H54B:
Drought, Groundwater Management, Recharge, Baseflow, and Sustainability: Assessment, Monitoring, Modeling, Planning, and Policy III

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Session ID#: 17010

Session Description:
Long-term drought, changes in climate, and significant shifts in anthropogenic water demands are leading to unprecedented pressures on groundwater resources. Improved groundwater management strategies, and understanding of the quality, quantity and timing of groundwater recharge and river baseflow are essential to ameliorate water-scarcity, particularly in climates with highly seasonal rainfall, or during periods of prolonged drought. This session examines drought impacts on groundwater resources, regional and state policy responses to drought, and the measurement, modeling, and management of groundwater, groundwater recharge, and baseflow resources. We invite studies that: Showcase innovative approaches to groundwater basin assessment, and baseflow and recharge characterization; Analyze policy responses, management measures and practices, and drought recovery and resilience; Define operational sustainability criteria for groundwater basins; and review roles of data collection, monitoring, and modeling/assessment. Studies that span multiple approaches, identify and classify distinct phenomena, or address evidence-based water resource management are particularly welcomed.
Primary Convener:  Thomas Harter, University of California, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, David Dralle, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis, United States and Omar Al-Qudah, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, College of Engineering, Kingsville, TX, United States
Chairs:  Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Helen E Dahlke, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States and Samuel Sandoval Solis, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David Dralle, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis, United States
Index Terms:

1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1830 Groundwater/surface water interaction [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Characterization of baseflow generation to support land-use and ecosystem-service decisions (Invited) (135845)
Andrew J Guswa, Smith College, Picker Engineering Program, Northampton, MA, United States and Perrine Hamel, Stanford University, The Natural Capital Project, Stanford, CA, United States
Coupling surface water (Delft3D) to groundwater (MODFLOW) in the Bay-Delta community model: the effect of major abstractions in the Delta (177757)
Sheila Marie Ball1, Dimmie Hendriks1, Mick Van der Wegen2, Jarno Verkaik1 and Arthur van Dam1, (1)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (2)UNESCO-IHE, Delft, Netherlands
Mapping Aquifer Systems with Airborne Electromagnetics in the Central Valley of California (190051)
Rosemary J Knight1, Ryan Smith2, Ted H Asch3, Jared Dale Abraham4, Jim Cannia3, Graham E Fogg5 and Andrea Viezzoli6, (1)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering, Rolla, United States, (3)Aqua Geo Frameworks, Lakewood, CO, United States, (4)Aqua Geo Frameworks, Mitchell, NE, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States, (6)Aarhus Geophysics ApS, Aarhus, Denmark
A Hydrologically-based Method for Calculating Sustainable Yield under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (147181)
Michelle Miro, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and James S. Famiglietti, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
A Sustainability Index for Assessment and Management of Aquifers Supporting Irrigated Agriculture (148879)
James J Butler Jr1, Donald O Whittemore2, Geoffrey Bohling1 and Blake B Wilson2, (1)University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
Toward sustainable water use in North China Plain – Scenario analysis of water conservation strategies in a changing climate (163133)
Xin He, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Department of Water Resources, Beijing, China; Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China, Huanhuan Qin, East China University Technology, Nanchang, China, Jens Christian Refsgaard, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Hydrology, Copenhagen, Denmark and Chunmiao Zheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China
Whole Watershed Management to Maximize Total Water Storage: Case Study of the American-Cosumnes River Basin (137220)
Erfan Goharian1, Robert Gailey1, Josue Medellin-Azuara2, Stephen Maples1, L.E. Adams1, Samuel Sandoval Solis3, Graham E Fogg4, Helen E Dahlke5, Thomas Harter6 and Jay R Lund7, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Merced, Water Systems Management Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, (6)University of California, Davis, CA, United States, (7)Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Characterizing Regional and Transient Groundwater Storage in Order to Address Water Balance Discrepancies in Salar de Atacama Basin, Chile. (181038)
Brendan J J Moran, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, MA, United States, LeeAnn Munk, The University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, Scott A Hynek, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and David F Boutt, University of Massachusetts, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States

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