October 2, 2024
The National Press Club: 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20045

Gathering Reception

The National Press Club is a secure facility which for entry all attendees/staff must scan this QR code (on phone or printed ) to pass through the security gates at the entrance of the Club on the 13th floor.

October 3, 2024
EPA Ruckelshaus Conference Center, Washington, D.C.

Breakfast

Welcome and Panel Discussion

• Catherine Kling and Al McGartland/Julie Hewitt: Welcome Remarks and Motivation for Symposium

Panel 1: Frontiers in Ecology
Moderator: David Keiser

• Christopher J. Kucharik
• Jana Compton
• Grace Wilkinson
• Jacques Finlay

Break

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation followed by 3-4 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 1: Agricultural Conservation and Water

Moderator: Nilesh Shinde

• Gabriel Lade: Size-Based Regulation and Environmental Quality: Evidence from the US Livestock Industry
• Isabelle Picciotto: A Clean SWEEP? Estimating the Impacts of Irrigation Efficiency Subsidy Programs on Water and Energy Use
• Jeffrey Hadachek: Can Farmer-Led Initiatives Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution
• Nilesh Shinde: Costs and Benefits of Adaptive Groundwater Irrigation in U.S. Corn and Soybeans

Session 2: Integrated Assessment Modelling

Moderator: Will Wheeler

• David Newburn: Integrated Assessment Modeling of Household Fertilizer Behavior: Implications for Nonpoint Nutrient-Reduction Programs and Coastal Water Quality
• Derek Wietelman: Interacting Incentives for Agricultural Conservation Subsidies and Trading Programs: An Integrated Assessment Model for Water Quality and Carbon Sequestration Benefits in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
• Charles Griffiths: The Social Cost and Inequity of Nutrient Pollution in U.S. Freshwater Streams
• Yu-Kai Huang: Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies for Nutrient Loss Reduction under Uncertainty in the Racoon River Basin

Lunch
Speaker: Chris Timmins

• Environmental Injustice: Correlations, Causes and Consequences

Break

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation followed by 3-4 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 3: Valuation of Water Quality

Moderator: Kristen Swedberg

• Chris Moore: Valuing Changes in Aquatic Biodiversity and Recreation with a Nationwide Survey
• Yoojin Cha and Yusuke Kuwayama: Estimating Water Quality Benefits with Revealed Preference
• Nabin Khanal: Unveiling the Hidden Costs: Housing Market Impact of Drinking Water PFAS Contamination
• Yongjie Ji: The Impact of Nutrient Water Pollution on Lakeside Property Values in the US

Session 4: Wildfires, Drinking Water Quality

Moderator: Mainul Hoque

• Jordan Suter: Characterizing Community Drinking Water Systems Exposed to Wildfire in the Western U.S.
• Beth Haley: The Effects of Wildfires on Drinking Water Quality in the Western United States
• Steven Dundas: Wildfire Impacts on the Value of Safe Drinking Water: Evidence from Housing in Oregon’s Willamette Basin
• Praharsh Patel: Behavioral responses to two-part tariffs: Evidence from the introduction of volumetric water pricing

Break

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 24 minutes total, 18-20 minutes for presentation followed by 4-6 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 5: Regulation and Policy

Moderator: Tihitina Andarge

• Margarita Petrusevich: A retrospective analysis of the benefits and costs of the SDWA Arsenic Rule
• Tihitina Andarge: Major/Minor Thresholds in Environmental Regulation
• Kaitlynn Sandstrom-Mistry: Evaluating the Impact of the Clean Water Act on Industrial Water Discharges
• Jianwei Ai: The Impact of Clean Water Act on Employment

Session 6: Methods

Moderator: Joel Corona

• Klaus Moeltner: Flexible Meta-Regression for Benefit Transfer: Local weighting vs. Random forests
• Bonnie Keeler: Investigating the distribution of water contaminants in Mississippi River communities
• Robert J. Johnston: When and How Should Non-Market Values be Used to Inform Water Quality Decisions? Modeling the Accuracy of Valuation and Corresponding Value of Information
• Kristen Swedberg: Developing a Use Based Water Quality Index

Adjourn

October 4, 2024
EPA Ruckelshaus Conference Center, Washington, D.C.

Breakfast

Panel 2: The Frontiers of Benefit Cost Analysis and the Natural Capital Accounts Efforts
Moderator: Al McGartland

• Jeff Shrader
• Heather Klemick
• Emily Pindilli
  

Break

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation followed by 3-4 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 7: Selected Topics on IAM/SWAT

Moderator: Joel Corona

• Katrin Bieger: Using Soil and Water Assessment Tool outputs for economic assessments – considerations from a SWAT+ modeler’s perspective
• Kelsie Ferin: Integrated economic-agroecosystem modeling approaches to address multi-scale water quality issues under contemporary and future climates
• Xavier Garcia: Integrating eco-hydrological and economic models to inform effective water quality management policies. The case of the Catalan River Basin District
• Jordan Burt: Endogenous Impacts of Aquatic Recreation on Households’ Lawn Fertilizer Use: Could Coastal Water Quality Improvements Have Hidden Benefits?

Session 8: Cell Phone Data, Valuation of Water Quality

Moderator: Daniel Phaneuf

• Dimitris Friesen: Using mobility data to estimate water quality benefits
• Stephen Newbold: Valuing satellite data for harmful algal bloom early warning systems
• Emmett Saulnier: Out-of-sight, Out-of-mind? Distance Decay in Use and Non-use Value of Water Quality
• Sonia Refulio-Coronado: The impact of water quality at the beach on disadvantaged communities in Rhode Island: Evidence using aggregated visitation data

Lunch 

Egg Timer Presentations (5 minutes per presentation)

Moderator: Nilesh Shinde

• Julie Hewitt: EPA’s Upcoming Water Affordability Needs Assessment
• Sampriti Sarkar: Aging infrastructure, affordability and legacy costs: Consumers’ willingness to pay for risk reduction
• Patrick  Lloyd-Smith: Putting heterogeneity to use to improve the generalizability of water quality valuation studies
• Isaiah Bryant-Sheth: A Storm Brewing: Estimating Costs of Climate-Induced Pollution in Drinking Water
• Emil Kee-Tui: The Value of Harmful Algal Bloom Free Lakes in the U.S.

2 Split/Parallel Sessions

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation followed by 3-4 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 9: Drinking Water Quality, Standards, and Human Capital

Moderator: Tihitina Andarge

• Jiameng Zheng: The effect of lead from drinking water on long-run educational outcomes
• Weizhe Weng: The Legacy of Historical Redlining: A National Study on Drinking Water Violations
• Wes Austin: Reducing PFAS in Drinking Water and Perinatal Health
• Tzu-Hui Janet Chen: Agricultural Externality: Health Impacts of Glyphosate Water Pollution

Session 10: Agriculture, Conservation, and Water Quality

Moderator: Catherine Kling

• Nicole Karwowski: Water Quality and the Conservation Reserve Program: Empirical Evidence from the Mississippi River Basin
• Tieyue Zhang: The Effects of the Conservation Reserve Program on Downstream Water Quality Across the US
• Anthony Ponce: Evaluating state policies supporting conservation in agriculture: Impacts on water quality in Minnesota
• Ngoc Ha Do: The Effects of Conservation on Water Quality

Wrap-up