Adapting to Changing Weather Patterns

Moderator: Josh Svaty

• Dave Kendall
• Rex Buchanan

Solutions Beyond Ag

Moderator: Katie Miller (Kansas Municipal Utilities)

• Gary Janzen, City of Wichita
• Matt Clark, Terrain Ag
• Vincent Gauthier, Environmental Defense Fund
• Laura Hines, Evergy

Day Two

Breakout Session I

Flood Mapping and Planning

Moderator: Tara Lanzrath (KDA)

• Looking Ahead For Open Space Planning and Flood Mitigation - Chris Shultz (JEO Consulting Group)
• The Kansas Flood Mapping Dashboard, Version 2.0 - David Weiss (Kansas Biological Survey)

Moderator: Susan Metzger (Kansas Water Institute)

• Technical Innovation - Sam Zipper (Kansas Geological Survey)
• On the Ground Application - Trevor Ahring (GMD3) and Troy Dumler (Garden City Company)
• Private Industry Perspective - Lilly Hancock (General Mills)

Water Quality 

Moderator: Ben Growcock (KDHE)

• Long-term blue-green algae trends in lakes of the Kansas River Basin- Ted Harris (Kansas Biological Survey)
• Zeolite Applications to PFAS Monitoring and Treatment in Water– Edward Peltier (University of Kansas)

Municipal Water Issues and Solutions 

Moderator: Katie Miller (Kansas Municipal Utilities)

• Municipal Water Conservation Planning in Kansas - Daryn Martin (Kansas Rural Water Association)
• The City of Wichita’s Water Reuse Masterplan - Greta Zornes (CDM Smith) and Gary Janzen (City of Wichita)
• Urban to Ag - Manhattan's Alternative MS4 Stormwater Treatment Option - Bill Heatherman (City of Manhattan) and Trisha Moore (Kansas State University)

Groundwater Characterization, Management, and Conservation

Breakout Session II

Tuttle Creek Lake Water Injection Dredging 

Moderator: Josh Olson (Kansas Water Office)

• Water Injection Dredging: Introduction– John Shelley
• Water Injection Dredging at Tuttle Creek Lake - John Shelley
• Downstream effects of water injection dredging on river sediments, water quality and biotic assemblages in the Big Blue and Kansas rivers – Keith Gido (Kansas State University)

Emerging Issues 

• Advancing Alternative Water Supplies Using One Water Approach in Riverside California - Dan Rodrigo (CDM Smith)
• Irrigating into the Future – Upgrading Century Old Infrastructure– Jacob Mirinovsky and Matt Garder (JEO Consulting Group)
• Science as a Foundation: Advancing Sustainable Water Management in Kansas and Beyond– Jay Kalbas (Kansas Geological Survey) and Susan Metzger (Kansas State University)  

Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys

Moderator: Wes McCary (Kansas Water Office) 

• Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Surveys in the High Plains aquifer - Jared Abraham (Aqua Geo Frameworks)
• Flying in the Wind: An Airborne Electromagnetic Survey of the High Plains Aquifer in West-Central Kansas - Jim Butler (Kansas Geological Survey)
• Revised High Plains Aquifer Bedrock Surface in Groundwater Management District 4 Incorporating Airborne Electromagnetic Data - Geoff Bohling (Kansas Geological Survey))

Surface Water Modeling 

Moderator: Richard Rockel (Kansas Water Office)

•  New authority: Forecast-informed reservoir operations as an opportunity to improve water management - Travis Rayfield and Michael Konieczki (HDR)
•  Changing Patterns of Annual and Seasonal Hydroclimatic Extremes Across Kansas Reservoirs - Archi Howlader (Kansas Geological Survey)

Breakout Session III

Bioengineered Solutions to Address Water Quality 

Moderator: Kristin Kloft (KDA – Division of Conservation)

•  Stream Buffers vs. the Impervious Cover Model, Revisited - Scott Schulte (University of Kansas)
•  Modeling Erosion and Cover Crop BMPs at the regional scale with a KanDEP model - Timothy Sklenar and Brian Gelder (Iowa State University)

Moderator: Lauren Campbell (Kansas Water Office)

•  Kansas Water Hub - Carolyn McGinn (Governor's Office) and Kristin Kaipust (Kansas Water Office)
•  Public Water Supply Systems and their Sources - Katie Goff (Kansas Water Office)

Water Resource Games

Moderator: Laura Downey (KACEE)

•  Gamifying Water Education: Using the Watershed Game to Increase Awareness of Kansas Water Resources - Sophia Cori and Grace Roth (Kansas State University)
•  Ogallala: A New Educational Geoscience Game Designed to Teach Communicative Groundwater Resource Management in Kansas Agriculture - Sunday Siomades and Blair Schneider (Kansas Geological Survey)

 Moderator: Katie Durham (GMD 1)

• Can Management Decisions Maximize Every Drop? - Nick Vos (Kansas Soil Health Alliance)
• Is Subsurface Drip Irrigation a Viable Option for Reaching Q-Stable? A Producer's Perspective – Kurt Grimm (Nutradrip)

Reservoir Sediment Management

Moderator: Josh Olson (Kansas Water Office)