Symposium AGENDA with presentation links
Sunday,
January 8, 2023
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration check-in
Location:
By Officer’s Club
5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Symposium Welcome Reception
Location:
Brisas Terrace
Photos from Sunday Photo Directory
Videos from Sunday Video 1, Video 2, Video 3
Monday,
January 9, 2023
Videos
from Monday – Video
1, Video 2, Video
3, Video 4, Video
5, Video 6
7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration check-in
Location:
By Officer’s Club
8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Opening Plenary Session
Moderator:
Dennis Flanagan, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Location:
Officer’s Club
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Keynote - Dr. Jane
Willenbring – Stanford University
23400 - "Flash
Forward: Predicting Soil Response to Extreme Erosion Events"
Moderator:
Dennis Flanagan, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Location:
Officer’s Club
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
Location:
Brisas Terrace
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Morning Concurrent Sessions
Emerging Technologies in
Soil Erosion Research
Moderator: Gary Feng, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Location:
Officer’s Club
10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
10:05
a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Y-Ping
Hsieh, Florida A&M University
23019
- “Field-Scale Soil Erosion Study: An Example from a North Florida Farm”
10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Jason
Vogel, University of Oklahoma
10:35
a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Emmanuel
Salifu, Arizona State University
23045 - “Evaluation of the Suitability of Engineered Growth
of Fungal-Mycelial Networks for
Reinforcement of Sands”
10:50
a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Johannes
Mitterer, Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Salvador
Acuña-Guzman, University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Dalmo
Vieira, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23084
- “Estimating Soil Erosion for Large Watersheds using Machine Learning and
RUSLE2”
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Dennis
Flanagan, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23010
- “Estimating WEPP Cropland Soil Erodibility from Soil Properties”
Soil Erosion by Wind
Research
Moderator: Erin Brooks, University of Idaho
Location:
Marbella Club
10:00
a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
10:05 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Larry
Wagner, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23015
- “Flat Residue Loss by Wind for Different Crop Types: Field Experiments”
10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Larry
Wagner, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23014
- “Flat Residue Loss by Wind for Different Crop Types: Lab Experiments”
10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Brian
Gelder, Iowa State University
23064
- “The Daily Erosion Project – Incorporating Wind Erosion”
10:50
a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Scott
Van Pelt, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Scott
Van Pelt, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23067
- “Salinity and Sodicity Effects on Soil Erodibility and Dust Emissions”
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Qing
Li, Inst. of Geographical Sciences, Hebei Academy of Sciences
23101 - “Quantitative Evaluation of
the Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Wind Erosion: A Case
Study of Inner Mongolia in China”
Video
presentation here.
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Larry
Wagner, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23012
- “WebStart WEPS: WEPS with Remote Data Access and Cloud-Computing
Functionality”
Impacts of Climate Change on
Soil Erosion
Moderator: Anita Thompson, University of Wisconsin -
Madison
Location: VIP
Club
10:00
a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
10:05 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Anita
Thompson, University of Wisconsin - Madison
10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Richard
Cruse, Iowa State University
23030
- “Impacts of Changing Precipitation Events on Landscape Soil Erosion
Estimates”
10:35
a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Lara Sánchez-Morales,
University of Texas at Austin
23071 - “A Late Holocene Model of Watershed Erosion and Floodplain Development in Relation to Climate Change and Landscape Modification in Northcentral Puerto Rico”
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Ryan McGehee, Purdue
University
23062 - “ENSO-Induced Climate Variability Impacts on Erosivity in the United States”
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Anurag Srivastava, University
of Idaho
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Jiaqiong Zhang, Northwest
A&F University, Yangling, China
Video presentation here.
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Concurrent Sessions
Erosion Control Research
Moderator: Kossi Nouwakpo, USDA-Agricultural Research
Service
Location:
Officer’s Club
1:30
p.m. – 1:35 p.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
1:35 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. Amy
Millmier Schmidt, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
1:50 p.m. – 2:05 p.m. Charles Privette III,
Clemson University
2:05 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Ethan Barnette, Clemson
University
23027
- “Optimizing Grass Establishment to Stabilize Poor Soils”
2:20 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. Grant Graves, University of
Oklahoma
2:35 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. John Ramirez‐Avila,
Mississippi State University
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Dexter Watts,
USDA-Agricultural Research Service
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Yufan Zhang, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
23091
- “Evaluation and Modeling of Runoff and Sediment Retention in Vegetative
Filter Strips”
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Damarys Acevedo-Acevedo,
U.S. Army ERDC, Environmental Lab
23088 - “Beneficial Use of Dredged
Material to Mitigate for Erosion”
Climate Change, Coastal Zone
Effects, and Soil Erosion by Water
Moderator: Michelle Reba, USDA-Agricultural Research
Service
Location:
Marbella Club
1:30
p.m. – 1:35 p.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
1:35 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. Gary
Feng, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
1:50 p.m. – 2:05 p.m. Anurag Srivastava,
University of Idaho
2:05 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Yongping Yuan, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
23004 - “Assessing Impact Factors on Soil Erosion and Sediment Loss in Puerto Rico Watersheds”
2:20 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. Christopher Miller,
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
2:35 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Anurag Srivastava,
University of Idaho
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Michelle Reba, USDA-Agricultural
Research Service
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Francisco Arriaga,
University of Wisconsin - Madison
23046 - “Corn Row Spacing as a Management Strategy to Reduce Water Runoff and Sediment Losses”
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Fenli Zheng, Northwest
A&F University, Yangling, China
23078 - “Upslope Sediment-laden
Flow Impacts on Ephemeral Gully Erosion: Evidences from Field Monitoring and
Laboratory Simulation”
Video presentation here.
Modeling Erosion Processes in Forests & Agroecosystems
at Watershed and Basin Scales
Moderator: Carlos Ramos-Scharrón, University of Texas -
Austin
Location: VIP
Club
1:30
p.m. – 1:35 p.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
1:35 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. Kyle
Mankin, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
1:50 p.m. – 2:05 p.m. Ying Ouyang, USDA-Forest
Service
2:05 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Mariana Dobre, University
of Idaho
2:20 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. Carlos
Ramos-Scharrón, University of Texas - Austin
2:35 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Mugul
Samrat Dahal, Washington State University
23031 - “Simulation of Long-Term Water Erosion in Rainfed Croplands of Eastern Washington”
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Anurag Srivastava,
University of Idaho
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Pete Robichaud, USDA-Forest
Service
23082 - “Expanding The WEPPcloud Toolbox: WEPPcloud – TREE, Timber Recovery Erosion Estimator”
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Erin Brooks, University of
Idaho
23087 - “Targeted Forestry Management in the Lake Tahoe Basin with WEPPcloud and PI-VAT”
4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Break for Dinner on your
own
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Concurrent Evening Sessions
Poster Session – Soil Erosion by Water and Wind
Moderator: Johnny Grace, USDA-Forest Service
Location:
Officer’s Club
Poster
#1 - Larry Wagner, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Poster #2 - Shalamar Armstrong, Purdue University
23090 - “The Effect of Cover Crops on Water
Quality at a Watershed Scale”
Poster #3 - Mario de Haro Marti, University of Idaho
Extension
Poster
#4 - Linda Schott, University of Idaho Extension
Poster #5 - Prasad Daggupati, University of Guelph
23103
- “Impact of Ephemeral Gully Erosion and Economics in Agricultural Fields of
Ontario, Canada”
Poster #6 - Olaf David, Colorado State University
23102 - “Water Erosion Surrogate
Modeling for Sustainability Assessments”
Poster #7 - Lucy Ngatia, Florida A&M University
23098 - “Downed Wood Debris
Decomposition and Nutrient Release Two Years after Hurricane Michael”
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Workshop
on Landslides and Ground Failure Geohazards – I
Moderator: Rafael Bras, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Marbella Club
Landslides
are a common hazard in mountainous terrain worldwide, and they occur throughout
all US states and territories. Landslides claimed more than 18,000 lives
between 1998 and 2017 worldwide. The National Science Foundation is funding a
Track I Center Catalyst effort to formulate a national Collaborative Center for
Landslides and Ground Failure Geohazards. This workshop intends to begin the
process of securing input from the scientific and stakeholder community in the
designing of the center. Puerto Rico is being considered as a living laboratory,
an initial “Hub” in this proposal. This effort is being led by the Georgia
Institute of Technology (GT), the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM),
and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CUB). Please join us to discuss the
vision, mission and pressing science questions that a national Collaborative
Center for Landslides and Geohazards should address.
8:00
p.m. Adjourn
for evening
Tuesday,
January 10, 2023 Field Tour of Sites in western Puerto Rico
Videos – Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4, Video 5, Video 6, Video 7, Video 8, Video 9, Video 10, Video 11
Handout for Tuesday
tour here.
For Detailed Story Map of Tour and
Locations, see:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e86833da5ea44a1482633cb73ef441af
6:30
a.m. – 7:00 a.m. Meet
in PBR hotel lobby, load buses. Buses depart at 7:00 a.m
7:00
a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Travel
from PBR Hotel to the Santa Rita, Guánica site (78 km)
8:30
a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Description
of resources of the Rio Loco Watershed. Introduction
and
discussion of Guánica/Rio
Loco Project Poster 1
·
Remarks from
Agronomist Jaime Acevedo, Hacienda Santa Rita Producer; Yilia Baucage – USDA
NRCS Caribbean Area State Conservation Engineer, and Oeste SWCD; Mario
Rodriguez, Manuel Matos, Yilia Baucage, and Gabriel Roman, USDA-NRCS; and Dr.
Carlos Ramos-Scharrón, UT-Austin.
10:00
a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Travel
to Añasco for lunch break (55 km)
11:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m. Lunch
at Sueño de los Niños, Añasco
12:30 p.m – 1:00 p.m. Travel
to the Ajies flood control dam, Añasco site (5 km).
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Description
of the Añasco watershed basin, resources, research
and
projects
·
Welcome from
PRDNER Representative; Remarks from USDA-NRCS Engineers Yilia Baucage and
Rolando Collazo; UPRM Faculty Dr. Eric Harmsen and Dr. Stephen Hughes. Drone video of Añasco watershed.
2:30
p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Travel
to scenic view stop, and Stella-Playa Corcega Recreational Area, Rincon
(15 km)
3:30
p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Introduction
and description of Puerto Rico coastal erosion, Sea Grant programs and related
projects
·
Remarks from
Ruperto Chaparro-Sea Grant Director, Marine Extension Director/Research
Coordinator and Dr. Rene Esteves, Sea Grant; Dr. Ismael Pagán-Trinidad,
University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez Civil Engineering Professor/ Coastal
Resilience Center Director
4:30
p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Visit
to Rincon Lighthouse, and group pictures. Group picture 1, Group picture 2, Group picture 3
5:15
p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Travel
to PBR hotel (46 km)
Wednesday, January 11,
2023 Univ. of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez (UPRM) day
Videos – Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4
Programming held at University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez (UPRM)
Road PR-108 km1.8, Mayagüez, PR, Civil Engineering Building, UPRM
6:30 a.m. – 7:00 a.m. Meet
in PBR hotel lobby, load buses
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Bus trip to UPRM Dept. of
Civil Engrg. & Surveying
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Check in for UPRM day
Location: Civil Engineering
Auditorium Lobby
8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Plenary
Session - Welcome – UPRM Officials
Moderator: Ismael Pagán-Trinidad, UPRM
Location: Civil Engineering Auditorium
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Keynote
- Dr.
Rafael Bras – Georgia Institute of Technology
23500 - “Modeling Landslides
in Puerto Rico with a Distributed Eco-Hydrological Model”
Morning Session 1
Moderator: Ismael
Pagán-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez
Location: Civil
Engineering Auditorium
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Stephen
Hughes, UPRM Dept. of Geology
23501 - “Progress in Establishing the Puerto
Rico Landslide Forecast Network”
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Walter
Silva-Araya, UPRM Dept. of Civil Engrg. & Surveying
23502 -
“Sediment Transport Analysis for Riverbed Mining According to New Puerto
Rico Regulations”
10:30
a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Coffee
Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Student
Poster Exposition & Judging
Poster #1 Esther
Acosta Sotomayor
23520 – “Evaluating NEXRAD Rainfall Estimates with Rain Gauge
Data”
Poster #2 Pedro Matos Llavona
Poster #3 Kiara R. Cunillera-Cotte
Poster #4 Edwin O. Irizarry-Brugman
Poster
#5 Kimberly Méndez Méndez
Poster #6 Desireé Bayouth García
Poster #7 Jonathan E. Pérez Paulino
Poster #8 Tania Figueroa Colón
23527
– “Developing a Landslide Forecast Network for Puerto Rico”
Poster #9 Oluwatuyi S. Olowoyeye
23528 – “Modeling Soil
Erosion in a Perennial Ground Cover (PGC) System”
Poster #10 Adriana Ramirez Cuebas
23529 – “Application of
RUSLE2 for Erosion Control on Construction Sites”
Poster #11 Christian Padilla
23530 – “Soil Erosion
and Sediment Analysis for the Mameyes River Watershed
Using HEC-HMS and GIS”
Poster #12 Enrique Rodriquez Quiñones
23531 – “Meander
Evolution at the Río Grande de Añasco Lower Valley”
Poster #13 Joceler Baptiste
23532 – “Evaluation of Satellite
Rainfall Products in the Caribbean Region”
Poster #14 Suhey
Ortiz Rosa
23533 – “State of Practice in
Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Erosion”
Poster #15 Suhey
Ortiz Rosa
23534 – “Review of Simulation
Models for Riverine Macrophytes Growth”
Poster #16 Yiyang Chen
Poster #17 Nison
Alcinor
23536 – “Erosion and Sedimentation
of the Grey River of Haiti”
Morning Session 2
Moderator: Ismael Pagán-Trinidad, University of Puerto
Rico - Mayagüez
Location: Civil
Engineering Auditorium
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Walter
Silva-Araya, UPRM Dept. of Civil Engrg. & Surveying
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Ian
Floyd, U.S. Army ERDC, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory
23503 - “Post-wildfire Flood Risk Management”
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Damarys
Acevedo-Acevedo, U.S. Army ERDC, Environmental Lab
11:30
a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Student
Poster Exposition and Evaluations by Judges
12:00
p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00
p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Student
Poster Presentations and Awards Ceremony
Afternoon Session 1
Moderator: Raul Zapata, University of Puerto Rico -
Mayagüez
Location:
Civil Engineering Auditorium
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Tate
McAlpin, U.S. Army ERDC, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory
23506
- “ISSDOTv2 – A Method for Measuring Bed Load”
1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Billy
Johnson, LimnoTech Inc.
23507
- “Watershed Modeling Tools for the Climate Change Challenge”
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Alicia
Tyson, Colorado State University
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Ernesto
Díaz, Tetra Tech
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Coffee
Break
Afternoon Session 2
Moderator: Rafael Bras, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location:
Civil Engineering Auditorium
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Workshop
on Landslides and Ground Failure Geohazards – II
(Rafael
Bras, Georgia Institute of Technology – Leader)
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Adjourn
and bus trip to return to Aguadilla hotels
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Videos – Video
1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4, Video 5, Video 6
7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration
check-in
Location: By Officer’s Club
8:15 – 8:30 a.m. Opening Plenary Session
Moderator: Dennis Flanagan,
USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Location: Officer’s Club
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Keynote – Dr. Robert Stallard – Smithsonian Tropical
Research Inst.
Moderator: Dennis Flanagan, USDA-
Agricultural Research Service
Location: Officer’s Club
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
Location: Brisas Terrace
10:00 – 12:00 noon Morning Concurrent
Sessions
Future Erosion Research
Strategic Planning
Moderator: Kyle Mankin, USDA-Agricultural Research
Service
Location: Officer’s Club
10:00
a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
10:05 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Dennis
Flanagan, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23085
- “Research Needed to Improve Upland Soil Erosion by Water Process Modeling”
10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Kossi Nouwakpo,
USDA-Agricultural Research Service
10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Ronald
Bingner, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
10:50
a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Brian
Howard, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23074
- “Burning Questions: Future Research Dirctions in Water and Wind Erosion after
Wildfire”
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Jason Williams,
USDA-Agricultural Research Service
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Kossi
Nouwakpo, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23042
- “Soil Erosion Prediction on Irrigated Lands: State of Science, Challenges and
Outlook”
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Johnny
Grace, USDA-Forest Service
Soil Erosion by Water Research
Moderator: Megh Goyal, University of Puerto Rico -
Mayagüez (retired)
Location: Marbella Club
10:00
a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
10:05 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. John
Nieber, University of Minnesota
10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Laxmi Prasad, University of Wisconsin – Madison
10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. John
Ramirez‐Avila, Mississippi State University
10:50
a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Shuyuan
Wang, Purdue University
23021 -
“Subsurface Hydrologic Impacts on Rill Sediment TransportCapacity”
Video presentation here.
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Jason Vogel, University of
Oklahoma
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Kelly Nascimento Thompson,
Iowa State University
23041 - “The Daily Erosion Project
Going Global: Analyzing Distinct Precipitation Datasets”
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Ryan
McGehee, Purdue University
23051
- “Isoerodent Mapping of the Conterminous United States”
Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technology in Erosion
Quantification and Prediction
Moderator: Grizelle González, USDA-Forest Service
Location: VIP Club
10:00
a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
10:05 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Jay
le Roux, University of the Free State, South Africa
23017
- “How Large can Gullies Be?”
10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Brian
Gelder, Iowa State University
23024
- “The Daily Erosion Project – Adding Channels”
10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Jose Gomez, Institute for
Sustainable Agriculture, Spain
10:50
a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. David Reece, University of Missouri
23080
- “Using Google Earth Imagery to Target Assessments of Ephemeral Gully Erosion”
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. David
Reece, University of Missouri
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Aleksey
Sheshukov, Kansas State University
23028 -
“Mapping Accuracy of Close-range Terrestrial Digital Photogrammetry”
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Afternoon Panel Session
The Future
Direction of Erosion Science and Modeling
Moderator: Teferi Tsegaye, USDA-Agricultural
Research Service
Location:
Officer’s Club
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has a long
history of conducting basic research in soil erosion and developing erosion
assessment tools that are used for conservation planning and risk assessment.
In the United States, these wind and water erosion models have been used by the
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) nationwide for erosion planning
and implementation of Farm Bill programs. Research methodologies, field
measurements, and erosion prediction models developed by ARS scientists have
also been adopted worldwide. Erosion prediction technology has evolved from
empirical to process-based models, including sub-models for factors such as
water balance, plant growth, and land management, which affect and are altered
by erosion processes. Scientists currently work separately on wind and water
erosion research, and work in these two areas is additionally distinguished by
land use and land cover (i.e., cropland and rangeland). These differences
result in diverse input data requirements, spatial representation, and time
steps that present challenges in developing an integrated erosion tool
interface. There is an urgent need for ARS to formulate a coordinated effort to
develop the next generation soil erosion prediction system that contains the
most current erosion science with similar internal processes, use of common
databases, and graphical user interfaces. These predictions are made for
existing conditions and for a proposed set of alternative management practices
to provide erosion estimates used to guide the selection of a resource
management system for specific sites to meet on- and off-site management
objectives. This new erosion prediction tool needs to (1) have interfaces that
meet user needs and can incorporate data from future sensors and data sources,
and (2) implement software engineering standards so that the core scientific
engine can be maintained and updated seamlessly. The goal is to provide consistent
and accurate estimates of wind and water erosion using as few resources as
possible to optimize the quality and quantity of services that NRCS and other
field personnel provide to their clients. Therefore, the technology must be
based on concepts and principles that can be easily understood and described by
a range of stakeholders, including conservationists and land managers.
Panel
Members:
Rafael
Bras, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Chris
Coreil, National Erosion Specialist, USDA-NRCS, Ft. Worth, Texas - slides
Brandon Edwards, Research
Scientist, Sr., New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Dennis Flanagan, Research
Agricultural Engineer, USDA-ARS, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Yakov
Pachepsky, Research Soil Scientist, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland - slides
Thanos
Papanicolaou, Laboratory Directory, USDA-ARS, NLAE, Ames, Iowa - slides
Chris
Renschler, Research Leader, USDA-ARS, NSERL, West Lafayette, Indiana
Robert
Wells, Research Civil Engineer, USDA-ARS, Oxford, Mississippi
Jason
Williams, Research Hydrologist, USDA-ARS, Tucson, Arizona
1:30 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. Panel Session – Part 1
2:35 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
Location: Brisas Terrace
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Panel Session – Part 2
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Group Dinner at PBR
Location: Brisas Terrace
Friday, January 13, 2023
7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration
check-in
Location: By Officer’s Club
8:00 – 8:15 a.m. Opening Plenary Session
Moderator: Dennis Flanagan, USDA-Agricultural
Research Service
Location: Officers’ Club
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Keynote – Dr. Grizelle
González, USDA-Forest Service
23700 - "The Effects of Natural Disturbance in
Puerto Rico: Forests, Infrastructure and Environmental Implications"
Moderator: Dennis Flanagan,
USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Location: Officer’s Club
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Morning
Concurrent Sessions
Modeling of Agricultural
Systems and Erosion Prediction
Moderator: Chris Renschler, USDA-Agricultural Research
Service
Location: Officer’s Club
10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
10:05
a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Dennis
Flanagan, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
23002
- “Water Erosion Prediction Project Model for NRCS Use”
10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Chris
Coreil, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Michael
Kucera, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
10:50
a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Chris
Renschler, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Olaf
David, Colorado State University
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Eduardo
Luquin, Iowa State University
23094 -
“The Daily Erosion Project – Adding Channels and Forests”
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Shuyuan Wang, Purdue
University
23022 - “Calibration, Validation,
and Evaluation of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model for
Hillslopes with Natural Runoff Plot Data”
Video
presentation here.
Measurement
Techniques in Soil Erosion Research
Moderator: Eric Harmsen, University of Puerto Rico -
Mayagüez
Location: Marbella Club
10:00
a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Welcome
and opening remarks
10:05 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Aleksey
Sheshukov, Kansas State University
10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Osama
Al-Hamdan, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Pete
Robichaud, USDA-Forest Service
23081
-“Dirt Moves Downhill: Advances in Equipment and Techniques for Measuring
Erosion”
Additional
video here.
10:50
a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Kossi
Nouwakpo, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. David Hensley, University of
the Virgin Islands
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Linda
Schott, University of Idaho Extension
Workshop on Landslides and
Ground Failure Geohazards – III
Moderator: Rafael Bras, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: VIP Club
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Rafael
Bras, Georgia Institute of Technology – Leader
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Closing Plenary Session
Moderator: Dennis Flanagan, USDA-Agricultural Research
Service
Location:
Officer’s Club
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
Location: Brisas Terrace
2:00 p.m. Symposium
Adjournment
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