao, G. Sun, NC State University; Michael Gavazzi, S.G. McNulty, Southern Global Change Program Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service; A. Noormets, University of Toledo; R.W. Skaggs, and D.M. Amatya, Center for Forested Wetland Research, USDA Forest Service
• Rainwater Management
  Dwane Jones, Southeast District Area Specialist Agent, NC Cooperative Extension Service, NC State University
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

4:30 pm Adjourn

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