2009 Symposia, Topical Meetings and Workshops
EPI-NET Update: Protozoan Water Pathogens: Cyrptosporidium and Giardia
Biofuels and Community Sustainability: Working Session on Community Needs for Outreach Programs
Making the Most of Your Monitoring Data: Stategies for Effective Outreach in Your Local Community
Extension Youth Water Education: Expanding Community-based Outreach Efforts
Applications of Climate Information at the Intersections of Agriculture and Water
Green Development: LID and Beyond
Setting Sustainable and Acceptable Levels of Off-Field Nutrient Losses: A Working Session
Co-Chairs: Ron Turco and Militza Carrero-Colon, Purdue University
Parasitic protozoa are eukaryotic microsopic organisms that can be transmitted through water and cause disease. This discussion will provide a comprehensive evaluation of cyptosporidium and giardia, the disease they cause, state-of-the-art detection methods, treatment alternatives and prevention. For more infomation, see the EPI-NET website.
| Title | Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Cryptosporidiosis and Giardiasis Associated with Recreational Water Use in the United States - Presentation | Michael J. Beach | CDC |
| Waterborne Cryptosporidium and Giardia- Presentation | Ronald Fayer | USDA-ARS |
| Surveillance Systems for Waterborne Protozoa: US EPA Method 1623 and Beyond - Presentation | Eric Villegas | US EPA |
Biofuels and Community Sustainability: Working Session on Community Needs for Outreach Programs
Co-Chairs: Robin Shepard, Jerry Hembd and Sharon Lezberg, University of Wisconsin and Gerald Miller, Iowa State University
The purpose of this meeting is to explore the needs you may have as you work with producers and communities in addressing issues such as biofuel production, energy independence, water quantitiy and sustainable community planning. This session will focus on a dialog amound campus specialists and community educators with the intent of linking those needs to those of our community constituents. This will help us develop creative approaches to outreach education and applied research programming.
| Title | Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Extension Education for Sustainable Communities - Presentation | Jerry Hembd | University of Wisconsin |
| Bioenergy and Sustainability Concerns: An Introduction to the Issues - Presentation | Sharon Lezberg | University of Wisconsin |
Making the Most of Your Monitoring Data: Stategies for Effective Outreach in Your Local Community
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Herron, University of Rhode Island, and Kris Stepenuck, University of Wisconsin
This workshop will help Extension researchers and educators, including volunteer monitoring program coordinators, to more effectively interpret and communicate information generated through local monitoring efforts. Participants will learn about and practice some innovative as well as tried and true strategies for sharing monitoring results successfully with the public and local decision-makers. This will lead to improved understanding of water quality information by local stakeholders, increasing awareness of, access to, and utilization of volunteer generated monitoring data to affect water resource policy decision-making.
| Title | Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
Making the Most of Your Monitoring Data: Strategies for Effective Outreach in Your Local Community - Presentation |
Kris Stepenuck | University of Wisconsin |
| Examples of Metrics and Indices for Communicating Water Quality - Presentation | Elizabeth Herron | University of Rhode Island |
| Focus Groups, Citizens’ Juries and Open Space method: Innovative tools of public involvement in water management - Presentation | Kati Kangur | Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia |
Extension Youth Water Education: Expanding Community-based Outreach Efforts
Young people have a natural curiosity about science and the environment, and are eager to help protect our natural resources. Youth water education can result in real gains in awareness and knowledge of water science and watershed principles. Youth stewardship projects have the potential to leverage resources for monitoring, restoration, and other watershed management needs.
During this session we will outline Extension’s youth water initiatives past and present; learn about Extension’s 4-H youth development model and water projects; examine Best Practices for Field Days, a resource for planning and evaluating successful youth events; and highlight tips on how to develop materials and activities that meet the needs of youth and K-12 teachers. Finally, we’ll explore the needs of state and regional water programs to find or develop youth programs that meet watershed management goals.
Presentations from this session have been compiled. Speakers in the session included:
Nancy Mesner, Utah State University
Kate Reilly, University of Wisconsin
Jill Bramble, 4-H Council
Barb Liukkonen, University of Minnesota
Applications of Climate Information at the Intersections of Agriculture and Water
Co-Chairs: Reagan Waskom, Colorado State University, and John Wiener, University of Colorado
The goal is to orient and provide background to help professionals integrate climate information in water resources outreach, teaching and research and to gain a view of the state of climate science outreach, the resources available, the challenges and opportunities for interfacing between the public and climate sciences.
| Title | Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Beyond just talking about the weather: Examples of climate science extension in Arizona - Presentation | Mike Crimmins | University of Arizona |
| NOAA's Climate Services and Information Programs - Presentation | Doug Kluck | National Weather Service - Central Region |
| Working from a Faint Signal Towards Climate Informed Decision Support - Presentation | Jeanne M. Schneider | USDA-ARS |
| Reviewing Networks, People and Where to Go - Presentation | Dennis Todey | South Dakota State University |
Green Development: LID and Beyond
Co-Chairs: Bill Hunt and Dwane Jones, North Carolina State University
Green Design and Development is environmental responsiveness. It is integrating water quality and air quality concepts with building technology. Participants of this session will gain a basic understanding of methods, technologies, and practices that can be utilized to integrate site development with green building. Topics include: green planning, green constructin, green implementation and green maintenance.
| Title | Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Investigating Crumb Rubber Amendments to Sustain Long-term Green Roof Substrate Performance- Presentation | Andrew Ristvey | University of Maryland |
| Sustainable Development on South Carolina’s Coast: Research, Education, and Extension Programs - Presentation | Dan Hitchcock | Clemson University |
| Stormwater: An Unlikely Resource - Presentation | Jan Seago | University of Idaho |
| Using Web Tools to Support Local Land Use Decisions - Presentation | David Dickson | University of Connecticut |
| Green Infrastructure BMPs: Bioretention, Level Spreaders, Permeable Pavement - Presentation | Bill Hunt | North Carolina State University |
| Intelligent Design (iDesign) - Presentation | Dwane Jones | North Carolina State University |
| Backyard Rain Gardens & Cisterns: Putting More Water into Your Landscape - Presentation | Mitch Woodward | North Carolina State University |
Setting Sustainable and Acceptable Levels of Off-Field Nutrient Losses: A Working Session
Day 1 Goal: Bring the best science - physical, social, economic - to unerstanding sustainable and acceptable levels of off-field nutrient losses derived from farming practices. Chair: Gerald Miller, Iowa State University
Day 2 Goal: Develop options for setting sustainable and acceptable levels of off-field nutrient losses derived from farming practices.
Chair: Rebecca Power, University of Wisconsin
| Title | Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1: | ||
| “Acceptable Levels” of Field Loss of Agricultural Pollutants: Insights from a Regional Assessment - Presentation | Deanna Osmond | North Carolina State University |
| Dynamics and Impacts of Setting Acceptable Levels: How do we get to acceptability? - Presentation | Ken Genskow | University of Wisconsin |
| Reducing Nutrient Loads from
Agriculture in the Upper
Mississippi River Basin: Modeling Considerations - Presentation |
Matthew Helmers | Iowa State University |
| Reducing Nutrient Loads from Agriculture in the Upper Mississippi River Basin – Physical Evidence - Presentation | Richard Lowrance | USDA-ARS |
| Acceptable Levels: Implications for Public Policy and Adaptive Management - Presentation | Peter Nowak | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Day 2: | ||
| Setting Acceptable Levels - Presentation | Jerry Lemunyon | USDA-NRCS |
| The Concept of T for Establishing Soil Loss Limits- Presentation | Mike Sucik | USDA-NRCS |
| P (and other nutrients): Learning from T - Presentation | Charles Wortmann | University of Nebraska |
| Setting Acceptable Levels: Who Takes Responsibility? - Presentation | Mike O'Neill and Ray Knighton | USDA CSREES |
