19Th ANNUAL MONTANA WATER CONFERENCE the Future of the Yellowstone River
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19th ANNUAL MONTANA WATER CONFERENCE The Future of the Yellowstone River Best Western Yellowstone Inn Livingston, Montana October 3 & 4, 2002 Thursday October 3, 2002 8:00 – noon Field Trip - Glacial and Fluvial Geomorphology of the Upper Yellowstone River Valley Ken Pierce, Leader. Leave from the Best Western parking lot 8:00 –5:00 REGISTRATION AT BEST WESTERN YELLOWSTONE INN 12:45 – 1:00 Opening Remarks 1:00-1:20 Keynote Address – Duncan Patten, Big Sky Institute, Montana State University Science, Policy and the Public along the Yellowstone River Session 1. THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER Moderator: Gretchen Rupp, Montana Water Center 1:20 – 1:40 Hydrologic Investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey Following the 1996 and 1997 Floods in the Upper Yellowstone River, Montana Stephen R. Holnbeck, U.S. Geological Survey 1:40 – 2:00 Crossing the Yellowstone-Evaluation of Equations for Estimating Pier Scour for Coarse- Bed Streams in Montana Katherine Chase, U.S. Geological Survey 2:00 – 2:20 Aerial Assessment of the Yellowstone River Corridor Warren Kellogg, Yellowstone River Conservation District Council 2:20 – 2:40 Assessing Flood Plain Dynamics Using Cottonwood Ages on the Yellowstone River Michael F. Merigliano, UM 2:40 – 3:00 Recruitment of Populus angustifolia along the Upper Yellowstone River: sexual or S asexual? Mary Louise Polzin, UM 3:00 – 3:20 BREAK Thursday Oct. 3 continued … Concurrent Sessions Session 2. WATER MANAGEMENT Session 3. GROUNDWATER Moderator: Paul Azevedo, MT DNRC Moderator: Tom Patton, MBMG 3:20 – Good Science Should be the 3:20 – Hydrogeology in the National Forests 3:40 Foundation for Water Management 3:40 Joe Gurrieri, Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF Decisions in Montana Rich Moy, MT DNRC 3:40 - Water Quality Data Access in Montana 3:40 - Assessment of Water Resources of the 4:00 via the Internet 4:00 Paradise Valley, Park County, Montana Duane Anderson, NRIS John Olson, MBMG 4:00 - Coal Bed Methane Development and 4:00 - Nitrate in the Summit Valley of Southwest 4:20 Montana's Water Resources: The 4:20 Montana Regulatory Framework John LaFave, MBMG Mary Vandenbosch, Montana Legislative Services Division 4:20 – Ground Water / Surface Water 4:20 – Characterization of Impacts to Water 4:40 Interactions and Source Water 4:40 Resources of Upper Miller Creek from Protection in Montana S Septic System Effluent Perri Phillips May, Jim Stimson, MT Tobias J. Hewitt, M.S. candidate, UM and DEQ, Russell Levens, MT DNRC, Joe Jon Harvala, Missoula County Water Quality Meek, Jeffrey Herrick, and Carolyn District DeMartino, MT DEQ 4:40 – Landscape Influences on Watershed 4:40 – Ground-water and Surface-water Quality, 5:00 Dynamics 5:00 Herbicide Transport, and Irrigation S Robert Ahl, USDA Forest Service Practices: Greenfields Bench Aquifer, Teton County, Montana K.J. Miller, MBMG, D.S. Rise, and C. McDonald, MT Dept. of Agriculture 5:00 – Tales from the Floodplain Wars - The 5:20 Gallatin County Theatre Scott Gillilan and Martha Kauffman, Gillilan Associates, Inc. 5:30 – 7:00 POSTER SESSION AND HAPPY HOUR – pop, snacks, and partially-hosted bar 7:00 BANQUET with Bob Ross Friday October 4, 2002 Session 4. WATER QUALITY/REMEDIATION Moderator: David Rise, US Environmental Protection Agency 8:00 – 8:20 Enhanced Wet Air Oxidation of Sediment and Soil Contaminated with Recalcitrant MWC Organic Compounds James E. Duffy and Justin Ray, MSU 8:20 – 8:40 Aerobic MTBE Biodegradation Potential in Gasoline-Impacted Groundwater near Ronan, MWC MT Richard H. Veeh, Eric A. Kern, Heiko W. Langner, Richard E. Macur, and Alfred B. Cunningham, MSU 8:40 – 9:00 Development of Microbial Biobarriers for the Control of Acid Rock Drainage from Mine MWC Tailings Paul J. Sturman, MSU 9:00 – 9:20 The Potential for Natural Wetlands to Remediate Copper-Contaminated Water S Kimberly MacHardy-Mitman and Christopher H. Gammons, MT Tech of UM 9:20 – 9:40 Hydrogeochemistry of a Wetland Receiving Acid Mine Drainage, Ontario Mine, Powell S County, Montana Elizabeth L. Milodragovich and Christopher H. Gammons, MT Tech of UM Session 5. SURFACE WATER QUALITY Moderator: Chris Gammons, MT Tech of UM 10:00 – 10:20 Diel Variations in Dissolved Trace-Element Concentrations in Streams Draining Abandoned Mine Lands David A. Nimick, U.S. Geological Survey 10:20 – 10:40 Relative Effect of pH and Temperature on Diel Metal and Arsenic Cycling in Prickly Pear Creek Clain A. Jones, MSU, David A. Nimick, and R. Blaine McCleskey, U.S. Geological Survey 10:40 – 11:00 Diel Zinc Cycling and Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions at High Ore Creek in S Basin, Montana Christopher L. Shope, Ying Xie, and Christopher H. Gammons, MT Tech of UM 11:00 – 11:20 Hydrological, Geochemical, and Biological Factors on Silica Deposition in a Hot Spring S Fed Creek in Yellowstone National Park Matt Vitale, Nancy Hinman, and William Woessner, UM 11:20 – 11:40 Effects of Radio Transmitter Weight on Swimming Stamina of Telemetered Westslope MWC Cutthroat Trout Alexander V. Zale, Carrie Brooke, Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, and William C. Fraser, Wild Trout Research Laboratory 11:40 – 12:00 BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS --- ADJOURN POSTERS authors will be present for the poster session during Thursday’s happy hour Color Infrared Low-level Digital Imagery - Ground-Water/Surface-Water Investigations by the Applications for Riparian Management Montana Department of Natural Resources and David Salo, Jim McNamara, Harriet McKnight, and Conservation James O'Neill – Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF Lawrence S. Dolan, MT DNRC, Michael J. Roberts, and William Uthman – MT DEQ Current Activities of the Gallatin Local Water Using GIS to Analyze and Map Ground-Water Quality District Elements Related to Coalbed Methane Production Alan English, Gallatin Local Water Quality District John Wheaton, Teresa Donato, Patrick Kennelly, Wayne Van Voast, and Paul Thale - MBMG Characterization of Yellowstone River Alluvial Hydrogeologic Characterization of AMD Production Aquifers, Middle Yellowstone River Area, along Belt Creek near Belt, MT Treasure and Yellowstone Counties, Montana Jon Reiten and Shawn Reddish - MBMG John L. Olson – MBMG Geologic Mapping for Hydrologic Studies in Source Water Delineation and Assessment in the Western Montana Intermontane Valleys Yellowstone River Corridor and Other Watersheds in Larry N. Smith – MBMG Montana Joe Meek, Carolyn DeMartino, Jeffrey Herrick, Perri Phillips May, Jim Stimson, and James Swierc – MT DEQ Riparian Habitat Dynamics and Wildlife along the The Oxygen Dependence of the Degradation Rate of Upper Yellowstone River Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether by a Bacterial Isolate Andrew Hansen, Jay Rotella, Lurah P. Klaas, and Elsa Meiser – MSU Danielle A. Gryskiewicz – MSU Coalbed Methane Potential in the Livingston Coal A Handlens View of the Hailstone Basin Field, Montana Erin Willenburg, Rocky Mountain College Bowen, D.W., Custer, S.G., Lennon, L., McTeague, M.C.., Persio, A.F., Walby C. – MSU Stream Bank Restoration Method Using Portable Concrete Blocks Tom Hughes, DNRC Notes: S – Student research project MWC – Research funded through the Montana Water Center THANKS TO ALL WHO MAKE THIS EVENT POSSIBLE: AWRA 2002 Officers –Larry Dolan, MT DNRC; John LaFave, MBMG; David Salo, Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF Montana Water Center – Kendall Watkins, Communications/Outreach; May Mace, Executive Secretary Field trip leaders, guest speakers, and student volunteers .