21ST CENTURY WATERSHED TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP: IMPROVING WATER QUALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

• Sponsoring Institution: Agricultural Research Service/USDA
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: USDA COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 0422921
• Project Start Date: Apr 23, 2012
• Project End Date: Sep 30, 2012
• Program Code: [(N/A)]- (N/A)

Recipient Organization
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERS (ASABE)
2950 NILES ROAD
ST. JOSEPH,MI 49085

Performing Department
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Non Technical Summary
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Animal Health Component

40%

Research Effort Categories

Basic

50%

Applied

40%

Developmental

10%

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
102	0199	1060	40%
112	0320	2050	20%
404	0420	2070	10%
102	7210	1060	30%

Knowledge Area
102 - Soil, Plant, Water, Nutrient Relationships; 112 - Watershed Protection and Management; 404 - Instrumentation and Control Systems;

Subject Of Investigation
0420 - Weather; 0320 - Watersheds; 0199 - Soil and land, general; 7210 - Remote sensing equipment and technology;

Field Of Science
2070 - Meteorology and climatology; 1060 - Biology (whole systems); 2050 - Hydrology;

Keywords

water

quality

watershed

technology

watershed

monitoring

and

modeling

Goals / Objectives
Collect and distribute the papers from the 21st Century Watershed Technology conference to allow widespread distribution of the work. A CD-ROM of the anticipated 100 plus full-text papers will be prepared and distributed to attendees. The full-text papers will be processed for inclusion in the ASABE online technical library providing researchers and others.

Project Methods
Support funding an international scientific conference on issues related to world's water quality and quantity.

Progress 04/23/12 to 09/30/12

Outputs
Progress Report Objectives (from AD-416): Collect and distribute the papers from the 21st Century Watershed Technology conference to allow widespread distribution of the work. A CD- ROM of the anticipated 100 plus full-text papers will be prepared and distributed to attendees. The full-text papers will be processed for inclusion in the ASABE online technical library providing researchers and others. Approach (from AD-416): Support funding an international scientific conference on issues related to world's water quality and quantity. This agreement was to transfer funds to the American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE) Workshop entitled �21st Century Watershed Technology Conference and Workshops: Improving Water Quality and the Environment� held in May 2012 in Bari, Italy. The funds were to support this conference and were used to underwrite the cost associated with registration fees for students, graduate students and post-doctoral research associates. Specifically, the costs included daily transportation from local hotels to the conference, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, networking reception, proceedings expenses, and a percentage of the cost associated with equipment rental of poster boards, tables and chairs, audio visual and room fees. The goal of ARS and ASABE for the financial support of this conference was to entice student participation from around the world with a nominal registration fee for their involvement and participation in this workshop.

Impacts
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Publications