Managing Rivers, Reservoirs, and Lakes
in the Face of Drought
Practical Tools and Strategies for Sustaining and Protecting Ecological Values of Water
Fort Collins, Colorado April 24-26, 2018
Thank you to all speakers and attendees who helped
make FLOW 2018 a success!
View and download program and presentations
Thank you to all speakers and attendees who helped
make FLOW 2018 a success!
Presentations are available for download
by presentation title below.
Program
The program agenda for FLOW 2018 is nearly finalized. There are many interesting and informative sessions lined up with an impressive list of speakers and moderators making FLOW 2018 the premier instream flow event of the year.
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Day 1 Pre-workshop Training Sessions:
Four (4) training sessions will be offered concurrently in the morning and repeated in the afternoon. See the training session descriptions below. You will select 2 training sessions when registering.
| Day 1 Training Sessions Tuesday April 24 | |||
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| Time | Presentation Title | Speaker | Professional Title |
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Sessions run concurrently in morning and repeated in afternoon
8:30-11:30 am – and – 1:30 -4:30 pm
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Advanced preparation for instream flow determination in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hydropower licensing in light of future environmental uncertainty
(Training sessions – dialogue not recorded, slides only) McManamay_Slides1 |
Ryan McManamay
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Team Lead, Integrated Water-Energy-Ecosystems; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Environmental Sciences Division
National Instream Flow Coordinator and National Hydropower Program Manager for the U.S. Forest Service (Retired) |
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Riparian and appropriation-based water law concepts and issues and challenges for dealing with drought (Training sessions – dialogue not recorded, slides only) Fowler_Slides
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Lara Fowler | Senior Lecturer, Penn State Law; Assistant Director for Outreach & Engagement; Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment | |
| Tom Annear | Water Management Supervisor, Wyoming Game & Fish Department | ||
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Reducing uncertainties about drought and river ecosystems during times of rapid environmental change: Mining available resources and developing new information cost effectively (Training sessions – dialogue not recorded, slides only) Isaak_Slides1 |
Dan Isaak | Research fish biologist; U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station | |
| Daniel Wieferich | Physical Scientist; U. S. Geological Survey | ||
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Handling scientific and technical information in contentious water management issues (Training sessions – dialogue not recorded, slides only) |
Steve Smutko | Professor, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wyoming | |
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5:00-6:30 |
Poster Presentation Session | ||
| 6:30-8:30 | IFC Reception (no information recorded) | ||
Days 2 & 3 Workshop Sessions:
Internationally recognized experts will provide examples on the use of and need for effective laws, policies, science, and public participation to meet water management objectives for rivers, reservoirs, and lakes during drought conditions with a key focus on identifying practical, proven solutions. Each session will be followed by facilitated discussions. See presentation descriptions below.
| Day 2 Program Wednesday April 25 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Presentation Title | Speaker | Professional Title |
| 8:00 | Introduction / Welcome
(Introduction not recorded) |
Eric Nagid | President, Instream Flow Council |
| 8:03 | Welcome
|
Bob Broscheid | Director, Colorado Parks and Wildlife |
| 8:10 | Keynote
Maintaining flows and water levels across international boundaries: tools, processes, and politics for mitigating drought. |
Aaron Wolf | Professor and Department Chair of Geosciences; Oregon State University; Director and Founding Partner of Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters; Director, Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database Project |
| Legal | |||
| 8:45 | Legal Session Moderator Introduction
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Christopher Estes | Aquatic Resources and Habitat Scientist, Chalk Board Enterprises, LLC |
| 8:55 | Using water markets to restore instream flow regimes and account for conservation outcomes
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Andrew Purkey | Director, Western Water Program; National Fish and Wildlife Foundation |
| 9:25 | Lessons for drought planning and response drawn from the Washington State Drought Contingency Plan
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Jeff Marti | Drought Coordinator, Water Resources Program, Washington Department of Ecology |
| 9:55 | Break | ||
| 10:15 | The real wild west: How riparianism challenges successful flow and water level development in the eastern United States
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Robert Caccese | Staff attorney, Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University |
| 10:40 | The Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies: past, present, and future roles relating to drought mitigation for Fish and Wildlife – Dialogue
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Virgil Moore | Director, Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game; Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies President |
| 11:10 | Legal Session Facilitated Discussion & Closing | Workshop Attendees | |
| 11:45 | Lunch speaker
International environmental flow policies in the context of drought Slides only |
Dr. Rebecca Tharme | Director, Riverfutures |
| Institutional | |||
| 1:00 |
Institutional Session |
Tony Willardson | Executive Director; Western States Water Council |
| 1:10 | Summary of policies, practices, and outcomes for managing rivers and lakes in the face of drought in states and provinces
Region 1: dialogue1, slides1 |
IFC Regional Directors
Jonathan Kohr (Region 1)
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| 2:15 | Institution Session Facilitated Discussion | Workshop Attendees | |
| 2:45 | Break | ||
| 3:15 | Innovative strategies to manage flow and water volumes in rivers and lakes during drought in the Western U.S. and ways to promote national drought-resilience efforts
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Patrick Byorth | Director of the Montana Water Project for Trout Unlimited |
| 3:40 | Building resiliency to drought – Putting reclamation’s WaterSMART program to work
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Darion Mayhorn | Reclamation Drought Coordinator, Bureau of Reclamation |
| 4:05 | USGS science and Information in support of Instream Flows in Rivers and Water Levels in Lakes and Reservoirs
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Melinda Dalton | Acting Coordinator, Water Availability and Use Science Program; U. S. Geological Survey |
| 4:30 | Institutional Session Facilitated Discussion 2 & Closing | Workshop Attendees | |
| 6:00 | Banquet | ||
| Day 3 Program Thursday April 26 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Presentation Title | Speaker | Professional Title |
| Technical | |||
| 8:00 | Technical Session Moderator Introduction | Dr. LeRoy Poff | Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University |
| 8:10 | Examples of tools used to mitigate for drought related negative impacts to instream flows and water levels required by fish and wildlife in CA
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Stafford Lehr | Deputy Director, Wildlife & Fisheries Division, California Department of Fisheries & Wildlife |
| 8:40 | Monitoring and management of headwater systems to restore and maintain ecological services
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D. T. Booth, PhD | Rangeland Scientist (Retired), USDA-ARS High Plains Grasslands Research Station and Adjunct Professor, Department Plant Sciences, University of Wyoming |
| 9:10 | The importance of groundwater in sustaining streamflow
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Matt Miller | Research Hydrologist, U. S. Geological Survey |
| 9:40 | Federal tools and cooperative actions used to mitigate for drought related negative impacts to instream flows and water levels required by fish and wildlife
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Roger Gorke | Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. EPA, Office of Water and National Drought Resilience Partnership (NDRP) |
| 10:10 | Break | ||
| 10:40 | Using simulation models to craft effective drought management protocols
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Steve Nebiker | Vice President; Director, Marketing/Business Development; Hydrologics |
| 11:10 | Technical Session Facilitated Discussion & Closing | Workshop Attendees | |
| 11:45 | Lunch speaker
Three steps out of water scarcity Slides only |
Brian Richter | President, Sustainable Waters |
| Public Involvement | |||
| 1:00 | Public Involvement Session Moderator Introduction | Gerrit Jobsis | Senior Director, Conservation Programs; American Rivers |
| 1:10 | Engaging stakeholder support to obtain congressional support for funding hydrologic data collection, analyses and public reporting to predict, mitigate, and monitor drought conditions
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Sue Lowry
(presented by Gerrit Jobsis) |
Interstate Council on Water Policy |
| 1:30 | Collaborative efforts to restore healthy flow regimes and drought resilience in Georgia’s Upper Flint River Basin
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Ben Emanuel | Director, Clean Water Supply; American Rivers |
| 1:50 | Private sector strategies for restoring flows to seasonally dewatered rivers.
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Cory Toye | Wyoming Water and Habitat Program Director; Trout Unlimited |
| 2:10 | The Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer drought contingency plan: implementing plans by nonregulatory entities
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Dr. Barney Austin | President and CEO of Aqua Strategies Inc. |
| 2:30 | Restoring cultural and hydrologic connection to desert rivers – an integrated, community action-based approach
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Catlow Shipek | Policy and Technical Director, Watershed Management Group; Tucson, AZ |
| 2:50 | Public Involvement Session Facilitated Discussion | Workshop Attendees | |
| 3:15 | FLOW 2018 Closing Session: FLOW 2018 Drought mitigation options -What did we learn? What next?
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Christopher Estes | Aquatic Resources and Habitat Scientist, Chalk Board Enterprises, LLC |
| 3:30 | Conclusion of FLOW 2018 | ||
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