Conference Proceedings
Citation Information:
Renard, Kenneth G., McElroy, Stephen A., Gburek, William J., Canfield,H. Evan and Scott, Russell L., eds. 2003. First Interagency Conference
on Research in the Watersheds, October 27-30, 2003. U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.
This report comprises abstracts and papers presented at the First
Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, October 27-30,
2003, Benson, Arizona. This report represents state-of-the-art research
in watersheds. The content includes reviews of watershed research
programs conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural
Research Service and Forest Service, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Bureau
of Land Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National
Science Foundation Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of
Hydrological Sciences, Inc., as well as recent research on
watershed-scale topics such as hydrology, erosion, economic,
instrumentation, ecology, sociology and fire.
Keywords: watershed, watershed management, hydrology, water quality,
water quantity, runoff, sediment loss, sediment transport, sociology,
ecology, ecosystem, erosion, economics, instrumentation
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Cover
Preface and
Acknowledgements
Overview of Agency Watershed
Research Programs
The USDA-Agricultural Research Service Watershed Research
Program
Mark A. Weltz, Dale A. Bucks
Watershed Research and Development in the
Douglas F. Ryan
Watershed
Research in the Bureau of Land Management
Daniel P. Muller
The
CUAHSI Plan for a Network of Hydrologic Observatories
An
Overview of the Strategic Content of EPA’s Watershed Research Program
Lee A. Mulkey, Thomas O. Barnwell, Steven Hedtke, Rochelle Arraujo, Michael Slimak
Overview of the Water, Energy, Biogeochemical
Budgets Program of the
Mary Jo Baedecker
Technology and Watershed Planning
Watershed Planning with the Facilitator Decision
Support System
Philip Heilman, Paul Lawrence
Michele Masucci
Application
of BASINS for Water Quality Assessment on the Mill Creek Watershed in
Kansheng Wu, Y. Jun Xu, W.E. Kelso, D.A. Rutherford
William G. Kepner, Darius J.
Semmens, Daniel T. Heggem, Edward J. Evanson,
Curtis M. Edmonds, Soren N. Scott
Indicators for Assessing Watershed Conditions
B. McQuaid,
Using Science to Support Management Decisions in
Victor B. Serveiss, Jennifer L. Bowen, David Dow, Ivan Valiela, Leela Rao
Experimental Watersheds
The USDA ARS Little
Michael W. Van Liew, Patrick J. Starks, John A. Daniel, Jean L. Steiner
Hydrologic Instrumentation at the
USDA-ARS Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory,
R. Daren Harmel, Clarence W. Richardson, Kevin W. King, Jeff G. Arnold
Information Technology Applications in the ARS
Watershed Network
J.L.
Steiner, D.C. Goodrich, S. Hardegree, M.R. Burkhart, T.C. Strickland, M.A.
Weltz
The USDA-ARS Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory
and Little River Experimental Watersheds
Joe Sheridan, David Bosch, Robert Hubbard,
Richard Lowrance, Tom Potter,
Tim Strickland, Clint Truman, Don Wauchope
Erosion I
Andrew Simon, Eddy J. Langendoen, Robert Thomas
Elizabeth Keppeler, Jack Lewis, Thomas Lisle
Variable Rainfall Intensity Rainfall Simulator
Experiments on Semi-arid Rangelands
Jeffry Stone, Ginger Paige
Elizabeth Warnemuende, William Shuster, Doug Smith, James Bonta
John R. Gray, Theodore
S. Melis, Eduardo Patiño, Matthew C. Larsen, David J. Topping,
Patrick P. Rasmussen, Carlos Figueroa-Alamo
Monitoring and Modelling Runoff in Semi-arid Areas
from the Hillslope to the Watershed Scale
Richard
Brazier, John Wainwright, Tony Parsons, D. Mark Powell, Roger Simanton,
Howard Larsen
The Soil and Water Quality Link – Using Composted
Products for Effective Stormwater Management
Rodney W. Tyler
Hydrology I
Multiple Approaches to Estimate Ephemeral Channel
Recharge
D.C. Goodrich, D.G.
Williams, C.L. Unkrich, R.L. Scott, K.R. Hultine, D. Pool,
A. Coes, J. Hogan
Monitoring Water Content Changes in the Root Zone
with Borehole Ground Penetrating Radar
Ty P.A. Ferre, D.R.
Rucker, G. von Glinski
Importance of Wetlands to Streamflow Generation
E.S. Verry, R.K. Kolka
Streamflow Response of an Agricultural Watershed to
Seasonal Changes in Precipitation
Michael W. Van Liew, Jeanne M. Schneider, Jurgen D. Garbrecht
Huey-hong Hsieh, Jeffry Stone, D. Phillip Guertin, Donald D. Slack
Bruce Gungle
Hydrologic Characteristics of the Little River
Experimental Watershed
David Bosch, Joe Sheridan, Randy Williams
Erosion II
Comparison of the USLE, RUSLE1.06c, and RUSLE2 for
Application to Highly Disturbed Lands
George R. Foster, Terrence E. Toy, Kenneth G. Renard
Sediment Yield from Semiarid Watersheds
M. H. Nichols, K. G. Renard
Tracking Erosion and Sediment Re-distribution in a
Small Watershed
Mark A. Nearing, Viktor Polyakov, Martin Shipitalo
Experimental Drainage Basins in Israel: Rainfall,
Runoff, Suspended Sediment and Bedload Monitoring
Jonathan Laronne, Judith Lekach, Hai Cohen, Yulia Alexandrov
The Use of Used Tires in Water
Systems
Stuart A. Hoenig
Gordon Grant, Shannon Hayes, Sarah Lewis
Stream-bed Scour and Fill in Low-order Ephemeral
Stream Channels
D. Mark Powell, R. Brazier, M. Nichols, J. Wainwright, A. Parsons
Hydrology II
Infiltration and Runoff: Point and Plot Scale
Ginger Paige, Jeffry Stone
Watershed-Scale Sensing of Subsurface Flow Pathways
at the OPE3 Site
T.J. Gish, C.L. Walthall, C.S.T. Daughtry, G.W. McCarty, W.P. Dulaney
The Challenges of Measuring Rainfall: Observations
Made at the Goodwin Creek Research Watershed
Lisa Sieck, Matthias Steiner, Stephen Burges, James Smith, Carlos Alonso
Estimation of Watershed Scale Soil Moisture from
Point Measurements During SMEX02
Michael H. Cosh, Thomas J. Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, John H. Prueger
Monitoring Rangeland Watersheds With Very-Large
Scale Aerial Imagery
D. Terrance Booth, Don Glenn, Bruce Keating, Joe Nance, Sam E. Cox, Jean P. Barriere
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Water Quality
Parameters for Large Rivers in the Ohio River Basin
Naseer A. Shafique, Florence Fulk, Bradley C. Autrey, Joseph Flotemersch
A GIS-based Management Tool to Quantify Riparian
Vegetation Groundwater Use
Russell L. Scott, David C. Goodrich, Lainie R. Levick
Watershed Modeling I
Estimating Channel Morphologic Properties from a
High Resolution DEM
Scott N. Miller
Multi-Scale Evaluation of Watershed Health in the Delaware
River Basin and CEMRI
Kenneth Stolte, Peter Murdoch, Jennifer Jenkins, Richard Birdsey, Richard Evans
T.L. Veith, M.S. Srinivasan, W.J. Gburek
A Blueprint for an Integrated Watershed
Hydrogeomorphic Modeling System
Enrique R. Vivoni, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Rafael L. Bras
Recent Progress in the Development of a SPARROW
Model of Sediment for the Conterminous U.S.
Gregory Schwarz, Richard Smith, Richard Alexander, John Gray
Soil Water Dynamics Studies Using Image Analysis
Guillermo González Cervantes, Ignacio Sánchez-Cohen, Jean Pierre Rossignol
Modeling Phosphorus Transport in the Blue River
Watershed, Summit County, Colorado
Paula Jo Lemonds, John E. McCray
Watershed
Networks and Data Management I
Long-Term Forest Hydrologic Monitoring in Coastal
Carolinas
D.M. Amatya, G. Sun, C.C. Trettin, R.W. Skaggs
Forest Service Watershed Research in the Southwest
Daniel G. Neary, Gerald J.
Gottfried, Peter F. Ffolliott, Leonard F. DeBano,
Malchus B. Baker, Jr
A Proposed International
Watershed Research Network
W.R. Osterkamp, J.R. Gray
History of Small Watershed Research in Non-Forested
Watersheds in Arizona and New Mexico
K.G. Renard, M.H. Nichols
Albert Rango, Keirith Snyder,
Jeff Herrick, Kris Havstad, Robert Gibbens,
John Wainwright, Tony Parsons
StreamStats: A U.S. Geological Survey Web Site for
Stream Information
Kernell G. Ries III, John R. Gray
Watershed
Modeling II
Latif Kalin, Mohamed M. Hantush
Yude Pan, John Hom, Kevin McCullough
Entropy-Based Assessment of Two Hydrologic Models
Mariano Hernandez, David C. Goodrich, Leonard J. Lane
Modeling Uncertainty of Runoff and Sediment Yield
Using a Distributed Hydrologic Model
Mohamed M. Hantush, Latif Kalin
Richard M.T. Webb, Norman J. Peters, Brent T. Aulenbach, James B. Shanley
Operational Modeling of Soil Moisture at Local and
Regional Scales
Christa Peters-Lidard, Yihua Wu, Mike Tischler, Peggy O’Neill
Ge
Sun, Steven G. McNulty, Jennifer Moore
Water Quality and Quantity I
Quantification of Urbanization in Experimental
Watersheds
James Bonta, William Shuster,
Elizabeth Warnemuende, Hale Thurston, Doug Smith,
Michael Goss, Heriberto Cabezas
Water Supply and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
James J. Comiskey
Spatiotemporal Assessment of Long-Term Stream Water
Chemistry Across Louisiana
Y. Jun Xu
Seasonal Variations in River Flow and Nutrient
Concentrations in a Northwestern USA Watershed
Anne Sigleo, Walter Frick
Modulating Storm Drain Flows to Reduce Stream
Pollutant Concentrations
Walter Frick, Debra Denton
Nutrient and Herbicide Movement in Streamflow from
Two Midwestern Watersheds
Gene Alberts, Dan Jaynes, Robert Lerch
M.B. Adams, P.J. Edwards, J.N. Kochenderfer, F. Wood
Integrating Science with Watershed
Decision Making I
Calculating the Cost of Reducing Erosion from a
Small Rangeland Watershed
Philip Heilman, Yanxin Duan, Ryan Miller, D. Phillip Guertin
Spatial Decision Support System for Identifying
Priority Sites for Watershed Management Schemes
Jagarlapudi Adinarayana
Management of Upper Lake Watershed
Pradip Kumar Nandi
Watershed Management – Policies and Practices in a
Humid Tropical Region
K. Shadananan Nair
Erosion III
F.E. Rhoton, W.E. Emmerich, D.C. Goodrich, D.S. McChesney, S. Miller
Andrew Simon
Impact of Grass Hedges on Sediment Yield from a HEL
Watershed
Gene Alberts, Fessehaie Ghidey, Larry Kramer
Simulating Channel Geomorphic Change in Semi-Arid
Watersheds
Darius J. Semmens, David C. Goodrich, Waite R. Osterkamp
Subsurface Flow Effects on Soil Erosion in
Watersheds
Mathias Römkens, Shyam N. Prasad
Watershed Modeling III
Danny Marks, Gerald Flerchinger, Mark Seyfried
Studies of Scale and Processes in Hydrologic
Modeling on the Lucky Hills Watershed
H. Evan Canfield, David C. Goodrich
Rangeland Ecological and Physical Modeling in a
Spatial Context
S.M. Skirvin, M.S. Moran
A. Simon, R.L. Bingner, E.J. Langendoen, R.R. Wells, C.V. Alonso
Integrating a Landscape/Hydrologic Analysis for
Watershed Assessment
Mariano Hernandez, William G.
Kepner, Darius J. Semmens, Donald W. Ebert,
David C. Goodrich, Scott N. Miller
Hydrology III
D.O.
Rosenberry, W.E. Dean, J.H. Duff, J.W. LaBaugh, M.M. Reddy, P.S. Schuster,
R.G. Striegl, F.J. Triska, T.C. Winter
Hydrogeology of the Alluvial Aquifer Along the
Curtiss Reach of the San Pedro River
Leo
S. Leonhart, Eric M. Roudebush, Michael R. Long, Beth Ann Scully,
Betsy A. Semmens
Analysis of Long-Term Precipitation for the Central
Texas Blackland Prairie: 1939 to 1999
R.
Daren Harmel, Kevin W. King, Clarence W. Richardson, Jimmy R. Williams,
Jeff G. Arnold
Multi-Watershed Evaluation of WSR-88D (NEXRAD)
Radar-Precipitation Products
Stuart Hardegree, Steven Van Vactor, Kathleen Healy,
Carlos Alonso, James Bonta,
David Bosch, Dwight Fisher, Dave Goodrich, Daren Harmel, Jean Steiner, Michael Van Liew
Substrate and Dendrochronologic Streamflow
Reconstruction
David E. Grow
Long-Term Rainfall and Runoff Characteristics of a
Small Southern Piedmont Watershed
Dinku Endale, Dwight Fisher, Jean Steiner
Evaluation of Dielectric Constant-Based Soil
Moisture Sensors in a Semiarid Rangeland
Jeffrey Kennedy, Tim Keefer, Ginger Paige, Frank Bårnes
An ARS Retiree Looks at USDA Water Resource Programs
Kenneth G. Renard
Modeling Hydrologic Variables and Terrain Features
for Strategically Locating Riparian Buffers
Michael Burkart, Mark D. Tomer, David E. James, Thomas M. Isenhart
Hydrology IV (Remote Sensing and GIS)
Estimating Regional Daytime Net Carbon Dioxide Flux
using Remotely Sensed Instantaneous Measurements
Chandra
D. Holifield, William E. Emmerich, M. Susan Moran, Ross Bryant,
Charmaine L. Verdugo
Inferring Root Zone Soil Water
Content by Assimilating Remotely Sensed Data into a Soil Water Model
Patrick J. Starks, Thomas J. Jackson
Ross
Bryant, David Thoma, Susan Moran, Chandra Holifield, David Goodrich,
Tim Keefer, Ginger Paige, David Williams and Susan Skirvin
Monitoring Climate and Weather Variability in
Mississippi
Carlos V. Alonso, John A. Augustine, Tilden Meyers, Garry L. Schaefer, Loren White
Ecology I
The Effects of Ecosystem Restoration on Nitrogen
Processing in an Urban Mid-Atlantic Piedmont Stream
Paul Mayer, Elise Striz, Robert Shedlock, Edward Doheny, Peter Groffman
Vegetation Community Impacts on Soil Carbon,
Nitrogen and Trace Gas Fluxes
Dean A. Martens, Jean E. T. McLain
Influences of Alluvial Fans on Upland Watersheds in
Central Nevada
John L. Korfmacher, Jeanne C. Chambers
Carbon Dioxide Fluxes on Walnut Gulch Experimental
Watershed
William Emmerich
Watershed Networks and
Data Management II
Carl Unkrich
Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (WGEW) Database
Support
H. Dale Fox, Scott N. Miller
Turbidity Threshold Sampling in Watershed Research
Rand Eads, Jack Lewis
Use of the ARS Watershed Network for Developing and
Validating Models
Jeffrey G. Arnold, R. Daren Harmel, Clarence W. Richardson
Distribution and Application of Research Watershed
Data
Mark S. Seyfried
Merging Hydrology and Water Quality – The Mahantango
Creek Watershed
W.J. Gburek, A.N. Sharpley, M.S.
Srinivasan, P.J. Kleinman, T.L. Veith, P.A. Vadas,
R.B. Bryant, W.L. Stout, C.J. Dell
Remote Sensing in Watershed Scale Hydrology
Walter
J. Rawls, William P. Kustas, Thomas J. Schmugge, Jerry C. Ritchie,
Thomas J. Jackson, Al Rango, Paul Doraiswamy
New Patented Technology to Protect and Improve Water
Quality in Lakes
Raymond Bauer
Water Quality and Quantity II
Herbicide Contamination and Transport in Northern
Missouri and Southern Iowa Streams
Robert N. Lerch, Paul E. Blanchard
A Derived-Distribution Approach to Estimating Daily
Loads of Sediment in Coastal Plain Streamflow
Robert Hubbard, Joseph Sheridan, David Bosch
Long-Term Effects of N Fertilizer on Groundwater in
Two Small Watersheds
M.D. Tomer, M.R. Burkart
Mohammed Hossain, Omar Faruk, Waji Ullah, Ahmadul Hassan
Matthew McBroom, R. Scott Beasley, Mingteh Chang, Brian Gowin, George Ice
Eric E. Jorgensen, Scott M.
Holub, Gunadasa Silva, Paul M. Mayer, Ann E. West,
Mary E. Gonsoulin, Susan
J. Tunnell, Jay E. Clark, Jennifer L. Parsons,
David M. Engle, Eric C. Hellgren
Reaching Communities Across Arizona with Water
Education
D.
Phillip Guertin, Kim McReynolds, Susan Pater, Jeff Schalau, Kerry Schwartz,
Sandra Sutton, Susan Ward, Deborah J. Young
Water Quality
and Quantity III (Fire)
Impacts of Fire on Hydrology and Erosion in Steep
Mountain Big Sagebrush Communities
Frederick B. Pierson, Peter R. Robichaud, Kenneth E. Spaeth, Corey A. Moffet
Potential Hydrologic Response to a
Prescribed Fire on a Small Mountainous Watershed
Gerald N. Flerchinger, Patrick E. Clark
Fire Disturbance and Nitrogen Deposition Impacts at
the Watershed Scale in Southern California
Thomas Meixner, Mark E. Fenn, Peter M. Wohlgemuth
Water Quality and Quantity IV
Peter Murdoch, Rakesh Minocha
Post-Fire Erosion Control Research on the San Dimas
Experimental Forest: Past and Present
Peter M. Wohlgemuth
Climate Variability, Fire, Vegetation Recovery, and
Watershed Hydrology
Thomas Meixner, Peter M. Wohlgemuth
Sandra E. Ryan, Mark K. Dixon, Kathleen A. Dwire, William W. Emmett
Peter R. Robichaud, Robert E. Brown
Impacts of Wildfires on Hydrologic Processes in
Forest Ecosystems: Two Case Studies
Gerald J. Gottfried, Daniel G. Neary, Malchus B. Baker, Jr., Peter F. Ffolliot
Integrated Management
B. Levinson, K.W. Thornton
San Simon Watershed Assessment and Restoration Plan
Bill Brandau, Rod Wittler, Barron Orr
Research and Management Partnership for Stream
Habitat Inventory in the Appalachians
C. Andrew Dolloff, Craig N. Roghair, John D. Moran, Dawn M. Kirk
Integrated Watershed Management: A New Paradigm for Natural Resource
Management
Vicente Lopes, J.E. de Steiguer
Pulses: The Importance of Pulsed Physical Events for
Louisiana Floodplains and Watershed Management
J.W. Day, J. Ko, J. Cable, J.N.
Day, B. Fry, E. Hyfield, D. Justic, P. Kemp, R. Lane,
H. Mashriqui, E. Reyes,
S. Rick, G. Snedden, E. Swenson, P. Templet, R. Twilley,
K. Wheelock, B. Wissel
Experimental Watersheds, Nutrient Dynamics and
Collaborative Research
Sherri L. Johnson, Frederick J. Swanson, Kevin McGuire, Julia A. Jones, Mark Harmon
Ecology II
Watershed Analysis of Pulsing Freshwater Events
Using Landscape Modeling in Coastal Louisiana
Enrique Reyes, Robert Lane, John W. Day
Changes in Land Uses, Hydrology
and Fish Habitats in an Urban Drainage, Cedar River, Washington
Robert C. Wissmar, Raymond K. Timm II
Probabilistic Assessment of Wadeable Streams in the
Southeastern U.S.
Peter Kalla, James Maudsley
Small Stream Ecosystem Variability in the Sierra
Nevada of California
Carolyn T. Hunsaker, Sean M. Eagan
An Interregional Comparison of Channel Structure and
Transient Storage in Streams Draining Harvested
Brian H. Hill, Frank H. McCormick
Interregional Comparison of Nutrient Uptake Rates in
Managed and Old-Growth Watersheds
Frank H. McCormick, Brian H. Hill
Integrating Science with Watershed
Decision Making II
An Internet-based Spatial Decision Support System
for Rangeland Watershed Management
Ryan Miller, D. Phillip Guertin, Philip Heilman
Transfer and Application of Simulation Modeling in
Important Environmental Problems
L. J. Lane
The Analytic Hierarchy Process as a Means for Integrated Watershed Management
J.E. de Steiguer, Jennifer Duberstein, Vicente Lopes
Urban Watershed/Water Body Restoration – The Driving
Forces
Vladimir Novotny, David Clark, Robert J. Griffin
Jennifer N. Duberstein, J.E. de Steiguer