September 24, 2025
Resources for the Future: 1616 P St NW, Washington, DC 20036
(7th Floor, Rooftop)

Gathering Reception

September 25, 2025
The Resources and Conservation Center (RCC), Resources for the Future, 1400 16th St, Washington, DC 20036

Breakfast

Welcome Remarks
(Room 1 – First Floor)

• Gabriel Lade (The Ohio State University) and Jim Boyd (Resources for the Future): Welcome Remarks and Motivation for Symposium

Session 1: PFAS in Drinking Water
(Room 1 – First Floor)

Moderator: David Keiser

• William Troske: Behavioral Responses to PFAS in Drinking Water
• Laura Alcocer Quiñone: Assessing the Impact of PFAS Water Regulation
• Sampriti Sarker: Benefits, Costs, and Affordability of Frequent PFAS Testing in Public Water Systems
• Jaeyong Han: Imperceptible Contaminants and Housing Markets: Evidence from Local News

Break

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation, followed by 3-4 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 2: Selected Topics on US Water
(Room 1 – First Floor)

Moderator: Gabriel Lade

• Laura Grant: Strategic Pollution Monitoring: Implications for Environmental Justice
• Dan Phaneuf: Disclosures, Private Wells and Property Prices in New Jersey
• Dennis Guignet: A meta-analysis to uncover the effects of groundwater pollution on home values
• Ngoc Ha Do: The Economic Benefits of Water Rights Adjudication: Evidence from Agricultural Land Sales in Western States

Session 3: Valuation of Water Quality
(Room 2 – Seventh Floor Conference Space)

Moderator: Mainul Hoque

• Yoojin Cha: The property market impacts of water pollution trading programs
• Adrienne Ohler: Willingness to Pay for Water Quality Improvements to a Recreational Reservoir
• Abhishek Rajan: Clean Lakes, Higher Prices: Evaluating the Economic Returns of Improved Water Quality [Unavailable]

Lunch and Conversations

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation, followed by 3-4 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 4: Agriculture, Conservation, and Water
(Room 1 – First Floor)

Moderator: Catherine Kling

• Lorin Rudin-Rush: The Effect of Crop Rotation On Non-Point Source Pollution
• Terry Zhang: Benefits of Conservation Easements to Biodiversity: Evidence from Wetland Birds
• Tristan Du Puy: An Empirical Model of Agricultural Subsidies with Environmental Externalities

Session 5: Drinking Water, Distributional Effects and Health
(Room 2 – Seventh Floor Conference Space)

Moderator: Nilesh Shinde

• Sandy Sum: Did the 2001 Final Arsenic Rule Improve Infant Health Outcomes
• Elizabeth Spink: Exploring the Drivers of Water Rate Changes in the United States
• Lena Harris: Lake Desiccation and Infant Health
• Daniel Kraynak: Coal Mining and Drinking Water Quality

Break

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation, followed by 3-4 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 6: Surface Water Quality
(Room 1 – First Floor)

Moderator: Joel Corona

• Michael Howerton: Integrated Assessment Modeling of Surface Water Quality Changes from Wildfires: Valuing California’s 11 Largest Fires with HAWQS-BenSPLASH
• Zach Raff: Regulatory Monitoring and Enforcement at Animal Feeding Operations: The Effects on Surface Water Quality
• Dietrich Earnhart: Environmental Justice Concerns surrounding Clean Water Act Compliance: The Role of Regulatory Interventions
• Yongfan Zhao: Transportation and Water Quality in the US

Session 7: Methods
(Room 2 – Seventh Floor Conference Space)

Moderator: Mainul Hoque

• William Wheeler: The effects of water system grades on drinking water quality and compliance
• Levan Elbakidze: Strategic Noncompliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act
• Wes Austin: The Relationship between Halogens in Source Water and Drinking Water Treatment Costs
• Elizabeth Sorensen Montoya: Privatization and Quality: Evidence from U.S. Drinking Water Systems

Adjourn

Offsite Get Together/Happy Hour (Optional)

September 26, 2025
The Resources and Conservation Center (RCC), Resources for the Future, 1400 16th St, Washington, DC 20036

Breakfast

Session 8: A Conversation with Dan Egan on The Devil’s Element, the Great Lakes, and Environmental Journalism in the US
(Room 1 – First Floor)

Speaker: Dan Egan, Center for Water Policy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences
Moderator: Daniel Phaneuf

Break

Session 9: US Water Quality – Nutrient Pollution and Policy
(Room 1 – First Floor)

Moderator: Chris Moore

• Brant Walker: Deep Learning Projects Jurisdiction of New Clean Water Act Regulation
• David Keiser: Gross External Damages of Water Pollution in the US
• Roger Von Haefen: Valuing the Benefits of Reduced Lake Eutrophication: A Combined Stated and Revealed Preference Approach
• Kehinde Ojo: The benefits of mitigating harmful algal blooms in US lakes

Lunch 

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation, followed by 3-4 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 10: Water Quality, Methods and Regulation
(First Floor, Room 1)

Moderator: Chris Moore

• Kristen Swedberg: Incorporating Multiple Beneficial Uses in Benefits Transfer for Surface Water Quality
• Saesol Kang: Do Pollutant Limits on U.S. Waterways Improve Water Quality?
• Diane Burgess: Valuing water quality – exploring the impact of a hypothetical baseline
• Rachel Judd: Regulating Nonpoint Source Pollution: Evidence from the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Program

Session 11: Behavioral Issues in Water
(Room 2 – Seventh Floor Conference Space)

Moderator: Nilesh Shinde

• Fanyu Wang: How Does Public Environmental Information Shape Demand for Mitigation and Individual Exposure Assessment: A Survey Experiment on Water Lead (Pb) Exposure
• Raushan Baizakova: Spillover Effects in Pollution Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Community Response to Drinking Water Violations
• Mook Bangalore: Community-based groundwater management in India: A mixed-methods analysis of Atal Bhujal Yojana’s impact on groundwater, community participation and decision-making

Wrap-up