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Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Owen Hall Room 102, WRP 507 Seminar in Water Resources (1 credit)
The series has a companion journal club (WRS505) that meets from 11-noon the day of the seminar in Gilmore Annex. Links to journal club readings will be poster here as available. Contact Mary Santelmann for more information about the journal club.
April 1 - Jeffrey Mount, Ph.D. Department of Geology, UC-Davis & Director, Center for Integrated Watershed Sciences
Hell AND High Water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Implications for California's Water Supply
April 8 - Ken Rainwater, Ph.D., P.E., Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng. & Director, Water Resources Center, Texas Tech University
Groundwater in Texas: Boone Pickens Doesn’t Sound Quite so Crazy
Journal club readings:
Eckstein, Y. and Eckstein, G. 2005. Transboundary Aquifers: Conceptual Models for Development of International Law. Ground Water 43(5):679-690.
Ken Rainwater, K., Stovall, J., Frailey, S., Urban, L. 2005. Transboundary Impacts on Regional Ground Water Modeling in Texas Ground Water 43(5):706-716.
April 15 - Lee Ritzman, P.E., City of Newport City Engineer
Fecal Counts Closing Our Beaches - Where's All That S@#$ Coming From?
Journal Club reading:
Field, K. and Samadpour, M. 2007. Fecal source tracking, the indicator paradigm, and managing water quality. Water Resources Research 41(16):3517-3538.
April 22 - Phil Mote, Ph.D., Director, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Oregon State University
What's New in Global Climate Science, and What it Means for Northwest Water Resources
Journal Club reading:
Pierce, D.W. et. al. 2008. Attribution of Declining Western U.S. Snowpack to Human Effects. Journal of Climate 21(23): 6425-6444.
April 29 - Chunmiao Zheng, Ph.D., Professor and SSPA Faculty
Fellow, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama
Will China Run Out of Water? Note: The April 28 Seminar (Will China Run Out of Water?) has a new time and place -- 12 noon, Covell 216.
Journal Club reading:
Liu, J., C. Zheng, L. Zheng and Y. Lei. 2008. Ground Water Sustainability: Methodology and Application to the North China Plain. Ground Water 46:6, 897-909.
May 6 - Brenda O. Bateman, Ph.D., Senior Policy Advisor, Oregon Water Resources Department
Meeting Oregon's Water Needs: Asking the Hard Questions in Difficult Times
May 13 - Lisa J. Graumlich, Ph.D., Director, School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona
Adapting to Climate Change: What Can We Learn from the History of Drought in the West?
Journal Club readings:
Cook, E.R., R. Seager, M.A. Cane, D.W. Stahle, 2007. North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences. Earth-Science Reviews, 81:1-2, 93-134.
Cook, E.R., C.A. Woodhouse, C.M. Eakin,D.M. Meko, D.W. Stahle. 2004. Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States. Science 306, 1015.
May 20 - Steve Parrett, Senior Project Manager, Oregon Water Trust
Where Water is Gold
May 27 - Sarah Bates, Senior Fellow, Public Policy Research Institute, University of Montana
Water in a Warming West: How Will Western Water Policy Respond to Climate Change?
