Program

Alexander “Sam” Fernald , Water Resources Research Institute
Vimal Chaitanya, Vice President for Research, New Mexico State University
Sylvia Rodríguez , University of New Mexico

CNH Panels: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Acequias

Session 1:  Multi-Theme Data Acquisition
Moderated by  Andres Cibils , New Mexico State University

Acequia Hydrology Foundations of Community Resilience to Changing Climate and Land Use
Sam Fernald , Water Resources Research Institute

Ecosystem Services, Faunal Biodiversity and Vegetation Dynamics in Response to Forecasted Land-Use and Climate Change within the Upper Rio Grande
Ken Boykin , New Mexico State University

The Acequia Model: Local Knowledge and Sociocultural Adaptation in the Northern Rio Grande Watershed Commons
José Rivera , University of New Mexico

Session 2:  Data Integration and Modeling the Interplay of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Factors in an Acequia Community
Moderated by  Sylvia Rodríguez

Monitoring and Modeling Hydrologic Connectivity in Semi-Arid Watersheds
Carlos Ochoa , New Mexico State University

Acequia Perspectives on Climate-Change and Population Growth and the Perspectives of Preparedness and Adaptation
Brian Hurd , New Mexico State University

Modeling the Hydrologic/Ecologic/Economic/Social Dynamics of Small Scale Community  Irrigation Systems (Acequias)
Vince Tidwell , Sandia National Laboratories

11:55am – 1:30pm

Buffet Lunch, Meeting Rooms 4-6

Invited Panel

Session 3:  Spain, United States, Chile
Moderated by  Devon G. Peña , University of Washington in Seattle

Safeguarding Valencian Acequias: History and Values of a Millennial Water Sharing Culture
Luis Pablo Martínez , Directorate General of Cultural Heritage, Valencia, Spain

Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water: Convergent Evolution and Diffusion in Valencia
Paul Trawick , Idaho State University

Society and Hydrology in a Chilean Andean Watershed: How Poor Knowledge of the Hydrological System Produces Social Conflicts
José Luis Arumí Ribera , Universidad de Concepción, Chillán, Chile

The Effects of Social and Economic Disturbances on the Taos Acequias of Northern New Mexico
Michael Cox , Dartmouth College

8:30am

Return & Light Continental Breakfast

Session 4: Bali, Mexico, Morocco
Moderated by  Steve Guldan , New Mexico State University

Regime Shifts in the Morning of the World
Steve Lansing , University of Arizona, Santa Fe Institute

Visible and Invisible Self-Managed Irrigation Organizations
Jacinta Palerm , Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico-Texcoco

Irrigation Management in Pre-Saharan Morocco: Some Perspectives from the Assag(q)yas of the Ziz Oasis
Hsain Ilahiane , University of Kentucky

Is the Crafting of Self-Governing Irrigation Institutions in the XXth Century Following Elinor Ostrom’s Principles Still Relevant in the Beginning of the XXI Century?
Thierry Ruf , Supagro-Institut des régions chaudes, Montpellier, France

Workshop (Meeting Rooms 1-3)

Co-chaired by  José Rivera  and  Quita Ortiz , in which scholars and activists are invited to formulate and propose an agenda of research and policy based on new insight.

Invited Panelists:   Paula Garcia,  Estevan Arellano,   Miguel Santistevan, Arnie Valdez,  Manuel Montoya

CNH team:  Sam Fernald,  Carlos Ochoa,  Sylvia Rodríguez