| 8:00 |
Jay Banner: Welcome
and Opening Comments |
| 8:10 |
Paul F. Hudson, Session
Organizer, UT - Department of
Geography, Introduction to Symposium |
| 8:20 |
Dick Richardson
and Patricia Richardson, UT - Department of Integrative
Biology: Increasing soil infiltration rate with livestock and
dung beetles |
| 8:35 |
Bradford P.
Wilcox, Texas A&M - Department of Rangeland Ecology:
Juniper and the Water Cycle on the Edwards Plateau: A State
of our Knowledge |
| 8:50 |
Introduction
to Agency Representatives |
| 9:10 |
Richard Kiesling,
USGS - Austin: The Role of Changing Land Use and Agricultural
Practices on the Trophic Status and Structure of Aquatic Communities:
watershed eutrophication and its consequences |
| 9:25 |
Liang Yang-Zong,
UT - Department of Geological Sciences: Modeling Hydrological
Processes in the Coupled Hydrological and Meteorological Models |
| 9:40 |
Libby Stern,
UT - Geological Sciences: Role of juniper in the water cycle
of central Texas: watershed-scale juniper removal experiment
and mechanistic studies at the Honey Creek State Natural Area |
| 9:55 |
John McCray,
UT - Department of Geological Sciences: Modeling hydrology and
wastewater pollutant transport in an alpine watershed |
|
10:10-10:25
|
Break |
| 10:25 |
Bridget Scanlon,
UT- Bureau of Economic Geology: Important Issues Related to
Groundwater/Surface Water Interactions in Texas |
| 10:40 |
Venkatesh Merwade and David
Maidment, UT - Department of Civil Engineering: Geospatial
representation of river channels |
| 10:55 |
Rebecca Smyth
and Roberto Gutierrez, UT - Bureau of Economic Geology:
Airborne Lidar Mapping for Coastal, Hydrologic and Environmental
Studies |
| 11:10 |
Paul F. Hudson,
UT - Department of Geography: Sediment
transport in Texas' rivers: Is there a problem? |
| 11:25 |
Jack Sharp, UT - Department
of Geological Sciences:
Stream-groundwater interactions - groundwater flow systems |
| 11:40 |
Ben R. Hodges, UT -
Department of Civil Engineering:
Dispersion and mixing processes in Texas coastal embayments |
| 11:55 |
Paul Montagna,
UT - Marine Science Institute: Importance of Freshwater Inflow
to the Texas Coastal Resources |
| 12:10 |
David J. Eaton,
UT - LBJ School of Public Affairs: The Future of Mexico-Texas
Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Relations |
|
12:25-2:30
|
Lunch and Concurrent Breakout
Sessions |
| |
Breakout sessions: |
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Headwaters and
Hillslopes
(e.g., headwater catchments, vegetation, hillslope hydrology
and groundwater, soil erosion, GIS/RS) |
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River Valleys
(e.g., river channel, floodplain, stream and riparian ecology,
stream hydrology, sediment transport, estuarine and coastal
environments, water resources) |
