TWMC : Agenda
 

Texas Water Monitoring Council

 

The 2002 Session
of the
Texas Water Monitoring Congress
Plenary Session Agenda

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

General Information

Day One

Monday September 9, 2002

11:30 AM
Registration

12:30 PM
First Day Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ronn Brock, Chair, Texas Water Monitoring Council
United States Army Corps of Engineers

12:40 PM
Keynote Speaker

Robert Cook, Executive Director
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

1:05 PM
Coordinated Monitoring in the Trinity River Basin
Glenn C. Clingenpeel
Trinity River Authority of Texas

1:30 PM
Water Quality Monitoring of Small Municipal Watersheds: Understanding
Local Conditions to Prioritize Concerns
Kevin A. Thuesen and Kenneth E. Banks
City of Denton

1:55 PM
Break
Visit with our exhibitors

2:20 PM Developing Automated Storm Water Sampling Strategies for Small Watersheds
R. Daren Harmel, PhD and Kevin W. King, PhD
USDA-ARS Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory

2:45 PM
Indicator Bacteria Monitoring on Houston Bayous
Paul Jensen, Ph.D., P.E., PBS&J
Yu-Chun Su, PBS&J
Ka-Leung Lee, PBS&J
Adrienne Boer; PBS&J
Hanadi Rifai; University of Houston;
Shelley Payne, University of Texas
Ron Stein, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
Todd Running, Houston-Galveston Area Council

3:10 PM
Overview of the Texas Source Water Assessment Project
Greg Rogers and Connie R. Johnson
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

3:35 PM
Break
Visit with our exhibitors

4:00 PM
Using Internet Mapping Technology to Distribute Water Quality and Quantity Information
Rich Winkelbauer and David Cowan
Lower Colorado River Authority

4:25 PM
The Regional Water Planning Database: From Excel Spreadsheets to Active Server Pages and Data Collection via the Internet
Angela Masloff
Texas Water Development Board

4:50 PM
Satellite Remote Sensing in Support of Texas Water Monitoring: Data Availability and Applications
Teresa Howard and Gordon L. Wells
University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research

Day Two

Tuesday September 10, 2002

7:30 AM
Registration

8:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks.
Patrick Roques, Co-Chair, Texas Water Monitoring Council
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

8:35 AM
Development of Soil Moisture Index for Agricultural Drought Monitoring Using a Hydrologic Model (SWAT), GIS and Remote Sensing
Balaji Narasimhan and R. Srinivasan
Texas A&M University Spatial Sciences Laboratory

9:00 AM
Aquifer Watch - Groundwater Education Taking Youth into the Future
Beckie J. Morris and Gail McGlamery
Barton Springs/ Edwards Aquifer Conservation District

9:25 AM
Update and Summary on the TWMC
Ronn Brock, Chair, Texas Water Monitoring Council
United States Army Corps of Engineers

9:50 AM
Instructions and Announcements for Focus Group Breakout Sessions
Robert G. Bradley, Executive Secretary, Texas Water Monitoring Council
Texas Water Development Board

9:55 AM
Break
Visit with our exhibitors

10:20 AM Focus Groups Begin

11:50 AM Buffet Luncheon in the Atrium
Visit with our exhibitors

1:00 PM Focus Groups

3:00 PM Break
Visit with our exhibitors

3:20 PM
Focus Groups Continue

5:00 PM
End of Focus Groups

5:30 PM
Meeting of Focus Group Leaders to Prepare Summary Talks

Day Three

Wednesday September 11, 2002

8:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:35 AM
A Tour of Texas: A Remembrance

8:45 AM
Quality Assurance Focus Group Presentation

9:10 AM
Public Outreach Focus Group Presentation

9:35 AM
Ground-Water Issues Focus Group Presentation

10:00 AM Break

10:25 AM
Technology and Technological Solutions Focus Group Presentation

10:50 AM
GIS Applications and Solutions Focus Group Presentation

11:15 AM
Monitoring Networks/Data Management Focus Group Presentation

11:40 AM
Congress Wrap-up

Noon
Close of 2002 Session of the Texas Water Monitoring Congress

 

Texas Water Monitoring Council

updated January 15, 2003
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