Monday, November 8 | 10:00 AM - 7:30 PM EST

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ATTN OFFICIAL JUDGES FOR THE STUDENT PRESENTATION & POSTER 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. The blue graduation cap next to the presenter’s name in the poster section means they are a student participating in the POSTER Competition.

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

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Welcome & Opening Keynote

David Waggonner, FAIA, Founding Principal | Waggonner & Ball
Andy Sternad, AIA, Architect & Urban Designer, LEED AP BD+C, Vice President | Waggonner & Ball
11:00 AM ET Session: In Concord with Nature: Planning, Building and Adapting our Coasts, Watersheds, and Developed Landscapes
Facilitator: Jason C. Doll, CPSWQ, Senior Project Manager, KCI Associates of NC, PA

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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Engagement Hour

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AECOM 60 minute Engagement Break - BREAKING NEWS: Algae to Fuel - From Nuisance to Renewable Energy
Join AECOM’s Dan Levy and Will Lovins to hear more about the exciting potential of algae transformation for beneficial use such energy sustainability as well as natural habitat and ecosystem restoration. Joining AECOM from USACE ERDC, Burton Suedel will give an update on the latest developments with the Engineering With Nature Program’s Podcasts and Volume 2 of the EWN Atlas. Join AECOM for this informative session complete with follow up giveaway for all attendees that remain on for the full 60 minutes as well as a larger prize TBD that will raffled and awarded at the end the session.

STANTEC 60 Minute Engagement Break - BREAKING NEWS: H2O+U. By 2025 Stantec is hiring 2,000 people to join our water team. Find out more.

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

Session 1 Abstracts

Training the Next Generation of Facilitators – Interactive Seminar
Moderator: Lara Fowler

Applications in Environmental Flow Management
Moderator: Ge Sun & John Balay

Impacts of Human Behavior and Education on Utilization of Water Resources 
Moderator: Cat Shrier

Coastal Considerations of Climate Change
Moderator: Xixi Wang

Identifying and Tracking Water Quality Pollutants 
Moderator: Bangshuai Han

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Break: Cutest Pet Contest Wins the Work-From-Home Employee of the Year Prize

Join us for a fun interactive time to show off your office mate and advocate for why he is the cutest, most hard-working pet of the year. Each person will get 2-minutes to introduce and describe their pet. For those whose pets are not with them, please share your screen and show some pictures on a PowerPoint slide. At five minutes before the break ends, we will take a vote via chat, and the winner will win a gift card! We hope to see you there!

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Session 2

Session 2 Abstracts

One Water: Putting Theory into Practice
Moderator: Jon Dinges

Agricultural Nutrient Loading
Moderator: Hannah Hartzler

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Water Resources
Moderator: Valerie Seidel

Implementing Adaptation and Resiliency Through Impacts of Climate Change
Moderator: John Rehring

Prediction, Planning, and Management of Water Resources
Moderator: Megan Rivera

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Engagement Hour

Sponsored by KCI 60 Minute Engagement Break - Overcoming the Asset Management Hurdle/KCI Project Highlights
Increasingly, local government jurisdictions, including cities, counties, water supply and reclamation utilities, and stormwater utilities, are finding that they can improve their financial performance and spend capital funds more strategically through the effective application of modern asset management. In the Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) identified the implementation of asset management programs as one of the methods to raise America’s C- score. How does one get started, though? KCI’s Shana Lowe will conduct an engaging presentation covering the basics of asset management and how to get started on the development of a program. No asset management software yet? No problem! There is plenty of work that can be started within an organization before software is in place. Ms. Lowe will then pass the mic over to Amanda O’Shea. Ms. O’Shea will discuss some of the asset management and GIS projects that she has implemented in her 14 years at KCI, including a geometric to utility network migration and development of a cloud-based operational digital twin for Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources. It is anticipated that the presentation will only take 30 minutes, and time for Q&A will follow.

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | LIVE! Poster Technical Session & Student Competition #1

NOTE: All student poster competition participants are required to present their poster in the Zoom Meeting Session. If you cannot present live, you will be removed from the program.

Posters #1 Abstracts

Poster Category: Behavior and Water Management & Water and Energy | Zoom Room #1

Moderator: Erich Hersh

Proximity to a Surface Water Body in a Coastal, Golfing Community of South Florida Effects Homeowners’ Willingness to Protect and Fund Remediation
Presenter: Haylie Fine

Municipal and Industrial Water Use in the Oil Impacted Bakken Region 2000-2018: Implications for Planning and Management
Presenter: Christina Hargiss

Evaluating the Hydrothermal Co-liquefaction of Organic Waste Feedstocks into Biofuel
Presenter: Oluwayinka Adedeji

Application on the Benefit of Micro-hydropower in Agricultural Channels to Consider Water-energy-food Nexus
Presenter: Jen-Chieh Shih

Poster Category: Biological Soil Crust & Coastal Sediments | Zoom Room #2

Moderator: Zhang Zhenxing

Chemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Mobile Bay and Eastern Mississippi Sound Sediments
Presenter: Steven Young

Ecohydrological Effects of Biological Crusts: An Overview
Presenter: Pushpita Kumkum

Controls on Sediment Mercury and Volatile Solids Concentrations in Mobile Bay, Alabama
Presenter: Alyssa Kandow

Poster Category: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, and Wetlands | Zoom Room #3 

Moderator: Rachel Rotz

Removal of Microplastics from a Wastewater Treatment System in Midwest USA
Presenter: Bangshuai Han

Plastic Pollution in Stormwater Ponds
Presenter: Jenna Brooks

Simulating the Cumulative Effect of Nutrient Management in Lake Okeechobee Watershed
Presenter: Osama Tarabih

The Implications Of Park Sanctioned Pesticide Use on Non-Targeted Vegetation in Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Coastal Southeast Florida
Presenter: Mercedes Cassidy

Poster Category: Innovation in Data Collection, Monitoring, & Modeling | Zoom Room #4

Moderator: Valerie Seidel

Utilizing Innovative Well Pipe to Collect Partitioning Water Level and Verify 3D Hydrogeological Parameters
Presenter: Bu-Sheng Lee

Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology for an Evaluation of Surface Drainage to an Urban Lake at the New Jersey Shore
Presenter: Mia Najd

Temporal and Spatial Hydrochemical Characteristics of Rio Grande River Water for Irrigation Applicability
Presenter: Miranda De La Garza

A Regional Semi-Distributed Streamflow Model Using Deep Learning
Presenter: Zhongrun Xiang

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | LIVE! Poster Technical Session & Student Competition #2

NOTE: All student poster competition participants are required to present their poster in the Zoom Meeting Session. If you cannot present live, you will be removed from the program.

Posters #2 Abstracts

Poster Category: Environmental Monitoring | Zoom Room #5

Moderator: Alvan Karlin

Quantifying Land Use Inputs in the Surface Waters of a Golf Course Community of South East Coastal Florida
Presenter: Zoie Kline

Quantifying Micro Flora and Fauna to Evaluate and Monitor the Lake Health of Jonathan’s Landing, A Coastal Southeastern Florida Golfing Community
Presenter: Natalie Price

Identifying and Monitoring Algal Blooms in Coastal Southeastern Florida Residential Golf Communities
Presenter: Lucia Gonzalez

Poster Category: Innovation in Data Collection, Monitoring, & Modeling | Zoom Room #6

Moderator: Allison Lewis

FloodMap: A Framework for Displaying Hydraulic Model Output on the Web
Presenter: Myles McManus

Data Integration – Visualizing Salmon Migration, River Water Temperature Profile and Stream Discharge for the Lower Columbia River Using a Temporal GIS-like Approach
Presenter: Richard Koehler

Time-based Patch Analysis Workflow
Presenter: Richard Koehler

Poster Category: Flooding, Flood Mitigation, & Floodplain Management | Zoom Room #7

Moderator: Betsy Cody

Grassland Degradation and Its Effects on Natural Hydrology in Virginia and North Carolina
Presenter: Nicholas Ingold

Investigating Cost-effective Diversification and Decentralization of Flood Control Systems to Cope with the Uncertainty of Flood Events
Presenter: Sangmin Shin

Flood Mitigation from Surface and Subsurface Hydrology in Suburban Southwest Florida: A Case Study of the Florida Gulf Coast University Campus
Presenter: Kallie Unger

Wind, Water, and Public Safety: Socioeconomic Disparities in Local, State, and Federal Regulations on Housing Unit Hurricane Safety in South-Central Florida
Presenter: Meagan Siegfried

End of Day One

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