October 24th Morning: Understanding and Quantifying Natural Aquifer Recharge Process
7:45 – 8:30 a.m. Registration / Meet & Greet 8:30 – 9:05 a.m. Welcome & Introductions (UA VPR, COE Dean, NOAA, and AWI) 9:05 – 9:15 a.m. Introduction to the GW security workshop (UA team) 9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Lesson learned from the Mississippi Alluvial Valley Project (MAP) and Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer Study (MERAS), Wade Kress (USGS) (Click for presentation) (Click for Abstract) 9:45 – 10:15 a.m. Estimation of diffuse recharge and groundwater storage changes through land surface modeling and GRACE/GRACE-FO data assimilation, Bailing Li (NASA) (Click for presentation) (Click for Abstract) 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Beverage Break 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. Estimated groundwater use in the United States and a national perspective on the availability of data to support water use estimates, Cheryl Dieter (USGS) (Click for presentation) (Click for Abstract) 11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Approaches to high-resolution, regional-scale groundwater storage quantification, Soumendra Bhanja (Oak Ridge National Lab) (Click for presentation) (Click for Abstract) 11:45 a.m – 12:00 p.m. The concept of net inflow concept, an alternate approach for conducting groundwater balance studies using pumping and water-level measurements, Jim Butler (Kansas Geological Survey) (Presentation not available) (Click for Abstract) 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Roundtable discussion on groundwater recharge and water balance assessments 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Buffet