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2022 South Dakota Student Water Conference Agenda

Monday, Oct. 10

TimeEvent  
3–5 p.m.Tours - Mesonet test bed station, Brookings Green Infrastructure, Raven Precision Ag Center  
5–7:30&²Ô²ú²õ±è;±è.³¾.Informal Social and Supper - Cubby's, (Supper on Your Own)  

Tuesday, Oct. 11

TimeEvent
7–8 a.m.Registration, Hobo Day Gallery,
7:30–8 a.m.Coffee, Hobo Day Gallery, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ Student Union
8–8:10 a.m.Welcome, Hobo Day Gallery, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ Student Union
8:10–9:40 a.m.

Session 1 Presentations, Hobo Day Gallery, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ Student Union

8:10–8:25 a.m. | Evapotranspiration, Fiber Yield, Water Productivity, and Grass-Reference Crop Coefficient of Irrigated and Rainfed Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) under a semiarid climate.
Komlan Koudahe – Kansas State University

8:25–8:40 a.m. | Influence of Irrigation and Nitrogen Management on Corn Yield, Water and Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Nitrate Leaching in Minnesota.
Andrea Elvir – University of Minnesota

8:40–8:55 a.m. | Irrigation Management for Dry Edible Beans in Western Nebraska.
Angie Gradiz Menjivar – University of Nebraska – Lincoln

8:55–9:10 a.m. | Building NRCS Technical Capacity in Irrigation Water Management for Variable Rate Irrigation.
Rehnuma Maisha – North Dakota State University

9:10–9:25 a.m. | Responses of crop water productivity and growth parameters for maize under different irrigation regimes in semi-arid western Nebraska.
Swathi Palle – University of Nebraska – Lincoln

9:25–9:40 a.m. | Spatially distributed quantification of groundwater-energy-CO2 nexus of different cropping systems in the Irrigated Indus Basin.
Arfan Arshad – Oklahoma State University

9:40–9:50 a.m.Break, Hobo Gallery, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ Student Union
9:50–11:20 a.m.

Session 2 Presentations, Hobo Day Gallery, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ Student Union

9:50–10:05 a.m. | Characterization and Identification of Microbial Communities in Agricultural Drainage Ditches and Bioaugmentation Potentials for Enhanced Denitrification
Hao Wang – University of Minnesota

10:05–10:20 a.m. | North Dakota’s Surface Water Quality Assessment
Innocent Kelechi Anosike – University of North Dakota

10:20–10:35 a.m. | Design of a media filtration system for Escherichia coli removal from stormwater.
Ankur Debnath – South Dakota State University

10:35–10:50 a.m. | Effects of Disinfection Methods and Hydraulic Retention Times on Disinfection Byproducts Removal in Drinking Water by Biological Filters
Peng Dai – South Dakota State University

10:50–11:05 a.m. | Applied Machine Learning to Make Predictive Models for THM Formation in Drinking Water.
Rabbi Sikder – South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

11:05–11:20 a.m. | Flocculation of livestock wastewater using cationic cellulose
Noor Haleem – South Dakota State University

11:20–11:30 a.m.Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Session 3 Presentations, Hobo Day Gallery, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ Student Union

11:30–11:45 a.m. | Impact of crop rotation, no-till, and cover crops on soil erosion susceptibility by wind and water in southeastern, South Dakota

Ajoy Saha – South Dakota State University

11:45 a.m.–12 p.m. | Testing an Automatic Drip Irrigation System for Muskmelon, Squash, and Watermelon Crops at Oakes, ND
Uday Bhanu Prakash Vaddevolu - North Dakota State University

noon–12:15 p.m. | The importance of rural voices in environmental protection
Caleb Swanson – University of South Dakota

12:15–12:30 p.m. | Are Long short-term memory (LSTM) model simulations of watershed discharge improved when water storage is included as input? The Case Study at Rum River Watershed, MN
Pai-Feng Victor Teng – University of Minnesota

12:30–1:30 p.m.Lunch (On Your Own)
1:30–2:15 p.m.Professional Development, Hobo Day Gallery, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ Student Union

2:15–3 p.m.

3-3:45 p.m.

Career Meet and Greet, Hobo Day Gallery, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ Student Union

Career Panel Discussion

3:45–4 p.m.Break/Walk to
4–5:30 p.m.Poster Session and Reception, Gallery, Raven Precision Agriculture Center
5:30–6:30 p.m.

Alan R. Bender Memorial Lecture in Water and Climate Resilience, Gallery, Raven Precision Agriculture Center

     Dr Garey Fox, North Carolina State University, Department Head and Editor in Chief of ASABE Journals

6:30–6:45 p.m.Awards Ceremony, Gallery, Raven Precision Agriculture Center

Wednesday, Oct. 12

Eastern South Dakota Water Conference, McCrory Gardens Education and Visitor Center,