2024 Governor's Water Conference

2024 Governor's Water Conference and Research Symposium

The Oklahoma Water Resources Center is excited to announce that we are accepting poster, standard oral and lightning talk presentation abstracts for the 2024 Oklahoma Governor’s Water Conference and Research Symposium.

Important Dates

September 5, 2024 - Call for Abstracts Opens
October 9, 2024 - Abstracts due by 5:00 p.m.
October 18, 2024 - Notifications of Abstract Status
November 19-20, 2024 - Conference and Research Symposium

Abstract Submission
Professionals, researchers, and students are invited to submit.

Presentation Categories:
- Poster Presentation: Posters should measure no more than 3 ft x 4 ft (36in x 48in; either landscape or portrait orientation is acceptable.) Easels, 3 ft x 4 ft poster boards, and clips will be provided.
- Standard Oral Presentation: 15-minute slot (12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for Q&A).
- Lightning Talk Presentation: 5-minute presentation.
Only limited standard oral presentation and lightning talk presentation slots are available, so we encourage you to please mark all the presentation formats that you are willing to present.

Example: If you mark both standard oral and lightning talk, and you are not chosen for a standard oral presentation, this will allow you to still be considered for presenting a lightning talk.

Topics:
- Presentations must be either research or extension/outreach topics relevant to water resources in Oklahoma.
More information will be sent to applicants whose applications are accepted.
Registration
All presenters must be registered for the conference.
- Registration for accepted student presenters will be submitted and paid for by the Oklahoma Water Resources Center.
- Non-student presenters will be responsible for submitting their own registration and payment.
- Please visit the conference website for additional information.
FAQ

Q: When are abstract submissions due?

A: October 9, 2024, by 5 p.m. CST through the online submission form on this page.

Q: What type of presentation categories does the OWRC offer?

A: There are 3 presentation categories: the standard oral presentation (15 minutes including time for Q&A), the poster presentation (poster session held on November 19) and the lightning talk – a 5-minute oral presentation with an enforced time limit.

Q: Who is the audience?

A: The conference draws scientists, policymakers, agency personnel, consultants and interested citizens from many disciplines. All presentations should be comprehensible to a general, non-expert audience.

Q: I’m a student that would like to submit an abstract to the OWRC, but I will have only preliminary data or no data by November. What type of presentation category should I consider?

A: You should consider the lightning talk or poster presentation categories. Standard oral presentations are intended for projects that contain a well-developed result and/or discussion component.
Awards

Monetary awards will be provided for the top student posters following the conference.

Below are presentations selected for the 2024 Governor's Water Conference Research Symposium on November 19th. Please refer to the conference page for schedule.

Oral: Water Quality Studies

Jason Vogel – The Great Plains Center for Green Advanced Stormwater Solutions (GPC4GrASS)
Andrew Pawlisz – Updates on Water Regulations for PFAS
Grant Graves – PFAS Water Sampling: Challenges, Innovations and Future Directions
Karen McGuire-Diemer – Quantification of Bioplastic Biodegradability in Oklahoma Aquatic Environments
Robert Knox – Opportunities for Implementing Engineering with Nature Projects in Oklahoma
Nicholas Materer – Mesoporous Silica and Beads as a Sorbent and Pre-concentrator for Emerging Contaminates in Water

Oral: Upper Red River Studies

Anna Kluckner – Overview of the Upper Red River Basin Study
Derrick Wagner – OWRB Implementation of Indicators of Drought Conditions to Curtail Junior Stream Water Permit Holders in the Lugert-Altus and Tom Steed Reservoir Basins
Adam Trevisan – Base-flow Response to Changes in Groundwater Withdrawals from the North Fork Red River Alluvial Aquifer, 1980-2013, Western Oklahoma
Muhammad Umar Akbar – Quantifying Agricultural Water Withdrawal in the Upper Red River Basin Using Remote Sensing ET Data and Machine Learning Algorithms
Saeedeh Abedzadeh – Analyzing Evidence of Hydrologic Intensification in Southern Great Plains
Kasra Khodkar – Watershed Scale Salinity Dynamics Modeling via SWAT-Salt Aided by Topological Stream Network Connectivity-based Transfer Learning

Water Research Lightning Talk

Lizzie Long – Estimating Runoff and Nitrate Leaching from the Oklahoma TAPS Program Using the DNDC Model
Abigail Winrich – The Impact of Land Use and BMPs on Recurrent Turbidity: An OK. HAWQS Modeling Study
Afsaneh Kaghazchi – Water Quality Response to Cattle Location in Grazinglands
Navdeep Saasan – Field-Scale Effects of Regenerative Agricultural Practices on Cotton Production and Water Management in Altus, Oklahoma: A Model-Based Analysis with Uncertainty Assessment
Brad Bain – The OSU Poultry Waste Management Education Program: 25 Years of Protecting Oklahoma's Water Resources
Nisha Bhatta – Modeling Green Infrastructure for Restoring of Northern Oklahoma College-Enid Stormwater Pond
Jessica Beyer – Transfer of blue-green algal toxins in an experimental aquatic foodweb
Nishan Bhattarai – A New Vegetation Water Use Monitoring Tool for Oklahoma
Yihan Wang – State Space Model (SSM) Surpasses Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) for Large-Scale Rainfall-Runoff Simulations across the Contiguous United States (CONUS)
Lei Qia – Predicting Flood Stages in Watersheds with Different Scales Using Hourly Rainfall Dataset: A Machine Learning Approach
Mahyar Taheri – Integrated Remote Sensing for Flood Detection and DEM-Based Flood Depth Estimation in Transportation and Disaster Mitigation: A Case Study of Oklahoma and Iowa Flood Events
Alan Lepera – Updated Hydrogeologic Investigation of the Cimarron River AT&T Aquifer in Northwestern Oklahoma

Poster

Adeyinka Ogunbajo – Potential for Machine Learning to Improve Physics-based Streamflow Model
Jerrod Smith – Insights from Conceptual and Numerical Groundwater-Flow Modeling of Alluvial Aquifers in Oklahoma, 2015-24
Maliha Tabassum – Balancing Preservation and Innovation: Green Stormwater Infrastructure Plan at the Washington School, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Lujun Zhang – Enhancing Subseasonal Precipitation Forecasts through a Hybrid Deep Learning and Statistical Approach
Allie Shaw – Reducing Nutrient Runoff: The Role of Legume Cover Crops in Sustainable Winter Wheat Production
Haowen Yue – Using a Machine Learning-based Water Supply Forecasting Model to Quantify the Role of Snow Water Equivalent in Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts Over the Western U.S.
Alok Pandit – Comparison of a Soil Moisture Based Evapotranspiration Modeling Framework with Remote-Sensing and In-Situ Modeling
Aayush Adhikari – Investigating the Skill of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting: A Case Study of 24 Snow-Dominated and Non-Snow-Dominated Watersheds Across the CONUS
Mamata Pandey – Developing a Crop Evapotranspiration (ET) Forecast Tool for Global Use
Palash Kumar Kundu – Canopy Temperature Prediction using State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Approaches for Irrigation Management of Cotton
Abinava Yeshwanth Kalayambakam Janardhan – Oklahoma Irrigation Scheduler: Paving the Path for Sustainable Water Management
Cole Davis – Assessing the Effect of Grazing Practices and Riparian Exclusion on Water Quality
Bipin Kafle – Acceleration Effect on the Wettability of Droplets on Tubular Porous and Dense Surfaces
Md Foysal Hasan – Impact of Recent Drought and Anthropogenic Activity on the Geochemistry of the Kiamichi River, Oklahoma
Vicktoria Holdaway – Experimental Design to Assess Biodegradation of Bioplastics in Natural Oklahoma Water
Ashli Mansour Ahmed Mohamed – An Examination of the Eutrophication Status of Happy Lake in Claremore, OK
Gabriela Yuri Inaba Da Silva – Transpiration and Evaporation from Oklahoma Croplands and Grasslands
Ciara Kelley – MgFe Layered Double Hydroxide for NO3- and PO43- Removal from Aqueous Solutions
Jacob McDoulett – Identification of Enterolert False Positives Through Catalase Testing
Patrick Kitzel – Mg2+/Al3+ Layered Double Hydroxide Synthesis for Phosphate and Nitrate Removal
Audra Liggenstoffer – Lithium - Is it the Next NDPWR?
Kalpataru Paul – Denitrification in Oklahoma Stormwater Constructed Wetlands: Conclusions from Activity Assays and Molecular Analysis
Megan Ryan – Enhancing Community Engagement and Ecosystem Health: Investigating NOC Enid's Campus Pond and Green Space
Madison Wilson – Effects of Enhancing Rock Weathering on CO2 Emissions and Leachate Quality
Andrew Cavett – Quantifying the Effect of Farm Ponds on Biodiversity
Sylvester Thompon – Integrating Nature-Based Solutions for Climate-Resilient Culverts
Tawhidur Rahman – Solar-Powered Mechanical Vapor Compression Desalination of Seawater
Shahrukh Ali – Homogenous Manganese-Based Tetraazamacrocyclic Catalyst for Antibiotic Degradation in Wastewater and Water Reuse
Kimia Tabib – Assessing PFAS Uptake in Basil Irrigation with Contaminated Wastewater Effluent
Charli McGougan – Development of a SERS-Based Microfluidic Sensor for Real-Time Detection of PFAS in Aqueous Samples Using Silver Nanoparticle (AgNPs) Aggregates Coated with Polyetheleneimine-Modified Graphene Oxide (GO-PEI)
Pravin Kumar Aruungavel – Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Septic Tank Irrigation Systems in Oklahoma
Edgar Pereira – Analysis of Droplet Sie Distribution in Oil-Water Flow for Produced Water Separation
Damilare Ajagbe – Sustainable Water Solutions: Utilizing Salt-Tolerant Microorganisms for Produced Water Cleanup and Reuse
Nathaniel Bolujoko – Fate of Antibiotics During Phosphate Recovery from Swine Wastewater
Sydnee Sisneros – UV-Based Treatment Methods for Gabapentin in Water
Mark Anthony Barbadillo – Corn Production Under Limited Irrigation in the Southern Great Plains
Colin Caso – Groundwater Nitrate Concentrations and Trends in Oklahoma
Digvijay Mohite – Irrigated Rotational and Continuous Cotton Production at Different Well Capacities in Oklahoma Panhandle
Todd Fagin – Using GeoAI to Quantify Changes in Center Pivot Irrigation in the High Plains Aquifer (HPA) in Oklahoma, 2001-2003