Catchment Science 2011

14 September 2011

Type Event Proceeding

Proceedings from the Catchment Science 2011 Conference which took place in The Mansion House, Dublin from 14 – 16 September 2011

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Presentations

DAY 1
Introductory Addresses
	Opening Address	Mr Simon Coveney
	Introduction	Prof Gerry Boyle & Mr. Ger Shortle
	Policy perspectives	Mr. Bill Callanan & Mr. Pat Duggan	Introductory Addresses – Bill Callanan & Pat Duggan – Policy Perspectives
	Policy priorities for catchment management in England	Dr. Dan McConigle	Introductory Addresses – Dan L McGonigle
Keynote 1	Managing agricultural catchments for water quality: addressing scales, uncertainty, costs and demonstrating successes.	Prof. Andrew Sharpley	Keynote 1 – Andrew Sharpley
Case studies
Keynote 2	Catchment programs – getting changes on the land that improve water quality.	Prof. Dennis Frame	Keynote 2 – Denis Frame
Oral 1	Farm nutrient regulations; contrasting impact on water quality in different catchments.	Dr. Alice Melland	Oral 1 – Alice Melland
Oral 2	The Tarland Catchment Initiative: Lessons for assessing the achievement of multiple benefits following catchment restoration.	Dr. Susan Cooksley	Oral 2 – Susan Cooksley
Keynote 3	Managing water quality in catchments used for intensive dairy farming: experiences from case study catchments in New Zealand.	Dr. Ross Monaghan	Keynote 3 – Ross Monagahan
Oral 3	The Demonstration Test Catchments project – an overview.	Dr. Dan McGonigle	Oral 3 – Dan McGonigle
Oral 4	Implementing practices to improve water quality in an agricultural watershed in the central United States.	Prof. Dan L Devlin	Oral 4 – Dan L Devlin
Special session on mitigation measures
Oral 5	Is mechanical soil aeration a strategy to alleviate soil compaction and decrease phosphorus and sediment losses from irrigated and rain-fed cattle-grazed pastures?	Ms. Fiona Curran-Courname	Oral 5 – Fiona Curran-Courname
Oral 6	Evaluating multipurpose soft engineered mitigation measures in the Belford Burn catchment, Northumberland, UK.	Dr. Mark E Wilkinson	Oral 6 – Mark E Wilkinson
Oral 7	The Anne Valley Project (AVP) and the application of the ‘Integrated Constructed Wetland’ (ICW) concept: an example in catchment management.	Dr. Rory Harrington	Oral 7 – Rory Harrington
Oral 8	Evaluation of constructed wetlands for mitigation of diffuse pollution from agriculture: uncertainties.	Dr. Mary Ockenden	Oral 8 – Mary Ockenden
Oral 9	Application of FARMSCOPER to optimise options for mitigating agricultural diffuse pollution across the Hampshire Avon Demonstration Test Catchment.	Dr. Yusheng Zhang	Oral 9 – Yusheng Zhang
Oral 10	Nitrogen and phosphorus balances and efficiencies on contrasting dairy farms in Australia.	Dr. Cameron Gourley	Oral 10 – Cameron Gourley
DAY 2
Scale
Keynote 4	Nutrient leaching losses: from point, through the farm, to the catchment.	Dr. Brent Clothier	Keynote 4 – Clothier
Oral 11	Evaluating management regulations at different scales in agricultural catchments in Ireland.	Dr. David Wall	Oral 11 – David Wall
Oral 12	Interaction between land and surface water quality in different type of catchments.	Dr. Oscar Schoumans	Oral 12 – Schoumans et al
Oral 13	The Environmental Virtual Observatory: A new vision for catchment science.	Dr. Bridget Emmett	Oral 13 – Bridget Emmett
Keynote 5	From paddock to catchment: practices, processes and pollutant budgets.	Dr. Scott Wilkinson	Keynote 5 – Mark E Wilkinson
Oral 14	Partnership working to tackle diffuse phosphorus pollution.	Mr. Ian Codling	Oral 14 – Codling et al
Oral 15	Designing and creating the North Wyke Farm Platform.	Mr. Robert Orr	Oral 15 – Robert Orr
Uncertainty
Keynote 6	Murky waters: multidimensional issues linking macronutrient sources and impacts in catchments	Prof. Helen Jarvie	Keynote 6 – Helen Jarvie
Oral 16	Uncertain diffuse phosphorus pathways in catchments	Dr. Per-Erik Mellander	Oral 16 – Per-Erik Mellander
Oral 17	Critical Source Areas of Phosphorus in Extensively Farmed Grassland Catchments	Dr. Donnacha Doody	Oral 17 – DDoody
Oral 18	The impact of septic tank systems on water quality in rural catchments	Dr. Paul Withers	Oral 18 – Withers
Keynote 7	Do natural processes counteract the effects of agricultural nutrient action plans? Examples from Denmark.	Prof. Brian Kronvang	Keynote 7 – kronvang
Oral 19	Nitrogen loadings and concentrations to estuaries in Denmark during the period 1990-2009: Regional differences in sources, loadings, sinks and estuarine responses.	Dr. Jørgen Windolf	n/a
Oral 20	Experiences from 20 years of agricultural catchment monitoring – factors influencing data quality.	Dr. Katarina Kyllmar	Oral 20 – Katarina Kyllmar
Oral 21	Farming and the environment – an Irish farmer’s perspective.	Mr. Tony McGuiness	Oral 21 – Tony McGuinness
DAY 3
Counting the costs
Keynote 8	Cost effective placement of conservation practices in watersheds: integrating economic and biophysical models.	Prof. Catherine Kling	Keynote 8 – Catherine Kling
Oral 22	Willingness of farmers to engage with riparian zones across small scale catchment areas in the Republic of Ireland.	Dr. Cathal Buckley	Oral 22 – Cathal Buckley
Oral 23	Development of cost effective nitrogen management strategies: scenario evaluation with the DSS FyrisCOST	Dr. Dennis Collentine	Oral 23 – Dennis Collentine
Oral 24	Integrating Science and Governance for Catchment management.	Mr. Laurence Smith	Oral 24 – Laurence Smith
Keynote 9	Economic aspects of the European Water Framework Directive: experiences and challenges in agricultural catchments	Dr. Julia Martin -Ortega	Keynote 9 – Julia Martin-Ortega
Oral 25	The use of Benefit Transfer in estimating the value of achieving ‘good ecological status’ in Irish river catchments.	Mr. Daniel Norton	Oral 25 – Daniel Norton
Oral 26	Paying farmers for ecosystem services: costs and characteristics of long term agreements.	Dr. Alex Inman	Oral 26 – Alex Inman