2008 Annual Conference
The annual PA-AWRA Conference is scheduled for Thursday, October 9, 2008 at
the Best Western Eden Resort and Conference Center in Lancaster,
PA. Cost is $60.00 and you can
either register at the door or registration can
be mailed to:
Dale Glatfelter
PA-AWRA
Gannett Fleming, Inc.
P.O. Box 67100
Harrisburg, PA 17106-7100
The theme for the 2008 conference is "Pennsylvania Water Resources in a Changing Climate"
8:30 - 9:00 AM |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
9:00 - 9:10 AM |
Welcome Message - Andrew DeHoff, PA-AWRA President |
| 9:10 - 10:00 AM | Keynote Presentation: "Stationarity is Dead; Whither Water Management?" - Christopher D. Milly, Research Hydrologist, USGS |
| 10:00 - 10:15 AM | Break/Networking |
| 10:15 - 10:45 AM | "The need to extrapolate watershed services in space and time" - Thorsten Wagener, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Penn State |
| 10:45 - 11:15 AM | "The Essential Role of Modeling Climate-Economy Linkages when Forecasting the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources" - Jim Shortle, Director of Penn State's Environment and Natural Resources Institute |
| 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Discussion of Morning Topics |
| 11:45 - 12:00 PM | Business Meeting |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 1:30 PM | "Paleoclimatology, Window to the Future?"- Dave Nicosia, National Weather Service |
| 1:30 - 2:00 PM | "Climate Change and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,"Cristina Simeone, Executive Policy Specialist, PA Department of Environmental Protection |
| 2:00 - 2:30 PM | "Shifting Flow Statistics in the Susquehanna River Basin " - Andrew Denoff, Susquehanna River Basin Commission |
| 2:30 - 3:00 PM | “Understanding the Sensitivity of Watersheds to Climate Variability and Change, A Case Study in the Monacacy River," Thomas E. Johnson, EPA ORD Global Change Research Program |
| 3:00 - 3:30 PM | Open Discussion and Wrap-up, Andrew DeHoff, PA-AWRA President |