Managing Water in California Vineyards Symposium
The last 5 years of drought have brought the need to better use and manage our water resources into stark focus. This comprehensive symposium will help explain wide-ranging aspects of how to best manage this precious resource. Speakers will discuss water policy, plant water use and water stress physiology, monitoring water use from the vine to vineyard scale, irrigation scheduling, and management of drought and salinity through grower practices and rootstock use. The symposium will feature 13 experts from California, the nation and the world, and is designed to update grape growers and viticulturists on the state of the art of water use and management. We look forward to seeing you there.
Symposium Organizing Committee:
Mark Battany, University of California Cooperative Extension, San Luis Obispo County
Larry Bettiga, University of California Cooperative Extension, Monterey County
Andrew McElrone, (Moderator), University of California, Davis
Andy Walker, (Chair & Moderator), University of California, Davis
7.0 CCA CEUs
Program:
Program is subject to change.| 8:00 am – 8:30 am | Introduction to California Water Policy, Delivery and Use Jay Lund, University of California, Davis |
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Whole Plant Ecophysiological Response to Drought – A Primer Andrew McElrone, University of California, Davis |
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Berry Responses to Water Stress Markus Keller, Washington State University, Prosser |
| 9:30 am – 10:00 am | Molecular Physiology – Omics Approaches to Water Stress Simone Castellarin, Wine Research Center, Canada |
| 10:00 am – 10:15 am | Break |
| 10:15 am – 10:45 am | Monitoring Water Use: Technologies Compared from CIMIS and Beyond Rick Snyder, University of California, Davis |
| 10:45 am – 11:15 am | Monitoring Water Use: Vineyard Level Case Histories from the Central Coastal Mark Battany, University of California Cooperative Extension, San Luis Obispo County |
| 11:15 am – 11:45 am | Sensing and Monitoring Stress with Satellite Imagery Lars Pierce, California State University, Monterey Bay |
| 11:45 am – Noon | Questions & Answers |
| Noon – 1:45 pm | Lunch on Own |
| 1:45 pm – 2:15pm | The Use of Leaf Monitors in Precision Irrigation of Grapes Shrini K. Upadhyaya, University of California, Davis |
| 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm | Variable Rate Drip Irrigation for Vineyards Luis Sanchez, E & J Gallo, California |
| 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm | Irrigation Scheduling Larry Williams, University of California, Davis |
| 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm | Single Vine Precision Irrigation David Block, University of California, Davis |
| 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm | How to Cope with Inadequate Water Amounts – When to Irrigate to Get the Greatest Impact Mike McCarthy, South Australian Research & Development Institute, Australia |
| 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Managing Salinity with and without Adequate Amounts of Water Jim Ayars, United States Department of Agriculture, Fresno |
| 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Using Rootstocks to Cope with Drought and Salinity Mike McCarthy, South Australian Research & Development Institute, Australia |
| 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Questions & Answers |
