SYMPOSIUM

 Managing Drainage Ditch Ecosystems on the Delmarva Peninsula 

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Food Science and Technology Building

July 15, 2005

“Integrating agricultural management for water quality protection”

 

 

8:30 - 9 AM Continental Breakfast (complimentary)

 

9:00 - 9:20 Introductions – Brian Needelman, University of Maryland College Park ; Welcome – Carolyn Brooks, Dean, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences and 1890 Research Director, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

 

9:20 - 9:50  Keynote Address – Thomas Simpson, Professor and Coordinator, Chesapeake Bay Programs, University of Maryland College Park

 

9:55 - 10:15 Overview of the Drainage Ditch Project –  Arthur L. Allen, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Brian Needelman, University of Maryland College Park

 

10:20 - 10:40 Subsurface Hydrology and Nutrient Transport on the UMES Research Farm – Peter Vadas,  M.S. Srinivasan, Andrew Sharpley, and Peter Kleinman, USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park PA; Arthur L. Allen, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

 

10:45 - 11:00 Break

 

11:00 - 11:20  Dynamics of Nutrient Transport in Two Drainage Ditches on the UMES Research Farm – Peter Kleinman and Andrew Sharpley,  USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park PA;  Arthur L. Allen, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Brian Needelman, University of Maryland College Park

 

 

11:25 - 11:45 Um, What’s that Black Stuff? An Explosive Finding of Concern in the Drainage Ditches –  Brian Needelman and Robert Vaughan, University of Maryland College Park

 

11:50 -12:10 PM  Early Observations from Four Ditch-Drained Farms –  Frank Cole, University of Maryland College Park/Maryland Cooperative Extension

 

12:10 - 1:15  Lunch (complimentary)

 

1:15 - 1:35  Using Fertilizer Trials to Assess the Fate of Nitrogen in a Coastal Plain Landscape – John Schmidt, USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park PA

 

1:40 - 2:00 Drainage Ditch Soil Chemistry and Phosphorous Transport: The Influence of Organic Matter  – David Ruppert, Ph.D. graduate student, University of Maryland College Park

 

2:05 - 2:45  Feedback from the audience

 

2:45 - 3:00 Where do we go from here?–  Arthur L. Allen, University of Maryland Eastern Shore,

Brian Needelman, University of Maryland College Park; Peter Kleinman, USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park PA;

 

3:00 - 3:30 Poster Session

·         View posters from the Geo-Spatial Information Technology Summer High School Internship Program

·         View posters on drainage ditch projects

 

 

 

 

Funds and resources to support this symposium were supplied by

USDA National Water Quality Initiative

Maryland Department of Natural Resources

USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park PA

Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland College Park

University of Maryland Eastern Shore Agricultural Experiment Station