Call for Papers

Submit an 800 word abstract using the on-line submission form. If you experience problems with the on-line submission form please attach the abstract and email to saleh@tiaer.tarleton.edu. Please include full name, email, telephone and address.

We are pleased to extend an invitation to professionals working in watershed technology and related areas to submit an abstract for consideration to be presented during the Conference at IRSA, Bari, Italy on May 27th-June 1st, 2012.

The Conference will provide a forum for agriculture related professionals to exchange information on science, applications and developments in the use of watershed science and technology. It will cover a wide array of topics. These include new applications of well established and understood technologies to innovative and entrepreneurial applications of emerging technologies, in addition to issues related to policy and knowledge dissemination. Topics include but are not limited to:

Hot Topics

  • Emerging water quality/quantity case studies
  • Emerging tools in water quality analysis
  • Effects of climate change on water resources and water quality
  • Impact of extreme weather conditions for water quality/quantity

Monitoring Technologies/Issues

  • Measuring success – post implementation monitoring
  • Biological monitoring for water quality/quantity projects
  • Bacterial monitoring, source identification and control practices
  • Data quality and management
  • Data collection to support water quality/quantity development
  • Data mining, knowledge discovery in water quality data set
  • Wetlands, stream and river restoration, biomonitoring and land use impacts on downstream water bodies

Management

  • Watershed implementation planning
  • Agricultural BMP effectiveness
  • Pollution control/management practices for point and nonpoint sources
  • Management practices for sediment control
  • Bioremediation systems for agriculture (wetlands, infiltration ponds, photocatalysis, radio frequency, UV pulsed and others)
  • Water quality issues for forest and rangelands

Modeling

  • Performance and validation of models for water quality/quantity
  • Field and watershed scale modeling
  • GIS tools for watershed assessment

Social Impacts/Studies

  • Political and social ramifications
  • Solutions for increasing stakeholder involvement in the water quality/quantity process
  • Economic implications of water quality/quantity
  • Water quality / sediment standards

Focus on Europe and the Mediterranean

  • Watershed modeling and management in semi-arid areas
  • Accounting of Ecosystem Services in watershed management
  • The Water Framework Directive: an assessment after the first implementation cycle

Abstracts are due on December 15th, 2011. Please submit a 800 word abstract using the on-line submission form.

If you experience problems with the on-line submission form please attach the abstract and email to saleh@tiaer.tarleton.edu. Please include full name, email, telephone and address.