Horizons of Environmental and Water Policy: Where We Are and Where We Are Going

2015 Watershed Symposium Horizons of Environmental and Water Policy: Where We Are and Where We Are Going September 15, 2015, Hollingsworth Auditorium, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Time Presenter Title 7:30-8:00 am Registration, poster display and coffee (Poster judging starts at 8:00 am; Poster listings on back of sheet) 8:00-8:15 Welcome and Introductions, John Stier, Assistant Dean and Professor, College of Ag Sciences & Natural Resources 8:15-8:45 Paul Davis, PE, Water Resources Consultant Clean Water Programs, How We Got Here Damon Hearne, Little Tennessee River Pooling Resources: The Little Tennessee Native Fish Conservation 8:45-9:05 Native Fish Conservation Area and Trout Partnership and other Approaches to Strategic Aquatic Unlimited Conservation Director Conservation in the Southern Appalachians Robby Karesh, TDEC Water Resources 9:05-9:25 The state of stormwater management in the State of Tennessee Division, Stormwater Section 9:25-9:45 BREAK KEYNOTE ADDRESS Introduction: Becky Jacobs, Professor of Law, UT College of Law Chris Thomas, US EPA R4, Branch Chief, 9:45-10:15 The Future of Water Resource Protection: An EPA Perspective Sustainable Communities and Watersheds. 10:15-11:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Moderator: Becky Jacobs, Professor of Law, UT College of Law. Panelists: Chris Thomas, USEPA R4; Jonathon Burr, TDEC Deputy Director Water Resources Division, Field Office Operations; Sally Palmer, Science Director, Tennessee, The Nature Conservancy; Mike Bradley, Senior Scientist, USGS Nashville Office; Professor Dean Rivkin, Professor of Law, UT College of Law. 11:30-12:45 LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION (lunch on your own, food trucks will be on site) TECHNICAL SESSION I Moderator: Brian Alford, Ph.D., UT FWF Andrea Ludwig, Ph.D., Assistant Green is the New Gray: A Case Study of Runoff Volume Variation and 12:45-1:00 Professor, UT BESS Targets for Reduction Does enforcement of pollution control law improve biodiversity?: 1:00-1:15 Shelby Ward, Graduate Student, UT EEB Examining the impact of Clean Water Act enforcement in Tennessee and Kentucky streams 1:15-1:30 Gangsheng Wang, Ph.D., ORNL Hydrologic Modeling of the Tennessee River Basin Bankfull Geomorphic Relationships and River2D Assessment in Small 1:30-1:45 Ryan Hodges, Graduate Student, UT BESS Catchments of the Cumberland Plateau Ecoregion Adrian Gonzalez Graduate Student, UT Geochemistry in a high-elevation watershed in the Great Smoky 1:45-2:00 CEE Mountains: Response to reductions in air pollution emissions Thanos Papanicolaou, Ph.D., Professor, 2:00-2:20 Hydraulic and Sedimentation Challenges in the 21st Century UT CEE 2:20-2:30 BREAK POLICY TECHNICAL SESSION Moderator: Chris Cox, Ph.D., Director, ISSE; Professor and Associate Head, UT CEE Management of River System Flows in the Tennessee River System – A Keil Neff, Ph.D., P.E., Tennessee Valley 2:30-2:50 Discussion of TVA’s Current Reservoir Operations Policy and Potential Authority Needs and Opportunities for Modification Brennan Smith, Ph.D., ORNL Policy Frameworks within the Energy-Water Nexus: Perspectives from 2:50-3:10 Environmental Sciences Division Hydropower Regulation and Urban-Water Footprints 3:10-3:20 BREAK TECHNICAL SESSION II Moderator: Chris Cox, Ph.D., Director, ISSE; Professor and Associate Head, UT CEE Brian Alford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Associations between Fish Assemblages and Agricultural Land Use in 3:20-3:35 UT FWF the Nolichucky watershed of Tennessee Anna George, Ph.D., Tennessee Status of and threats to the Laurel Dace, Chrosomus saylori, endemic 3:35-3:50 Aquarium Conservation Institute to Walden Ridge, Tennessee Kristen Wyckoff, Graduate Student, UT Patterns of microbial indicators in stormwater runoff from highways 3:50-4:05 CEE in Tennessee Effect of Irrigation Timing on Profit Maximizing Irrigation Rates for 4:05-4:20 Xia “Vivian” Zhou, Ph.D., UT ARE Cotton Production in Tennessee Xiaoyu Lu, Graduate Student, UT Terrestrial laser scanner as an effective tool for small-scale 4:20-4:35 Geography streambank erosion and change measurement 4:35-4:45 Announcements, Student Poster Awards 4:45-6:00 UTK Faculty/Student Poster Session 2015 Watershed Symposium Horizons of Environmental and Water Policy: Where We Are and Where We Are Going September 15, 2015, Hollingsworth Auditorium, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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