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Session 1 Presentations, Hobo Day Gallery, University Student Union

8:10–8:25 a.m. | Evapotranspiration, fiber yield, water productivity and grass-reference crop coefficient of irrigated and rain-fed cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) under a semiarid climate.
Komlan Koudahe – Kansas State University

8:25–8:40 a.m. | Influence of irrigation and nitrogen management on corn yield, water and nitrogen use efficiency and nitrate leaching in Minnesota.
Andrea Elvir – University of Minnesota

8:40–8:55 a.m. | Irrigation management for dry edible beans in western Nebraska.
Angie Gradiz Menjivar – University of Nebraska–Lincoln

8:55–9:10 a.m. | Building NRCS technical capacity in irrigation water management for variable rate irrigation.
Rehnuma Maisha – North Dakota State University

9:10–9:25 a.m. | Responses of crop water productivity and growth parameters for maize under different irrigation regimes in semi-arid western Nebraska.
Swathi Palle – University of Nebraska–Lincoln

9:25–9:40 a.m. | Spatially distributed quantification of groundwater-energy-CO2 nexus of different cropping systems in the Irrigated Indus Basin.
Arfan Arshad – Oklahoma State University

Session 2 Presentations, Hobo Day Gallery, University Student Union

9:50–10:05 a.m. | Characterization and identification of microbial communities in agricultural drainage ditches and bioaugmentation potentials for enhanced denitrification.
Hao Wang – University of Minnesota

10:05–10:20 a.m. | North Dakota’s surface water quality assessment.
Innocent Kelechi Anosike – University of North Dakota

10:20–10:35 a.m. | Design of a media filtration system for Escherichia coli removal from stormwater.
Ankur Debnath – South Dakota State University

10:35–10:50 a.m. | Effects of disinfection methods and hydraulic retention times on disinfection byproducts removal in drinking water by biological filters.
Peng Dai – South Dakota State University

10:50–11:05 a.m. | Applied machine learning to make predictive models for THM formation in drinking water.
Rabbi Sikder – South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

11:05–11:20 a.m. | Flocculation of livestock wastewater using cationic cellulose.
Noor Haleem – South Dakota State University

Session 3 Presentations, Hobo Day Gallery, University Student Union

11:30–11:45 a.m. | Impact of crop rotation, no-till and cover crops on soil erosion susceptibility by wind and water in southeastern, South Dakota.
Ajoy Saha – South Dakota State University

11:45 a.m.–noon | Testing an automatic drip irrigation system for muskmelon, squash and watermelon crops at Oakes, ND.
Uday Bhanu Prakash Vaddevolu – North Dakota State University

noon–12:15 p.m. | The importance of rural voices in environmental protection.
Caleb Swanson – University of South Dakota

12:15–12:30 p.m. | Are long short-term memory (LSTM) model simulations of watershed discharge improved when water storage is included as input? The Case Study at Rum River Watershed, MN.
Pai-Feng Victor Teng – University of Minnesota

2:15–3 p.m.

3-3:45 p.m.

Career meet and greet, Hobo Day Gallery, University Student Union

Career panel discussion

Alan R. Bender Memorial Lecture in Water and Climate Resilience, Gallery, Raven Precision Agriculture Center

Dr. Garey Fox, North Carolina State University, Department Head and Editor in Chief of ASABE Journals