Monday, October 21

8:00 a.m.            Registration

8:15 a.m.            Welcome by Janine Jordan, Laramie City Manager

8:30 a.m.            WWA Business Meeting

9:45 a.m.            Break

10:00 a.m.         Advisory Reports from WDEQ, WRDS, Wyoming Oil and Gas, WWDO,WSEO, Office of Water Programs, Wyoming Game and Fish, and Bureau of Reclamation

12:00 p.m.         Lunch – Presentations and Correspondence from Wyoming Elected Officials

1:30 p.m.            Afternoon Sessions

·       A OWP TNC Demand Management - Pivot Operation - Joseph Cook, Dillon Cotterman             

·       B OWP Exploring nutrient dynamics and harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a Wyoming reservoir - Linnea Rock       

·       A Topics in Municipal Groundwater - Chris Moody             

·       B PFAS  Lindsay Patterson and Aaron Birkemeier   

·       A Wheatland Irrigation District   Nathan Graves 

·       B Identification of Climate Refugia for Stream Fishes -Annika Walters             

·       WSEO Interstate Streams - Projects Update -Jeff Cowley

·       Data Driven Decision-Making in the Upper Colorado River Basin: densifiying observation networks through the UCRC - Kazungu Maitaria

5:00 p.m.           Social Hour/Silent Auction

6:00 p.m.           Dinner and Banquet – Scholarship Presentation, 2024 In Memoriam Presentation

Tuesday, October 22

7:30 a.m.            Breakfast

8:30 a.m.            Morning Sessions

·       A Geophysics / Geostatistics for GW Resource Quanitification - Dr. Dario Grana

·       B Evaluation and Techno-economic assessment of Lithium extraction technologies from the produced water brines in WY - Samir Budhathoki

·       A Aging Infrastructure of Irrigation Districts - Chace Tavelli/Jay Schug

·       B Stream Restoration - Jeff Geyer, LCCD

·       A Goshen Irrigation District Rehabilitation - Marcus Krall, HDR

·       B Status of USGS Data Collection and Development of New Analytical Tools Jerrod Wheeler and Nicholas Taylor

·       A Water Rights, Real Estate, Water Law - Nancy McCann, John Shields

·       B Introduction to the Wyoming Association of Irrigation Districts Trent Reed

12:00 p.m.         Lunch – Keynote Address by Don Day

1:30 p.m.            Afternoon Sessions

·       A TU Demand Management Demonstration Projects UGRB - Dillon Cotterman, Joseph Cook

·       B Cloud Seeding - Bart Geerts

·       A WSEO - Surface Water Permitting Updates - Jed Rockweiler

·       B Wyoming Department of Agriculture - Water Quality Program  Justin Caudill

3:00 p.m.            Concluding Remarks by Anne MacKinnon and Andy Strike