2016

Student Water Conference

March 24-25, 2016

Sponsored by:

Orville and Helen Buchanan Endowed Chair,

Thomas E. Berry Professorship in Integrated Water Research

and Management,

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Welcome to the 2016 Student Water Conference!

It is a great time to research water!

Welcome to Stillwater and the 5th Annual Student Water Conference. It is

amazing to realize that this is our fifth year for this event. Every year our

student presenters, moderators, and judges make it even better than the

last; your participation in this meeting is very much appreciated.

Students, I hope you will use this opportunity to learn about the water re-

search of your future colleagues from across the United States. I challenge

you to learn at least three new things related to water in the next two days

and especially outside your discipline! You will be called to work on multi-

disciplinary teams to solve future water issues.

Tweet about what you are learning or hearing using #okstatewaterweek. I

am excited to have this opportunity to show off Oklahoma State University

and our tremendous graduate programs in water.

Financial support for the conference, travel assistantships, and awards are

provided through the Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Family Trust as part

of the Buchanan Chair in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, the

Thomas E. Berry Professorship in Integrated Water Research and Manage-

ment, and a USDA-NIFA National Integrated Water Quality Project. I appre-

ciate their generous support, as none of this would be possible without

their funding!

Thank you for your efforts to participate in the conference. If you are vis-

iting, welcome to Stillwater, home of the OSU Cowboys!

Garey Fox, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE

Professor & Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Chair Director and Thomas E. Berry Endowed Professor

Oklahoma Water Resources Center

Oklahoma State University

http://water.okstate.edu

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2016 Student Water Conference 270 French Lounge, Student Union

Wednesday, March 23rd

3:00-4:30 PM Tour of Botanic Garden at OSU, including Mesonet Station & Cow Creek Stream Restoration/Rehabilitation Site

6:00-8:30 PM Social and Dinner (Biosystems Laboratory) Sponsored by Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

Graduate Student Association

Thursday, March 24th

7:45-8:15 AM Registration Open

8:15-8:30 AM Welcome and Opening Session

Dr. Garey Fox, Professor and Buchanan Endowed Chair, Director and Berry Endowed Professor of the Oklahoma Water Resources Center

Dr. Kenneth Sewell, Vice President for Research, Oklahoma State University

8:30-9:50 AM Oral Session 1—Hillslopes and Groundwater (pg 5)

9:50-10:00 AM Break

10:00-11:45 AM Oral Session 2—Irrigation and Drainage (pg 6)

11:45-12:45 PM Lunch (on your own)

12:45-2:15 PM Café Poster Session 1 (pg 7)

2:15-3:45 PM Oral Session 3—Rivers and Streams (pg 8)

3:45-4:00 PM Break

4:00-5:15 PM 2016 Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Lecture

Ty Ferré, Professor, University of Arizona; 2016 Darcy Lecturer (NGWA)

Seeing Things Differently: Rethinking the Relationship Between Data, Models, and Decision-Making

5:15-6:45 PM Dinner (on your own)

6:45-8:00 PM Professional Development Sessions: Publishing—Dr. Ty Ferré Applying for Faculty Positions—Dr. Aleksey Sheshukov Graduate Fellowships—Dr. Garey Fox

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2016 Student Water Conference 270 French Lounge, Student Union

Friday, March 25th

8:00-8:10 AM Announcements

8:10-9:30 AM Oral Session 4—Aquatic Systems (pg 9)

9:30-11:00 AM Café Style Poster Session 2 (pg 10)

11:00-12:15 PM Oral Session 5—Advances in Water Resources (pg 11)

12:15-1:45 PM Lunch (on your own)

1:45-4:00 PM Water Jobs: Meet and Greet

3:30-4:00 PM Awards Reception

Water Jobs: Meet and Greet Roundtable Participants

City of Stillwater

Garver Engineering

Grand River Dam Authority

Groundwater Protection Council

NSF EPSCoR

Oklahoma Conservation Commission

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

Oklahoma Water Environment Association

Oklahoma Water Resources Board

Professional Engineering Consultants (PEC)

Terracon Consultants, Inc.

US Army Corps of Engineers

US EPA Kerr Lab

USDA-ARS

USDA-NRCS

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Oral Presentation Session 1: Hillslopes and Groundwater

Thursday, March 24th—8:30-9:50 AM

Kate Klavon, Session Moderator

Whitney Lisenbee, Oklahoma State University “Comparison of Field Jet Erosion Tests and WEPP-Predicted Erodibility Pa-rameters for Varying Land Cover ”

Manish Shrivastav, Iowa State University “Using ArcGIS Hydrologic Modeling and LiDAR Digital Elevation Data to Eval-uate Surface Runoff Interception Performance of Riparian Vegetative Filter Strip Buffers in Central Iowa”

Vladimir Karimov, Kansas State University “Influence of the Precipitation Patterns on the Ephemeral Gully Erosion Pro-cesses”

Kevin Blackwood, Oklahoma State University “Physical, Chemical, and Biological Controls of Travertine Deposition in the Arbuckle Mountains of Southern Oklahoma”

Mikayla Wanger, Oklahoma State University “Soil Piping and Internal Erosion: Laboratory Experiments on the Removal of Soil Clogs”

What I learned during this session:

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Oral Presentation Session 2: Irrigation and Drainage

Thursday, March 24th—10:00-11:45 AM

Holly Enlow, Session Moderator

Shailendra Singh, South Dakota State University “Modeling the Effects of Conservation Practices on Drainage Flow and Ni-trate-N Loads in the Western U.S. Corn Belt”

Dustin T. Livingston, Oklahoma State University “Energy and Application Efficiency of Irrigation”

Bjorn Sellner, South Dakota State University “Adsorption of Phosphate from Agricultural Subsurface Drainage using Natu-ral Minerals and Industrial Byproducts”

Briana Wyatt, Oklahoma State University “A Simple Method for Estimating Drainage through Long-Term Soil Moisture Monitoring”

Ashik Sahani, South Dakota State University “Hydrologic and Water Quality Impacts of Drainage Management Strategies in Eastern South Dakota”

Gia Nguyen, Kansas State University “Mobile Drip Irrigation: Prospective Technology to Improve Water Productiv-ity of Corn” Things I didn’t know an hour ago:

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Café Style Poster Session 1

Thursday, March 24th—12:45-2:15 PM

Samia Amiri, Oklahoma State University “Effects of Irrigation Amount and Quality on Soil Salinity Dynamics”

Jenna Fontaine*, Columbia University “Geophysical Evaluation of Hyporheic Flow beneath an In-Stream Structure in Fine Sediments”

Sarah Hileman, Oklahoma State University “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon accumulation in soil receiving rooftop runoff”

Abigail Parnell*, Oklahoma State University “Assessing Lake Quality Using Landsat Images”

Donald Ryan*, University of Oklahoma “Drought Tolerance and Tree Condition in the Urban Forest of Central Oklahoma”

Hamidreza Sharifan, Texas Tech University “Studying the Solute Transfer behavior of Polar Organic Chemical Compounds through Polyethersulfone Membrane (PES) in Passive Sampling Device”

Utsav Thapa, South Dakota State University “Using Denitrification Bioreactors and Phosphate Adsorption Media to Remove Nu-trients from Agricultural Subsurface Drainage Water”

Derek West*, Oklahoma State University “Evaluating the Effect of Periphyton Sampler Size in Direct Comparisons with the Benthotorch® (in situ Fluorimeter Probe)”

Yan Zhou, Oklahoma State University “Assessing Reservoir Operations and the Associated Changes in Water Quality on the Persistence of Stream Fishes” * Undergraduate Student

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Oral Presentation Session 3: Rivers and Streams

Thursday, March 24th—2:15-3:45 PM

Whitney Lisenbee, Session Moderator

Samuel Bush, University of Oklahoma “A Comparison of 1-D vs. 2-D Hydraulic Models for a Coupled Model System in the Tar River and Pamlico Sound”

Kate Klavon, Oklahoma State University “Predicting the Impact of Streambank Stabilization Practices on Sediment Loads using a Process-Based Bank Stability and Toe Erosion Model”

Daniel Logue, Oklahoma State University “Mesohabitat Occupancy of the Federally Threatened Arkansas River Shiner and the Invasive Red River Shiner”

Andrew Miller, Oklahoma State University “Effects of Hydrology and Channel Characteristics on Age-0 Smallmouth Bass in the Ozark Highlands”

Christopher Crown*, Illinois Wesleyan University “The Effects of Riparian Canopy Cover on Stream Thermal Environment” * Undergraduate Student

Notes & key points:

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Oral Presentation Session 4: Aquatic Systems

Friday, March 25th —8:10-9:30 AM

Mikayla Wanger, Session Moderator

Ana Gabriel, Oklahoma State University “Environmental DNA for Monitoring and Detection of Rare and Endangered Cavefish and Cave Crayfish in the Ozark Highlands”

Joshua Mouser*, Oklahoma State University “The Invasive Ringed Crayfish: Understanding Occurrence Patterns in the South-west Ozark Highlands”

Shane Morrison, Oklahoma State University “Integrative Passive Sampling for Quantitatively Estimating Pulsed Exposures in Aquatic Systems”

Ellen Woytowitz*, University of Maryland-Baltimore County “Thermal Regimes and Fish Assemblages in a Restored Oklahoma Stream”

Justin Alexander, Oklahoma State University “Assessing the Critical Thermal Maximum of Stream Fish of Kiamichi River, Okla-homa” * Undergraduate Student

A-ha moments:

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Café Style Poster Session 2

Friday, March 25th—9:30-11:00 AM

Bharat Sharma Acharya, Oklahoma State University “Wonders of Deep Moisture and Subsurface Lateral Flow”

Curt Dikes, Oklahoma State University “Development of a Watershed Based Plan for Stillwater Creek”

Holly Enlow, Oklahoma State University “Simulating Reach-Scale Sediment Reduction from Stream Stabilization Using CONCEPTS”

Reggeany Friesen*, Kansas State University “A Comparative Study of Soil Erodibility on Samples with and without Cover Crops”

Madeline Hinchliffe, University of Oklahoma “Integrated Water Resource Management in the Rio Grande River Basin – An Exploratory Study”

Abdullah Karim, Texas Tech University “Estimating Groundwater Availability in the Southern High Plains (Ogallala) Aquifer of Texas – A Comparison of Two Monitoring Programs”

Anish Khanal, Oklahoma State University “Investigation of Detachment Characteristics of Vegetated Soil using Laboratory Mini-JETs”

Jordan Muell*, Iowa State University “Sensitivity of Streambank Stability Assessment by Empirical Sediment Capacity Analysis”

Tobias Oker, Kansas State University “Mapping Critical Sources of Sediment in the Little Arkansas Watershed” * Undergraduate Student

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Oral Presentation Session 5: Advances in Water Resources

Friday, March 25th —11:00-12:15 PM

Anish Khanal, Session Moderator

Manashi Paul, South Dakota State University “Spatial and Temporal Evaluation of Hydrological Response to Climate and Land Use Change in Three South Dakota Watersheds”

Yong Chen, Texas A&M University “Land Use Change from Cotton to Perennial Bioenergy Grasses in the Texas High Plains: Implications on Water and Nitrogen Balances”

John McMaine, Oklahoma State University “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Constructed Wetlands for Pesticide Removal and Nursery Runoff Management”

Michelle Wood-Ramirez, Texas A&M University “Improving Drainage System Design in Bioretention Areas for Optimal Perfor- mance”

Alex McLemore, Oklahoma State University “Bioretention Cell Retrofits in a Suburban Neighborhood in Oklahoma City, OK” * Undergraduate Student

Lasting impressions from the last session:

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Many Thanks!

Thank you to the student clubs that helped plan and operate this conference and OkState Water Week!

Biosystems & Ag Engineering Graduate Student Association Engineers Without Borders Environmental Science Club

OSU Sustainability U.S. Green Building Council

Thank you to the presentation judges! Dr. Shannon Brewer, OK Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, OSU Dr. Glenn Brown, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU Dr. Scott Frazier, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU

Dr. Lucie Guertault, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU Dr. Seokjhin Kim, Chemical Engineering, OSU

Mrs. Emma Kuster, Oklahoma Water Resources Center Dr. David Lampert, Civil Engineering, OSU

Dr. Max Melstrom, Agricultural Economics, OSU Dr. Ron Miller, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU

Dr. Tyson Ochsner, Plant and Soil Sciences, OSU Dr. Aleksey Sheshukov, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, KSU

Dr. Dan Thomas, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU Dr. Jason Vogel, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU

Dr. Chris Zou, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, OSU

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About the Speakers!

Welcome Dr. Kenneth Sewell is the current vice president for research at Oklahoma State Uni-

versity, a position he began in June of 2015. In this role, he oversees the policies, offices, and service units that support and promote research, scholarship, and creative artistry at OSU. As a member of OSU’s senior leadership team, Dr. Sewell actively engages with the president, provost, other vice presidents, and deans to ensure that research is support-ed, promoted, and integrated throughout the entire mission of the institution. Dr. Sewell received his B.S. from Kansas State University. He then received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Following a clinical internship with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Sewell joined UNT’s Department of Psychology faculty in 1991. In 2008, he entered central research leadership full time, first as associate vice president for re-search and then as interim vice president for research at UNT before joining the Universi-ty of New Orleans.

Dr. Garey Fox came to OSU and joined the Biosystems & Ag Engineering department in

July 2006 in the area of Environment and Natural Resources Engineering. He was select-ed as the Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Endowed Chair in BAE in 2012, and Director and Berry Endowed Professor for the Oklahoma Water Resources Center in 2014. He specializes in stream/aquifer interaction; stream bank erosion and failure; seepage ero-sion; subsurface nutrient transport; vegetative filter strips; and contaminant transport modeling.

Buchanan Keynote Lecturer Dr. Ty Ferré, Professor, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of

Arizona, was selected as the 2016 Darcy Lecturer by the National Ground Water Associa-tion. He received his bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and his Ph.D. in Earth sciences from the University of Waterloo. His re-search is focused on improving the selection of measurements to support hydrologic decision-making, which involves the development of methods that use decision science to formulate hydrologic models and then use those models to select and interpret meas-urements.

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Thomas E. Berry Professor-ship in Integrated Water Research & Management

This endowed professorship was created by Malinda Berry Fischer and Dick Fischer, Thom-as E. Berry’s daughter and son-in-law to honor the water con-servation efforts and water in-terests of Mr. Berry. With this support the Water Center helps sustain Oklahoma’s water sup-ply by helping producers, land owners, and the public make informed and beneficial deci-sions about water use and man-agement.

Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Family Trust

In 2008, Oklahoma State Uni-versity received a generous gift from the Buchanan Family Trust in Los Gatos, CA, to establish the Orville L. and Helen L. Bu-chanan Chair in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. The Trust was established by Orville (Lee) Buchanan, a 1947 OSU agronomy graduate, originally from Rush Springs, Oklahoma.

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Climate Science Education in Academic Studies

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Favorite parts of the conference:

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Interesting people I met:

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The survey is being conducted by Oklahoma State University researchers, Emma Kuster and Garey Fox, as a research project.

This survey is being distributed to graduate students at universities across the United States. The purpose of this survey is to determine the current status of climate science education within different disciplines of higher-education institutions.

Your participation in this research survey is completely voluntary, and you may stop at any time. Your answers will remain anonymous. The survey will take roughly 10-15 minutes to complete. There are no known risks associated with this project which are greater than those ordinarily encountered in daily life.

Climate Education and Research Survey link: http://goo.gl/forms/dZhE3vICLS (for students, only!)