Agenda

IDENTIFYING BARRIERS AND GAPS (NOVEMBER 5TH )

Location: Y2E2 Building, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford University, Room 299

8:30 am – Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am – Introduction and Workshop Overview

  • Leon Szeptycki, Executive Director, Water in the West
  • Janet Martinez, Director, Gould Center for Conflict Resolution

Overview of California’s New Groundwater Legislation

  • Leon Szeptycki, Executive Director, Water in the West

10 am – Session 1: Groundwater Dispute Resolutions Panel

Overview of groundwater adjudications and past allocations in
California and other states
  • William Blomquist, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
  • Burke Griggs, Non-Resident Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
  • Russell McGlothlin, Shareholder, Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, & Schreck

11:30 am – Lunch

12:30 pm – Session 2: “Barriers” Breakout Session

What are barriers in resolving groundwater disputes? What legal changes, processes, or tools would be helpful in resolving these disputes?
  • All participants

2:30 pm – Break

3:00 pm – Session 3: Dispute Resolution Tools and Technology Panel

How approaches from conflict resolution practice (including information technology) have been used or could be used to address groundwater conflicts
  • Gina Bartlett, Senior Mediator, Consensus Building Institute
  • Jason Gershowitz, Senior Collaborative Technology Associate, Kearns & West
  • Andrew Girvin, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir Technologies
  • Dan Sheer, President, HydroLogics

4:30 pm – Break

5:30 pm – Reception & Dinner

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TOWARDS A RESEARCH AGENDA (NOVEMBER 6TH)

Location: Y2E2 Building, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford University, Room 300

8:30 am – Breakfast

9:00 am – Session 4: “Identifying Tools” Breakout Session

Identify opportunities and barriers using tools
  • All participants

10:30 am – Break

10:45 am – Session 5: “Research Questions and Next Steps” Breakout Session

Identify follow up research questions and discuss next steps
  • All participants

12:00 – Meeting Wrap up

  • Barton “Buzz” Thompson, Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment

12:30 pm – Lunch