FM Diversion Conference Agenda | North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute

2024 Fargo-Moorhead Area Diversion Conference Agenda

** Agenda is subject to change

Monday, August 19, 2024
7:30 - 8:00am		Breakfast and Registration
8:00 - 8:30am		Welcoming remarks Colleen Fitzgerald, Vice President for Research and Creativity, NDSU Introductory remarks Senator Ron Sorvaag, ND Legislature
8:30 - 9:15am		Overview of FM Diversion Kris Bakkegard, Director of Engineers, Metro Flood Diversion Authority
9:15 - 10:15am		FM Diversion Social Impact Moderated by Dane Mataic, NDSU Associate Professor of Sociology Resilience Katey Levihn, Environmental Manager, Jacobs Kristen Almen, Operations Environmental Coordinator, ASN Constructors Building Social Infrastructure Jenny Sheets, Founder, Discover Outdoors Fargo and Moorhead City Officials
10:15 - 10:30am		Networking Break
10:30 - 11:30am		Agency partners Moderated by Travis Seaborn, NDSU Assistant Professor of Applied Ecology FM Project Environmental Impacts, Monitoring, and Mitigation Derek Ingvalson, Biologist, U.S. Army Corps Engineering The Future is Now: Permitting Innovations for P3 Projects Aaron J. Carranza, P.E., CFM, DWR Regulatory Division Director, ND Department of Water Resources. New Approaches in Knowledge-guided Machine Learning for Hydrologic Forecasting Zachary McZachran, Ph.D., Hydrologist of North Central River Forecast Center, NOAA National Weather Service
11:30 - 12:00 pm		Q&A for morning speakers Moderated by Travis Seaborn, NDSU Assistant Professor of Applied Ecology
12:00 - 1:15pm		Lunch and keynote Karen Ryberg, Ph.D., Deputy Director of USGS, Dakota Water Science Center
1:15 - 1:30pm		Networking Break
1:30 - 2:00pm		Industry Lightning Talk Moderated by Shuning Lu, NDSU Assistant Professor of Communication Lyndon Pease, Moore Engineering Greg Thompson, Houston Engineering Javier Velasco, Red River Valley Alliance
2:00 - 2:30pm		Academia Lightning Talk Moderated by Shuning Lu, NDSU Assistant Professor of Communication Hydraulics of the Red River of the North Trung Le, Associate Professor of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, NDSU Fish connectivity and impacts Travis Seaborn, NDSU Assistant Professor of Applied Ecology Using drainage water management to mitigate flood potential Xinhua Jia, NDSU Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and NDWRRI Director
2:30 - 3:00pm		Q&A for Lighting Talks Speakers Moderated by Shuning Lu, NDSU Assistant Professor of Communication
3:00 - 3:15pm		Networking Break
3:15 - 4:15pm		FM Diversion Innovations Moderated by Trung Le, Associate Professor of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, NDSU Hydraulic design of Maple River Aqueduct Matthew Lueker, Senior Research Engineer, University of Minnesota Flood modeling using supercomputers SeokKoo Kang, Associate Professor at Hanyang University Geomorphologic evaluation and the design of low-flow channel FM Diversion Miguel Wong, Ph.D., Vice President at Barr Engineering
4:15 - 4:45pm		Q&A for FM Diversion Innovations speakers Moderated by Trung Le, Associate Professor of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, NDSU
4:45 - 5:00pm		Recap and follow-up actions Moderated by Xinhua Jia, NDSU Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and NDWRRI Director
5:00pm		Adjourn

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