Session: Conservation Practices That Improve Environmental Quality: I (2009 Annual Meeting (November 1-5, 2009))

A05 Environmental Quality

This session aims to quantify the environmental quality benefits that conservation practices produce.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009: 9:55 AM-11:30 AM

Convention Center, Room 407, Fourth Floor

Presiding:

Minghua Zhang

Organizer:

James Ippolito

9:55 AM

Introductory Remarks

10:00 AM

Grassland Establishment Impacts On Soil Physical Characteristics.
Iin Handayani, Murray State Univ.; Robert Tokosh, Murray State Univ.

10:15 AM

Effect of Soil Aeration On Runoff Water Quality and Quantity in No-till Wheat Systems.
Paul DeLaune, Texas AgriLife Res.; John W. Sij, Texas AgriLife Res.

Audio File

10:30 AM

Using the Agri-Environmental Footprint Index (AFI) to Quantify the Environmental Quality Benefits of EU-Funded Agri-Environment Policy.
Geertrui Louwagie, European Commission, Joint Res. Centre, Inst. for Prospective Technological Studies; Gordon Purvis, Univ. College Dublin; Greg Northey, Univ. College Dublin; John Finn, Teagasc

Audio File

10:45 AM

Identification of Field-Level Critical Management Areas for Implementing Best Management Practices for the Central Claypan Area.
Ashish Mudgal, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia; Claire Baffaut, Cropping Systems and Water Quality Res. Unit; Stephen Anderson, Univ. of Missouri; E. John Sadler, USDA-ARS; Newell Kitchen, USDA-ARS, Cropping Systems & Water Quality Res. Unit; Allen L. Thompson, Biological Engineering

Audio File

11:00 AM

Management-Oriented Sensitivity Analysis for Pesticide Transport in Watershed-Scale Water Quality Modeling.
Minghua Zhang, Univ. of California, Davis; Yuzhou Luo, Univ. of California, Davis

Audio File

11:15 AM

Discussion

11:30 AM

Adjourn

267 Conservation Practices That Improve Environmental Quality: I