| Slot | Title | Presenter |
| 1.1.0 | Session: Flint River | |
| 1.1.1 | Restoring Environmental Flows in Flat Creek, Fayette County, Georgia | Mr Elliott Jones |
| 1.1.2 | Evaluating effects of low streamflow on biotic components in the Upper Flint River | Ms. Laura Rack |
| 1.1.3 | Where has all the water gone: Examining hydrologic change in the upper Flint River, GA? | Dr Stephen Golladay |
| 1.1.4 | Collaborative Efforts Toward Drought Resilience for People and Nature in the Upper Flint River Basin | Mr. Ben Emanuel |
| 1.1.5 | ||
| 1.3.0 | Water management I | |
| 1.3.1 | Locals Vote to Lead Indian River Lagoon Restoration | Ms. Marcy Frick |
| 1.3.2 | Georgia CoCoRaHS: the first decade | Ms Christine McGehee |
| 1.3.3 | Planning for future generations in the Upper Oconee watershed by engaging in scenario development for desired outcomes in 2080 | Dr. Amy Rosemond |
| 1.3.4 | Assessing Water Quality from Highway Runoff at Selected Sites in North Carolina with the Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model (SELDM) | Mr. J. Curtis Weaver |
| 1.3.5 | A Web-based Information Management System for Environmental Data | Dr. Martin Kistenmacher |
| 1.5.0 | Water M | |
| 1.5.1 | Comprehensive Watershed Management Decision Support System Development with Hydro-Geospatial Models Integration – Lake Lanier Watershed, the Case Study | Dr. Sudhanshu Panda |
| 1.5.2 | Can Georgia Power Mitigate the ACF Conflict? | Dr. Frederick Gordon |
| 1.5.3 | 2019 Update to the Statewide Nonpoint Source Management Plan | Dr. Anna Truszczynski |
| 1.5.4 | Considerations for Emergency Action Plans for High Hazard Dams in Georgia | Ms. Kristin Ray |
| 1.5.5 | Rainwater Harvesting: A Self-Funded Stormwater Utility | Mr. Steve Williams |
| 1.6.0 | Water Management III | |
| 1.6.1 | Groundwater Litigation: Recent Cases, New Strategies | Mr. Douglas Henderson |
| 1.6.2 | Including Groundwater Users into Future Irrigation Buy-Out Auctions in the FRB | Dr. Jeffrey Mullen |
| 1.6.3 | Pilot Study on Alternative Instream Flow Considerations | Dr. Wei Zeng |
| 1.6.4 | Protecting and Restoring Flows in Our Southeastern Rivers: State Policies and Partnerships for Water Security and Sustainability | Ms. April Ingle |
| 1.6.5 | Demonstrating Progress Toward Improving Water Supply Efficiency | Ms. Johanna Smith |
| 1.7.0 | Water management IV | |
| 1.7.1 | Lake Management Strategies for Source Water Quality Improvement | Dr Elizabeth Crafton |
| 1.7.2 | Conservation Easements Are Effective in Maintaining Ecosystem Services in the Upper Chattahoochee Watershed in the Southern United States | Mr. Fabio Jose Benez Secanho |
| 1.7.3 | Managing forested wetlands in Georgia as a public good | John Paul Schmidt |
| 1.7.4 | Oconee Confluence Clean Water Alliance (OCCWA): Forested Watershed Protection to Improve Drinking Water Source Quality and Quantity in the Upper Oconee River Basin | Ms. Cassidy Lord |
| 1.7.5 | Economic Drivers Make the Case for Reuse | MS Marilyn Hall |
| 1.8.0 | Green infrastructure | |
| 1.8.1 | Cumulative Effects of Green Infrastructure (GI) on Watershed Hydrology: A Case Study and Future Directions | Dr. Nahal Hoghooghi |
| 1.8.2 | Green Infrastructure, Stormwater Planter Bulb-Outs and Modular Rainwater Storage as Part of a Triple-Bottom-Line Solution for an Urban Environment | Ms. Alex Logan |
| 1.8.3 | Atlanta’s Green Infrastructure: Initiatives and Impediments to Just Sustainability | Ms. Lacey Davis |
| 1.8.4 | Stormwater Management through Potable Use of Harvested Runoff at the Georgia Tech Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design | Mr. David Bell |
| 1.8.5 | Rules of Thumb for Considering Rainwater Harvesting on Jobs Large or Small | Mr Richard Hanson |
| 2.1.0 | Session: Computer Modeling | |
| 2.1.1 | Evaluation of mixing capability for different nozzle configurations inside a circular water storage tank using Computational Fluid Dynamics | Dr. Tien Yee |
| 2.1.2 | Revisiting the Longest Flow Path Algorithm | Dr. Huidae Cho |
| 2.1.3 | Growing Application of Hydraulic Modeling and Increasing Reliance on Simulation Results | Dr. Rasheed Ahmad |
| 2.1.4 | Climate Change Impact on Crop Yield and Irrigation Demand in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin | Mr. Husayn El Sharif |
| 2.1.5 | Q&A | |
| 2.3.0 | Groundwater | |
| 2.3.1 | A metric for assessing Groundwater sustainability: case study, Well Field 3, Augusta-Richmond County area, Eastern Georgia | Mr. Gerard Gonthier |
| 2.3.2 | Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing: An Emerging Groundwater Monitoring Technology | Ms Kristen Bukowski McSwain |
| 2.3.3 | Simulation of groundwater flow in the Brunswick area, Georgia, for 2015 Base Case and selected groundwater-management scenario | Hydrologist Gregory Cherry |
| 2.3.4 | Guidance for regulation of aquifer storage and recovery | Dr. Gail Cowie |
| 2.3.5 | Q&A | |
| 2.5.0 | Urban Infrastructure | |
| 2.5.1 | Long-Term Responses of a Piedmont Headwater Stream to the Rapid Urbanization of Its Watershed | Mr. Ted Mikalsen |
| 2.5.2 | Water Supply Forecasting as a Tool for Regional Planning and Utility Management | Dr. John Clayton |
| 2.5.3 | Effect of Freshwater Pollution on the Integrity of Bridge Structures in the State of Georgia | Dr. Saman Hedjazi |
| 2.5.4 | Analysis of quality-control split-replicate discrete water-quality samples on an urban water-quality program in Gwinnett and DeKalb Counties, Georgia | Hydrologist Andrew Knaak |
| 2.5.5 | Q&A | |
| 2.6.0 | Hurricanes & F | |
| 2.6.1 | Historic Flooding in North and South Carolina Following Hurricane Florence | Mr Toby Feaster |
| 2.6.2 | Response of stressed marsh following Hurricane Irma | Dr. Jacque Kelly |
| 2.6.3 | Effects of Storm Surge on Coastal Storm Water Systems in Georgia | Mr Zhongduo Zhang |
| 2.6.4 | Informing floodplain management and hazard communication through probabilistic flood inundation maps | Dr. Brian Bledsoe |
| 2.6.5 | Obtaining Event-based Flood Data through the U.S. Geological Survey Flood Event Viewer | Mr. Tony Gotvald |
| 2.7.0 | Forecasting & T | |
| 2.7.1 | Stakeholder’s Perceptions of a Small-scale Wastewater Treatment Facility in DeKalb County | Ms. Leesi Barinem |
| 2.7.2 | Uncertainty in Demand Forecasting: Tampa Bay Water Case Study and Relevance to Regional Planning in Georgia | Dr. John Clayton |
| 2.7.3 | The Role of Location Cost Considerations of Firms on Water Pollution | Ms. Temitope Arogundade |
| 2.7.4 | Residential Water Efficiency in Georgia: Opportunities for Further Leadership, Impact, and Research | Mr. Andrew Morris |
| 2.7.5 | Updating Flood-Frequency Statistics and Regional Regression Equations for Rural Basins in the Southeastern United States | Mr Toby Feaster |
| 2.8.0 | Climate & Drought | |
| 2.8.1 | Simulated water availability in the southeastern U.S. for historical and potential future climate and land cover conditions | Mr. Jacob LaFontaine |
| 2.8.2 | Drought Vulnerability Model Development of Georgia Using Updated Geospatial Data for Management Decision Support | Dr. Sudhanshu Panda |
| 2.8.3 | Resilience of the Middle Oconee River to Anthropomorphic watershed impacts and precipitation extremes | Mr Emad Ahmed |
| 2.8.4 | Climate-related Variability in Streamwater Solute Concentrations and Fluxes at Panola Mountain Research Watershed, Georgia | Mr. Brent Aulenbach |
| 2.8.5 | Low Flow Trends at Southeast U.S. Streamflow Gages | Mr. Tim Stephens |
| 3.1.0 | Water Research and E | |
| 3.1.1 | Private Well Water Program to Educate UGA Extension Agents and Homeowners | Dr. Gary Hawkins |
| 3.1.2 | Water Education and Incentives for Murray 4-H’ers | Mrs. Brenda Jackson |
| 3.1.3 | Educational materials and demonstration site designed to better educate on the management of On-Site Wastewater | Ms. Beth Lunsford |
| 3.1.4 | Gwinnett Water Innovation Center | Ms. Melissa Meeker |
| 3.1.5 | Q&A | |
| 3.3.0 | Session: Agricultural Wetland Policy | Jenny Pahl |
| 3.3.1 | Jim Latham – NRCS State Soil Scientist –or- Tina Jerome – NRCS State Resource Conservationist; regarding Food Security Act policy and trends in GA | |
| 3.3.2 | Sharon Swagger – NRCS Easement Specialist; regarding the Wetland Reserve Easement program – program achievements and project examples. | |
| 3.3.3 | Jenny Pahl – Corblu Ecology Group – Georgia Agricultural Wetland Bank – use under the Food Security Act and opportunities for producers. | |
| 3.5.0 | Ecosystems | |
| 3.5.1 | The creation of macroinvertebrate performance standards for a South Georgia stream restoration project. | Mr. Sean Miller |
| 3.5.2 | Of Limpkins and Apple Snails: Invasive Species, Novel Ecosystems, and an Uncertain Future | Ms Chelsea Smith |
| 3.5.3 | Wading Through Georgia’s Oyster Regulations – Shucking Our Way to a Vibrant Half-Shell Industry | Ms. Danielle Goshen |
| 3.5.4 | The effects of beaver dams on bioavailable organic carbon in urban streams | Dr. Elizabeth Sudduth |
| 3.5.5 | Q&A | |
| 3.6.0 | Stream H | |
| 3.6.1 | Stream Health Analysis Using Geospatial Data to Assist in Further In-Situ Water Quality Analysis: Lake Lanier Watershed, A Case Study | Mr Michael Mirroli |
| 3.6.2 | Mowers Versus Growers: Riparian Buffer Management in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains, U.S.A. | Ms. Jenny Sanders |
| 3.6.3 | Knickpoints, Undercuts, and Slumps: Stream Habitat Monitoring at Chattahoochee National Recreation Area | Dr Jacob M. McDonald |
| 3.6.4 | An Assessment of Water Quality along the Appalachian Trail in Georgia | Mr. Caleb Sytsma |
| 3.6.5 | Q&A | |
| 3.7.0 | Restoration | |
| 3.7.1 | Improving fish habitat below impoundments using alternative discharge structures | Prof Todd Rasmussen |
| 3.7.2 | Predicting future potential resistance and resilience of river ecosystem function to altered hydrology | Ms Caitlin Conn |
| 3.7.3 | Uniting stormwater management and stream restoration strategies for greater water quality benefits | Dr. Roderick Lammers |
| 3.7.4 | Shore Protection for a Sure Tomorrow | Ms. Julia Shelburne |
| 3.7.5 | Q&A | |
| 3.8.0 | Wetlands | |
| 3.8.1 | Multiscale Assessment of Estuarine Water and Sediment Quality in National Park Units within the Southeast Coast Network | Mr Eric Starkey |
| 3.8.2 | Using satellite data to develop wetland hydrologic models | Ms. Courtney Di Vittorio |
| 3.8.3 | Comparative metabolism of wetland-dominated estuaries | Professor Charles Hopkinson |
| 3.8.4 | Determination of Predominant Water Source(s) to a Georgia Piedmont Wetland Using Hydrologic Modeling | Dr. Bruce Pruitt |
| 3.8.5 | Q&A | |
| 4.1.0 | [Nothing Scheduled] | |
| 4.3.0 | Session: Preventing Lead in School Drinking Water | |
| 4.5.0 | Surface Water Quality | |
| 4.5.1 | Source water optimization: How CCWA is combatting Taste and Odor issues with aggressive in-lake and watershed improvements | Roger Scharf |
| 4.5.2 | Predicting Harmful Algal Blooms in Middle Chattahoochee Reservoirs | Mr. Wesley Gerrin |
| 4.5.3 | Microbial Source Tracking in the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area | Dr Anna McKee |
| 4.5.4 | Tracking and managing non-point source pollution in the Lake Herrick Watershed, Athens, Georgia | Ms Ashwini Kannan |
| 4.5.5 | Strategic Grazing for Resistance to Extreme Weather Events | Mr Subash Dahal |
| 4.6.0 | Erosion & Nutrients | |
| 4.6.1 | Geospatial Model Development to Analyze the Reservoir Volume Change with the Soil Erosion Model Perspective | Ms. Sidney McVay |
| 4.6.2 | Identifying the Impacts of Prescribed Fire on Nutrient Erosion into Aquatic Ecosystems Utilizing Lake Sediment Records from the SE USA | Dr. Matthew Waters |
| 4.6.3 | Strategic Rotational Grazing Reduces Sediment and Sediment Carbon in Runoff | Mr. Anish Subedi |
| 4.6.4 | Removal of Nutrients from Agricultural Wastewater using Modified Biochar | Mr. Jared Conner |
| 4.6.5 | The Mosaic Reservoir Process in Sediment Transport in Large River Systems | Mr. Benjamin Webster |
| 4.7.0 | Agriculture M | |
| 4.7.1 | Geospatial Technology Supported Environmental Impact Assessment of Historical Gold Mining in North Georgia | Mr Jeffery Robertson |
| 4.7.2 | Projecting Future Agricultural Water Use Under Varying Climate Scenarios | Dr. Jeffrey Mullen |
| 4.7.3 | On-Farm Evaluation of Dynamic Variable Rate Irrigation | Dr Vasileios Liakos |
| 4.7.4 | ET-Based Smartphone Applications for Irrigation Scheduling in Corn, Cotton, and Soybean | Dr George Vellidis |
| 4.7.5 | Comparative study of estimation methods for determining soil carbon and nitrogen content in Right-of-Way areas in the state of Georgia | Research Assistant David Penn II |
| 4.8.0 | Vegetation & H | |
| 4.8.1 | Applying Isotopes, Mass Balance, and Xylem Deuterium Correction to Water Use and Sourcing of Two Biomass Tree Species | Ms Lauren Gill |
| 4.8.2 | Influence of forest and vegetation type on annual evapotranspiration estimated by water budgets across 46 rural basins in the southeastern US | Mr Seth Younger |
| 4.8.3 | Simulated Longleaf Pine Restoration Increased Streamflow — a Case Study in the Lower Flint River | Dr (Jill) Ji Qi |
| 4.8.4 | Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Groundwater Uptake by Riparian Vegetation at the Panola Mountain Research Watershed | Mr Jeffrey Riley |
| 4.8.5 | Q&A | |
| 5.3.0 | Lake Lanier | |
| 5.3.1 | An Assessment of Septic System Nutrient Contributions to Lake Lanier | Dr Brigette Haram |
| 5.3.2 | Assessment of Septic System Impacts on Lake Lanier | Dr. Aris Georgakakos |
| 5.3.3 | Preliminary Assessment of Shoreline Septic System Impact on Lake Lanier Water Quality | Mr Samuele Ceolin |
| 5.3.4 | Advances in Modeling the Influence of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems on Water Quantity and Quality | Dr. Nahal Hoghooghi |
| 5.3.5 | Septic System Impact to Surface Water Quality Study | Mr. Daniel Johnson |
| 5.5.0 | Session: AWRA Student Career Panel | |
| 5.6.0 | Clean Water Act Regulation of Hydrologically Connected Groundwater: Supreme Court and EPA Actions | Mr. Houston Shaner |
| 5.7.0 | Panel: Nutrient Trading | |
| 5.8.0 | Session: Conasauga River | |
| 5.8.1 | Range-wide declines and spatial synchrony in Amber Darter (Percina antesella) populations identified with multivariate analysis | Mr. Edward Stowe |
| 5.8.2 | Establishing a fish and mussel monitoring program in the Holly Creek Watershed | Phillip Bumpers |
| 5.8.3 | Evidence of Spatial and Temporal Changes in Benthic Habitat Conditions in the Conasauga River Mainstem | Dr Mary Freeman |
| 5.8.4 | Genetics and the conservation status of the Trispot Darter, Etheostoma | Dr.Bernie Kuhajda |
Georgia Water Resources Conference
March 30 and 31, 2023
