INTEGRATED WATERSHED SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM:
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND APPLICATION
A Series of Short Presentations

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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:
	Headwaters and Hillslopes (e.g., headwater catchments, vegetation, hillslope hydrology and groundwater, soil erosion, GIS/RS)
	River Valleys (e.g., river channel, floodplain, stream and riparian ecology, stream hydrology, sediment transport, estuarine and coastal environments, water resources)