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Symposium Schedule
Monday, October 26
Silver Legacy Resort • Casino – Rumbullions Patio
4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Registration and Reception
Appetizers and No-host bar
Tuesday, October 27
Joe Crowley Student Union Theater Box Office
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Joe Crowley Student Union Theater
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
Mike Collopy, Principal Investigator & Co-chair
Walker Basin Project Study Group
Assistant Vice President for Research
Executive Director, Academy for the Environment
Director, Office of Undergraduate Research
University of Nevada, Reno
Jim Thomas, Co-Chair
Walker Basin Project Study Group
Director, Center for Watersheds and Environmental Sustainability
DRI
Milton Glick, President
University of Nevada, Reno
Daniel Klaich, Chancellor
Nevada System of Higher Education
Mary Conelly, State Director
U.S. Senator Harry Reid
Stephen Wells, President
DRI
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Keynote Address
Wallace S. Broecker, Ph.D.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
9:45 – 10:10 a.m. Refreshment Break
Walker Basin Project Session
Moderators: Mike Collopy and Jim Thomas
Joe Crowley Student Union Theater
10:10 – 10:30 a.m.
Kenneth D. Adams. Response of Walker River to base-level lowering and minimizing erosion under increased flows.
10:30 – 10:50 a.m.
Kumud Acharya, D. Sada. Are human activities contributing negatively to benthic macro-invertebrate health in the Walker River?
10:50 – 11:10 a.m.
Donald W. Sada, C. Rosamond. Relationships between aquatic environments and Walker River benthic macroinvertebrate communities, Nevada and California.
11:10 – 11:30 a.m.
Clinton J. Davis, C.H. Fritsen, J. Memmott. Periphyton dynamics in the Walker River, California – Nevada.
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 – 1:20 p.m.
Sudeep Chandra, J. Umek, C. Fritsen, L. McKinnon-Newton, A. Heyvaert, D. Sada, K. Acharya, M. Stone. The contemporary ecology and food web energetics of Walker Lake, Nevada.
1:20 – 1:40 p.m.
Thomas E. Dilts, P.J. Weisberg, J. Yang, T.J. Olson, P. L. Turner, L.A. Condon, C.R. Gourley. Reconstructing the vegetation of the Walker River Basin at the time of Euro-American settlement using General Land Office survey notes.
1:40 – 2:00 p.m.
Mark Hausner, S. Tyler, E.Carroll-Moore, W.W. Miller. Estimating in-situ soil water content using fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS) measurements for precise irrigation management.
2:00 – 2:20 p.m.
Katie L. Dean, R. G. Qualls. 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.
2:20 – 2:40 p.m.
Jay C. Davison, E.A. Leger, W.W. Miller, E. Carroll-Moore, E.K. Espeland. An evaluation of alternative grains, warm and cool season grasses under different irrigation regimes as potential alternatives to alfalfa production in western Nevada.
2:40 – 3:10 p.m.Refreshment Break
3:10 – 3:30 p.m.
Kynda R. Curtis, C. Bishop, M. Kobayashi, S. Emm, T. Harris, M. Kim. Economic analysis of water conservation practices for agricultural producers in the Walker River Basin.
3:30 – 3:50 p.m.
Elizabeth R. Fadali, R. Bartholet, T. Oleson. Reducing water for agriculture cultivation in the Walker Basin: economic impacts and economic development opportunities.
3:50 – 4:10 p.m.
Douglas P. Boyle, T.B. Minor, G. Pohll, A. Knust, C. Garner, R. Carroll, D. McGraw, S. Bassett, C. Barth, D. Norpchen, A. Stroud. Development and testing of a decision support tool in support of water right acquisitions in the Walker River Basin.
4:10 – 4:30 p.m.
David B. Herbst, S.W. Roberts, R.B. Medhurst, R.S. Jellison. Walker Lake benthic invertebrate habitat associations by depth and substrate, and tolerance of salinity.
Joe Crowley Student Union Ballroom C
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.Poster Session and Reception | Appetizers and No-host Bar
Wednesday, October 28
Joe Crowley Student Union Theater Box Office
7:30 – 10:30 a.m. Registration
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
International Terminus Lakes Session
Moderator: Berry Lyons
Joe Crowley Student Union Theater
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Invited Presentation
Berry Lyons, Director, Byrd Polar Research Center and Professor, The Ohio State University
“Terminal Lakes: Polar vs. Warm Desert Systems”
9:00 – 9:20 a.m.
Glenn W. Berger, P. T. Doran, K. J. Thomsen. Replacing 14C dating with single-grain luminescence dating in McMurdo Dry Valleys Lakes, Antarctica.
9:20 – 9:40 a.m.
Laurel Saito, J. Scott, M.R. Rosen, B. Nishonov, J.P.A. Lamers, D. Fayzieva. Investigating the hydrology and aquatic ecosystems of small lakes in Khorezm, Uzbekistan.
9:40 – 10:00 a.m.
Nati Bergman. The Dead Sea – is it being killed again?
10:00 – 10:30 a.m.Refreshment Break
10:30 – 10:50 a.m.
Saxon E. Sharpe. Paleoecology: Providing a context for terminus lake management. An example from Walker Lake, Nevada.
10:50 – 11:10 a.m.
Robert Jellison. Hydroacoustic monitoring of tui chub (Siphateles bicolor Girard) in Walker Lake, Nevada.
11:10 – 11:30 a.m.
Sudeep Chandra, L. Atwell, D. Mosely. The trophodynamics of a large terminal lake, Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
11:30 – 11:50 a.m.
Scott Girdner, M. Buktenica. 25 years of monitoring and research at Crater Lake, an exceptionally deep and clear terminus lake.
11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Graham Kent, D. Brothers, N. Driscoll, A. Harding, J. Babcock, R. Baskin. Late-Holocene earthquake and sedimentary history beneath the Salton Sea, Southern California.
12:10 – 1:40 Lunch
Concurrent Session |Aquatic Food Webs
Moderator: Mike Collopy
Joe Crowley Student Union Ballroom A
1:40 – 2:00 p.m.
Karie A. Wright. The effects of increasing total dissolved solids on the Walker Lake, Nevada fishery.
2:00 – 2:20 p.m.
Kimberly Rose, R. Jellison. Changes in the water quality of Walker Lake, Nevada during a 30-yr period of decreasing volume.
2:20 – 2:40 p.m.
John P. Bigelow, W. M. Rauw, L. Gomez-Raya. Effect of acclimation on survival of Lahontan cutthroat trout in water from Walker Lake, Nevada.
2:40 – 3:00 p.m.
Corene Luton, S. Byers. Recovery of the threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout in a desert terminal lake.
3:00 – 3:20 p.m.
John W. Umek, S. Chandra, R. Henery, M. Buktenica, S. Girdner. Expansion and potential impact of crayfish in Crater Lake, Oregon.
3:20 – 3:40 p.m
Mike K. Liquori, J. Prancevic. Assessing the ecological integrity of the Walker River: How “natural” is the Walker River hydrograph?
3:40 – 4:00 p.m.
Duane P. Moser. Microbial Biogeochemistry of Walker Lake, Nevada.
Concurrent Session | Physical Processes
Moderator: Jim Thomas
Joe Crowley Student Union Ballroom B
1:40 – 2:00 p.m.
Laurel Saito, K. Solander, F. Biondi, J.D. Salas, J. Vittori. Multi-century streamflow simulation using a water balance model for paleoreconstructions.
2:00 – 2:20 p.m.
Francisco Suàrez, S. W. Tyler, A. E. Childress. Feasibility of using a membrane distillation system coupled to a salt-gradient solar pond for Walker Lake reclamation.
2:20 – 2:40 p.m.
Jian Yang, T. Dilts, P. J. Weisberg. An ecohydrologic approach to simulating the interactions between groundwater flow and riparian vegetation at the landscape level.
2:40 – 3:00 p.m.
Sherman Swanson. Riparian functions for river and lake water quality.
3:00 – 3:20 p.m.
Thomas J. Lopes, K.K. Allander. Water budgets of the Walker River Basin and Walker Lake, west-central Nevada.
3:20 – 3:40 p.m.
Franco Biondi, S. Strachan. A 2300-year tree-ring chronology and its climatic implications for the eastern Sierra Nevada/western Great Basin.
3:40 – 4:00 p.m.
Christine E. Hatch, S. W. Tyler. Application of vertical and distributed temperature sensing (DTS) to desert stream seepage.
4:00 – 4:20p.m.
Scott Girdner. A remarkable deepwater moss community in Crater Lake.
Thursday, October 29
Field Trip: Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake
7:00 a.m. Meet bus outside the Joe Crowley Student Union
7:30 a.m. Leave for Lake Tahoe
7:30 p.m. Return from Pyramid Lake
Refreshments during the Symposium
The registration fee includes continental breakfasts on Oct. 27 and 28, plus refreshments during morning and afternoon breaks.
The opening reception on Monday evening at the Silver Legacy Resort • Casino will offer a cash bar and appetizers.
The poster session and reception late Tuesday afternoon at the Joe Crowley Student Union also features a cash bar and appetizers.
