2015

Student Water Conference

March 26-27, 2015

Sponsored by:

Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan

Family Trust

and by

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Welcome to the 2015 Student Water Conference!

Welcome to Stillwater and the 4th Annual Student Water Confer-

ence. It is amazing to think that this is already the fourth time we

have hosted this event, and it continues to get better and better!

Please use this opportunity to learn about the water research 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! Also, please take this opportunity to learn more about

Oklahoma State University and our tremendous graduate programs

in water. Tweet about what you are learning using #SWC15.

The conference and travel assistantships are provided through funds

from the Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Family Trust through the

Buchanan Chair in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and

through a USDA-NIFA National Integrated Water Quality Project

(NIWQP). We appreciate their generous support, as none of this

would be possible without their funding!

Thank you for your participation in the conference. And if you are

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

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

Director, Oklahoma Water Resources Center

Professor & Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Chair

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

Oklahoma State University

water.okstate.edu/programs/graduate-studies

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2015 Student Water Conference 270 French Lounge, Student Union

Wednesday, March 25th

3:00-4:30 PM Tour of USDA-ARS Hydraulics Laboratory

6:00-8:30 PM Social and Dinner Sponsored by BAE-GSA

Thursday, March 26th

8:00-8:15 AM Registration Open

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

Dr. Thomas Coon, VP, Dean & Director, DASNR

Dr. Garey Fox, Professor and Buchanan Endowed Chair, Interim Director of

the Oklahoma Water Resources Center

8:45-10:15 AM Oral Session #1—Aquatic Organisms (pg 5)

10:15-10:30 AM Break

10:30-11:45 PM Water Roundtable Discussion

Bill Andrews, Ph.D., Research Leader, Oklahoma USGS Water Science Center

Sherry Hunt, Ph.D., P.E., Research Leader, USDA-ARS

Trisha Moore, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Kansas State University

Dan Yates, Associate Executive Director, Ground Water Protection Council

11:45-12:45 PM Lunch (On Your Own)

12:45-2:15 PM Café Poster Session 1—Erosion and Sedimentation (pg 6)

2:15-3:45 PM Oral Session #2—Erosion and Sedimentation (pg 7)

3:45-4:00 PM Break

4:00-5:30 PM Oral Session #3—Water Conservation and Reuse (pg 8)

5:30-7:00 PM Dinner (On Your Own)

7:00-8:00 PM 2015 Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Lecture

JD Strong, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board

“Bridge Over Troubled Water: Sound Data Yields Sound Policy”

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2015 Student Water Conference 270 French Lounge, Student Union

Friday, March 27th

8:00-9:30 AM Oral Session #4—Climate Variability and Forecasting (pg 9)

9:30-9:45 AM Break

9:45-11:15 AM Café Style Poster Session #2—Water Quality (pg 10)

11:15-12:00 PM Professional Development

Publishing in Water Journals

12:00-1:15 PM Lunch (On Your Own)

1:15-2:45 PM Café Style Poster Session #3—Hydrology and Hydraulics

(pg 11)

2:45-3:00 PM Break

3:00-4:30 PM Oral Session #5—Ecohydrology (pg 12)

4:30-5:00 PM Professional Development

Applying for Jobs

5:00-6:15 PM Dinner on Your Own

6:15-7:00 PM Award Reception with Dessert

Lecture: Water Career Perceptions

Dr. Maria Chu, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Illinois

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Oral Presentation Session 1

Aquatic Organisms

Thursday, March 26th—8:45-10:15 AM

Qualla Ketchum, Session Moderator

Trevor Starks, Oklahoma State University “Early Life History of Three Pelagic-Spawning Minnows (Macrhybopsis Spp.) in the Lower Missouri River”

Tianjiao Zhang, Oklahoma State University “Pelagic Broadcast-Spawning Cyprinids Reproductive Guild: Metrics Affecting the Declining Distribution in Arkansas River Basin”

Daniel Logue, Oklahoma State University “Investigating the Effect of a Non-native Broadcast Spawning Minnow in a Great Plains Stream, an Occupancy Approach”

Robert Mollenhauer, Oklahoma State University “Using Capture-Efficiency Models to Standardize Stream-fish Monitoring across an Ecoregion”

Shannon Mudd, Kansas State University “Effect of Montmorillonite Particulates on an Advanced Oxidation Process inactiva-tion of Escherichia coli and Bacillus globigii”

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Café Style Poster Session 1

Erosion and Sedimentation

Thursday, March 26th—12:45-2:15 PM

Hannah Blankenship*, Oklahoma State University “Arkansas River Sedimentation Study”

Kari Bigham, Kansas State University “The Use of the Rosgen BANCS Model to Predict Annual Streambank Erosion Rates in South-Central Kansas”

Whitney Blackburn-Lynch, University of Kentucky “Comparison of Regional Curves for Hydrologic Landscape Regions in the U.S. Continental Coal Regions”

Emelia Brooks* Lizzie Hickman*, and Leslie Ogar* Oklahoma State Univ. “Streambank Stabilization on the Neosho River for Sedimentation Reduction in John Redmond Reservoir”

Holly Enlow, Oklahoma State University “Quantifying Streambank Erosion in the Fort Cobb Reservoir Watershed”

Alexandra Lopez*, Oklahoma State University “Influence of Discharge Coefficient on Jet Erosion Test Results”

Gia Nguyen, Kansas State University “Testing Soil Erodibility of Cultivated Croplands with a JET”

Claudia Quilesfogel-Esparza*, University of Arizona “Particle Size Distribution of Bare and Canopy Covered Soils”

Lawrence Sekaluvu , Kansas State University “Sensitivity of Ephemeral Gully Identification with a Distributed Hydrological Model”

Mikayla Wanger, Oklahoma State University “Quantifying Pore-Water Pressure Buildup due to Pipe Clogging Through Pipeflow Experiments”

* Undergraduate Student

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Oral Presentation Session 2

Erosion and Sedimentation

Thursday, March 26th—2:15-3:45 PM

Holly Enlow, Session Moderator

Anish Khanal, Oklahoma State University “Effect of Pressure Head in JETs and Variability in Derived Erodibility Parameters”

Vladimir Karimov, Kansas State University “Impact of Precipitation and Soil Moisture on Ephemeral Gully Development in Cen-tral Kansas”

Kate Klavon, Oklahoma State University “Nonlinear Cohesive Sediment Detachment Model: Justification from Erosion Tests”

Whitney Lisenbee, Oklahoma State University “Predicted Influence of Eastern Redcedar Removal on Water Quantity and Quality using WEPP”

Rebecca Purvis, Oklahoma State University “Sediment and Phosphorous Loads from Streambank Erosion: A Source of Legacy Phosphorous in Watersheds”

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Oral Presentation Session 3

Water Conservation and Reuse

Thursday, March 26th—4:00-5:30 PM

Kate Klavon, Session Moderator

Brock Ternes, University of Kansas “A Study of Domestic Water Conservation Practices among Kansas Well Owners”

Morgan Hopkins, Oklahoma State University “Environmental Implications of Reclaimed Water Irrigation on Soil Chemical Properties on Golf Courses in Oklahoma City”

Alex McLemore, Oklahoma State University “Tulsa Pervious Concrete Study: Long Term Infiltration Testing and Evaluation of Cleaning Techniques”

Gurdeep Singh, University of Arkansas “Water Quality Impacts of Selected Conservation Practices in L’Anguille River Watershed, Arkansas”

Mohammed Alqahtani, University of Arizona “Optimization of Energy Consumption in Wastewater Treatment Process with Renewable Integration”

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Oral Presentation Session 4

Climate Variability and Forecasting

Friday, March 27th —8:00-9:30 AM

Mikayla Wanger, Session Moderator

Karishma Niloy Kibria, South Dakota State University “Contemporary Streamflow Trends under Climate Variability and Land Use Change in South Dakota”

Rachel McDaniel, Texas A&M University “Forecasting Crop Specific Drought and Yield Trends”

Manabendra Saharia, University of Oklahoma “Characterization of Flash Floods in the United States”

Victoria A Walker, Iowa State University “Why is SMOS Drier than the South Fork In-situ Soil Moisture Network?”

Bekki Harjo, Oklahoma State University “Comparison of CMIP3 and CMIP5 Climate Change Projections against Each Oth-er and Observed Reservoir Inflow at Fall River Lake”

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Café Style Poster Session 2

Water Quality

Friday, March 27th—9:45-11:15 AM

Julius Adenihun, Mississippi State University “Advance Hydro-Computational Analysis on Oyster Modeling at the Northern Gulf of Mexico”

Win Cowger*, Iowa State University “Stream Meets Trash: A Relationship Still Being Sorted Out”

Heather Doolittle, University of Maine “The Controls on Hypolimnetic Sediment P Release in a New England Lake: Climate, Sediment Quali-ty, and Changing Land Use”

Lizzie Hickman*, Oklahoma State University “Comparison of Two Types of Bioretention Cell Composition”

Kelsey McDonough, Kansas State University “Understanding the Relationship between Urban Best Management Practices and Ecosystem Ser-vices”

John McMaine, Oklahoma State University “Using Low-Impact Development Concepts to Remove Pesticides from Runoff on a Large-Scale Container Nursery”

Manashi Paul, South Dakota State University “Hydrologic and Water Quality Impacts of Climate and Land Use Changes in South Dakota”

Tahnee Qualls*, University of Kentucky “Development of a Methodology to Determine Antibiotic Concentrations in Runoff Samples”

Jose Rojas, Mississippi State University “Impacts of Sea-Level Rise in Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve”

Begum Rabeya Rushi, Washington State University “The Columbia River Treaty and its Future in the Context of Climate Change”

Bjorn Sellner, South Dakota State University “Phosphorus Removal in Agricultural Subsurface Drainage Using Low-Cost Adsorbents”

* Undergraduate Student

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Café Style Poster Session 3

Hydrology and Hydraulics

Friday, March 27th—1:15-2:45 PM

Chance Bentley*, Kansas State University “Implications and Analysis of Predicted Future Precipitation over Southern Great Plains Region”

Tushar Gupta, University of Alaska Fairbanks “Investigation of Water Track Networks in Boreal Regions”

Shanshan Hou, University of Arizona “Optimal Operations and Scheduling of Water Pump Stations Considering Energy Consumption”

Eeshan Kumar, University of Arkansas “A Comparative Assessment of Sensitivity Analysis and Calibration of Two SWAT Models”

Qualla Jo Ketchum, Oklahoma State University “Development of Digital Groundwater-Flow Models for the Rush Springs Aquifer in West-Central Okla-homa”

Yanan Ma, University of Missouri-Kansas City “Influence of Micro-Watershed Runoff on Rain Garden Capture”

Uyanga Mendbayar*, University of Alaska Fairbanks “Investigation and Quantification of Water Track Networks in Boreal Regions using Remote Sensing and Geophysical Data”

Muluken Muche, Kansas State University “Dynamic Curve Number Development using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)”

Rachel Norton*, University of Kentucky “Transforming a Detention Basin Overlying Bedrock into a Rain Garden: How Well Does It Perform Hy-drologically?”

Caroline Short*, Hannah Huling*, Hannah Spilter*, Oklahoma St. University “Runoff Drainage System Design”

Aretouyap Zakari, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon “Using a Coupled Hydrogeophysical Approach for Characterizing Panafrican Aquifers”

* Undergraduate Student

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Oral Presentation Session 5

Ecohydrology

Friday, March 27th —3:00-4:30 PM

Whitney Lisenbee, Session Moderator

Yan (Joey) Zhou, Oklahoma State University “The Impact of Changes in Baseflow Levels on Temperature at Reach Scale due to Hyporheic Exchange”

Nicole Farless, Oklahoma State University “Comparing Long-Term Temperature Tolerance Study with Critical Thermal Maxi-mum for Fishes”

Andrew Taylor, Oklahoma State University “Factors Influencing the Decline of Fluvial Fishes: Insights from Historic and Cur-rent Species Distribution Models”

Brad Rogers, Oklahoma State University “Evaluating the Benthotorch for Use in Rapid Assessment of Benthic Algae in Okla-homa Streams”

Md. Rakibul Hassan Khan, University of Maine “Hydro-Chemical and Ecological Linkages in East Bear Brook Watershed, Maine”

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Thank you to Cowboy Waterworks for helping with

conference planning and operations!

Thank you to the Presentation Judges! Laurent Ahiablame, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, SDSU

Shannon Brewer, OK Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, OSU

Glenn Brown, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU

Maria Chu, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Univ. Illinois

Dave Engle, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, OSU

Sherry Hunt, USDA-ARS Hydraulics Laboratory

Max Melstrom, Agricultural Economics, OSU

Trisha Moore, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, KSU

Tyson Ochsner, Plant and Soil Sciences, OSU

Chad Penn, Plant and Soil Sciences, OSU

Aleksey Sheshukov, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, KSU

Elaine Stebler, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, OSU

Art Stoecker, Agricultural Economics, OSU

Saleh Taghvaeian, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU

Dan Thomas, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU

Jason Vogel, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, OSU

Chris Zou, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, OSU

Many Thanks!

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Welcome Dr. Thomas Coon, Vice-President, Dean, and

Director of the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, joined Oklahoma State University in 2014 after serving as the Director of Extension and professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State Uni-versity. He has a M.S. and Ph.D. from Universi-ty of California-Davis.

Buchanan Keynote Lecturer J.D. Strong, Executive Director of the Oklaho-

ma Water Resources Board, and previously Oklahoma's Secretary of the Environment, re-ceived a B.S. from Oklahoma State University and started working with OWRB as an environ-mental specialist.

Water Career Perceptions Lecturer Dr. Maria Chu, Assistant Professor, Universi-

ty of Illinois, and previously a Ph.D. student at Oklahoma State University, has worked in both consulting with Waterborne Environmental, Inc., and also held two Post-Doctorate positions at the University of Florida and St. Louis Univer-sity.

About the Speakers!

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In 2008, Oklahoma State University received a gift from the Bu-chanan Family Trust in Los Gatos, CA, to establish the Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Chair in Biosystems and Agricultural Engi-neering. The Trust was established by Orville (Lee) Buchanan, a 1947 OSU agronomy graduate, originally from Rush Springs, Ok-lahoma. They gave generously to OSU, providing funds for the Orville and Helen Buchanan Endowed Scholarship Fund and ulti-mately the Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Chair in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering.

Orville L. and Helen L. Buchanan Family Trust