Wednesday, November 10 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM EST

REMEMBER THE TIME CHANGE ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 AT 2:00 AM!

For those areas that observe the time change from Daylight Savings to Standard, make sure your clock is adjusted to "Fall Back" one hour. All times listed in the online program are current for Eastern Standard Time.

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Presenter affiliations are listed in the session descriptions. Personal designations are not included in the program.

ATTN OFFICIAL JUDGES FOR THE STUDENT PRESENTATION COMPETITION: If you were contacted by the Conference Planning Committee Student Activities Chair, Allison Lewis, remember to use the appropriate evaluation form when scoring student participants. The link and QR code to this form was emailed to you along with your student assignments. To make identifying student participants easier, the green graduation cap  next to a session title includes a student who is participating in the PRESENTATION Competition.

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee Social

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Session 7

Session 7 Abstracts

Supply Source and Natural System Sustainability Assessment and Climate Change Adaptation for Water Supply Utilities
Moderator: Jeffrey Geurink

Urban Flooding Open Knowledge Network Part II: Delivering Flood Information to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
Moderator: Janet Clements

Automated Hydrological Feature Extraction from Digital Terrain Data
Moderator: Alvan Karlin

Methods in Reclaimed Water Management
Moderator: Shirley Clark

Automated Framework for Flood Modeling and Forecasting using Geospatial Descriptors and the Interconnected Channel and Pond Routing (ICPR) Model
Moderator: Siddharth Saksena

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Virtual Field Trips (FREE) & Lunch on Your Own

Participation in the virtual field trips are included with your conference registration. When you register, simply add them to your registration to get the login details.
Field Trip #1: Estero River, an outstanding natural resource in rapidly growing Southwest Florida suburbia, with headwaters protected by FGCU’s campus
Field Trip #2: The River That Made Seattle - A Virtual Cultural and Environmental Tour of The Duwamish River

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Session 3

Session 3 Abstracts

Virtual Revolution, Not Evolution: How do We Get Lasting Change While Ensuring Productive Agriculture and Good Water Quality?
Moderator: Lara Fowler

Utilizing and Developing Open-access Water Data Tools and Resources
Moderator: Lilli Watson

Monitoring and Evaluating Hydrologic Changes in Coastal Estuaries
Moderator: Rajendra Khanal

Explorations in Multi-faceted Aspects of Groundwater
Moderator: Chin Man Mok

Investigations into Harmful Algal Blooms in Florida
Moderator: Qiong Zhang

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Break: At Home Scavenger Hunt

Phoebe Clark will be leading us through a Scavenger Hunt for items we can find in our home. The first to grab, raise their hand, and share their object is the first to win. Lets have some fun and get to know other colleagues in our community!

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Session 4

Session 4 Abstracts

Water for Agriculture: The Results of Locally Driven Solutions
Moderator: Lara Fowler

Modeling and Management of Stormwater
Moderator: Emmanuel Nzewi

Modeling Human Impacts and Solutions on Water Resources
Moderator: Richard Koehler

Impacts to and Functions of Wetland Systems
Moderator: Roger Copp

Planning and Management of Local Water Resources
Moderator: Daniel Van Abs

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | AWRA Annual Awards Ceremony & Closing Keynote

Sponsored by
Jay Famiglietti, Water Crisis Specialist and Executive Director of the Global Institute for Water Security
Session: Can We Solve the Global Water Crisis?

Download the PDF or view the digital Awards Program.

6:00 PM | Conference Concludes

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