The annual Governor’s Water Conference will be held Wednesday and Thursday in Norman.
Presentations and discussions on various aspects of water and its impact on our lives will be held at the Embassy Suites.
Oral Presentations: Understanding and Improving Climate Resiliency
November 29, 2023
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Renee McPherson – Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment: Southern Great Plains Chapter
- Renee McPherson – Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment: Research Gaps in the Southern Great Plains
- Katherine Welch – Quantifying Drought Impacts on Oklahoma’s Rural Communities
- Brad Rogers – OK HAWQS, a Web Based Tool for Enhancing Watershed Analysis in Oklahoma
- Robert Nairn – Developing the Next Generation of Water Science Professionals: A Presidential Dream Course on Nature-Based Solutions
- Kiranmayi Mangalgiri – Advanced Oxidation Based Treatment Options for Potable Water Reuse
Research Symposium Concurrent Session:
Student Water Research Lightening Talks
November 29, 2023
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
- Mamata Pandey – Evaluation of Web Services to Access Real-Time Weather Data for Reference ET Estimation
- Yihan Wang – Examining the Performance of Mass-Conserved Long Short-Term Memory (MC-LSTM) in Simulating Rainfall-Runoff Relationship at Different Watersheds Across the Contiguous United States
- Adeyinka Ogunbajo – Potential for ML to Improve a Physics-based Streamflow Model
- Kasra Khodkar – Water Salinity Monitoring in the Upper Red River Basin
- Saeedeh Abedzadeh – Assessing Hydrologic Intensification in Southwest Oklahoma
- Jack Edwards – Evaluating the Impact of Regenerative Agricultural Practices on Soil Health and Water Quality in Altus, Oklahoma
- Karthik Ramaswamy – Potential Opportunities for Bioenergy Production in the US High Plains
- Jim Pendred – A Citizen Science Digital Notebook for Watershed Management
- Xuewen Wang – Effect of UV-Weathered Polyethylene Terephthalate on Denitrification
- Rui Cai – Assessing the Impacts of Aging Treatments on the Adsorption Characteristics of Lindane and Alachlor by Polystyrene (PS) Microplastics (MPs)
- Torsha Goswami – Studying the Effects of UV-aged Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) to Acetoclastic Methanogenesis in Anaerobic Sludge
- Viktoria Stallings – A Comprehensive Analysis of Macroinvertebrate Communities of Town Branch Creek, Tahlequah, OK
Research Symposium Concurrent Session:
Oral Presentations: Groundwater Assessment and Outreach
November 30, 2023
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Zachary Tomlinson – Analysis of Long-Term Water-Level Changes in the Oklahoma Panhandle Region of the Ogallala Aquifer
- Colin Baciocco – Ogallala Hydrogeologic Framework: 20 Year Update
- Lara Fly – Defining the Dakota Aquifer in Cimarron County
- Jon Fields – Characterization Short Cuts in Fractured Rock Aquifers
- Caitlin Barnes – NGWA University: Building A Pipeline Into Groundwater Careers
- Paul Weckler – Oklahoma Center for Hydrological Integrated Monitoring, Modeling, and Mitigation: Developing the Oklahoma Hydronet for Advanced Management of Water Resources in the Context of Hydrologic Extremes
