A big thanks to everyone who attended and helped make the first annual Western States ET Workshop such a success. Below you’ll find the presentations, abstracts and speaker bios from the event.
Final Report
Day One – October 12, 2011
- 08:30 – 08:40 – Welcome: Layne Bangerter, State Director of Natural Resources and Environment, Staff of Idaho Senator Mike Crapo
- 08:40 – 08:50 – Greetings and Overall Workshop Objectives: Dave Tuthill, IWE
- 08:50 – 09:30 – General Perspective and Overview of Techniques: Rick Allen, U of I
- 09:30 – 09:50 – NASA Perspectives: Ed Sheffner, NASA
- 09:50 – 10:10 – USDA Perspectives: Bill Kustas, USDA
- 10:10 – 10:30 – USGS Perspectives: Jim Verdin, USGS
- 11:00 – 12:30 – Successful Applications for Water Management and Decision-Making: (Ballroom Panel)
- ID – water transfers, mitigation and litigation of competing uses, hydrologic studies, endangered species: Tony Morse, SGA and Bill Kramber, IDWR
- CO, WY – confirmation of traditional ET estimation in basin management and accounting, interstate agreements: Tim Martin, RTI
- MT, OR, WY, NM, ID, NE, CA – Management for native-American rights, water purchases, ground-water recharge, invasive species, ground water/surface water management, irrigation project performance: Rick Allen, U of I
- NV – water transfers from agriculture to cities and basin management: Justin Huntington, DRI, and Adam Sullivan, NDWR
- CA –Integrating Satellite and Surface Observations for Crop Evapotranspiration Mapping and Irrigation Management Support in California: Forrest Melton, CSU, Monterrey Bay
- CA – Applications by a commercial enterprise: Bryan Thoreson, SNA
- 12:30 – 13:30 – Use of Remote Sensing in the Western United States: Tony Willardson, Executive Director, Western States Water Council
- 13:30 – 14:30 – Specific Challenges in Remote Sensing of ET (Ballroom Panel) Chair: Molly Maupin, USGS, Rick Allen, U of I, Justin Huntington, DRI, Jan Hendrickx, NMT, Tony Morse
- 15:00 – 16:15 – Breakout Groups Session 1
Day Two – October 13, 2011
- 08:30 – 9:00 – Time integration issues and Spatial Resolution requirements
- Hydrological Modeling Approach – Jan Hendrickx, NMT
- ETrF x ETref Approach and Evaporation Adjustment for Precipitation – Rick Allen, U of
- What questions need to be addressed to support various study levels? – Justin Huntington, DRI
- 09:00 – 09:40 – Resource Requirements (human resources, costs, levels of expertise and expert support)
- Idaho Experiences – Tony Morse, SGA and Hal Anderson, IWE
- Nevada Experiences – Adam Sullivan, NDWR
- Western State Experiences – Jan Hendrickx, NMT
- Commercial Entity Perspectives – Bryan Thoreson, SNA
- Intermountain West Experiences – Rick Allen, U of I
- 09:40 – 10:00 – What Worked and What Did Not Work
- New Mexico – John Longworth, NM
- US Bureau of Reclamation – Dave Ekhardt, BOR
- Idaho – Sean Vincent, IDWR
- 10:30 – 12:00 – Implementation of Technology (Ballroom Panel) Chair: Ed Sheffner, NASA
- Benefits of Archived ET Data – Bill Kramber, IDWR, Tony Morse, SGA
- Future Improvements to Remote Sensing of ET with LIDAR and RADAR – Randy Lee, INL
- MODIS-based Global Evapotranspiration and Drought Severity Index products – Qiaozhen Mu, U of M
- Strategies for rapid production of ET (NDVI Tool) – Eric Rafn, IDWR
- Pros and cons of simplified methods – Rick Allen, U of I, Jan Hendrickx, UMT, Hal Anderson, IWE
- How much ground data are needed? – Justin Huntington, DRI and Rick Allen, U of I
- Who should “turn the crank?”: Justin Huntington, DRI and Rick Allen, U of I
- 12:00 – 13:45 – Lunch with Breakout Groups Session 2 – Chair: Tony Morse, SAG
- 14:30 – 14:45 – Summary: Hal Anderson, IWE and Rick Allen, U of I
- 14:45 – 15:00 – Closing Comments and Action Plan: Dave Tuthill, IWE