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Climate and Water
Planning for Change
3rd Annual Kansas Water Issues Forum
The
Kansas Water Office would like to thank everyone that attended the 3rd
Annual Water Issues Forum meeting in Wichita on February 3rd and/or in
Hays on February 4th, 2010. We hope you enjoyed the conference and found
the information presented interesting and informative.
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PowerPoint Presentations
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Agricultural System Responses to Climate Change - Humberto
Blanco & Scott Staggenborg, Kansas State University
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Geologic Carbon Sequestration Opportunities in Kansas - Martin
K. Dubois, CAP CO2, LLC
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Climate and Water - Planning for Change - Mike Armstrong & Tom
Schrempp, Water One
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Carbon Dioxide Injection in Kansas - Doug Louis, KCC-Conservation
Division
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Carbon Capture and Storage - Rex Buchanan, Deputy Director,
Kansas Geological Survey
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Bumper Crops or Busted Yields? An Economist's Opinion - Dr. Bill
Golden, Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State
University
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Agricultural Economic Impact of Potential Climate Change - Dr.
Bill Golden, Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State
University
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Long Term Climate Cycles - Dr. Charles Perry, USGS, Lawrence, KS
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Kansas Water in a Changing Climate - N. A. Brunsell, Dept. of
Geography, Atmospheric Sciences Program, University of Kansas
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Climate Change Impacts - T.A. Howell, R. M. Aiken
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Water For the Future - Deb Ary, ASR, Wichita, KS
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Land Use and Climate Change in the Midwest - Dr. Sharon A.
Billings, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Kansas
Biological Survey, University of Kansas
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Long Range Forecasting - Tracy Streeter, Director, and Earl
Lewis, Assistant Director, Kansas Water
Office
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Climate Change and Flooding - Lori Shultz, National Weather
Service
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Long Range Forecast for Kansas - Jared Morrison, Manager, Water
Programs, Bill Eastman, Director Environmental Services, Westar
Energy
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Environmental Choices - Johannes Feddema, Department of
Geography, University of Kansas
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Kansas and Climate Change - Johannes Feddema, Department of
Geography, University of Kansas
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Agriculture, Sustainability and Monsanto - Mark Edge, Monsanto
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International and Domestic Adaption to Climate Change - Jim
French, Oxfam America
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Green House Gases (GHGs) and Agriculture - Dan Nagengast, Kansas
Rural Center
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Kansas Climate Change Landscape Management - Eric Bernard, RLA,
ASLA, Kansas State University
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Kansas Water Energy Nexus - Nancy Jackson, Climate & Energy
Project
Publications
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Dates and Locations |
Wednesday
February 3, 2010 |
Sedgwick County
Extension
Education Center
7001 West 21st North
Wichita, KS
Agenda -
Map
*NOTE: Wichita attendees should be
advised to park on either the 21st Street or Ridge Road
sides of the parking lot. |
La
Quinta Inns & Suites
5500 W. Kellogg Drive
Wichita, KS 67209
316-943-2181
Room block expiration date: 1/19/10
Cancellation Policy: 24 hours prior to
arrival unless weather related
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Thursday
February 4, 2010 |
Kansas State University
Ag. Research Center - Hays
1232 240th Avenue
Hays,
KS
Agenda -
Map |
Sleep Inn & Suites
1011 East 41st Street
Hays, KS 67601
785-625-2700Room block
expiration date: 1/25/10
Cancellation
Policy: 24 hour notice prior to arrival. No charge
if due to weather
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Featured Speakers |
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Rob Aiken
joined NWREC in 1999 to focus on water-limited cropping
systems. Long-term studies examine effects of cropping
intensity and cultural practices on water use and land
productivity. He provides instrumentation support to
identify irrigation management effects on yield formation,
physiology support to identify transpiration efficiency and
cold tolerance traits in sorghum, and agronomic support for
developing pest-resistant sunflower hybrids.
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Debra Ary, P.E. - Superintendent Production and
Pumping for Wichita Water Utilities.
Debra Ary manages the operations of the Water
Treatment Plant, Cheney Reservoir and the Equus Beds Well
Field and is excited to take part in the City’s Equus Beds
Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) project.
Debra worked in the Public Works department
from 1999-2005, first as an engineering intern and later as
an engineer. During that time she wrote petitions for
public improvements, designed small water and sewer systems
and pavement projects. In 2005 she moved out to the
maintenance division as a field storm water engineer and in
2007 joined Water Utilities as a Division Engineer.
Debra received a bachelor’s degree in music
education, a minor in mathematics and finally Mechanical
Engineering from Wichita State University. She is also
licensed as a Civil Engineer (P.E.) |
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Sam Atherton has worked for PWWSD #4 for 26
years; the last 7 as Manager. The District is a wholesaler
to 6 cities and 8 rural water districts. The District has a
Marketing Contract and treats water from Big Hill reservoir.
Sam holds a Kansas Class IV Water Operator Certification and
KRWA Rural Water Manager of the year in 2003. PWWSD #4 won
the 2003 KRWA Great American Water Taste Test and was the
2007 winner of the Capacity Development Achievement Award.
Sam also serves as Secretary of the Kansas Rural Water Board
of Directors and represents small municipal customers on the
Public Water Supply Committee of the Kansas Water
Authority. He is Past President of KS FFA Alumni and is
currently serving as Past President of the National FFA
Alumni Association. Sam is a Graduate of Fort Hays State
University. |
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Eric A. Bernard, RLA, ASLA - Associate Professor
of Landscape Architecture at Kansas State University
Professor Bernard is a licensed landscape
architect whose teaching, research and project contributions
focus on holistic environmental and ecological planning and
design and Geographic Information Science, GIS and LiDAR.
Professional works have earned recognition from the American
Society of Landscape Architecture (Honor Award in the
ecology and sustainability categories to Design Workshop,
Inc. in 2000) and the Environmental Systems Research
Institute (ESRI) (Special Achievement Award in GIS to
K-State in 2005).
Professor Bernard collaborates with over 50 researchers
across 6 colleges at K-State, 4 universities and with state
agencies on projects focusing on interactions between human
and natural systems and coupled models. Professor Bernard
chairs the K-State GIScience Steering Committee and serves
as K-State delegate to the University Consortium of
GIScience, and on the State of Kansas GIS Policy Board.
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DR.
SHARON BILLINGS joined KU’s
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the
Kansas Biological Survey in 2003. She specializes in
understanding how carbon, nitrogen, and water move through
terrestrial ecosystems, with a focus on the influence of
anthropogenic activity on the cycling of these resources.
For example, she studies how rising concentrations of
atmospheric carbon dioxide and changing precipitation
patterns influence forest and grassland soils. She explores
whether soils retain their stocks of organic carbon, or
whether organic carbon is released back to the atmosphere as
carbon dioxide via soil microbial activity, as well as the
processes that generate nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse
gase. She also uses tree-rings to establish patterns of tree
growth where rainfall is relatively limited. In addition,
she is interested in understanding how land use change (i.e.
forest growth on grassland soil, or planting crops on former
grasslands) influences the amount and timing of a
landscape's uptake and release of carbon.
Prior to coming to KU, Dr.
Billings was a research assistant professor at the
University of Arkansas, where she also was a postdoctoral
scholar. Dr. Billings received her doctorate from Duke
University in 1998, her Master's degree from Duke in 1996,
and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Hampshire
in 1991. |
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Humberto Blanco, assistant professor in soils at
the Agricultural Research Center-Hays, joined the Center in
2008. His research work deals with soil management with an
emphasis on applied soil physics. He is conducting basic and
applied research for a better understanding of
soil-water-plant relationships under different scenarios of
tillage, crop, and residue management systems. His specific
areas of research interest involve soil hydrology,
structure, compaction, fertility, and carbon dynamics in
relation to crop production and ecosystem functions. He is
also assessing the implications of corn, sorghum, and wheat
residue removal as feedstocks for cellulosic ethanol
production.
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B.S. Ag
Engineering/Soil Science, Technical University of Oruro,
Bolivia, 1990
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M.S.
Soil Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1995
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Ph.D.
Soil Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003
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Nathaniel Brunsell has been an assistant
professor of Geography at the University of Kansas since
2004. He specializes in biosphere-atmosphere interactions
and the linkages between climate, vegetation and hydrology.
His recent research has focused on examining GCM output for
Kansas and compared them to observations from the 20th
century, processes surrounding soil moisture-precipitation
feedbacks, and regional aspects related to global change. He
conducts his research using field observations, remote
sensing/GIS and climate models. He received his PhD in 2003
from Utah State University in Biometeorology. In addition,
he has a BS from University of New Mexico in Earth and
Planetary Sciences in 1997. Prior to beginning at KU, Dr.
Brunsell was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University. |
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Rex Buchanan
grew up near Little River, in Rice County, Kansas, on
the edge of the Smoky Hills. He has an undergraduate degree
from Kansas Wesleyan University and graduate degrees from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been at the
Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas,
since 1978, and is currently the Deputy Director. He is the
co-author of Roadside Kansas: A Guide to its Geology and
Landmarks (1987) and editor of Kansas
Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and
Fossils (1984), both published by the University Press
of Kansas; co-author of The Canyon Revisited: A
Rephotography of the Grand Canyon, 1923-1991, published
by the University of Utah Press (1994); co-editor of
Geowriting, published by the American Geological
Institute (1995); and co-compiler of Kansas Groundwater,
published by the Kansas Geological Survey (1993). He has
been president of the Kansas Association for Conservation
and Environmental Education, the Kansas Academy of Science,
and the Association of Earth Science Editors. In 2008 he
was named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
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David Combs is currently the Chief of Planning Branch
with the Kansas City District, Corps of Engineers. As
Planning Chief, he is responsible for the plan formulation,
environmental, and economic studies on all civil works water
resource projects within Kansas City District. David is a
native of Kentucky but his professional career has taken him
to Oklahoma, Illinois, and currently to Kansas City,
Missouri. His academic background includes a BS and MS in
fisheries biology from Eastern Kentucky University and
post-graduate work in Environmental Engineering from
Oklahoma State University. Prior to joining the Corps of
Engineers, David served as a research biologist for 10 years
with the State of Oklahoma. As a member of the Corps of
Engineers, David has served in various technical and
supervisory environmental and planning positions at Chicago
and Tulsa Districts prior to becoming Chief of Planning at
Kansas City District. David has served as the Planning
Chief and as the congressional liaison for Kansas City
District since 2003 and has over 25 years of civil and
military environmental planning and compliance experience
with the Corps of Engineers. |
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MR. MICHAEL DEPUE is a Vice President
with PBS&J’s Floodplain Hazards Management Group. He is a
registered Professional Engineer in 13 states, and a
Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM). Mr. DePue served as a
subject matter expert for the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) Interagency Levee Policy Review Committee in
2006, and provided technical support to the California
Department of Water Resources Central Valley Flooding
Independent Review Panel in 2007. He was a content
reviewer for the 2007 FEMA Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico
Coastal Flood Mapping Guidelines Update. Mr. DePue has
managed over 75 countywide Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map
(DFIRM) projects and 17,000 Letter of Map Change (LOMC)
reviews. He is author, co-author, or contributor to over 20
papers and more than 70 presentations and seminars on water
resources issues. Mr. DePue’s experience includes one- and
two-dimensional modeling for riverine and coastal flood and
scour studies, as well as design of stormwater systems for
highway and land development projects. Mr. DePue received
an M.S. in Civil (Hydrosystems) Engineering from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in
Civil Engineering from Clemson University, and has been with
PBS&J since 1996. |
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MARTIN DUBOIS, Ph.D. -
VP, Geology, EOR & Co-founder. Martin specializes
in
field-scale reservoir characterization and carbon management
through value-added carbon sequestration. Martin was most
recently a research geologist for the Kansas Geological
Survey (eight years) where he was involved in the DOE funded
CO2 enhanced oil recovery project in Kansas that used CO2
from an ethanol plant. Prior to the KGS, he had twenty years
petroleum industry experience with John O. Farmer, Inc. and
Cities Service Oil Company. Martin has a BS in geophysics
from Kansas State University and a MS and PhD in geology
from the University of Kansas. Martin is a Licensed
Geologist in the State of Kansas and an AAPG Certified
Petroleum Geologist. |
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Bill Eastman grew up south of Wichita, attending
the Haysville schools. After graduating High School he went
on to study at Wichita State University and graduated with a
Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1977.
After receiving his degree, Mr. Eastman began
his 32-year electric utility career with Kansas Gas &
Electric, in Wichita at the Gordon Evans Energy Center, near
Colwich, Kansas. After 3 years in power plant water and
chemistry issues, he moved downtown to develop a new
technical group focused on system-wide chemistry and
environmental related issues.
At the 1992 merger of KGE and KPL, forming
what is now known as Westar Energy, Mr. Eastman became a
part of the Environmental Services Department. In 1997 he
was appointed to the position of Manager, Air Programs.
From there, he took over Environmental Services Department
as Director in 2001. The positions responsibilities account
for all environmental issues within the Westar system.
Mr. Eastman, married 34 years, has 3 grown
daughters and two grandchildren. With his leisure time
spent with family and friends at the Flint Hills family
farm. |
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Mark Edge Water Utilization
Lead - Monsanto - Mark is responsible for leading the
commercial introduction of Mosanto’s biotech corn drought
trait and the development of our commercial business related
to water management issues.
Prior to Mark’s current role, he was the
Europe & Africa Marketing Lead managing the marketing team
to define and implement the regional consolidated marketing
strategy for Seeds & Traits in Europe and Africa. He has
been the Global Cotton Product Manager responsible for the
business management, licensing and introduction of
Monsanto’s cotton technologies in the U.S. and globally. He
helped manage the launch of Bollgard II and Roundup Ready
Flex cotton technologies and was also responsible for
helping start Cotton States, a new business unit for
licensing cotton germplasm in the U.S. He has also held
roles as Director of Trait Marketing for Monsanto’s Corn
licensing business at Corn States. His background includes
experience in biotech research; many aspects of managing
seed business development as well as the grain export
business. He has a B.S. from Iowa State University, a M.S.
in Genetics from the University of California at Davis, and
an MBA from Drake University. |
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Johannes Feddema
is a climate scientist investigating the
interactions between human activities at the Earth’s surface
and climate. This interest developed at a young age when,
growing up in the Europe, Africa and Asia, he observed first
hand the impacts of climate on society. Presently a
professor in the department of Geography at the University
of Kansas, he obtained a B.A. degree in Biology and
Geography, an M.S. degree in Geography and a Ph.D. degree in
Climatology from the University of Delaware. Early in his
career he used water balance models to simulate climate
impacts on water resources, and studied the climate impacts
of land-use change and human induced soil degradation. To
better understand the feedbacks in the coupled human climate
system he began to conduct similar experiments in Global
Climate Models (GCMs). He is now working to create models
and databases to assess the impacts of anthropogenic land
cover change, urbanization and soil degradation on climate
in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Global Climate Models. He has published in a variety of
journals including Climate Research, Climate
Dynamics, Climatic Change and Science and
was a contributing author to the fourth IPCC report. Since
2006 he has held an Affiliate Scientist appointment with
NCAR and was recently appointed to the Kansas Energy and
Environmental Policy advisory group by the Governor of
Kansas. He has recently contributed to a report on the
potential impacts of climate change on Kansas at
http://www.climateandenergy.org/LearnMore/InTheNews/ClimateStudy.htm |
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Dan Filbert of Macksville is the president and
owner of Crop Management Inc., a business he started in
`1987. His crop consulting career began in 1981 after
graduation from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Crop Protection. Filbert is a Certified
Professional Crop Consultant.
Filbert is a member of the Lower Arkansas
Basin Advisory Committee and a member of the Kansas
Association of Independent Crop Consultants and the National
Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants. |
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Jim French, a fifth-generation farmer and
rancher, grew up in Reno County, Kansas. He farms land
homesteaded by his great-great grandparents in 1871. He and
his wife, Lisa, took over management of the operation in
1979. Their operation has received national and regional
recognition and awards for conservation and innovation. Jim
and Lisa have been dedicated volunteers in their community,
and in state organizations.
From 1998 to 2004, French worked as a
communications specialist and policy analyst with the Kansas
Rural Center. French published widely in the regional farm
press, and helped organize numerous conferences and
workshops. He continues to produce a monthly radio program
on WIBW out of Topeka.
In 2005, French scaled back his farming and
ranching activities in order to take a position as the
Advocacy Lead for the Agriculture Campaign at Oxfam America.
Oxfam is an international development agency that focuses
primarily on addressing hunger and poverty in the world’s
poorest nations. Currently, French focuses on the
development of policies that can assist smallholder
agriculture in developing nations become more resilient in
the face of climate change and food insecurity. |
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Bill Golden,
Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Kansas State University.
Bill Golden is an assistant professor in the
Department of Agriculture Economics at Kansas State
University. He primarily assists farmers, policy makers, and
other stakeholders throughout Kansas in developing and
implementing policies aimed at irrigation water
conservation. He also works extensively with
land-water-related issues such as valuing irrigation water
rights. Current research and extension efforts are
evaluating producer and community impacts associated with
alternative water conservation policies. |
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NANCY
JACKSON directs the Climate & Energy Project of The Land
Institute. Jackson earned a master’s degree in environmental
history from KU and for ten years published scholarly books
on the Development of Western Resources at the University
Press of Kansas. She serves on the Kansas Energy &
Environmental Policy advisory group, the Kansas Wind Working
Group, and the Midwestern Governors Association Low Carbon
Fuel Standard advisory group.
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Earl Lewis
is the Assistant Director of the Kansas Water Office the
state’s water planning and coordination agency.
The
Kansas Water Office is a policy development and planning
agency that provides research and analytical staff support
to the Governor, and the Legislature on water resource
issues. The agency manages and market water under state
control within federal reservoirs.
Lewis
Graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.S. degree
in mechanical engineering in 1992, and has been a licensed
professional engineer since 1998.
He worked
with the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Division of
Water Resources prior to joining the Kansas Water Office.
Lewis initially worked with the statewide water use
reporting program, compliance and enforcement of water
rights, water right administration and review and approval
of water conservation and drought plans. He worked with the
Subbasin Water Resources Management Program developing
alternative management programs for over appropriated
groundwater areas.
Lewis also
worked with the State’s Interstate Water Issues Team dealing
with interstate compact compliance and litigation and served
on the Republican River Compact Engineering Committee.
Lewis
and his wife Shari live in Topeka and have two sons. |
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Doug Louis, Director, Oil and Gas Conservation
Division, Kansas Corporation Commission, State of Kansas, in
Mr. Louis’ current position he manages the state agency
which regulates Kansas’ oil and gas exploration and
production activities. The Division also regulates
underground natural gas storage facilities and over 16,000
Class II disposal wells. Mr. Louis led a workgroup which
drafted regulation for CO2 sequestration in Kansas. He is
currently leading another workgroup in developing
regulations for compressed air energy storage activities.
Previous to his working at the KCC he was an exploration
geologist for various independent oil and gas companies. Mr.
Louis is a licensed geologist who earned a B.S. in Geology
and a MBA from Wichita State University. |
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Dr. Edward A. Martinko is the State Biologist &
Director of the Kansas Biological Survey (KBS), Director of
the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program, and
Professor of Ecology & Environmental Studies at The
University of Kansas. The Kansas Biological Survey is a
non-regulatory state research agency that provides
scientific expertise and support to Kansas agencies and the
Kansas Legislature. Dr. Martinko develops, implements, and
conducts biological and interdisciplinary research programs
on ecological and environmental issues with a special
emphasis on the utilization of remote sensing applications
and geographic information systems (GIS) technologies in
response to the needs of the public and private sector in
the State of Kansas. His research interests focus on
landscape ecology and land use change, with a particular
emphasis on human impacts on the environment as reflected in
habitat quality and habitat fragmentation.
Dr. Martinko received his B.S. in chemistry
and in biology from the College of Emporia, his M.A. in
physiology from the University of Colorado, and his Ph.D. in
Entomology (Ecology) at the University of Kansas. He has
been on the faculty of the University of Kansas for more
than 30 years and has served as the Director of the KBS for
26 years and as Director of the KARS Program for 28 years. |
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Jared Morrison,
Manager, Water Programs, Westar Energy,
after graduating from the
University of Kansas with a degree in Chemical Engineering,
Jared spent seven years working for Trinity Consultants,
Inc, an environmental consulting firm located in the greater
Kansas City area. As a senior consultant at Trinity, Jared
focused on environmental permitting, multimedia
environmental compliance auditing, and environmental
management system (EMS) development and implementation.
Jared joined Westar Energy in late 2008 with the primary
responsibilities of EMS development and implementation as
well as regulatory compliance for Westar's coal combustion
by-product solid waste landfills. In December 2009, Jared
assumed the role of Manager, Water Programs with
responsibility for Westar's compliance with environmental
water regulations.
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DAN NAGENGAST is the Director of the
Kansas Rural Center. He grew up on a dry land wheat farm in
Western Nebraska and attended the University of Nebraska and
Columbia University School of Law. He worked in New York
City and then Boston, before moving to West Africa and
serving with Peace Corps and Church World Service for seven
years in several countries. He returned to the U.S. in 1984,
and continued working for Church World Service as Kansas
Region Director. He began market gardening vegetables and
fresh cut flowers with his wife, Lynn Byczynski and helped
to organize one of the first Organic Crop Improvement
Association Chapters in Kansas and the first cooperative
Community Supported Agriculture project in the country. He
became Director of the Kansas Rural Center in 1991, and has
organized numerous marketing projects serving small farmers.
He has directed projects investigating antibiotic resistance
in livestock and promoting value-added processing for
smaller farms. He is active in organizing Farm to Cafeteria
projects and KRC has increasingly become the service and
training hub for the state’s Farmers Markets. He served as
Co-Chair of the Governor Sebelius’ Rural Life Task Force,
and in that capacity lead a joint trip with the Kansas
Energy Office to visit Southwest Minnesota community wind
projects in 2005. He is the Facilitator of the National
Renewable Energy Lab - DOE funded Wind for Schools Project
in Kansas and serves on the Governor’s Wind Working Group.
He also currently Chairs the Kansas Food Policy Council. He
assists his wife in producing her monthly newsletter,
“Growing for Market”, and they still grow and market fresh
cut flowers and tomatoes from low-cost hoop houses with some
field production.
www.kansasruralcenter.org
www.growingformarket.com |
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DR.
CHARLES PERRY is currently a Research Hydrologist for
the U.S. Geological Survey. My education includes a Bachelor
of Science in Physics from Kansas State University in 1970,
a Master of Science in Water Resources Science from Kansas
University, and a PhD from the Physics and Astronomy and
Civil Engineering departments also at KU. I started my
career as a U.S. Air Force Meteorologist in 1970, became a
hydrologist for the USGS in 1975, and have performed
research on the causes of floods and droughts in the United
States since 1981 in addition to many other duties for the
USGS, located in Lawrence, Ks. |
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TOM SCHREMPP, Director of
Production, is responsible for all aspects of water
production from the Water District’s source, treatment,
pumping and storage facilities. Mr. Schrempp is a graduate
of the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Civil Engineering. He has been with the Water
District for over 18 years and has previously held the
position of Assistant Director of Operations/Production.
Mr. Schrempp has over 33 years of engineering experience
including one year with a state health department, over six
years with a consulting engineering firm, and eight years
working for municipal governments. He is a registered
Professional Engineer in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. He
is also a Class IV Water Operator in the State of Kansas.
Mr. Schrempp is a member of the American Water Works
Association, National Society of Professional Engineers,
American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Water
Environment Federation. He has co-authored several papers
presented at state and national AWWA conferences and has
served on several Project Advisory Committees for AWWA
Research Foundation Projects. He is a member of the Lenexa
Chamber of Commerce and alumni of the Leadership Lenexa
Program. Mr. Schrempp is the Water District’s
representative to MO-ARK, the Kansas River Alliance, and the
Missouri River Public Water Supply Association -
organizations representing the water resource interests of
the region; and serves on the Board of Directors of the
Kansas River Water Assurance District. |
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Lori Schultz is a hydrologist with the National
Weather Service at the Missouri Basin River Forecast Center
[MBRFC] in Pleasant Hill Missouri.
Prior to working for
the MBRFC Lori worked for the NWS in Wilmington Ohio at the
Ohio River Forecast Center. She is a climate focal point
for the MBRFC and has developed hydrologic and hydraulic
models for the National Weather Service and the US Army
Corps of Engineers in Mobile Alabama. Additionally she has
worked with the Corps and USAID in Honduras to develop
hydrologic models for the Hurricane Mitch Recovery project.
Lori received her
B.S in chemistry from Cal State (SSU) as well as a hydrology
degree. She has also worked with the National Park Service
on karst hydrology projects in connection with Western
Kentucky University - Karst and Cave studies department. |
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Dennis F. Schwartz of Tecumseh, Kansas, has been
the general manager of Shawnee County Rural Water District
No. 8 since 1976. He served as a member of the Kansas Water
Authority from 1986-1999, was reappointed in 2004, and
continues to serve. Schwartz was the 2008 Kansas Water
Authority Fox Award winner. Schwartz is the Director
of the Kansas Rural Water Association serving from 1977 -
present and has served as their President from 1983-1986,
1993-1996, and 2006 to present.
Schwartz was the President of the National
Rural Water Association from 2000 to 2002 and currently
serves as the Director since 1992.
Schwartz also served as a member of the Water
Industry Coordinating Council from 1996-2002 and served as a
member on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s
National Drinking Water Advisory Council from 1999-2005.
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Tracy Streeter is the Director of the Kansas
Water Office, the state’s water planning and coordination
agency. Streeter was appointed to the position by Governor
Kathleen Sebelius in 2004. Previously, he served as
Executive Director of the State Conservation Commission.
Tracy has 24 years of experience dealing with Kansas’ water
resources. Streeter also represents the State of Kansas on
the Missouri River Association of States and Tribes (MoRAST)
Board of Directors and currently serves as Secretary.
A native Kansan, he grew up as part of a
family farming operation in Brown County. He holds a
Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from Missouri
Western State University and a Master of Public
Administration degree from the University of Kansas.
Streeter and his wife, Denise reside in
Valley Falls, KS and have two children, Mitchell and Morgan.
He served eight years on the Valley Falls Board of Education
and enjoys flying, hunting, fishing and golfing. |
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JOSH SVATY was appointed acting secretary of the
Kansas Department of Agriculture by Governor Mark Parkinson
in July 2009.
Svaty is the
fifth generation of his family to farm in Ellsworth County.
The Svaty farm is a diversified operation in the heart of
the Smoky Hills that includes wheat, milo, soybeans, corn,
sunflowers, a cow/calf herd and sheep.
Svaty served
as the State Representative of the 108th District in Kansas
for seven years. He served on the committees for Energy and
Utilities; was the ranking member on Agriculture and Natural
Resources; and on the joint committee on Energy and
Environmental Policy. Svaty also was a governor’s appointee
to the Kansas Energy Council, a public/private group of
individuals tasked with providing guidance on the state’s
energy policy. He has spoken nationally and has testified
before the United States Congress on matters of energy,
agriculture and water policy. He also serves on the national
advisory council for his alma mater, Sterling College.
Svaty graduated from Sterling College in 2002 with a
bachelor of arts degree in history.
As a young farmer, Svaty hopes to bring
attention to one of the biggest challenges in agriculture −
finding ways for young people to return to the farm and make
a living in agriculture.
Svaty is married to Kimberly, who owns her
own public affairs company. They have a son, Jackson. |
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