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2010 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis, MS 2010 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis, MS EXHIBITORS: SPONSORS: Northern Gulf Institute Florence and Hutcheson Pickering, Inc. Neel Schaeffer U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rosedale-Bolivar Port Waggoner Engineering Yazoo Mississippi Delta Levee Board CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality | Mississippi Water Resources Association | Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | U.S. Geological Survey 2010 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Contents Poster Session Concentration of methylmercury in natural waters from Mississippi using a new automated analysis system ..........................................................................................................................................................................2 Garry Brown, James Cizdziel Regional sediment management plan ................................................................................................................. 10 Nathan Clifton Assessing early responses of natural coastal systems to oil and dispersant contamination along the Northern Gulf of Mexico .......................................................................................................................................... 11 Gary N. Ervin Relationships of submerged aquatic vegetation communities of Mississippi coastal river systems ............... 12 James A. Garner, Hyun J. Cho, Patrick Biber The anthropogenic impact of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway: Stream impact of Tibbee Creek due to human disturbances ........................................................................................................................ 21 Shane Irvin, Joel O. Paz, Mary Love Tagert, Prem A. Parajuli, Thomas Cathcart Spatial and temporal changes in nutrients and water quality parameters in four Puerto Rico reservoirs: Implications for reservoir productivity and sport fisheries restoration ................................................................. 35 Robert Kröger, J. Wes Neal, M. Munoz Automated system to facilitate vicarious calibration of ocean color sensors .................................................. 48 Adam Lawson, Robert A. Arnone, Richard W. Gould, Theresa L. Scardino, Paul Martinolich, Sherwin W. Ladner, David Lewis Relation between chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) and salinity in the Mississippi Sound .. 49 Christopher L. Martin, Scott P. Milroy SPONSORS: Water quality and ecology research in the Mississippi Delta .............................................................................. 50 Martin A. Locke, Scott S. Knight, F. Douglas Shields Jr., Matthew T. Moore, Richard E. Lizotte, Justin N. Murdock, Robert F. Cullum, Ron Bingner, Sam Testa III Sea level rise visualization on the Alabama-Mississippi and Delaware coastlines ............................................ 51 K. Van Wilson, D. Phil Turnipseed, Cindy Thatcher, Stephen Sempier, Scott A. Wilson, Robert A. Mason Jr., Douglas Marcy, Virginia R. Burkett, David B. Carter, Mary Culver Watershed characterization of the Big Sunflower watershed ............................................................................ 52 Alina Young, Matt Moran, Jairo Diaz-Ramirez iii 2010 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Contents Sedimentation Spatially distributed sediment and nutrients loading from the Upper Pearl River watershed ......................... 54 Prem B. Parajuli Rates and processes of streambank erosion along the principal channel of the Town Creek watershed: Implications in a sediment budget development ................................................................................................ 55 John J. Ramirez-Avila, Eddy J. Langendoen, William H. McAnally, Sandra L. Ortega-Achury, James L. Martin Sediment, particulate organic carbon, and particulate nitrogen transport in ephemeral and perennial streams of the upper coastal plain Mississippi ....................................................................................................... 56 Jeff Hatten, Janet Dewey, Clay Mangum, Byoungkou Choi, Dale Brasher Using lake sedimentation rates to quantify the effectiveness of past erosion control in watersheds ........... 57 Daniel G. Wren, Gregg R. Davidson Mill Creek watershed restoration: Results of monitoring sediment concentration and loads pre- and post-BMP implementation ....................................................................................................................................... 58 Matthew B. Hicks, Shane J. Stocks Weather/Climate New modeling system at the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center ............................................................... 60 Kai Roth Adaptation to rainfall variation considering climate change for the planning and design of urban stormwater drainage networks ............................................................................................................................... 61 Thewodros G. Mamo Effect of land cover boundaries on warm-season precipitation generation in Northwest Mississippi ........... 62 Jamie Dyer Flash flood guidance issued by the National Weather Service—Past, present, and future ............................ 63 Katelyn E. Costanza iv 2010 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Contents Coastal Resources Oil spill assessment: Transport and fate ................................................................................................................. 65 William H. McAnally, James L. Martin, Vladimir Alarcon, Jairo Diaz-Ramirez, Phillip Amburn Phytoplankton biomass variability in a western Mississippi Sound time-series ................................................... 66 Matthew Dornback, Steve Lohrenz Evaluation of the estuarine retention time in a Mississippi estuary: The Bay of St. Louis .................................. 67 Rene Alexander Comacho, James L. Martin Three-dimensional heterogeneity of hypoxic water masses in the Mississippi South: The geomorphology connection ........................................................................................................................... 68 Scott P. Milroy, Andreas Moshogianis Asset management assistance for the city of Bay St. Louis ................................................................................. 69 Mary Love Tagert, Jeff Ballweber, Rob Manuel Surface Water Management Delta headwaters project—Boon or bust to water quality? ............................................................................... 71 David R. Johnson Total suspended sediment concentrations in Wolf Lake, Mississippi: An EPA 319(h) landscape improvement project ............................................................................................................................................... 72 Robert Kröger, Jason R. Brandt, Jonathan Paul Fleming, Todd Huenemann, Tyler Stubbs, J. Dan Prevost, K. Alex Littlejohn, Samuel Pierce Evaluation of two different widths of vegetative filter strips to reduce sediment and nutrient concentrations in runoff from agricultural fields ................................................................................................... 86 John J. Ramirez-Avila, Sandra L. Ortega-Achury, David R. Sotomayor-Ramirez, Gustavo A. Martinez-Rodriguez v 2010 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Contents Wetlands Environmental mitigation at the Camp Shelby training site, MS ......................................................................... 88 Michael Rasmussen, Thomas H. Orsin, Tommy Dye, David Patrick, Ian Floyd, Joy Buck, Garrett Carter, Andrew Newcomb Study of seagrass beds at Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve ................................................... 89 Cristina Nica, Hyun Jung Cho Ecosystem services from moist-soil wetland management ................................................................................. 90 Amy B. Spencer, Richard M. Kaminski, Louis R. D’Abramo, Jimmy L. Avery, Robert Kröger Use and effectiveness of natural remediation of wetlands at the GV Sonny Montgomery Multi-Purpose Range Complex-Heavy (MPRC-H), Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center (CSJFTC), MS ....................... 91 Ian Floyd, Thomas H. Orsi Developing a gum swamp educational exhibit at the Crosby Arboretum, Mississippi State University Extension ....................................................................................................................................................................92 Robert F. Brzuszek, Timothy J. Schauwecker Evaluating physiological and growth responses of Arundinaria spp. to inundation ........................................ 93 Mary Catherine Mills, Gary Ervin, Brian S. Baldwin Education The Sustainable Sites Initiative™: Potential impacts for water resources and site development .................. 95 Robert F. Brzuszek The future of K-12 water education: The 2010 Mississippi framework and the proposed National Research Council framework for science education ........................................................................................ 102 Renee M. Clary, Robert F. Brzuszek, James H. Wandersee The Chickasawhay River: A small Mississippi stream vs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ............................ 112 Joy Buck, Thomas H. Orsi, Michael Rasmussen, Andrew Newcomb, Garrett Carter vi 2010 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Contents Management/Planning Sustaining Alabama fishery resources: A