10th Annual Louisiana Groundwater, Surface Water and Water Resources Symposium

Dalton Woods Auditorium, Energy, Coast & Environmental Building

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Dalton Hall Auditorium

Time	Presenter(s)	Topic	Session
8:30 a.m.	n/a	Opening Remarks	n/a
8:35 a.m.	Thomas Van Biersel	Current Status of Interstate Water Supply Diversion from the Lower Mississippi River	Water Resources Management
9 a.m.	Mark Davis, and Chris Dalbom	Westward Ho! Thoughts on Proposed Diversions of Mississippi River Water	Water Resources Management
9:25 a.m.	Christopher J. Dalbom	Comprehensively Thinking: Progress in Louisiana Water Law & Policy	Water Resources Management
9:50 a.m.	Bech Bruun and Mike Reedy	Securing Texas’ Water Supply for a Drought Proof Future – The Regional Water Supply Planning Process in Texas	Water Resources Management
10:15 - 10:25 a.m.	Break
10:25 a.m.	John Johnston	The Licensing of Geoscientists in Louisiana	Professional Development
10:50 a.m.	William H. Schramm	Ethics for Geoscientists Engineers
11:50 - 1:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m.	Gary M. Hanson	Regional Water Resources: Adaptive Approaches to Policy and Management Of Groundwater, Surface Water and Response to Flood/Drought Cycles	Water Rsources Management II
1:40 p.m.	Terry Emory	City of West Monroe Sparta Reuse Facility Efforts to Save the Sparta Aquifer	Water Rsources Management II
2:05 p.m.	F. Ryan Clark, Scott A. Hemmerling, and Harris C. Bienn	A Framework to Assess Ground and Surface Water Sustainability in Louisiana	Water Rsources Management II
2:30 pm.	Pierre Sargent and Angela L. Collier	Methods for Identification of Potential Future Threats to Louisiana’s Groundwater Supplies	Water Rsources Management II
2:55 - 3:05 p.m.	Break
3:05 p.m.	Sherwood Gagliano	Subsidence Induced Collapse of the Mississippi Delta System	Subsidence
3:30 p.m.	Bill Thaman, and Michael Turco	Developing a Groundwater Regulatory Plan to Address Land Subsidence along the Texas Gulf Coast – The Harris-Galveston Subsidence District’s Approach to Mitigating the Problem	Subsidence
3:55 p.m.	Navid H. Jafari	Hydraulic Conductivity and Compressibility of Organic Clays in New Orleans	Subsidence

Conference Room

Time	Presenter(s)	Topic	Session
8:35 am.	Tony Duplican	An Update on Addressing Saltwater Intrusion in the2,000-ft Sand in the Baton Rouge Area: Looking Toward the Future	Southeast Louisiana Groundwater I
9 a.m.	Charles E. Heywood and John K. Lovelace	Simulation of Groundwater Flow and Chloride Transport in the2,000-foot Sand of the Baton Rouge Area, Louisiana, with Scenarios to Mitigate Saltwater Migration	Southeast Louisiana Groundwater I
9:25 a.m.	Dale J. Nyman	Observations Regarding the Hydrogeology of the Baton Rouge2000-foot Sand	Southeast Louisiana Groundwater I
9:50 a.m.	Jeffrey S. Hanor	Spatial Variations in Groundwater Chemistry, Southern Hills Aquifer System – A Three-Dimensional View	Southeast Louisiana Groundwater I
10:15 - 10:25 a.m.	Break
10:25 a.m.	A. Hays Town Jr.	A Case History of Use and Management of the Baton Rouge Fresh Water Aquifer System	Southeast Louisiana Groundwater I
10:50 a.m.	Hai Pham and Frank Tsai	Baton Rouge groundwater model development	Southeast Louisiana Groundwater II
11:15 a.m.	Vincent White	Basic Water Resource Information Made Easy—Avoiding Overload and Underload: Water Resource Fact Sheets for Each of Louisiana’s Parishes	Water Resources Information
11:40 - 1:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m.	Mary L. Barrett	Oilfield Pit Groundwater and 1950s Arsenic Corrosion Inhibitor Usage, Lake St. John Field, LA: Possible Causes and Models for Arsenic and Iron Patterns	Water Quality
1:40 p.m.	Samendra Sherchan	Prevalence and Risk Management of N. fowleri in Louisiana’s Public Water Systems	Water Quality
2:05 pm.	Keith B. Hall	Wastewater Management and Induced Seismicity	Water Quality
2:30 p.m.	Changyoon Jeong and Ernest Girouard	Evaluation of the Quality of Diverted Water from the Red Bayou for Irrigation in Northwest Louisiana	Water Quality
2:55 - 3:05 p.m.	Break
3:05 p.m.	J. Rodney Dickerson	Soil Microbiology – Key to Sustainable Water Resources	Water Quality & Lake Hydrology
3:30 p.m.	Richard F Keim, Lincoln Dugué, Karen Latuso, and Sanjeev Joshi	Ecological Consequences of Altered Floodplain Hydrology for Catahoula Lake	Water Quality & Lake Hydrology
3:55 p.m.	Ning Zhang, Xiao Han, and Susan Regmi	Applications of Immersed Boundary Methods in Hydrodynamic Simulations	Coastal Water Modeling
4:20 p.m.	Kelin Hu, Jim Chen and Hongqing Wang	Modeling Water Quality in Breton Sound Estuary, LA	Coastal Water Modeling

Posters (11:50 am. - 1:15 p.m.)

Carrier, A., M. Choi, S. Gowdy, R. Hoefeld, C. Hudson, C. Spano, C. Treloar, and C.M. Wicks From Geophysical Well Logs to Hydrogeological Model: Learning Through a Visual and Technology Intensive Course

Stacia L. Davis Agricultural Irrigation Water Management Using Soil Moisture Sensors in Row Crops

Hao Guo, Fenglin Han, and Hongliang Zhang Deposition of Nitrogen and Sulfur to Louisiana Water Bodies

Maryam Roostaee, and Zhi-Qiang Deng Spatial Analysis and Modeling of Land-Use and Land Cover Change Effects on Water Quality: Boeuf River Watershed

Vinicus R. Moreira, Brian D. LeBlanc, and Eric C. Achberger The Use of Floating Islands to Enhance Dairy Wastewater Treatment in Southeast Louisiana

Friday, March 25, 2016

Dalton Auditorium

Time	Presenter(s)	Topic	Session
9:30 a.m.	n/a	Opening Remarks	n/a
9:35 a.m.	Amir Mani and Frank Tsai	Conjunctive Use of Surface Water and Groundwater for Northern Louisiana	Water Resources Management III
10 a.m.	Fabiane Barato, Whitney P. Broussard III, David Borrok, and Daniel Conlin	A Geospatial Framework for Cataloguing and Analyzing Surface Water and Groundwater Withdraw Information	Water Resources Management III
10:25 a.m.	Hisham Eldardiry, Emad Habib and David Borrok	Assessment of Water Stresses in Southwest Louisiana: Effects of Uncertainties in Water Resources Availability	Water Resources Management III
10:50 a.m.	Xiao Han, and Ning Zhang	Impacts of Industrial Water Withdraws on Hydrodynamics and Salinity Transport in Calcasieu Water System	Water Resources Management III
11:15 - 11:25 a.m.	Break
11:25 a.m.	Sanjeev Joshi and Y. Jun Xu	Assessing Changes in River Stage Of Specific Discharge Along the Lowermost Mississippi River	River Hydrology
11:50 a.m.	Songjie He, Kaci Fisher, and Y.Jun Xu	Contamination and Spatiotemporal Trends of Trace Elements in Surface Waters of the Calcasieu River Estuary	River Hydrology
12:15 p.m.	Emily DelDuco, Yijun Xu, Songjie He, and Kaci Fisher	Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in the Atchafalaya River: Fluxes, Sources, and Trends	River Hydrology
12:40 p.m.	Mojtaba Mosaheb, and Mehdi Zeidouni	Pressure Transient Analysis of Vertical Fault Leakage to a High Permeability Zone	Hydrogeology