Illinois Water Conference 2008 Presentations
Featured Speaker
Richard Sparks - Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going: A Personal Retrospective and Outlook on Water Resources in Illinois
Water Resources Development Act - Recent Experience in Illinois
Gary Clark - Federal Water Resources Development Act: Illinios' Interest and Influence
John Zimmerman - WRDA: What It Is and What It Can Do For You
Claudia Emken - WRDA 2007 - A 7 Year Quest for The Nature Conservancy
Water Supply
Allen Wehrmann - Water Supply Planning in Illinois - A Progress Report from the State Surveys
Gary Clark - Uncertainties and Challenges in Regional and Statewide Water Supply Planning and Management
Tim Loftus - 21st Century Water Conservation in Northeastern Illinois
Nutrients
Mark David - Overview of Nutrients in Illinois Waters From Sources to Downstream Contributors
Paul Terrio - Nutrient Standards for Illinois Surface Waters - A Progress Update
Nick Menninga - Costs of POTW Nutrient Removal in Illinois
Dennis McKenna - Agricultural Nutrient-Reduction Alternatives and Costs
Environmental Measures
Teresa Chow - Evaluation of Analytical Methods for Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
Micheal Plewa - Induction of Mammalian Cell Chronic Cytotoxicity and Acute Genomic DNA Damage by Drinking Water Disinfection Byproducts
Charles Pederson - Use of Photopigments as a Descriptor of Phytoplankon Assemblages
Lewis Parish - GIS Mapping of Surface Discharge Septic Systems
Groundwater Research
Edward Mehnert - Refining Estimate of Shallow Groundwater Recharge Using Hydrologic and Geologic Information
Thomas Holm - Spatial Variability of Arsenic in Glacial Aquifers
William Dey - Mapping the Mahomet Aquifer Beneath Champaign County, IL
Water and Energy/Biofuels
Vijay Singh - Water Use in Bioethanol Production
Allen Wehrmann - Water and Ethanol Production in Illinois
Gregory McIsaac - Perennial Grass, Corn and Soybean Effects on Soil Moisture and Inorganic Nitrogen Leaching in Central Illinois
David Riber - Ethanol Production and Water Usage
Climate Change
Ximing Cai - Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yield - A Case Study of Rainfed Corn in Central Illinois
Joseph Kozak - The Energy and Carbon Footprint of Wastewater Treatment and Waterway Management in Greater Chicago
Jim Angel - Future Climate Change Scenarios for Lake Michigan Levels
Hydrology/Hydraulics
David Soong - Illinois StreamStats - A Basin Characteristics and Flood-peak Frequencies Determination Tool
Jorge Abad - Linking the Detailed Physical Understanding of Meandering Channels into the River Restoration
Diego Oviedo-Salcedo - Balancing Irrigation and Instream Water Requirements Under Drought Conditions: A Study of Kankakee River Watershed
Andrea Zimmer - Critical Rainfall and Infrastructure Dependencies as CSO Triggering Thresholds
Watershed Planning
Patrick Mills and Tim Bryant - Estimating Water Use in Illinois-Presenting Realities, Future Visions
Barbara Minsker - Harnessing the Power of Sensors and Cyberinfrastructure Towards Environmental Sustainability: The WATERS Network Vision and Testbedding Research in Illinois
Luiz Freitas - Adoption of Green Technologies: The Case of Chicago Rain Barrels
Christopher Slemp - Stakeholder Visions of Community and Environmental Health in the Lower Kaskaskia River Watershed
Water Quality
Charnsmorn Hwang - Effects of Urbanization on Water Quality in the Lower Kaskaskia Watershed in Southern Illinois
Timothy Straub - Sediment Issues in Illinois
David Kovacic - Constructed Wetland Size Requirement for Effective Nutrient Removal in Agricultural Watersheds
Technology Update
Mostafa Noureldin - Biosolids Dewatering Using Super Absorbent Polymer
Yovanni Catano - Laboratory Testing of a Vortex Flow Restrictor
Paul Horvatin - Monitoring - U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office Nearshore Monitoring Using the Traixus Towed Instrument Platform
Watershed Scale Science
Walton Kelly - Nitrate and Chloride in the Illinois River Basin
Ryan Jackson - Density Currents in the Chicago River: Characterization, Effects on Water Quality, and Potential Sources
Erin Bauer - 15 Years of Hydrologic and Nutrient Monitoring of the Lake Decatur Watershed: Floods, Droughts and In Between
Julia Friedman - Effects of Agricultural Land Cover on Water Quality at the Watershed Scale
