ADMS Task Force/NCERA 217—June 5-6, 2019 – Draft Agenda (as of May 17, 2019)
Wednesday, June 5 Time Title
8:30 Welcome
8:35 Drainage issues in the Red River Basin (title TBD)
Ted Priester, Red River Basin Commission
9:00 Drainage issues in North Dakota (title TBD)
North Dakota State Water Commission
9:25 Drainage law and management in Minnesota
Henry VanOffelen, Minnesota Board of Soil and Water Resources
9:50 Introductions - All attendees
10:00 Break
10:20 Water Management in the Minnesota portion of the Red River Basin
Rob Sip, Director, Red River Watershed Management Board
10:45 Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition (ADMC) Update
Charlie Schafer, Keegan Kult, other industry representatives
11:15 USEPA updates
Katie Flahive, USEPA
11:25 NRCS standards and perspectives
Ruth Book, NRCS Illinois; Clarence Prestwich, NRCS National Water Management Engineer (Acting)
11:55 Break for Lunch
Noon
Lunch (included in registration) Luncheon Speaker: Leadership for Agricultural Water Management.
The Honorable Ed Schafer, former Governor of North Dakota and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
1:40 MN Watershed District (TBD)
2:00 TBD
2:20 New mechanisms for scaling up drainage management implementation
Chris Hay, Iowa Soybean Association
2:40 ADMS Task Force – Moving Forward
Jane Frankenberger, Purdue University, for the ADMS Structure Committee
3:00 Break
3:20 The Red River Valley Drainage Water Management Project
Jeppe Kjaersgaard, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
3:35 40 Years of Nutrient Management at the Northwest Research & Outreach Center
Lindsay Pease, University of Minnesota
3:50 Update: Using Drones for Subsurface Drainage Mapping
Barry Allred, USDA-ARS, presented by Triven Koganti
4:05 Poster introductions. See list of poster presenters pages 3-4
4:30 Posters and Reception
Thursday, April 12
7:45 NCERA-217 Business Meeting (for NCERA-217 members)
8:15 Break. Attendees not involved with NCERA-217 arrive
8:30 Welcome & Discussion of next year’s meeting
8:45 Michigan Drainage Update Ehsan Ghane, Michigan State University
9:00 Drainage Research at ARS-IA Dan Jayne, ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environments
9:15 State update: Drainage research in Illinois Laura Christianson, University of Illinois
9:30 Missouri Update Kelly Nelson, University of Missouri
9:45 Impacts of 4R Nitrogen Management on Drainage Water Quality in Iowa Matt Helmers, Iowa State University
10:00 BREAK
10:15 Drainage water management on saline and sodic soils Xinhua Jia, North Dakota State University
10:30 Integrated Soil and Water Conservation to Achieve Production and Water Quality Goals Jeff Strock, University of Minnesota
10:45 Indiana drainage research update Jane Frankenberger, Purdue University
11:00 Microbial communities in bioreactors
Rachel McDaniel, South Dakota State University
11:15 Discussion: What have we learned? Research needs and opportunities moving forward.
11:45 Meeting adjourns Board the bus for Field Trip.
Noon Bus leaves for field trip. Boxed lunch available on the bus.
POSTERS
Presenter and Affiliation Poster Name Co-authors
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Emily Bock Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Virginia Tech
Artificial sinks to treat legacy nutrients in agricultural landscapes
K. Stephenson, Z. Easton
Gurbir Singh Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Missouri
Long-term Drainage, Subirrigation, and Tile Spacing Effects on Maize Production
K. Nelson
Hanseok Jeong Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois
Seasonal effects of tile depth and spacing on field-scale tile drainage and nitrate losses in Illinois
Rabin Bhattarai, Richard A.C. Cooke
Manal Askar Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Michigan State University
Testing DRAINMOD-P for Predicting Edge-of-field Phosphorus Losses from an Artificially Drained Field with Cracking Soil in Northwest Ohio
M. Youssef, G. Chescheir, L. Negm, K. King, R. Skaggs, D. Hesterberg, A. Amoozegar
Tyler Groh Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University
Limitations to Denitrification in Saturated Riparian Buffers
M.P. Davis, T.M. Isenhart, D.B. Jaynes, T.B. Parkin
Graduate Students
Md Sami Bin Shokrana Graduate Student, Michigan State University
Effects of Flow and Schedule of Sample Filtration on the Dynamics of Phosphorus Transport under Conventional Drainage
E. Ghane
Ana Sanchez Graduate Student, University of Illinois
Double Duty Ditches: Enhanced Denitrification with Bioreactors
L. Christianson, R. Christianson, R. Cooke
Emily Waring Graduate Student, Iowa State University
Estimating nutrient loading during flooding in plot-scale subsurface drainage research
C. Pedersen, M. Helmers
Niranga Wickramarathne Graduate Student, University of Illinois
Does the Emerald Ash Borer kill more than the tree? Nitrate removal with ash woodchips
L.E. Christianson, R.A. Cooke
Ehsan Bagheri
Ph.D. Graduate Student, North Carolina State University
Real-time Water Table Management System to Increase Resiliency of Drained Croplands
Mohamed Youssef, Chad Poole, Lamyaa Negm
Hossam Moursi Ph.D. Graduate Student, North Carolina State University
Experimental Investigation of the Crop Yield and Water Quality Benefits of Drainage Water Recycling in Eastern North Carolina
Triven Koganti Ph.D. Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark
Mapping of subsurface drainage in agricultural areas using a stepped frequency ground penetrating radar
E. V. D. Vijver, B. J. Allred, M. H. Greve, J. Ringgaard, B. V. Iversen
Daniel Welage Graduate Student, Purdue University
Long-term Subsurface Drainage Effects on Physical and Hydraulic Properties of Soil
E. Kladivko, K. Mitchell
Giovani Preza-Fontes Graduate Student, University of Illinois
Balancing water quality, nitrogen management, and corn production goals in Illinois
C. Pittelkow, L. Christianson
Matt Werlinger Undergraduate, North Dakota State University
Designing a Drainage Structure to increase water movement in clayey soils
Ryan Carda, Abbi Klos, Josh Brilz
Kasper Jensen Ph.D. Graduate Student, University of Copenhagen
Drainage and plant production
Saeid Nazari Graduate Student, University of Kentucky
Edge-of-field Monitoring and Modeling to Quantify Sediment P Fluxes and Pathways in Tile-Drained Landscapes.
W. Ford, K. King