Hydrology and Watershed Management

• Fluvial Geomorphology
• Effects of climate change
• Watershed planning and management
• River operations
• Surface water/ground water/aquatic ecosystem interactions
• Flood forecasting, warning and preparedness
• Stream channel processes
• Effects of urbanization
• Ground water protection and impacts
• Flow management
• Flooding and floodplain management
• Effects of invasive species
• Human dimensions of watershed management

Water Quality and TMDLs

• Source water protection
• Impacts and management of nonpoint source pollution
• Effects of agriculture and mining
• Monitoring and control
• Approaches to nonpoint source TMDL implementation
• Pathogens in watersheds
• Emerging contaminants
• Effects of dredging
• Low flow/high flow/combined TMDLs
• Water quality regulations
• Pollutant Load Reduction Goals (PLRG’s)

Water Supply Issues

• Meeting future water demand
• Managing competing uses
• Water reuse
• Utility privatization
• Demand management
• Aging infrastructure
• Aquifer storage and recovery
• Drought management
• Water conservation
• Safeguards and security of water supplies

Stormwater Management

• Innovative technologies
• Infiltration/ground water recharge
• Modeling
• BMP performance
• Water quality control
• Retrofitting
• Financing Stormwater regulations
• System operation and maintenance
• Stormwater reuse

Riparian and Aquatic Ecosystems

• Riparian and aquatic ecosystem restoration
• Environmental instream flow requirements
• Adaptive assessment of stream restoration
• Social/economic aspects of riparian areas and management
• Performance and design of riparian buffer
• Stream ecology
• Environmental impacts of diversions
• Restoration successes and failures

Water Policy, Planning, and Management

• Politics and water
• Urban planning
• Communicating science to policy makers
• Integration of water quality and water quantity management
• Integrating government programs for watershed-based regulation
• New legislative initiatives
• Water implications of land-use planning
• Water management in rural areas
• Integrated water resources planning

Wildland Hydrology

• Forest management
• Rangeland management
• Forest roads

Mining

• Artificial hydrology and hydrogeology
• Groundwater/surface-water interactions
• Restoration of mined lands and watersheds
• Impacts of water removal
• Effects of mountaintop removal
• Acid mine drainage

Wetlands

• Functions and values
• Wetlands restoration and protection
• Design, construction and success of created wetlands
• Wetlands regulations
• Banking and mitigation

Community-Based Watershed Stewardship and Education

• Volunteer restoration and management initiatives
• Community-based restoration and management initiatives
• Financing community-based and volunteer efforts
• Communicating science to the public
• K-12 environmental education and outreach
• Residential land stewardship
• Organizational challenges
• Citizen participation
• Interstate watershed efforts
• Adult education and outreach

Lakes and Ponds

• Lake management and restoration
• Sedimentation
• Watershed-lake interactions
• Eutrophication
• Recreation and tourism
• Impacts of manmade impoundments on watershed systems
• Nutrient impacts
• Effects of acid rain
• Reservoir management
• Shoreline restoration
• Conflicting uses

Agricultural Hydrology

• Agricultural BMPs performance, design and implementation
• Management and effectiveness of stream buffers
• Impacts on water supply and quality
• Agricultural waste management and disposal
• Financing agricultural BMPs
• Fertilizers and pesticides
• Current/future irrigation demand
• Control of nonpoint contaminant sources

Economics/Finance

• Market-based solutions to water scarcity
• Benefits and costs of water transfers
• Financing infrastructure improvements
• Environmental economics
• Financing environmental restoration

Water Information, Acquisition and Management

• Innovative techniques
• World Wide Web/Internet dissemination
• Technology
• GIS and remote sensing
• Decision support systems
• Instrumentation

Transboundary Water Issues – Regional and International

• Management principles
• Inter-jurisdictional planning and solutions
• Inter-jurisdictional regulatory conflicts
• Compacts and allocations
• Inter-basin water transfers

Other International Issues

• Appropriate technology in developing areas
• Privatization of utilities and infrastructure
• World Water Forum
• Globalization of water issues

Cultural Issues

• Water in literature, culture, and art
• Sociology of watershed stewardship
• Language barriers (cultural, international, inter-disciplinary)
• Indigenous peoples issues
• Hydrology and archaeology / anthropology

Energy and Water

• Water requirements and availability
• Energy requirements for water production/purification
• Produced water
• Quality
• Policy issues
• Regulatory considerations

Emerging Issues

• Contaminants
• Regulatory issues
• Sensors
• Models

Developing Countries

• Appropriate technology
• Sanitation and health
• Privatization
• Globalization issues
• Infrastructure
• Sociocultural and economic aspects

Hydrophilanthropy

• Domestic issues
• International issues
• Hydro-altruism

Lower Mississippi River

• New Orleans reconstruction
• Future protection of the city
• Louisiana coastal wetlands
• Sediment quality and quantity
• Water supply and quality
• Flood control in lower Mississippi
• Hydropower
• Navigation

National and International Coastal and Ecosystem Restoration Issues

• Mississippi Delta
• Barrier islands restoration
• Coastal wetlands restoration
• Aquatic endangered species restoration
• Invasive species issues
• Restoration areas both national and international (i.e. Everglades, Pantenal, Lake Tahoe, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware River Estuary, Aral Sea)

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