2010 Western Snow Conference

Adaptive Water Management in a Changing Climate: Data, Products, and Tools for Practical Application

Logan, Utah
April 19-23, 2010

The 2010 WSC meeting will be held in conjunction with the Utah State University spring runoff conference at the USU Conference Center in Logan, Utah, April 19-23, 2010. There will be joint plenary sessions with breakout sessions designed by each respective conference. The technical tour will include a tour of the Utah State Water Laboratory where they can divert the Logan River through the lab and do scale modeling, the Bear River Bay Migratory Bird Refuge, the Golden Spike and more. The spouse tour will include the Heritage of the American West Center and a Pepperidge Farms cookie factory stop and more. Online registration and abstract submission through USU will be available later this fall.

Tentative program information:

Monday Short Course:

How to get and use available resources for water management
1. Formal presentation on current internet data and products
2. Hands-on with users laptops/wifi
3. Products water users would like to see: interactive session between water managers and agencies/researchers/universities

Presenters:
USGS - Cory Angeroth/Pat Lambert
1. streamflow data
2. watershed analyses
3. groundwater data

NRCS - Julander/Perkins/Abramovich/Vaughan
1. snow data
2. soil moisture data
3. water supply forecasts
4. SWSI's
5. WAI's
6. reservoir operating guides
7. drought information
8. SCAN - irrigation efficiency, drought classification

NWS - CBRFC
1. flood forecasting
2. real time hydrologic models
3. dam break analyses
4. weather forecasts
5. climate data-coop
6. peak flow forecasts

Technical Tour:
7:45 am, Thursday, April 22, 2010
Utah State Water Lab, Logan Canyon, 1.5 hours
Contact: Jan Urroz, 435.797.3157

Bear River Bay Migratory Bird Refuge
11:00 - 2:00, lunch

Golden Spike National Monument
3:00 - 4:00

Back to Logan - 5:00