Ditch Project Symposium
Improved
management of agricultural drainage ditches for water quality protection:
science, policy and management
Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
University of Maryland
August 23, 2006
Welcome
Cheng-I Wei, Dean, College of
Agriculture & Natural Resources
University of Maryland
Introductions
Brian Needelman, University of
Maryland
Presided by
Peter Kleinman, USDA-ARS, Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research
Unit, University Park, PA
Managing
natural processes in drainage ditches for non-point source nitrogen control
Jeff Strock, University of Minnesota
Managing
natural processes in drainage ditches for non-point source phosphorus control
Andrew Sharpley, USDA-ARS, Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park, PA
Understanding
drainage ditch management from a geomorphological perspective
Andrew Simon, USDA-ARS, National
Sedimentation Laboratory, Oxford, MS
Understanding
the role of ditch soil formation and biogeochemistry in mitigating nutrient and
pollutant losses from agriculture
Brian Needelman, University of Maryland
The
ecology of agricultural drainage: Assessing ecological health in man-made
ecosystems
Kristen Blann, University of Minnesota
Exposing
high school scholars to water quality and ditch management via the use of
geospatial information technologies
Arthur Allen, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Presided by
Jeff Strock, University of Minnesota
Why
small floodplains called benches sometimes build in agricultural drainage
ditches and are they beneficial?
Andy Ward, Ohio State
Management
alternatives to enhance water quality function of channelized streams and
drainage canals
Robert Evans, North Carolina State
Effect
of ditch dredging on the fate of nutrients and pesticides in deep drainage
ditches of the midwestern U.S.
Douglas Smith, USDA-ARS, National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, West Lafayette, IN
Abstract Presentation
Phosphorus
dynamics of ditches in Florida
Ed Dunne, University of Florida
Wastewater
treatment wetlands ecology and design: Lessons for ditch management
David Tilley, University of Maryland
Sequestering
dissolved phosphorus in ditch drainage water
Chad Penn, Oklahoma State University
Ditch policy
session
Presided by
Ray Bryant, USDA-ARS, Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit,
University Park, PA
Task
Force Recommendations for the Maryland Drainage Program: Now and Then
David Mister, Maryland Department of Agriculture
Federal
programs and ditch management
Dennis Carman, USDA National Water Management Center
Ditches
and the Chesapeake Bay watershed: Tributary strategies, TMDL’s, and the Water
Quality Model
Robert Burgholzer, Chesapeake Bay
Program
Partners
The Ditch Project
University of Maryland College Park University of Maryland Eastern Shore
USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park, PA
Chesapeake Research Consortium
Maryland Department of Agriculture
Mid-Atlantic Association of Professional Soil Scientists
USDA Mid-Atlantic Regional Water Program
Maryland Water Resources Research Center
This event was made possible through the support of the Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment