2015 Purdue SWAT Conference Material
October 14
Opening
| Karen Plaut, Senior Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Affairs, College of Agriculture, Purdue University | Welcome Address | ||
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| Ted McKinney, Director, Indiana State Department of Agriculture | Soil & Water Quality: Growing Indiana Agriculture | ||
| Lee Norfleet, Model Team Leader, USDA-NRCS | USDA Conservation Effects Assessment Program | ||
| Jeffrey G. Arnold, Agricultural Engineer, USDA-ARS | SWAT+ Benefits of Object Structured Code | ||
| Raghavan Srinivasan, Professor, Texas A&M University | 25 Years of SWAT Development |
Session A1/B1: SWAT+: Introduction to the new SWAT code
| Jeff Arnold, Katrin Bieger, Hendrik Rathjens | SWAT+: Introduction to the new SWAT code, input/output file structure, test datasets and developers’ interface |
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Session A2: Climate Change Applications
| William Burke | Assessing projected climate impacts on streamflow in small coastal basins of the Western United States | ||
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| Vinod Chilkoti | Climate change impact assessment on long term water budget for Maitland catchment in southern Ontario | ||
| Furkan Dosdogru | Climate and Land Use/Cover Change Impacts on the Ecologically Relevant Flow Metrics in the Cahaba River | ||
| Jesus Uresti-Gil | Development of a SWAT-based methodology to evaluate, at municipal scale, the vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate change |
Session A3: Hydrology
| So Ra Ahn | Analysis of Watershed Soundness by Water Balance and Water Quality Variation Using SWAT Model for Han River Basin, South Korea | ||
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| Juan Carlos Jaimes-Correa | Streamflow Generation Responses to Extreme Hydrometeorological and Climate Events in an Intensively Agricultural Watershed | ||
| Latif Kalin | Daily streamflow prediction in ungauged watersheds with a hybrid model: SWAT-ANN | ||
| Manashi Paul | Spatial and temporal evaluation of hydrological response to climate and land use change in South Dakota watersheds |
Session B1: SWAT+: Introduction to the new SWAT code
Session B2: Biofuel and Plant Growth
| Srinivasulu Ale | Assessing the influence of climate variability on land use change from cotton to perennial bioenergy grasses: implications on watershed hydrology and water quality | ||
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| Jingyu Song | Water Quality and Cost Considerations in the Supply of Feedstocks for Cellulosic Biofuels | ||
| Gangsheng Wang | Forecasting changes in water quality in the Tennessee River Basin with growing biofuels |
Session B3: Large Scale Applications
| Philip Gassman | The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Ecohydrological Model Circa 2015: Global Application Trends, Insights and Issues | ||
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| Santhi Chinnasamy | Modeling Sediment and Nutrient Loads Input to the Texas Gulf and Effects of Conservation Practices on Water Quality | ||
| Zhonglong Zhang | Assessing spatial and temporal distribution of sediment, nitrogen and phosphorous loading in the Missouri River basin | ||
| Xiaoyan Zheng | An analysis on the effect of settlements distribution changes to the NPS in the Xiaojiang River Basin after the construction of the Three Gorges Reservoir using SWAT |
Session C1: Hydrology
| Jane Frankenberger | Simulation of Tile Drainage in Two Midwestern Watersheds Using SWAT2012 | ||
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| Nina Omani | Hydrological Modeling of Highly Glacierized River Basins | ||
| Afshin Shabani | Modeling Water Quantity and Nutrients in Devils Lake Watershed Using SWAT | ||
| Karthik Kumarasamy | Implications of limited data on sediment yield predictions in a tile drain dominated landscape |
Session C2: Database and GIS Application and Development
| Dennis Flanagan | WEPP Model Background, Status, and Current Projects | ||
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| Narendra Kumar Tiwary | Web-Based Expected Inundation Mapping Using Swat and HEC-RAS Models | ||
| Getnet Betrie | A Tool to Preprocess the National Soil Database of Canada for SWAT2012 | ||
| Mike White | Development of Climate and Management Data to Support SWAT Modeling Efforts in the US |
Session C3: Model Development
| Claire Baffaut | Scheduling field operations as a function of temperature, soil moisture, and available resources | ||
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| Adam Freihoefer | Defining and Integrating Spatiotemporal Agricultural Land Management into the Soil and Water Assessment Tool | ||
| Colleen Moloney | Using a Single HRU SWAT Model to Examine and Improve Representation of Field-Scale Processes | ||
| Soni Pradhanang | Hillslope hydrology modifications for better representation of variable source areas: SWAT-Hillslope |
October 15
Session D1: Western Lake Erie Basin
| Margaret Kalcic | Shaping Lake Erie Agriculture Nutrient Management through a Multi-Model Approach | ||
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| Margaret Kalcic | Bringing SWAT to stakeholders to explore conservation scenario development in the Western Lake Erie Basin | ||
| Rebecca Muenich | Visualizing alternative pathways for reducing phosphorus loads into Lake Erie |
Session D2: BMPs
| Miae Ha | Investigating impacts of BMPs and land use on water quality for sustainable bioenergy production | ||
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| M.G. Mostofa Amin | Best management practices for reducing nutrient loads in a sub-watershed of Chesapeake Bay | ||
| Timothy Erickson | Using GIS Technology to Inform Watershed Modeling and Conservation Practice Implementation at the Local Level |
Session D3: Environmental Applications
| Latif Kalin | Challenges defining functional evaluation of an ungauged headwater wetland in coastal AL | ||
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| Conor Keitzer | Using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool to provide critical spatial information about the magnitude of water quality stressors and their effect on stream biodiversity | ||
| Yonggui Wang | Development of a Distributed TMDL Allocation in Liangzi Lake Basin Using SWAT Model and Water Quality Model |
Session E1: Western Lake Erie Basin
| Haw Yen | Large-scale, NHDPlus Resolution Watershed Modeling in the Western Lake Erie Basin Using SWAT | ||
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| Noel Aloysius | Analyzing the Variability of Water, Sediment and Nutrient Fluxes within an Agricultural Watershed to Identify Nutrient “Hotspots” | ||
| Chelsie Boles | Use of a calibrated SWAT model to support best management practice (BMP) evaluations in the Maumee River watershed |
Session E2: Climate Change Applications
| Darren Ficklin | The implications of SWAT parameter equifinality on climate change projections | ||
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| Sushant Mehan | Projecting climate change impacts on surface hydrology of a small agriculture-dominated watershed | ||
| Raghavan Srinivasan | Modeling the potential impacts of climate change on streamflow in a headwater basin of the Grande River Basin, Southeastern Brazil |
Session E3: Sensitivity Calibration and Uncertainty
| Cibin Raj | Impacts of model parametric uncertainty on landuse planning decision making | ||
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| Linh Hoang | Reducing equifinality in semi-distributed models by using spatial wetness information and reducing complexity in the SWAT-Hillslope model | ||
| Surojit Sarkar | Sediment Yield Simulation and Uncertainty Analysis by Using Soil and Water Assessment Tool for Chotki-Berghi Watershed | ||
| Ryan Bailey | Modeling Irrigation Systems in Semi-Arid Regions: Current Status and Emerging Needs for SWAT |
Session F1: Bioenergy Cropping System Applications for the U.S. Corn Belt Region
| Cibin Raj | Simulating establishment period of perennial bioenergy grasses in the SWAT model | ||
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| Indrajeet Chaubey | How do climate change and bioenergy crop production affect watershed sustainability | ||
| Philip Gassman | Assessment of Bioenergy Cropping Scenarios for the Boone River Watershed in North Central Iowa, United States | ||
| Yiannis Panagopoulos | Assessment of Large-Scale Bioenergy Cropping Scenarios for the Upper Mississippi and Ohio-Tennessee River Basins |
Session F2: Hydrology
| Padma Kant Sharan | Enhancing Prediction Accuracy in the Bagmati River Flood Forecasting Model on MIKE11 Platform in India | ||
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| Narendra Kumar Tiwary | Using SWAT Module in the Design of Submerged Weir on Narrow Rivers Having High Flood Discharge | ||
| Gashaw Gismu Chakilu | Evaluating the effect of climate change and land use/cover change on catchment hydrology of Gumara watershed, Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia | ||
| Andrew Sommerlot | A Web Based Interface for Distributed Short-Term Pollution Potential Forecast: Coupling SWAT with the Global Forecast System Model | ||
| Gebiaw Teshome Ayele | Stream flow Responses to distributed inputs of soil and land use under a changing climate: SWAT model reconceptualization. |
Session F3: Model Development
| Haw Yen | C-SWAT: An Easy Way to Save SWAT Computational Time by Consolidating Input Files | ||
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| Moges Berbero | SWAT-GHG: a Mechanistic Greenhouse Gas Sub-model for SWAT | ||
| Zachary Easton | TopoSWAT: An ArcPy Toolbox to Improve the Spatial Representation of Soil Properties and Hydrology Using Topographically Derived Initialization Processes | ||
| Daniel Fuka | TauRkSWAT: An Operating System Independent SWAT Model Watershed Initialization Interface |
Session G1: Poster
| Talal Alharbi | Modeling the partitioning of precipitation over the Wadi Al Lith watershed, Saudi Arabia | ||
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| James Almendinger | Twentieth century agricultural drainage creates more erosive rivers | ||
| Rohith Gali | Modeling Corn Crop Yields in High Water Table Conditions using SWAT Model | ||
| Nayereh Ghazanfarpour | Evaluation of Water Quality and Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the Black Creek Watershed Using the SWAT Model | ||
| Jiyeong Hong | Evaluating Water Quality Impact of Grassland Establishment | ||
| Sun Sook Jang | SWAT Evaluation for Best Management Practices in Highland Agricultural Catchment of South Korea | ||
| Manoj Jha | Modeling fate and transport of nutrients from onsite wastewater treatment system | ||
| Chung Gil Jung | Estimation of Regional Calibration of Hargreaves Equation for Actual Evapotranspiration using SWAT Simulated Results in the Mixed Forest Watershed | ||
| Andreas Klik | Simulation of surface runoff and soil erosion in small watersheds in Northern Ethiopia - application and verification of the SWAT model | ||
| Ji Wan Lee | Assessment of Forest Type and Future Climate Change Impacts on Streamflow in Small Catchment | ||
| Yong Gwan Lee | Comparison of Spatial Evapotranspiration between SEBAL and SWAT by Calibrating with the Eddy Flux measured ET | ||
| Ping Li | Impact of Drought on freshwater provisioning ecosystem services in the Upper Mississippi River Basin | ||
| Zhu Liu | Large scale flood inundation modeling by using SWAT and LISFLOOD-FP | ||
| Esther Mosase | Quantification of blue, green and grey water in the Limpopo River Basin in Southern Africa using Earth Observation data and SWAT model | ||
| Rebecca Muenich | To bias correct or not to bias correct? Is that really the question? | ||
| Femeena Pandara Valappil | Developing an in-stream water quality model for improved simulation of nutrient dynamics in SWAT | ||
| Garett Pignotti | Evaluation of SWAT Soil Water Content Model Output and Sensitivity | ||
| Junyu Qi | Adopting an Energy Balance Snowmelt Model in Soil and Water Assessment Tool model (SWAT) for Application in Atlantic Canada | ||
| Junyu Qi | Modifying the Soil Temperature Module in SWAT for Application in Atlantic Canada: Module Development, Validation and Impacts on Watershed Modelling | ||
| Cibin Raj | Bioenergy grass production on marginal lands and hydrologic and water quality impacts in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB) | ||
| Nikhil Sangwan | SWAT model for policy analysis in drought hit California | ||
| Herbert Ssegane | Designing Multifunctional Landscapes for Sustainable Bioenergy Feedstock in a Tile-Drained Agricultural Watershed | ||
| Ruoyu Wang | Improve simulation of annual crop sensitivity to climate variability in the Eastern Corn Belt |
October 16
Session H1: Climate Change Applications
| Sagar Gautam | Climate model biases and statistical downscaling for application in hydrologic model | ||
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| Quang Phung | Evaluation of climate and land use changes on hydrologic processes in the Salt River Basin, Missouri, United States. | ||
| Yu-Chen Wang | Quantifying Flood Risk and Sensitivity to Climate Change in the Huron River Watershed Using SWAT |
Session H2: Sediment, Nutrients, and Carbon
| M.G. Mostofa Amin | Closing the prediction gap between agricultural nutrient losses and riparian zone ecology | ||
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| Xiaolu Wei | Estimating Nitrate Transport in Surface-Subsurface Hydrologic Systems by the linked SWAT-MODFLOW-RT3D Model | ||
| Zachary Easton | Improved simulation of edaphic and manure phosphorus loss in SWAT and TopoSWAT |
Session H3: BMPs
| Andi Hodaj | Evaluation of the two-stage ditch as a best management practice | ||
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| Alexis Heim | Assessing the Impact of Alternative Management Strategies in a Dairy-dominated Agricultural Watershed Vulnerable to High Sediment and P Runoff | ||
| Denise Taffarello | SWAT model for post-Water PES scenarios in the headwaters of Cantareira Water Supply System, Brazil | ||
| Nahal Hoghooghi | Multisite Sensitivity Analysis and Calibration of a SWAT Model on a Selected Urban Watershed in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia |
Session I1: EPIC/APEX Modeling System
| Anomaa Senaviratne | Is site-specific APEX calibration necessary for field scale BMP assessment? | ||
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| Verel Benson | Future EPIC to SWAT Linkages |
Session I2: Landscape Processes and Landscape / River Continuum
| Jim Almendinger | Soft-Data Considerations in Modeling Watershed-Scale Phosphorus Loads in the St. Croix Basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA | ||
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| Tame Veith | The Pennsylvania Phosphorus Index and TopoSWAT: Method for comparison of input and output terminology and parameters | ||
| Ramesh Rudra | Assessing SWAT Model Capability in predicting the Areas Contributing Flow in an Agricultural Watershed | ||
| Paul McGinley | Using SWAT to Understand Stream Phosphorus Concentrations and the Importance of External Inputs and Internal Reactions |
Session I3: Large Scale Applications
| Santhi Chinnasamy | Modeling Sediment and Nutrient Loads Input to the Chesapeake Bay and Effects of Conservation Practices on Water Quality | ||
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| Nina Omani | Assessing sensitivity of UMRB agriculture and water resources to past and current drought | ||
| Shiv Prasher | Impact of Tile Drainage on Sediment Losses in an Agricultural Watershed using SWATDRAIN |
Session J1: Hydrology
| Tian Guo | Comparison of the tile drainage routine performance in SWAT 2009 and 2012 in the Little Vermillion River Watershed | ||
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| Mohammad Adnan Rajib | Multi-objective calibration approach for SWAT by using spatially distributed remotely sensed/in-situ soil moisture data | ||
| Raghavan Srinivasan | Hydrologic Similarity Analysis by Unsupervised Classification of watershed’s Soft Data Received from the SWAT Model. | ||
| Jesus Uresti-Gil | Development of a SWAT-based information system to identify areas for sustainable intensive agricultural production in the peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. |
Session J2: Large Scale Applications
| Murli Dhar Singh | Recent Technological Advancement and Sustainable Solutions for Flood Issues in North Bihar | ||
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| Liuying Du | Characterization of climate and land use change impacts on blue and green water dynamics over the Ohio River basin | ||
| Yingyuan Shi | Impact of non-point source pollution on water quality of Pengxi River using SWAT model after 175-meter water project operation of the Three Gorges Dam | ||
| Jing Wan | Research on watershed for non-point source pollution in the Three Gorges Reservoir based on SWAT |
Session J3: Database and GIS Application and Development
| Jeffrey G. Arnold | A Geospatial Modeling Interface (GMI) for SWAT Model Deployment and Evaluation | ||
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| Theresa Nelson | Prioritizing Water Quality Improvement Efforts on Agricultural Lands Using Readily Available GIS Data | ||
| Aleksey Sheshukov | Impacts of Input Datasets on SWAT Model Performance and Watershed Hydrology | ||
| Gurdeep Singh | LUU_Checker: A Tool for Dynamically Incorporating New Land Uses in SWAT |
Session K1: Climate Change Applications
| Jungang Gao | Uncertainty Estimation of Hydrological Impacts of Bias-Corrected CMIP5 Climate Change Projections | ||
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| Yuri Kim | Hydrological change projection in the North Carolina Piedmont watershed by SWAT and bias corrected NARCCAP | ||
| Glenn O'Neil | Mapping Ground Water Recharge Rates in Southwest Michigan under Multiple Future Climate Simulations | ||
| Carlington Wallace | Quantifying the Effects of Climate Change on Runoff, Sediment and Chemical Losses for Different Watershed Sizes |
Session K2: Model Development
| Younggu Her | Urban hydrology simulation using the new modular SWAT code | ||
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| Garett Pignotti | Comparative Analysis of Spatial Resolution Effects on Standard and Grid-based SWAT Models | ||
| Cibin Raj | Improved physical representation of vegetative filter strip in SWAT | ||
| Zhonglong Zhang | Coupling aquatic nutrient simulation module (NSMI) and SWAT model |