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Walker Basin Research has resulted in a number of positive outcomes including presentations, publications and additional grant-funded research.

Presentations | Publications | Grant-Funded Research

Scientific Presentations

Author(s)	Year	Title of Presentation	Name of Meeting	Location of Meeting	Type
Curtis, K.R., M. Kobayashi, C. Bishop, S. Emm, and M. Kim	2010	Economic Viability of Low Water-Use Crops in the Walker River Basin	Great Salt Lake Issues Forum	Salt Lake City, UT	Paper
Davison, J. Creech, E.	2010	Reclaiming Abandoned Farmlands in Nevada	Society for Range Management Annual Meetings	Denver, CO
Dilts, T.E., Weisberg, P.J., Yang, J.,	2010	Historical ecology and GIS: an example from the Walker River Basin	Department of Geography Colloquium	Reno, NV	Oral
Dilts, T.E., Yang, J., Weisberg, P.J., Olson, T.J., Turner, P.L., and Condon, L.A.	2010	Direct and indirect effects of irrigated agriculture on land cover change in an arid lands	Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers	Washington, DC	Oral
Williamson, L., C. Hatch, S. Tyler, N. van de Giesen	2010	Assessing Spatial Variability of Thermal Properties within Controlled Agricultural Plots using Distributed Temperature Sensing	American Geophysical Union (AGU)	San Francisco, CA	Poster
Adams, Kenneth D.	2009	Response of Walker River to base-level lowering and minimizing erosion under increased flows	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Acharya, K., Sada, D.	2009	Are human activities contributing negatively to benthic macro-invertebrate health in the Walker River?	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Allander, K.K., A.E. Jeton, R.G. Niswonger	2009	Integrated hydrologic modeling of lower Walker River Basin and Walker Lake, NV, using GSFlow	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Poster
Boyle, D.P., T.B. Minor, G. Pohll, A. Knust, C. Garner, R. Carroll, D. McGraw, S. Bassett, C. Barth, D. Norpchen, A. Stroud	2009	Development and testing of a decision support tool in support of water right acquisitions in the Walker River Basin	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral and Poster
Bruckner, J.C., Fisher, J.C. and *D.P. Moser	2009	Microbial ecology of an alkaline, saline, terminus lake (Walker Lake, NV). Terminus Lakes Workshop, Reno, NV	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Poster
Chandra, S., J. Umek, C. Fritsen, L. McKinnon-Newton, A. Heyvaert, D. Sada, K. Acharya, M. Stone	2009	The contemporary ecology and food web energetics of Walker Lake, Nevada	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Curtis, K.R., C.D. Bishop, and T.R. Harris	2009	Economics of Alternative Crop Production in Arid Regions	2009 Annual Meeting of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society	Cairns, Australia	Paper
Curtis, K.R., M. Kobayashi, C. Bishop, S. Emm, T.R. Harris, and M. Kim	2009	Economic Analysis of Water Conservation Practices for Agricultural Producers in the Walker River Basin	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral and Paper
Davis, C., Fritsen C., Memmott, J.	2009	Periphyton dynamics in the Walker River, California – Nevada	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Davison, J.	2009	Presented information on Walker project and teff as a forage source	Pershing County Forage Update Meeting	Lovelock, NV	Oral
Davison, J.	2009	2008 Walker Basin Alternative Crop Experiments Results	Range and Pasture Management workshop	Yerington, NV	Oral
Davison, J., Leger, E. A.	2009	Teff and Other Alternative Crops in Nevada	Fallon Rotary Club	Fallon, NV	Oral
Davison, J., Leger, E. A., Miller, W.W., Carroll-Moore, E., Espeland, E.K.	2009	An evaluation of alternative grains, warm and cool season grasses under different irrigation regimes as potential alternatives to alfalfa production in western Nevada	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral and Poster
Dean, K., R.G. Qualls	2009	Relative vertical distribution of soil water use in conjunction with transpirational water use in the invasive exotic crucifer Lepidium latifolium within the riparian area of the Walker River	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Dilts, T.E., Yang, J., Weisberg, P.J., Olson, T.J., Turner, P.L., Condon, L.A., Gourley, C.R.	2009	Reconstructing the vegetation of the Walker River Basin at the time of Euro-American settlement using General Land Office survey notes	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Dilts, T.E., Yang, J., Weisberg, P.J., Olson, T.J., Turner, P.L., and Condon, L.A.	2009	Land use change in an arid agricultural landscape: reconstructing the historical vegetation at the time of settlement	International Symposium on Terminus Lakes	Snowbird, UT	Poster
Dilts, T.E., Yang, J., Weisberg, P.J., Turner, P.L., and Condon, L.A.	2009	Multiple approaches to modeling vegetation communities in the Walker River Basin	Report to the Basin public meeting	Yerington, NV	Poster
Espeland, E.K. and E.A. Leger	2009	Density and diversity of perennial grasses do not affect cheatgrass establishment and growth	Weed Science Society, Western Section Annual Meeting	Albuquerque, NM
Fadali, E.R., R. Bartholet, T. Oleson	2009	Reducing water for agriculture cultivation in the Walker Basin: economic impacts and economic development opportunities.	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Fisher, J.C., J.C. Bruckner, B. Planer-Friedrich, R.L. Hershey, D.P. Moser.	2009	Arsenic biogeochemistry of Walker Lake NV	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Poster
Hatch, C. E., Tyler, S. W.	2009	Application of vertical and distributed temperature sensing (DTS) to desert stream seepage	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Hausner, M., Tyler, S. W., Carroll-Moore, E. M., Miller, W. W.	2009	Estimating in-situ soil water content using fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS) measurements for precise irrigation management	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral and Poster
Herbst, D.B., S.W. Roberts, R.B. Medhurst, R.S. Jellison	2009	Walker Lake benthic invertebrate habitat associations by depth and substrate, and tolerance of salinity	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Heyvaert, A., A. Lutz, J.C. Memmott, J.M. Thomas, M.C. Stone	2009	Development and application of a limnological database and ecological model for Walker Lake in Western Nevada, U.S.A.	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Poster
Jian Yang, Peter J. Weisberg, Thomas Dilts	2009	Integrating R with ArcGIS for mapping riparian vegetation distribution along the Walker River	Nevada Geographic Information Society (NGIS) 2009 Conference	Reno, NV	Oral
Jian Yang, Peter J. Weisberg, Thomas Dilts	2009	An ecohydrologic approach to simulating the interactions between groundwater flow and riparian vegetation at the landscape level	International Symposium on Terminus Lakes	Reno, NV	Oral
Jian Yang, Thomas Dilts, Peter J Weisberg	2009	Riparian Vegetation Response to Global Change	US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (USIALE) 2009 Symposium	Snowbird, UT	Oral
Kobayashi, M., K.R. Curtis, M. Cowee, and S. Emm	2009	Water Rights and Farm Production Decisions in the Walker River Basin	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Poster
Kobayashi, M., K.R. Curtis, M. Cowee, and S. Emm	2009	Landowner Willingness to Sell Water Rights in Nevada	Western Agricultural Economics Association annual meetings	Lihue, HI	Paper
Leger, E. A., Davison, J., Espland, E.	2009	Alternative Agriculture and Vegetation Management in the Walker Basin	The Walker Basin Report Meeting	Yerington, NV
Memmott, J.C., C. H. Fritsen, C. J. Davis, E. D. Wirthlin	2009	Walker Lake: Hypolimnectic oxygen deficit assessment and associated limnological factors	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Poster
Moser, D.P, Bruckner, J.C., and J.C Fisher	2009	Microbial biogeochemistry of Walker Lake	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Murdukhayeva, A., Dilts, T.E., and Weisberg, P.J.	2009	Comparison of woody species establishment across the Carson, Truckee and Walker Rivers	Research Experience for Undergraduates poster session	Reno, NV	Poster
Sada, D.W., C. Rosamond	2009	Relationships between aquatic environments and Walker River benthic macroinvertebrate communities, Nevada and California	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Sharpe, S.E.	2009	Paleoecology: Providing a context for terminus lake management	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Oral
Wilds, L.	2009	Science, politics and water policy: Resolving conflict in the Walker River Basin	International Terminus Lakes Symposium	Reno, NV	Poster
Bruckner, J.C., C. H. Fritsen, J. C. Memmot, R. L. Hershey, A. Heyvaert, D. P. Moser (25% contribution)	2008	Microbial communities of a saline, alkaline terminal lake (Walker Lake, NV)	American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting.	Boston, MA	Poster
Curtis, K.R., C.D. Bishop, and T.R. Harris	2008	Economic Feasibility of Wine Production in Arid Regions	American Association of Wine Economists annual meetings	Portland, OR	Paper
Davison, J.	2008	Alternative Crops and Their Role in Sustaining Agriculture in Nevada	Sustainable Development Conference, The Gold Belt Coalition	Battle Mountain, NV
Davison, J., and E. A. Leger	2008	Walker Basin Alternative Crops/Biomass Production Project Results	Nevada Farm Bureau 2008 Annual Meeting	Yerington, NV
Hatch, C. E., Tyler, S. W., Cluff, T., Hausner, M., Miller, W. W., Carroll-Moore, E.	2008	Using Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) to Assess Soil Moisture In Agricultural Settings	Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America	Houston, TX	Poster
Jian Yang, Thomas Dilts, Peter J Weisberg	2008	Landscape-scale Modeling of Riparian Vegetation Distribution	Society of American Foresters (SAF) 2008 National Convention	Reno, NV	Poster
Leger, E. A., Espeland, E. K., Kulpa, S. M., Rowe, C. J., Nowak, R. S., Sparrow, A. D.	2008	The Ecology and Evolution of Weed Invasions in the Great Basin	University of Nevada, Reno Greenhouse Opening	Reno, NV	Poster
Miller, W. W., Leger, E. A., Davison, J. C., Carroll-Moore, E. M., Tyler, S. W., Qualls, R. G.	2008	Project status on alternative agriculture and plant, soil, water interactions.	Walker Basin Stakeholder's Meeting, Non-Academic	Reno, NV	Poster
Miller, W. W., Leger, E. A., Davison, J., Carroll-Moore, E., Tyler, S.	2008	Project status on alternative agriculture and plant, soil, water interactions	Walker Basin Stakeholder's Meeting	Yerington, NV	Poster
Miller, W. W., Leger, E. A., Davison, J., Carroll-Moore, E., Tyler, S., Qualls, R. G.	2008	Walker River Basin Panel: Agriculture, restoration, and plant/soil/water interactions	Nevada Water Resources Association	Mesquite, NV	Poster
Carroll R., G. Pohll, K. Pohlmann, D. Boyle, C. Garner, A. Knust	2008	Preliminary Model of a Coupled Groundwater-Surface Water System, Mason Valley, Nevada	Modflow and More: Ground Water and Public Policy	Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO	Oral