Watershed management conference 2010

This conference will be the tenth in a series of interdisciplinary specialty conferences focused on watershed management. The first was held in Billings, Montana, in 1965 and this conference has been sponsored by ASCE at five-year intervals since. This year’s conference will be held downtown on Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin.

Climate change has the potential to undermine our traditional approaches for managing water resources in developed and developing areas. In response we must evaluate and improve the ways in which we design, manage, operate, and regulate water resource practices and facilities.

This demands a partnership between researchers, practitioners, managers, regulators, and the public.

Themed “Innovations in Watershed Management Under Land Use and Climate Change,” this conference will highlight innovative approaches for managing water resources under climate and land use change. Relevant topics include hydrologic measurement and modeling, integrated and/or adaptive water management, aquatic ecosystem restoration, risk-based design, and the use of regional predictions of climate change. We expect to attract a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, managers, and regulators, and will engage them in one or more activities focused on bridging the gap between research and practice.

Please join us August 23-27, 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin, and continue the tradition of the nine previous Watershed Management conferences. We hope that you take advantage of this opportunity to share your knowledge, technical experiences, and practicing expertise in this important field by submitting an abstract for presentation at this meeting.

The four-day conference will include a plenary session, technical sessions, poster sessions, workshops, trade exhibits, technical, and several networking events. Authors are expected to orally present their papers in a technical session or poster session. Proceedings will be provided onsite at the conference.

Conference themes:

Water Resources Planning, Design, and Management under Climate and Land Use Change
Policy Innovations in Managing Water Quality (economic incentives; inter-jurisdictional agreements; integrated water management; adaptive water management)
Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice (decision-support systems; cyber-infrastructure; community-based approaches)
Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems (dam removal; riparian restoration; wetland restoration)
Mitigating Hydrologic Impacts of Development (peak flow; volume; groundwater recharge; water quality)
Mitigating Hydrologic Impacts of Agriculture (sediment and nutrient transport)
Innovations in Watershed Modeling
Hydrologic Measurement at Multiple Scales
Regional Predictions of Climate Change
Current Issues in Watershed Management
Managing Hydrologic Extremes