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Book - Watersheds, Groundwater and Drinking Water
University of California, Davis
GROUNDWATER
Copperative Extension Program
Groundwater Hydrology - Groundwater Resources - Groundwater Quality
 
Past Groundwater Program Cooperative Extension Activities, 2000/01
(all presentations are by Thomas Harter)
Date Organization Meeting Title Clientele Group Activity / Presentation Title Location
2/9/00 USBR Sponsor meeting USBR personnel “A conjunctive use surface water – groundwater model for the Tule Groundwater Basin Area”

Sacramento
2/22/00 EPA, NRCS Agency Meeting Federal and state agency personnel, state assembly representatives, dairy industry representatives Invited, “Shallow Groundwater Quality and Large Dairies: Experiences and Challenges in the Northern San Joaquin Valley”

San Francisco
2/25/00 UC Coop. Extension, Stanislaus County “Groundwater Quality Control and Monitoring on Dairies”

Consultants, dairy producers ˝ day workshop Modesto
2/26/00 LAWR HYD 151, “Field Methods in Hydrology”

Undergraduate and graduate students 1 day field works hop: “Groundwater Monitoring” Hilmar
2/28/00 UC Coop. Extension, Tulare County “Groundwater Quality Control and Monitoring on Dairies”

Dairy producers ˝ day workshop Visalia
3/1/00 UC Coop. Extension, Tulare County “Groundwater Quality Control and Monitoring on Dairies”

Consultants, dairy producers ˝ day workshop Visalia
3/9/00 Southern California Edison Company “Workshop for Growers: Groundwater, Wells, and Pumps”, 1 day farmers, well drillers, well and pump supply/maintenance industry, irrigation industry

1-day shortcourse Tulare
3/16/00 Southern California Edison Company Staff Conference Pump operators, pump test operators Invited: “Introduction to Groundwater Hydraulics and Pumping Test”

Tulare
4/11/00 International Conference Integrated Water Resources Management International Scholars Developing a conjunctive us groundwater-surface water model for the Tule River Basin

Davis
3/23/00 DANR DANR Animal Industries Continuing Conference Farm advisors, specialists Invited: “Assessment/Monitoring of Groundwater Quality Impacts from AFOs”

Davis
4/28/00 California Environmental Health Association 2000 Annual Educational Symposium: “Navigating the Future of Environmental Health: Turning Tomorrow Into Today"

Environmental health professionals, county and state regulatory personnel Invited: “Dairy Waste Management and Monitoring: The Groundwater Story” Fresno
5/21/00 Turlock Irrigation District Ad Hoc Drainage Task Force Meeting Irrigation district personnel, NRCS personnel, farm advisors Invited: “Dairy Waste Management and Monitoring: The Groundwater Story”

Turlock
7/21/00 UCCE SLO Farm Water Quality Workshop or Meeting?

    Salinas
9/21/00 UCCE Stanislaus Dairy Flow Meter Day Growers, ag consultants, local planners Invited: “Why lagoon water management matters to groundwater quality”

Hilmar/Modesto
9/25/00 SEPM SEPM/IAS Research Conference onEnvironmental Sedimentology:  Hydrogeology of Sedimentary Aquifers

Geologists, hydrologists “Risk analysis of deep groundwater salinization in the alluvial aquifer system of the western San Joaquin Valley, California” Santa Fe, New Mexico
10/11-13/00 Groundwater Resources Association of California “Principles of Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling” ORGANIZED3-day shortcourse Consultants and engineers, local and state regulatory and planning agency personnel, irrigation and water district personnel

3-day shortcourse Sacramento
11/15/00 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Geologists, hydrologists “Stratigraphic control of nonpoint source pollution in deep alluvial aquifer systems”

Reno, Nevada
12/19/00 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Researchers, professionals “Spatial Variability of Hydraulic Properties in Unsaturated Alluvial Sediments” (poster presentation)

San Francisco
1/29/01 UCCE San Luis Obispo Farm Water Quality Shortcourse Growers, ag consultants Invited: “Groundwater Monitoring and Management

Salinas
2/7/01 California Agronomy Society of America Annual Meeting Growers, ag consultants, planners, regulatory agents Invited: “Dairy Nutrient Management Effects on Groundwater Quality: A Case Study”

Fresno
2/16/01 UC Davis Hyd 151 Students Invited: “What is Groundwater?”

Davis
2/21/01 UC Davis Hyd 151 Students Invited: “Water Well Construction”

Davis
2/22/01 DANR Statewide Conference Cooperative extension specialists, farm advisors Invited: “Agriculture and Groundwater: The many facets of groundwater regulation in California”

Riverside
2/23/01 UC Davis Hyd 151 Students Invited: “Sampling and Monitoring Groundwater”

Davis
2/28/01 UCCE San Luis Obispo Farm Water Quality Shortcourse Growers, ag consultants Invited: “Groundwater Monitoring and Management San Luis Obispo
3/7/01 Friant Water Users Authority Meeting Water district managers “Groundwater – Surface Water Hydrology Model for the Tule River Basin” Tulare Co.
3/8/01   Western Nutrient Management Conference Researchers, consultants Invited: “Shallow Groundwater Monitoring within Animal Feeding Operations: Issues and Pitfalls”

Salt Lake City
5/08/01 UC Davis Visiting group from China Researchers Invited: “Water and Groundwater Management  in California”

Davis
5/15/01 UC Davis Visiting group from Mideast Researchers Invited: “Water and Groundwater Management  in California”

Davis
5/18/01 UC Davis Hyd 198 Students Invited: “Groundwater Rights”

Davis
5/21/01 UC Davis Hyd 117 Students Invited: “Dairy Waste Management

Davis
5/21/01 Lodi Watershed Volunteers Meeting Citizen volunteers Invited: “Introduction to Applied Groundwater Hydrology”

Lodi
5/23/01 UC Davis Hyd 198 Students Invited: “Groundwater Rights”

Davis
5/25/01 UC Davis Hyd 198 Students Invited: “Legal Framework for Groundwater Quality Control”

Davis
6/01/01 American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting Researchers, professionals Invited: “Spatio-temporal variability of Nitrate in Groundwater underneath Dairies with Irrigated Crops

Boston
6/12/01 UC Davis/Geoprobe Field Day Hydrogeologists, drillers Host, “Geoprobe Field Day”

Davis
6/25/01 International Conference / UNESCO Future Groundwater Resources at Risk, 2001 Researchers “Nonpoint Source Pollution from Animal Farming in Semi-Arid Regions: Spatio-Temporal Variability and Groundwater Monitoring Strategies

Lisbon, Portugal
7/3/01 Universitad Polytecnica Barcelona seminar Faculty, students Invited: "Stratigraphic Control of Nonpoint Source Pollution in Alluvial Aquifer Systems"

Barcelona, Spain
7/9/01 Universitaet Freiburg Seminar Faculty, students Invited: "A conjunctive use groundwater and surface water model for the semi-arid Tule Basin: Conceptual Approach"

Freiburg, Germany
7/10/01 Universitaet Tuebingen seminar Faculty, students Invited: "Stratigraphic Control of Nonpoint Source Pollution in Alluvial Aquifer Systems"

Tuebingen, Germany
7/12/01 RIVM workshop Federal environmental regulators, environmental planners Invited: "Groundwater Quality Impacts from Dairy Farms with Irrigated Forage Crops: A Multi-scale Analysis"

Utrecht, Netherlands
7/31/01 American Society of Agricultural Engineers Annual meeting Researchers, ag consultants, regulators, regional planners Invited Keynote Lecturer for Special Session Nonpoint Source Pollution Impacts on Water Quality: “Monitoring shallow groundwater nitrogen loading from dairies with irrigated forage crops”

Sacramento
7/31/01 American Society of Agricultural Engineers Annual meeting Researchers, ag consultants, regulators, regional planners  “Dairy Nutrient Management Effects on Groundwater Quality: A Case Study” (poster presentation)

Sacramento
7/31/01 American Society of Agricultural Engineers Annual meeting Researchers, ag consultants, regulators, regional planners “Shallow Groundwater Monitoring within Animal Feeding Operations: Issues and Pitfalls”

Sacramento
9/28/01 Fertilizer Research & Education Foundation Advisory Board Meeting Ag consultants, farm advisors, growers Invited: “How (and how much) does California Ag Nonpoint Source Pollution get into Groundwater: Unraveling the Mystery in a Nectarine Orchard”

Pacific Grove
10/3/01 DANR Ag Media Training Journalists Invited: “Dairy Operations and Groundwater Quality”

Tulare
10/9/01 UCCE Shasta County “Workshop for Growers: Groundwater, Wells, and Pumps”, 1 day shortcourse

farmers, well drillers, well and pump supply/maintenance industry, irrigation industry

Invited: 1-day shortcourse Fall River
10/10/01 UCCE Lassen “Workshop for Growers: Groundwater, Wells, and Pumps”, 1 day shortcourse

farmers, well drillers, well and pump supply/maintenance industry, irrigation industry Invited: 1-day shortcourse Susanville
10/20/01 Western Dairy Veterinary Medicine Academy? Annual Workshop, 1 day shortcourse Dairy veterinarians Invited: 1-day shortcourse, presentation: “Dairy Farming and Groundwater Quality”

San Diego
10/31/01 Groundwater Resources Association of California Biennial Groundwater Conference Consultants, regulatory agency personnel, water district managers, water district personnel, state planning personnel,

Invited: “Streams, Hyporheic Zone, and Groundwater: The Connection” Sacramento
11/14/01 UCCE Tehema County “Workshop for Growers: Groundwater, Wells, and Pumps”, 1/2 day farmers, well drillers, well and pump supply/maintenance industry, irrigation industry

Invited: 1/2-day shortcourse Red Bluff
12/4/01 DANR Dairy Workgroup Meeting Farm advisors, specialists Invited: “Dairy Manure and Groundwater Quality”

Davis
12/15/01 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Researchers, professionals “Nitrogen transport in thick, unsaturated, spatially variable alluvial sediments”  

San Francisco
12/14/01 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Researchers, professionals “Spatio-temporal recharge patterns in a semi-arid alluvial basin with irrigated crops” 

San Francisco
1/10/02 UCD Water and Air Symposium CE specialists, researchers, “Animal farming and groundwater quality”

Davis
1/22/02 CA&ES Annual Farm Advisor Meeting Farm advisors, specialists Invited: “Challenges in the Monitoring of Nonpoint Source Pollution of Groundwater”

Davis
2/1/02 Madera Sustainable Dairy Working Group Meeting County employees, farm bureau, growers, ag consultants

Invited: “The Impact of Dairies on Groundwater Quality” Madera
2/6/02 CASA Annual Meeting Ag, crop, and pesticide consultants, growers Invited: “Nitrate Distribution in a Deep, Alluvial Unsaturated Zone:Geologic Control vs. Fertilizer Management”

Fresno
2/25/02 UC Davis, Dept. of CEE Seminar Series Faculty, students Invited: “Multiscale Monitoring of Nonpoint Source Pollution in Groundwater” Davis