Fate of the Earth: Our Waters Symposium Day 1 Agenda

Schedule

March 20: Public Symposium

Time	Activity
7:30	Continental breakfast
8:30	Welcome and introduction by Lifeng Luo, Director of the Environmental Science & Policy Program, featuring Ruelaine Stokes, Lansing’s Poet Laureate, and reading of “Distance, Social and Temporal; or The 2020s on Indian Time” by Zoe Johnson
8:45	Opening remarks by President Guskiewicz
9:00	Building Resilience along Michigan’s Great Lakes Shores: Partnerships, Data, and Policies Panelists: Ethan Theuerkauf, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University (MSU) Ronda Wuychek, Coastal Program Manager, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy David Bunte, Supervisor, Chikaming Township Richard Norton, Professor, University of Michigan Moderator: Josh Gunn, MSU Extension
10:00	Break
10:15	An academia-industry-government partnership that monitors and predicts outbreaks in Tri-County Detroit area since 2017 Panelists: Irene Xagoraraki, Professor, MSU Russel A. Faust, Former Medical Director, Oakland County Health Division Michael Swain, Epidemiologist, Oakland County Health Division Anna Mehrotra, Director, Wastewater Surveillance Program, Water Environment Federation John Norton, Research Director, Great Lakes Water Authority Moderator: George Smith, MSU AgBioResearch
11:30	Lunch featuring: Reading of "We Are Water" by Ruelaine Stokes, Lansing Poet Laureate Keynote address on Moving towards a Water-secure Future by Annalise Blum, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Interior
1:00	Concurrent sessions featuring presentations from the MSU community and partners
	Session 1 – The Challenge of Water for All (Willy Room)	Session 1 - Water Science Around the World (Heritage Room)
1:00	The two-edged sword of altruism in willingness to pay for water infrastructure and affordability programs. Sampriti Sarkar	Modulation of Extreme Precipitation in West Africa by the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Insights from Observations and CMIP6 Models. Coumba Niang
1:15	Evaluating the Impact of Numeric Phosphorus Standards on Nutrient Pollution in U.S. Waterways. Saesol Kang	Could cultural perceptions of communal water management among ethnic minorities be the solution in water-insecure coastal Bangladesh? A qualitative inquiry. Saleh Ahmed
1:30	Collaborating to Build Climate Resilience with the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. Justin Simard	What Happens After the Boom? Stagnation, Continuity, Diversification, and Exit in Aquaculture in Central Thailand. Leo Baldiga
1:45	Collaborative approaches to understanding and predicting cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHABs). Elena Litchman	Are Systematic Inequalities in the Piped Water Infrastructure Paving Way for the Water Mafia? Noormah Rizwan
2:00	Break
2:15	Concurrent sessions featuring presentations from the MSU community and partners
	Session 2 – Advancing Modeling for Water Systems (Willy Room)	Session 2- Monitoring Water and Health (Heritage Room)	Session 2- Water Quality and Impacts (Room 102)
2:15	Integrated High-Resolution Flood Forecasting in the Great Lakes Basin: Coupling Hydrological and Hydrodynamic Models with Socioeconomic Risk Assessment. Amar Deep Tiwari	Michigan’s Wastewater Monitoring Program for Public Health Use. Nishita D’Souza	Flocculent Organic Sediments in Shallow Freshwater Ecosystems: Characteristics, Ecological Functions, and Research Opportunities. Nudrat Fatima
2:30	Implications of lateral groundwater flow on global land surface modeling across different spatial resolutions. Tanjila Akhter	Enhancing Influenza A Virus Sequencing in Wastewater. Anwar Kalalah	Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in the sludge and biosolids matrix: distribution, persistence and innovation mitigation strategies. Qianqian Dong
2:45	Process-Guided Ensemble Deep Learning Models for Predicting Lake Temperature Profiles. Xin Lan	Metagenomic insights into diversity of viruses in untreated wastewater: from virus concentration to bioinformatic analysis. Yabing Li	Kinetics for mass transfer of TCDD from contaminated soils to activated carbon amendments. Lili Tian
3:00	Representing reservoirs in Earth system models. Ahmed Elkouk	Influenza A in wastewater correlates to health outcomes in two different sub-populations (Michigan, USA): Analysis of Influenza A & B, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2. Alexis Porter	Using stream chemistry as a tracer of thaw depth across Arctic Alaskan permafrost catchments. Amelia Grose
3:15	Assessing Agricultural Water Sustainability Using HYDRUS and Lysimeter for Deep Percolation in Sandy Soils. Nawab Ali	A Comparison of Variant Shifting of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus at Six West Michigan Locations. Leah Wilson	Are there differences in microbial community composition within the Saginaw Aquifer, the predominant source of drinking water for mid-Michigan? Carol Hogan
3:30	Break
3:45	Concurrent sessions featuring presentations from the MSU community and partners
	Session 3 – Water Management (Willy Room)	Session 3 – Water & Health (Heritage Room)
3:45	On the Banks: An Environmental History of the Red Cedar River at MSU. Eric Tans	Tracking sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the Detroit metro area by molecular analysis of environmental sample. Liang Zhao
4:00	The Effects of a Mandatory Flood Risk Disclosure Law on Rent Prices in Texas. Iris Margetis	Optical Brighteners: Investigating a new/old method for bacterial source tracking as an indicator of human waste in the environment. Brian Scull
4:15	Irrigation adoption in a “water rich” environment: implications for future water resource management. Caitlin Nelson	Fecal Detectives: Identifying sources of microbial contamination of two heavily recreated streams entering Lake Michigan beaches. Brendan May
4:30	Making “Remote Sense” of Modern Annual Irrigation Extent Classifications within the United States. Jeremy Rapp	Impact of Rainfall on Fecal Contamination in a Michigan Watershed: A Study of Microbial Source Tracking. Wenjing Ren
4:45	Break
5:00	Poster session and reception