Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

W-2190 Meeting October 24, 2013 Minutes of W2190 Meeting Submitted by Aaron Benson October 24-25, 2013 Salt Lake City, Utah This is the fifth annual meeting of W2190, held on October 24-25, 2013 Officers for the past year: Chair Kristi Hansen, Wyoming; Vice-Chair Karina Schoengold, Nebraska; Secretary Aaron Benson, Texas October 24, 2013, Morning session 8:10 AM  Grant Cardon welcomed attendees and opened the meeting. 8:15 AM  Karina Schoengold reviewed minutes from 2012 meeting. Brian Hurd made a motion to accept minutes from 2012. Aaron Benson seconded. The vote was unanimous. 8:16 AM  Grant Cardon mentioned the ability of this group to produce research, citing the recent special issue of JNRPR published almost entirely by W-2190 members. 8:20 AM  Attendee introductions. 8:30 AM  Grant Cardon introduced the Salt Lake region and discussed the water issues facing it. Utahs water transfers are often trans-basin in nature  pulling water from the Uintah Basin into the Great Basin 9:15 AM  Kristi Hansen suggested that we add an opportunity to make announcements at 1:00 PM 9:15 AM  Mike Harrington gave an update on Multistate Committees. NIFA priority areas havent changed. ESCOP has completed a science roadmap for food and agriculture. There will be changes in AFRI Programs: previously, there was a focus on big science. There will not be a climate change area in the 2014 RFP. There will be a water initiative. There will be a pest management program in the 2014 budget. Brian Hurd asks about a research production function, wanting to know what the most productive coordination of assets is  can things get too big or too small? Mike Harrington discusses the importance of emotional intelligence in coordinating research among well-trained, well-respected researchers across disciplines and institutions. Jon Yoder asks if the water initiative working group has any economists on it. In 2010, AFRI received 1500 requests for $3.9 billion, and funded 403 projects at $232 million. Budget outlook: all fed programs lost 7.62%, distributed across all lines, except AFRI, which increased. The 2014 budget has proposed funding be restored to 2012 levels. Questions about the budget beyond 2014. Multistate research update: 365 active multistate research projects. MR excellence award  any current multistate project is eligible. Evaluated on accomplishments (outputs, outcomes and impacts). Multistate project reports (SAES-422 ) are collated when projects close out, and impacts are used to create impact statement used to inform decision makers. Impact is the quantifiable difference a program makes in the quality of life for its users. Reports, publications, patents, data workshops or information, description of program/process, number of persons at a meeting or enrolled in a program are NOT impacts. Impact statements address who cares? so what? questions. An impact statement is a brief summary in laymen terms  short sentences, clearly states payoffs to society. Stuff like adoption of technology, creation of jobs, reduced cost of production, reduced cost to consumers, less pesticide exposure, access to more nutritious food, cleaner environment and healthier communities. Potential impact should be considered. If there are goals/objectives not yet met in W-2190, they can be included in the renewal, but typically, the coordinators look for new objectives in multistate project renewals. Mike needs a list of potential reviewers for the renewal. Nick Brozovic asked what things we should be doing to increase our effectiveness. Mike answered that we should show inter-relatedness  things we are working on together. This committee should be prepared to jointly submit a proposal to the new water initiative. This committee should have some connection with the Western States Water Council. Maybe the issue of water policy and food production would be a good target for an AFRI proposal or objective for the renewal. 10:25  The committee addressed proposal development for the next 190 project. The committee recognized the need for a justification statement, current/past work, and objectives (with methods, tasks to meet methods, outcomes). In the past, the objectives were addressed at the field level, modeling/theoretical level and institutional level. Garth Taylor suggested that the original division among objectives is still appropriate. Grant suggested that we need, as a minimum, the three objectives specified at the end of this meeting, in order to invite as much as participation as possible. Mike Harrington pointed out that objectives need to be measureable. The committee should be able to state objectives that can be achievable, measurable, reasonable and time-bound. WERA1020 is the multistate coordinating committee that coordinates research between our research committee and others. WERA1020 grew out of issues with the water quality program. 11:00  Gene Shawcroft from Central Utah Water Conservation District. The CUWCD covers roughly 60% of the states population. Have no retail customers, only wholesale. Most of their water comes into Salt Lake County. Utah is allocated 1.4 million acre-ft per year of Colorado River water. CUP (Central Utah Project) develops Utahs allocation of the Co River water. CUP is a series of exchanges, because CUPs water right is junior to some irrigation rights downstream. CUP develops winter flow and high flow. 35% return flow on M&I water. October 24, 2013, Afternoon session 1:20  Grant presented a project in which a corn/wheat rotation was used in conjunction with duck hunting. A strip of unharvested corn down the middle of the field is used as a blind. 1:30  Gopalakrishnan requested a collaboration for another special issue of JNRPR, topic is open. U of Wyoming recently had a symposium on water issues and agricultural issues in the energy industry. 1:40  Kansas state report: Jeff is working on groundwater depletion issues and policy regarding that. Looks at ways to design policies that are key to hydrologic conditions. Different policy instruments are better for different aquifer conditions, or as the aquifer is depleted. Its a combination of theoretical and computational models, and is coupled with hydrological modeling. 1:40  Breakout session to discuss the writing of the objectives for the project renewal. The first objective will be called Foundations. Need an objective statement and come up with a list of some methods and tasks. 2:35  Norm Jones (Brigham Young University) addressed the committee and discussed a NSF project: modeling for water resource management. The grant enhanced cyberinfrastructure facilities, enhanced access to data- and computationally-intensive modeling, advanced high-resolution multi-physics watershed modeling, and promote STEM learning and water science management. #2 goals: 1) provide hydrologic researchers, modelers, water managers and users access to HPC resources without requiring them to become HPC and CI experts, and 2) Reduce the amount of time and effort spent in finding and organizing the data&. 3:30 - Field tour to Park City, Jordanelle Reservoir, down the Provo River to Deer Creek Reservoir, Utah Lake, and some of the canal/pipeline works in the Wasatch Front. October 25, 2013 Morning session 8:00 AM  Business meeting. Jordan Suter elected as new secretary. Decision made to hold the meeting in Las Vegas next year. Oct 22-24. Kristi Hansen mentioned the possibility of hosting a conference. Laura McCann mentioned that AAEA has money available to coordinate a 1-2 day symposium. Karina Schoengold explained that WAEA is hoping to have some organized symposia at their annual meeting in Colorado Springs. We agree to keep in touch about these topics via email. Ariel Dinar is hosting a World Bank conference. The WCERE conference will be in Istanbul in June/July 2014. Nick Brozovic announced that University of Illinois is hiring for two agricultural economics positions. 8:30  Discussion regarding committee objectives for the renewal. Committee members should email Grant evidence of impacts from committee work over the last five years. 2 week deadline to return narratives of objectives/methods to Grant (Nov 15th). A discussion of potential reviewers: George Frisvold, Richard Howitt, Nathan Hendricks, Joshua Duke. 9:30  State reports Garth Taylor (Idaho): working with externalities and conjunctive use externalities in surface water use. Also working with rule curves in reservoir management to address emerging issues. Chris Goemens (Colorado): did a variety of work on a recent drought in Colorado. Investigating impacts across the state. Investigating interactions between farmers who are opposed to water transfers and farmers who want to be able to transfer their water rights. CSU organized a workshop addressing water valuation for stakeholders. Recently completed a survey on consumer willingness to support agriculture, comparing policies and potential impacts. Found support for agriculture even in face of price increases. They have been doing some lab experiments in urban water demand. Jordan Suter (Colorado): Three laboratory experiments: 1) dairy farmers in NY evaluating impact on nonpoint source pollution of a production tax, 2) water quality in water quality trading: explaining why water quality trading doesnt occur because of thin markets in presence of large capital expenditure requirements 3) groundwater use experiments determining how people make decisions in presence of spatially explicit groundwater dynamics. Mark Eiswerth (Colorado): Can. J. Agri. Econ. had an issue that featured articles by a few members of W2190. Mark discussed a proposal looking at payment for ecosystem services in a watershed. Also has proposed a project to analyze the Poudre watershed determining different metrics to measure watershed health, condition. Determine how user groups think about these topics. Brian Hurd (New Mexico): has 3 main areas. 1.) analyzing system dynamics of the acequia irrigation systems in Northern New Mexico. 2.) looking at municipal water use in El Paso and Ciudad Jaurez, and the urban system of water use, with groundwater as the main backstop resource and notions of sustainability. 3.) looking at climate change adaptation, impact assessments, in developing countries. Dealing with sparse data while trying to build a hydroeconomic model. Grant Cardon (Utah): salinity inventory assessment projects. Developing a baseline of water quality in Grand Valley in Colorado. Had a large USGS database with several decades of data and a large spatial region. He found long-term periodic oscillations in certain salinity data (specific conductance), with a period of 12 years  possibly caused by decadal Nino/Nina oscillations. Jon Yoder (Washington): transdisciplinary modeling effort to put together a suite of modeling types  the primary economic component of which is an agent-based implementation. Watershed simulation model designed to be used as an experimental tool to understand stakeholder perspectives on water policy questions  provides water outcomes from specific policies; Jon wishes to apply this model to the Spokane and Yakima watersheds to provide stakeholders with a holistic perspective on policy alternatives. Jon is working on two other projects 1.) Columbia river treaty is up for renegotiation in 2014, and Jons group is looking at negotiation positions of the US and Canada wrt to this treaty, and how those positions have changed since 1964, when the treaty was initiated. The primary benefits of the treaty are flood control (for Portland) and energy production. There were 4 dams built to effect this. Half of the electricity produced is sent to Canada. 2.) Jon is working to disaggregate benefit and cost estimates that have been done on projects to promote salmon habitat and other objectives in the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan. Laura McCann (Missouri): Missouri has a new water center  with focus on water quality issues in Gulf of Mexico. Laura completed a project on the effect of information about uses of dual flush toilets. Laura also completed a paper on transaction costs and design. Kristi Hansen (Wyoming): 3 projects. 1) projects on the North Platte river to store water inter-annually. 2) payment for ecosystem services project on greater sage grouse habitat. The state of Wyoming would like to improve habitat to the point that the bird is not listed as endangered. They are planning on using the ecosystem services trading market in a water quantity/quality training market. 3) large-scale water project of the Colorado River basin. Kristi needs to find someone to help work on identifying salinity damages in lower Colorado basin. Dannele Peck (Wyoming): had a student finish a project on the conflicts between water users in context of coalbed methane extraction, comparing social impact of regulatory approach to a more market-based policy approach. Dannele mentioned another project studying farm-level adaptation to climate change, and bringing the conversation out to farmers, and learning from farmer what they see as challenges that they face, and why they might resist any changes. Karina Schoengold (Nebraska): has been working on drought management and climate risk at the producer level. She has looked at use of various farm-level conservation practices and govt. programs, determining whether they are substitutes or complements. She will be conducting a producer survey to see how they manage climate risk and drought issues, including risk attitudes and risk perception. She has also looked at demand for groundwater and groundwater trading, analyzing water use who was trading and whether economic criteria is useful in prediction direction of trades. She has also studied role of climate variability in crop choice  to determine use of water at field level. Nebraska: the state is looking into water buyouts in the Platte river basin. Nick Brozovic (Illinois): has a couple of things to discuss. In 2012, Illinois double its irrigated acreage, and a number of seed companies demanded that farms install irrigation systems to mitigate drought risk, even though it would only be needed every 6 or 7 years. Nick has been working on intraseasonal stochastic crop production functions and its effect on aquifer dynamics. Nick has been working on energy use and water use  farmers make decisions based on energy prices and electricity contracts available to farmers. Nick organized a conference in China on surface/ground water interactions. Nick has an NSF proposal (with Karina S. and Cameron Speir) to use real-time data of water use in developing a water trading system. Nick has a grant proposal around groundwater marketing with a graduate student. Nick (as a part of a group) put in a WSC proposal to look at the Ogallala to build up a behavioral basis to management. The proposal has several W2190 members as co-PIs and collaborators (Peterson, Speir, Schoengold) and another member on the advisory council (Golden). Aaron Benson (Texas): projects on determination of non-use values of Ogallala water, cost savings of a groundwater trading model to affect groundwater conservation, and spatial aspects of ecosystem services of wetlands on the Texas Southern High Plains. Ray Huffaker (Florida): Florida has large fresh and saltwater resources. UF has an active water research center that promotes interdisciplinary water research. Springs generate a lot of the surface flow, provide habitat for manatees, recreation for spring diving. Springs are being polluted, but the source isnt known. Currently, monitoring techniques and equipment are being developed to fingerprint spring pollution. Ray is working on using complicated datasets to reconstruct dynamics of the real-world system that generated the data. Ray would like to start building models that generate dynamics that match the complexity of real-world data. 11:45  Discussion about how the state reports affect the proposal development. Discussion about potentially moving next years meeting to Florida with Ray Huffaker as host. Decision made to move the meeting to Florida instead of Las Vegas as discussed. Dates are tentatively set for October 22  24th.

W2190 Objective 1. Develop farm-level irrigation strategies to address water quantity and quality problems. In Illinois, N. Brozovic and collaborators used intraseasonal stochastic crop-water production functions to analyze optimal irrigation strategies under conditions of limited water availability. In Texas, research continued on determining the spatial distribution of salinity in the affected fields using Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) technique. This research is being carried out in collaboration with B. Leinauer at NMSU, G. Cardon (W-2190) at Utah State University, and local growers. The Texas research team also developed of a simplified profitability irrigation analyzer calculator spreadsheet for producers based on acreage derived water capacity (gpm/ac). The tool is currently in beta testing. Finally, changing conditions in the Texas Panhandles agriculture were reexamined for both the water demands and associated management strategies for the states water plan. In Wyoming, D. Peck is seeking funds to organize a research workshop and outreach sessions about farm-level adaptation to climate-change. If funded, stakeholders and W2190 members will participate. J. Bartholic, in Michigan, is developing an Integrative Decision Support System (IDSS) that incorporates climate variability of water resources throughout the state for planning and management strategy development. Objective 2: Examine regional water-related impacts associated with energy, environmental policy, and climate change. N. Brozovic and a student used theoretical analysis and econometrics to analyze the interactions between water use and energy policy in groundwater-fed agriculture. K. Kovacs developed a working paper to evaluate how to use on-farm reservoirs to conserve water and maintain farm profit in the rice-soybean production region of the Arkansas Delta, and twice presented posters at regional meetings (57th Annual Rural Life Conference and the Arkansas Water Resources Center Annual Watershed and Resources Conference). Dr. Kovacs also received grant for the research of on-farm reservoirs from the Arkansas Water Resources Center. G. Schaible, at USDA-ERS examined farm structural characteristics of western irrigated agriculture and their implications for improving on-farm irrigation efficiency that enhances USDA conservation goals, worked with the NASS Interagency Task Group to revise and enhance the 2013 FRIS, providing information allowing USDA to address growing water-policy issues in the future, and communicated irrigation/water-management research results to western academic, State agency, and federal water-policy stakeholders through Invited Presentations. J. Jones analyzed a 37 year dataset from Lake of the Ozarks to show that phosphorus levels near the dam vary by 5-fold and that hydrology (inflow) accounts for over 80% of the measured temporal variation. Dr. Jones identified Missouri reservoirs as potential carbon sinks (flux of carbon dioxide across the water surface) during summer; flux is large in eutrophic reservoirs. This finding influences global carbon balance. B. Hurd continued research in support of the NSF-support study of acequia systems (small-system community irrigation) including community meetings, development of collaborative proposals. Also, the New Mexico team developed a model of climate change impacts on water and agricultural resources which extended to the development of system dynamics modeling of climate-human-land use systems. M. Eiswerth forged external, intrastate linkages among water resources faculty at multiple universities in Colorado by serving on the Advisory Board of the One World One Water Center of MSU Denver, and participated in a research project regarding linkages between climate change, drought and water-based recreation that was made possible due to linkages internal to W2190 project. J. Yoder received a grant to study biogeochemical cycling in the context of climate variability using a regional earth system modeling framework. Additionally, members from Washington State have two papers under review with implications to water use and impacts. J. Peterson guest edited a special issue of the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research that was published in 2013, including several contributions from W2190 members on their project-related research. Also, members from Kansas developed a theoretical model of a multicell aquifer to characterize common pool externalities when cell depth varies. Preliminary results were presented at the 2013 AAEA conference. A. Dinar participated in a research project to study the adaptation of Western US agriculture to climate change-induced water scarcity. In Texas, research was conducted on the water and economic implications related to hydraulic fracturing in the Barnett Shale and the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas. Also, water use per well and economic returns to water was estimated. The values are sensitive to gas/oil prices as these are compared to irrigated agricultural and municipal and industrial water values. D. Peck co-edited a special issue in the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research titled Climate Variability and Water-Dependent Sectors." W2190 members wrote 7 of 8 articles. Also, D. Peck and a masters student are integrating economics into a quantitative risk analysis of flood damage in Indonesia. Intended long-term impact: improve flood prevention investment efficiency. K. Schoengold estimated the impacts of stochastic versus fixed water prices on the adoption of precision irrigation technology using data from California. D. Megeressa and K. Schoengold estimated the impact of biofuel policy on land and water allocation in Kansas, Nebraska, and S. Dakota. K. Schoengold, M. Eiswerth (W2190), and P. Shrestha published a paper on the effect of drought on the whitewater rafting industry. B. Colby continued to analyze economics of advanced remote sensing techniques to measure and monitor water "savings" in irrigation forbearance agreements, and Continued to analyze economics of innovative, voluntary risk-sharing agreements to enhance supply reliability for urban and habitat water needs in the Lower Colorado River Basin. B. Colby also conduced econometric modeling of farmer adaptation to irrigation water shortfalls, Mexicali Valley. Objective 3: Investigate Alternative Water Policy and Management Institutions. N. Brozovic and collaborators in economics and civil engineering analyzed the economic and environmental consequences of groundwater management policies in NE, KS, and TX. G. Schaible communicated research results in an invited presentation at the 2013 AAEA meetings for a special session on "Will Water Become a More Limiting Resource for Food Production." In Idaho, G. Taylor, R.D. Schmidt, and B. Contor conducted cost-benefit analysis of alternative management responses to climate change. D. Schmidt, B. Contor, and G. Taylor studied hydrologic externalities and western water management. And researchers developed basin-wide integrated hydro-economic cost-benefit analysis using partial equilibrium models. B. Hurd participated in collaborative efforts to examine interstate water policy and issues between Texas and New Mexico along the Rio Grande watershed, and participated in the development of a joint interstate research plan and proposal. L. McCann studied transaction costs and policy design for water markets, with D. Garrick, and studied behavioral economics and design of a dual flush toilet, with J. Arocha. Articles were published for both studies. J. Yoder, A. Ohler, and H. Chouinard (W-2190) presented an invited seminar on preference revelation from lotteries over complex goods. M. Brady and J. Yoder received a grant to study integrated engineering and economic analysis of the Columbia River Treaty renegotiation using game theory. Washington researchers also participated in a grant-supported project to study feedbacks among biogeochemical simulations, stakeholder perceptions, and behavior. Researchers in Texas studied the advantages and disadvantages of alternative methods of river basin water allocation and findings were discussed with U.S. and Yangtze River scientists and water managers. Texas researchers also addressed challenges and solutions to Megacity water issues at the first joint U.S.-China International conference on Water for Megacities. K. Hansen is leading a project to establish a conservation exchange for the provision of ecosystem services (water resources and wildlife habitat) in southwestern Wyoming. With colleagues in Utah and Wyoming, K. Hansen is incorporating water management data and economic information into a hydro-economic model of the Upper CO River Basin States. K. Hansen and a graduate student are examining alternative policies to help irrigation districts manage inter-annual water supply variability on the North Platte River in Southeast Wyoming and Western Nebraska. D. Peck served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, which reaches water-related external peer groups, clientele, and stakeholders. Michigan researchers aided in the development of the Water Withdrawal Assessment Tool (WWAT) for assuring that new water withdrawals do not have an Adverse Resource Impact. Also, with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's Water Use Council and white paper for the Governor (a forum for discussion/developing policies), Michigan researchers provided guidance with important inputs from W2190. Several Michigan researchers have been invited to support and be a resource for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's Water Use Council with resource summaries and facilitation. Michigan researchers, with the Institute of Water Research has developed a 'White Paper on Water Strategy for Michigan: Agricultural Expansion and Water Resource Protection' for the Governor's Water Task Force B. Colby generated reports on improved use of remote sensing and other measurement and monitoring practices and more cost effective prioritization of water acquisitions, made policy recommendation to assist low income farmers in adapting to irrigation water shortfalls in the Mexicali Valley, assisted Bureau of Reclamation staff in developing methods to better understand irrigation district and grower choices and preferences related to on-farm conservation and irrigation forbearance programs, and collaborated with Bureau of Reclamation staff on improving cost effectiveness in monitoring reduced consumptive use irrigation forbearance agreements.

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Dinar, A., Will Water Become a More Limiting Resource for Food Production?, Discussion pre-sented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Washington DC, August 4-7, 2013. Dinar, A. and U. Kumar Jammalamadaka, Adaptation of Irrigated Agriculture to Adversity and Variability under Conditions of Drought and likely Climate Change: Interaction between Water Institutions and Social Norms. International Journal of Water Governance. (Accepted, October 4, 2012), 1:4164, 2013. Dinar, A. and G. Nigatu, Distributional Considerations of International Water Resources under Externality: The Case of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt on the Blue Nile, Water Resources & Economics, (Accepted July 21, 2013). Dinar, A. and A. Rapoport (Eds.), Analyzing Global Environmental Issues: Theoretical and Experimental Applications and their Policy Implications, Routledge, 2013. Dinar, A. and G. Zaccour (Guest Editors), Special Issue of Game Theory Applications to Environmental and Developmental Issues. Environment and Development Economics 18(1), February 2013. Dinar, A. and G. Zaccour, Strategic Behavior and Environmental Commons. Environment and Development Economics, 18(1):1-5, 2013. Duke, E., K. Hansen, and C. Bond. Market Supply Analysis: Landowner Preferences for Ecosystem Service Provision in Wyoming. Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, Selected Poster Presentation. Washington DC (August 2013). Eiswerth, M. Searching for Colorados Water Future. Presented at the inaugural University of Northern Colorado Community Conversation, Greeley, Colorado. November 14, 2012. Eiswerth, M., W. Breffle, D. Muralidharan, and J. Thornton. Economic Values for Lake Improvement: Using a Method to Better Reflect the Preferences of Less Wealthy Residents. Presented at the North American Lake Management Society 32nd International Symposium (by Eiswerth), Madison, Wisconsin. November 7, 2012. Eiswerth, M., K. Schoengold and P. Shrestha. The Joint Impact of Drought Conditions and Media Coverage on the Colorado Rafting Industry. Presented at the Interdisciplinary Water Resources Seminar (by Eiswerth), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. April 17, 2013. Elbakidze, L., X Shen, G. Taylor, and S. Mooney, Spatio-temporal Analysis of Prior Appropriations Water Calls. Water Resources Research (2012), VOL. 48, W00L07, 13 PP., doi:10.1029/2011WR010609 Elbakidze, L., X. Shen, G. Taylor, and S. Mooney. Moving forward with Prior Appropriations Doctrine in Coping with Irrigation Water Shortages. Selected Poster 2012 AAEA Annual Meeting Seattle WA. Aug. 2012. Esteban, E. and A. Dinar, Modeling Sustainable Groundwater Management: Packaging and Se-quencing of Policy Interventions. Journal of Environmental Management, (Accepted, December 28, 2012), 119:93-102, 2013 Fernald, A., V. Tidwell, J. Rivera, S. Rodriguez, S. Guldan, B. Hurd, C. Ochoa, C. Steele, M. Ortiz, K. Boykin, A. Cibils (2012), Modeling Water, Environment, Livelihood, and Culture in Traditional Irrigation Communities and Their Linked Watersheds, Journal of Sustainability, ISSN 2071-1050, doi:10.3390/su40x000x. Fernald, A., Tidwell, V. C., Rivera, J., Rodriguez, S., Guldan, S. J., Steele, C. M., Ochoa, C., Hurd, B. H., Ortiz, M., Boykin, K. G., Cibils, A. F. (2012). Modeling Water, Ecosystems, Economics and Culture in Traditional Acequia Irrigation Communities of New Mexico and Their Linked Watersheds. Presented to the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting H14F-03, San Francisco, Dec. 3-7, 2012. Ganjegunte, G.K. 2013. Tactics for salinity remediation: Contributing to pest management and profitability. Invited presentation at the 61st Annual Agricultural Chemicals Conference organized by West Texas Agricultural Chemicals Institute, September 10, 2013, Lubbock, TX. Invited. Ganjegunte, G.K. 2013. Alkaline soils / Alkaline water The Chemical Approach. 2013. Cotton Root Rot and other Updates Meeting. Organized by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, August 8, 2013, Fort Hancock, TX. Invited. Ganjegunte, G.K. 2013. Soil Salinity Management. 2013. Extension Entomology/IPM Professional Improvement Conference organized by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and Entomology Department, Texas A&M University, March 19  22, 2013, New Braunfels, TX. Invited. Ganjegunte, G.K. 2013. Soil Salinity: Overview and New Technologies. 2013 Texas/Oklahoma Cotton Physiology Working Group Meeting. Organized by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, January 30- February 1, 2013, Austin, TX. Invited. Ganjegunte, G.K., B. Leinauer, M. Schiavon, and M. Serena. 2013. Using Electro-Magnetic Induction to Determine Soil Salinity and Sodicity in Turf Root Zones. Agronomy Journal. 105:836-844. Ganjegunte, G.K., Z. Sheng, and J.A. Clark. 2013. Soil Salinity and Sodicity Appraisal by Electromagnetic Induction in Irrigated Cotton Soils. Land Degradation & Development. (Accepted, In Press, DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1162). Goemans, C., J.-C. Altamirano-Cabrera, L. Wangler, and H.-P. Weikard. Political Economy of International Environmental Agreements, in Jason F. Shogren (ed. in chief), Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics Vol. 3, London, UK: Elsevier (2013), 300-305. Goemans, C., T. L. Cherry and S. Cotton. Heterogeneity, Coordination and the Provision of Best-Shot Public Goods, forthcoming in Experimental Economics. Goemans, C., T. Cherry, S. Kallbekken, and D. M. McEvoy. Cooperation in and out of Markets: An Experimental Comparison of Public Good Games and Markets with Externalities, Economics Letters 2013, 120/1, 93-96. Goemans, C., M. Costanigro, D. Thilmany and M. Bunning Is it Love for Local/Organic or Hate for Conventional? Asymmetric Effects of Information and Taste on Label Preferences in an Experimental Auction, Food Quality and Preferences 2014, 31/1, 94-105. Goemans, C., J. A. List, and C. F. Mason. The Prisoners Dilemma in a Two-Level Game: An Experimental Investigation, in John List and Michael Price (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics, Edgar Elgar (2013), 458-481. Goemans, C., J. Pritchett, and R. Nelson. 2013. "2012 Drought in Colorado: Estimtes of Foregone Revenues Indirect and Induced Economic Activity for the Crops Sector" ." Production and Farm Management Report 13-01. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University. Available at http://webdoc.agsci.colostate.edu/DARE/PFMR/PFMR%2013-03.pdf. 5 pp. Griffin, R.C., D.E. Peck and J. Maestu. 2013. Introduction: myths, principles and issues in water trading. In J. Maestu (ed.) Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity: International Experiences. New York, NY: RFF Press. Hans, L., C. Goemans, and S. Kroll. 2013. "Impacts of Information on Household Water Use and Responsiveness to Utility Pricing Policies: An Experimental Analysis." Colorado Water. March/April. Volume 29, Issue 2. pp. 15-17. Hansen, K. 2013. Economic Issues Related to Water Resources and Drought. UW Extension Drought Workshop. Gillette, WY and Upton, WY. (March 21 and 22, 2013). Hansen, K. 2013. Upper Green River Conservation Exchange: Market-Based Conservation Mechanism. Conservation Finance Forum sponsored by UW Ruckelshaus Institute, The Strook Forum on Wyoming Lands and People, and The Nature Conservancy (April 2013). Hansen, K., R. Howitt, and J. Williams. 2013. Water Trades in the Western United States: Risk, Speculation, and Property Rights. In Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity: International Perspectives, ed. J. Maestu. New York: RFF Press Water Policy Series, pp. 55-67. Hansen, K., A. Jakle, and M. Hogarty. 2013. Market-Based Wildlife Mitigation in Wyoming: A Primer. Laramie, Wyoming: University of Wyoming Ruckelshaus Institute. Hansen, K., J. Kaplan, and S. Kroll. 2013. Valuing Options in Water Markets: A Laboratory Investigation. Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming. Hansen, K., G. Paige, and R. Coupal. 2013. Payment for Ecosystem Services Market in the Upper Green River Basin. University of Wyoming Field Days Bulletin. Hines, S., P.Joel, and G. Taylor. Snapshot of Agribusiness in the Magic Valley Economy, 2010. University of Idaho. Dec 2012. Hines, St., J. Packham, and G. Taylor. Contribution of Agribusiness to the Magic Valley Economy, 2010. University of Idaho Extension CIS 1193. Jan. 2013. Hines, S. J. Packham, G. Taylor. Contribution of agribusiness to Idahos Magic Valley economy. Western Region NACAA October 15, 2012 Twin Falls, Idaho Honey-Roses, J., Acuna, W., Bardina, M., Brozovic, N, Marce, R., Munne, A., Sabater, S., Termes, M., Valero, F., Vega, A., and Schneider, D., 2013, Examining the demand for ecosystem services: The value of stream restoration for drinking water treatment managers in the Llobregat River, Spain, Ecological Economics, v. 90:196-205, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.03.019. Hurd, B. (2012). Climate Vulnerability and Adaptive Strategies along the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Border of Mexico and the United States, Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education. Dec (149:56-63). Hurd, B. H. (2013). Climate vulnerability and adaptive strategies along the Rio Grande, Presented at the Universities Council on Water Resources Annual Conference, Presented at the Universities Council on Water Resources Annual Conference, Water Systems, Science, and Society Under Global Change, South Lake Tahoe, CA, June 12, 2013. Hurd, B. H. (2013). Lectures on Water Resources and Climate Change. Presented at the Clim-Adapt Workshop. Bangkok, Thailand, Mar 11-15, 2013. Hurd, B. H. (2013). Acequia Perspectives on Climate-Change and Population Growth and the Perspectives of Preparedness and Adaptation, Presented at the Symposium and Workshop: Acequias and the Future of Resilience in Global Perspective, Session 2: Data Integration and Modeling the Interplay of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Factors in an Acequia Community. Las Cruces, NM, Mar 2, 2013. Hurd, B. and C. Lant (2013). Managing Water, Energy and Food in an Uncertain World. Journal of Contemporary Research and Education. Aug (151:1-2) Hurd, B., and M. Rouhi-Rad (2012). Estimating economic effects of changes in climate and water availability, Climatic Change, DOI:10.1007/s10584-012-0636-9. Iles, J., L. Wolfson and K. Stepenuck. 2012. Challenges and Opportunities with Developing Volunteer Water Monitoring Programs in Underserved Communities-Lessons Learned from a Three State Regional Project. Land Grant and Sea Grant National Water Conference, Portland, OR, May. Johnson, D., J.R. McKean, and G.Taylor. "Testing for Endogeneneity Bias in the Snake River Reservoirs Sportfishing Demand Model". Special Session Non-Market Valuation in Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystem Research North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE), St. Petersburg, Florida, May 21-24, 2013 Johnston, C.R., G.F. Vance, and G.K. Ganjegunte. 2013. Soil Property Changes Following Irrigation with CBNG Water: Role of Water Treatments, Soil Amendments, and Land Suitability. Land Degradation and Development. 24:350-362. Jones, JR and DV Obrecht. 2013. Lake of the Ozarks: analysis of a long-term dataset. Presented at the International Society of Limnology meeting. Prague. Jones, JR and DV Obrecht. 2013. Lake of the Ozarks: analysis of a long-term dataset. Presented at the North American Lake Management meeting. San Diego. Juchems, E. M. and K. Schoengold (2013) Predicting Groundwater Trading in the Upper Republican Natural Resource District Cornhusker Economics. Kline-Robach, R., L. Wolfson, and J. Asher. 2012. Development of a Web-based Program to Encourage Adoption of Green Practices. Land Grant and Sea Grant National Water Conference, Portland, OR, May. Kovacs, K. Conserving Groundwater Supply in the Arkansas Delta using On-Farm Reservoirs. Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2013 Kovacs, K. Conserving Groundwater Supply in the Arkansas Delta using On-Farm Reservoirs. SERA35: Delta Region Farm Management and Agricultural Policy Working Group, Vicksburg, MS, 2013 Kovacs, K. Preserving the Quantity and Quality of Water in the Arkansas Delta. Poster, 57th Annual Rural Life Conference, Pine Bluff, AR, 2013 Kovacs, K. Preserving the Quantity and Quality of Water in the Arkansas Delta. Poster, Arkansas Water Resources Center Annual Watershed and Research Conference, Fayetteville, AR, 2013. Kovacs, K., M. Popp, K. Brye. "Conserving Groundwater Supply in the Arkansas Delta using On-Farm Reservoirs." Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2013 Annual Meeting, Selected Paper. Kuwayama, Y. and Brozovic, N., 2013, The regulation of a spatially heterogeneous externality: tradable groundwater permits to protect instream flows, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2013.02.004. Lacewell, R. D., M. E. Rister, E. K. Seawright, A. W. Sturdivant, J. A. Goolsby,2013. Arundo donax: Rio Grande Water Hog, presentation at annual meeting of the University Council on Water Resources, June 2013,Lake Tahoe, CA. Proceedings abstract. Lacewell, Ronald D., Robert Taylor, M. Edward Rister and Emily K. Seawright. 2013. Corn for Ethanol: Irrigation Water Per Gallon. presentation at annual meeting of the University Council on Water Resources, June 2013,Lake Tahoe, CA. Proceedings abstract. Legge, J., P.J. Doran, M. Herbert, J. Asher, G. ONeil, S. Mysorekar, S. Sowa and K. Hall. 2013. From model outputs to conservation action: Prioritizing locations for implementing agricultural best management practices in a Midwestern watershed. doi:10.2489/jswc.68.1.22. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. Jan/Feb 2013-Vol. 68. No. 1, pp. 22-33. Lentz, A., Ando, A.W. and Brozovic, N., 2013, Water quality trading with lumpy investments, credit stacking, and ancillary benefits, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 1-18, DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12117. Madani, K. and A. Dinar, Exogenous Regulatory Institutions for Sustainable Common Pool Resource Management: Application to Groundwater, Water Resources & Economics, (Accepted August 13, 2013). Marek, T., S. Amosson, and B. Guerrero. 2013. 2016 Panhandle Regional Water Plan Task 2 Report: Agricultural Water Demand Projections. Revised technical contract report for Freese and Nichols to the Panhandle Regional Planning Commission for the Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX. 17p. McCann, L and J. Arocha. Behavioral Economics and the Design of a Dual Flush Toilet. Journal of the American Water Works Association. McCann, L. and D. Garrick. Transaction Costs and Policy Design for Water Markets. In Water Markets for the 21st Century: What We Have Learned, K. William Easter, Qiuqiong Huang, eds. McKean, J. R., D. Johnson, R.G. Taylor. Estimating Tournament Effects on Sportfishing Demand. Tourism Economics. Aug 2014. McKean, J. R., D. Johnson, and R.G. Taylor. Three approaches to time valuation in recreation demand: A study of the Snake River recreation area in eastern Washington. J. Environmental Management 112 (2012) 321-329. McKean, J. , D. Johnson, and R. G. Taylor "Location Value in Recreation Demand with Latent Variable. Western Regional Science Association 51st annual meeting Feb 2012. Kauai, Hawaii Michaletz, P. H., D. V. Obrecht, J. R. Jones. 2012. Influence of environmental variables and species interactions on sport fish communities in small Missouri impoundments. North Amer. J. of Fisheries Manage. 32:6, 1146-1159. Michelsen, A.M. 2013. Mega Cities World-wide: Population, Growth, Water Use and Water Resources Challenges. Water for Mega Cities: Challenges and Solutions, International Specialty Conference, American Water Resources Association and Beijing Hydraulic Engineering Society. Beijing, China. September 16-18. Michelsen, A.M. 2013. Allocation of River Basin Water. 2013 Annual Conference of the Yangtze River Watershed Collaboration Network for Water Resources Research. Xining, Qinghai Province, China. Ministry of Water Resources. Invited. Michelsen, A.M. 2013. Water Conservation Collaboration and Accomplishments of the Rio Grande Basin Initiative. Rio Grande Basin Initiative Summary Meeting. San Antonio, TX. April 16, 2013. Invited. Michelsen, A.M. 2013. Integrated Water Resources Management: Evolution and 6th World Water Forum Results. IWRM Webinar, American Water Resources Association. April 9, 2013. Michelsen, A.M., R.J. Johnston, and G. Parsons. 2013. Beach Management Strategies Economic Assessment. American Water Resources Association Annual Conference. Portland, OR, Nov. 4-7, 2013. Abstract. Michelsen, A.M., R.J. Johnston, and G. Parsons. 2013. Economic Assessment of Delaware Bay Beach Management Strategies. Universities Council on Water Resources/National Institutes for Water Resources Annual Conference. Lake Tahoe, NV, June 11-13. Abstract. Michelsen, A.M., R.D. Lacewell, J.P. Nicot and T. Grimshaw. 2013. Environmental and Related Impacts of Shale Gas Development: Case Study of the Barnett Shale Play. American Water Resources Association Annual Conference. Portland, OR, Nov. 4-7, 2013. Abstract. Michelsen, A.M. and R.D. Lacewell. 2013. Natural Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Water Resources Economic Values. Universities Council on Water Resources/National Institutes for Water Resources Annual Conference. Lake Tahoe, NV, June 11-13. Abstract. Michelsen, A. M., R. D. Lacewell, G. Bitner, and T. Allen. 2013. Environmental and Related Impacts of Shale Gas Development: Case Study of the Barnett Shale - Water Economics. Prepared for: The Energy Institute, Flawn Academic Center, FAC 428, 2 West Mall, C2400, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. Morgan, T. et al. Idaho Forest Products Industry Current Conditions and 2012 Forecast. Idaho Forest, Wildlife and Range Experiment Station. Bulletin 96 Jan. 2012. Nelson R., C. Goemans and J. Pritchett. 2012. "Farmer Resiliency Under Drought Conditions." Production and Farm Management Report 13-02. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University. Available at http://webdoc.agsci.colostate.edu/DARE/PFMR/PFMR%2013-02.pdf . 4 pp. Nelson, R., C. Goemans and J. Pritchett. 2013. "Farmer Resiliency Under Drought Conditions." Colorado Water. May/June 2013. Volume 30, Issue 3. pp 2-4. Ochoa, C., Tidwell, V., Fernald, A., Guldan, S. J., Hurd, B. H., Rivera, J., Rodriguez, S., Steele, C., Wilson, J. (2012). "A System Dynamics Approach for Looking at the Human and Environmental Interactions of Community-based Irrigation Systems in New Mexico, Presented to the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, Dec. 3-7, 2012. Ortiz Correa J. S. and A. Dinar, Effects of Civil War on Access to Water and Sanitation Services. Paper presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) section of the Allied Social Science Association Winter Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 5-8, 2013. Paige, G. and K. Hansen. 2013. Upper Green River Conservation Exchange: Policy Issues and Data Needs for Riparian Function Quantification Tool. State Engineers Office State Water Forum. Cheyenne, WY (November 2013). Patrone, F., and A. Dinar (Guest Editors), Special Issue of Game Theory Applications to Global and International Issues. International Game Theory Review 14(4), 2013. Patrone F. and A. Dinar, Strategic Behavior in Global and International Interactions, Interna-tional Game Theory Review, 14(4):1-4, 2013. Peck, D.E. and J.M. Peterson. 2013. Introduction to the special issue on Climate Variability and Water-Dependent Sectors: Impacts and Potential Adaptations Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 5(2-3):73-77. Peterson, J.M. and A.E. Saak. "Spatial Externalities in Aquifers with Varying Thickness: Theory and Numerical Results for the Ogallala Aquifer." Selected Paper at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 4-6, 2013. Pittman, B., J. R. Jones, J. Millspaugh, R. J. Kremer and J. A. Downing. 2013. Sediment organic carbon distribution in 4 small northern Missouri impoundments: implications for sampling and carbon sequestration. Inland Waters 3:39-46. Pritchett, J., Goemans, C. and R. Nelson. 2013. " Adaptations to Drought: Evidence from and Ag producer Survey." Production and Farm Management Report 13-01. Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University. Available at http://webdoc.agsci.colostate.edu/DARE/PFMR/PFMR%2013-01.pdf. 7 pp. Quall, R. and G. Taylor. Climate Change Impacts on Idahos Irrigation Water Supply and Delivery in the Context of Water Rights. special issue in Journal of Natural Resource Policy Research on Climate Variability and Water-Dependent Sectors July 2013 Quintana A., N.E. and J.M. Peterson. "The Impact of Irrigation Capital Subsidies on Common-pool Groundwater Use and Depletion: Results for Western Kansas." Selected Paper at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference, Banff, Alberta, June 6-8, 2013. Rahman, S. M., D. F. Larson, and A. Dinar, Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Abatement un-der the Clean Development Mechanism, Climate Change Economics, (Accepted July 23, 2013). Rango, A., Fernald, A., Steele, C. M., Hurd, B. H., Ochoa, C. (2013). Acequias and the effects of climate change. Journal of Contemporary Research and Education. Aug (151:84-94). Schaible, G. D. 2012. Water Conservation in Irrigated Agriculture: Trends and Challenges (October 24). An Invited Presentation at the Agricultural Policy Roundtable on Modern Agricultural Policy with Reduced Spending, sponsored by Informa Economics, Arlington, VA. Schaible, G. D. 2012. U.S. Irrigated Agriculture: Trends and Challenges in the Face of Emerging Demands and Climate Change (October 17). An Invited Presentation at the Public Symposium on Water Policy in the West, sponsored by the Water Science and Policy Center, University of California, Riverside and the Regional Research Committee on Western Water, W2190. Schaible, G. D. 2013. Western Irrigated Agriculture (June). An ERS Data Product of 158 Excel tables (with Documentation and Summary reports) evaluating irrigation characteristics by farm-size class for the 17 Western States based on USDAs 2008 and 1998 Farm & Ranch Irrigation Surveys. Schaible, G. D. and M. P. Aillery. 2013. Western Irrigated Agriculture: Production Value, Water Use, Costs, and Technology Vary by Farm Size, Amber Waves Data Feature, (September). Schaible, G. D. and M. P. Aillery. 2013. U.S. Irrigated Agriculture and Water-Scarcity: Implications for a Sustainable Future. An Invited Presentation at the 2013 AAEA meetings for the Special Session entitled Will Water Become a More Limiting Resource for Food Production, Washington, DC, August 4-6, 2013. [Session Organizer: Glenn D. Schaible; Presentors: Lester Brown, Glenn Schaible, and Mark Rosegrant; Discussant: Arial Dinar; Moderator: Noel Gollehon] Schaible, G. D., M. P. Aillery and S. Wallander. 2013. Served as ERS Representatives on the NASS Interagency Workgroup that developed the 2013 Farm & Ranch Irrigation Survey (FRIS). [Revised FRIS and integrated FRIS and NASSs Horticultural Surveys.] Schmidt, R.D., L. Stodick, G. Taylor and B. Contor. Hydro-Economic Modeling of Boise Basin Water Management Responses to Climate Change. Idaho Water Resources Research Institute, Research Schmidt, R.D., L. Stodick, G. Taylor and B. Contor. Hydro-Economic Modeling of Management Responses to Climate Change in the Boise River Basin. American Water Research Association Annual Meeting Portland OR Nov. 2013 Schoengold, K. "The Impact of Ad-hoc Disaster Programs on the Use of Risk-Reducing Conservation Practices" Kansas State University (April 2013). Schoengold, K. "Water Resource Economics", Nebraska Water Leaders Academy (May 2013). Schoengold, K. "Predicting Groundwater Trading Participation in the Upper Republican Natural Resource District", Nebraska Water Center annual conference (October 2013). Schoengold, K., P. Shrestha, and M.E. Eiswerth. 2013. The Joint Impact of Drought Conditions and Media Coverage on the Colorado Rafting Industry. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 5:2-3: 183-198. Schuster, E., and B. Colby, Farm And Ecological Resilience To Water Supply Variability, Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, in press 2013. Serbina, L. and C. Goemans. 2013. "Describing and Quantifying Profit Risk Producers Face When Adopting Water Conserving Cropping Systems." Colorado Water. May/June 2013. Volume 30, Issue 3. pp 5-7. Sheng, Z., A.M. Michelsen, Y. Liu, B. Mohanty and A. Granados-Olivas. 2013. Simulation of Surface Water and Groundwater Interaction in the El Paso-Juarez Valley Using the RiverWare Groundwater Objects. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, ASCE-EWRI. Cincinnati, OH. May 19- 23. Shi, Y., J. Bartholic. 2012. Institute of Water Research, Michigan State University, Managing Water Resources through Virtual Organizations. The Central Soil & Water Conservation Research & Training Institute Research Centre, India, Indo-US Workshop on Emerging Issues in Water Management for Sustainable Agriculture in South Asia Region, Dec. 10-12, 2009, Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, India. In Proceedings, Ch. 5, pp. 45-56. Shi, Y. 2012. Mobile Technologies presented at the Midwest Spatial Decision Support System Partnership Conference in Chicago, IL, July 9-10. Shi, Y., J. MacDonald-Dumler, J. Bartholic, G. ONeil, J. Asher. 2012. Institute of Water Research, Michigan State University, Decision Support Tools for Watershed Management  A U.S. Experience. Chapter in Proceedings from the Indo-US Workshop on Emerging Issues in Water Management for Sustainable Agriculture in South Asia Region, Dec. 10-12, 2009, Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, India. Ch. 4, pp. 37-44. Singh, D.V., V.N. Sharda, V. Selvi, J. Bartholic, and K. Maredia (eds). 2012. Water Management for Sustainable Agriculture: Indo-US Experiences. Jointly published by CSWCRTI, Research Centre, Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, India and Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A. 318 p. Smith, C.M., J.C. Leatherman, J.M. Peterson, J.M. Crespi, and J. D. Roe. BMPs For Sale!  Implications from a Case Study in BMP Auctions. The Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy 42(December 2012): 151-161. http://www.jrap-journal.org/pastvolumes/2010/v42/v42_n2_a5_smith_leatherman.pdf Smith, C.M., J.M. Peterson, J.C. Leatherman, and J.R. Williams. A Simulation of Factors Impeding Water Quality Trading. The Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy. 42(December 2012): 162-176. http://www.jrap-journal.org/pastvolumes/2010/v42/v42_n2_a6_smith_peterson.pdf Sun, Y., G. Niu, P. Osuna, G. Ganjegunte, D. Auld , L. Zhao, J. Gardea-Torresdey, and J. Peralta. 2013. Seedling emergence and Growth of Ricinus communis L. Cultivars Irrigated with Saline Solution. Industrial Crops and Products.49:75-80. Suter. J.F., J.M. Spraggon, and G.L. Poe. 2013. Thin and Lumpy: an Experimental Investigation of Water Quality Trading. Water Resources and Economics 1: 36-60. Suter, J.F., and C.A. Vossler. Forthcoming. Towards an Understanding of the Performance of Ambient Tax Mechanisms in the Field: Evidence from Upstate New York Dairy Farmers. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Taylor, C. R. and R. D. Lacewell. 2013. Playing Chicken with Environmental & Health Risks: Litigation Over Phosphorus Pollution & Bacteria in the Scenic Illinois River Watershed of Oklahoma. presentation at annual meeting of the University Council on Water Resources, June 2013,Lake Tahoe, CA. Proceedings abstract. Taylor, C. R., R. Rodriguez-Kabana, and R. D. Lacewell. 2013. Visions of Food & Agricultural Systems for the Future. presentation at annual meeting of the University Council on Water Resources, June 2013,Lake Tahoe, CA. Proceedings abstract. Taylor, G., R.D. Schmidt, L. Stodick, and B. Contor. A Partial Equilibrium Model of Hydrologic Externalities" International Water Resource Economics Consortium 10th Annual Meeting with World Water Week. Stockholm, Sweden. Aug. 2012. Taylor, R. G., L. Stodick B. Contor, R D Schmidt. Modeling Conjunctive Water Use as a Reciprocal Externality" American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2014. Watson, P. and G. Taylor. Impacts and Benefit of Prior Appropriations Based Water Calls: A Constrained Nested CGE Analysis. Western Regional Science Association 52st annual meeting. Santa Barbara CA Feb 2013. White, R. and M. Brady. Consumer Willingness to Pay for Meat Production Practices that Reduce Environmental Impact, a Meta-Analysis. Presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, July 8-12, 2013. Wolfson, L., 2012. Multiple Impacts on Michigan Waters Possible Due to Climate Change. Lake Effect. Michigan Chapter, North American Lake Management Society. June, Pages: 2, 6. Yoder, J. 2012. Water rights, markets, and prices: helping water flow toward high valued use. Invited presentation, 5th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Washington State Academy of Sciences, September 20. Seattle, WA. Yoder, J., A. Ohler, and H. Chouinard. 2012. What floats your boat? Preference revelation from lotteries over complex goods. Invited seminar, Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno. April 20.