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Regional Events |
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Wednesday, May 7 4:00PM. Water and land use planning in Oregon (Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: Water in the West). Speaker: Tamra Mabbott, Umatilla County Planning. There will also be a related journal club meeting 11:00-11:50 in Wilkinson 203. Location: ALS 4000. FMI: http://water.oregonstate.edu/news/hydro_sem_s08.pdf. Thursday, May 8 12-1:00PM. Discharge and Deposition of Particulate Organic Carbon and Nitrogen by the Alsea River Fall 2007 Finals Week Flood: A Soil Scientist's Perspective (Biogeochemistry Seminar). Location: Burt 193. FMI: http://www.coas.oregonstate.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=calendar.main. Wednesday, May 14 4:00PM. Water, plants, and California's drought prone ecosystems (Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: Water in the West). Speaker: Todd Dawson, UC-Berkeley. There will also be a related journal club meeting 11:00-11:50 in Wilkinson 203. Location: ALS 4000. FMI: http://water.oregonstate.edu/news/hydro_sem_s08.pdf. Monday, May 19 9:00-10:00AM. The Calapooia Chinook Trilogy ((Stream Team Monday Morning Meeting)). Speaker: Bob Denehy, Weyerhaeuser Company Location: Nash Hall 10. FMI: http://fw.oregonstate.edu/. Monday, May 19 4:00PM. Lecture by Bill Massman, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO. Topic: Bill's work on gas exchange at air-snow interfaces. He has recently published significant synthetic insights from basic physical concepts and mathematical solutions to the issue. The propagation of air in snow and soil from atmospheric turbulence are important to soil respiration, snow melt, and the composition of trapped glacial gas. There will also be a related journal club meeting the following day at noon. TBAFMI: John Selker http://bioe.oregonstate.edu/Faculty/selker/index.htm. Wednesday, May 21 4:00PM. The Colorado River at 1900, 2000, and 2100 (Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: Water in the West). Speaker: Brad Udall, NOAA. There will also be a related journal club meeting 11:00-11:50 in Wilkinson 203. Location: ALS 4000. FMI: http://water.oregonstate.edu/news/hydro_sem_s08.pdf. Wednesday, May 28 4:00PM. Modeling of the Lower Truckee River, NV (Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: Water in the West). Speaker: John Warwick, Desert Research Institute. There will also be a related journal club meeting 11:00-11:50 in Wilkinson 203. Location: ALS 4000. FMI: http://water.oregonstate.edu/news/hydro_sem_s08.pdf. Wednesday, June 4 4:00PM. Science, policy, and water in the West: an impromptu graduate student discussion (Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: Water in the West). Discussion led by J. Frentress and J. Zarnetske, graduate students. There will also be a related journal club meeting 11:00-11:50 in Wilkinson 203. Location: ALS 4000. FMI: http://water.oregonstate.edu/news/hydro_sem_s08.pdf. Monday, June 16 - Friday, June 20. Water Governance and Conflict Management 2008. How can we move debates about water resource issues beyond entrenched positions? This week-long course emphasizes experiential learning. Class offers a place to learn and practice new skills that are applicable from the individual level to the societal level and across a range of real-life situations. Additionally, the course helps students understand just how creative, messy and inelegant workable solutions are likely to be. Participants can choose to receive three (3) Oregon State University graduate credits or Continuing Education Credits. Instructors: Aaron Wolf, Denise Lach, and Julia Doermann. FMI: http://water.oregonstate.edu/news/watergovernance.pdf. |
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Monday, May 12. Deadline to submit abstracts for the American Water Resources Association Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held 17-20 November, 2008 in New Orleans. Location: New Orlean, LA.. FMI: http://www.awra.org/meetings/NewOrleans2008/index.html. Sunday, May 18 - Thursday, May 22. National Water Quality Monitoring Council , Sixth National Monitoring Conference. The conference will focus on seven themes that highlight the importance of monitoring in achieving the goal of clean water for all. Abstract Submittal Deadline September 24, 2007 Location: Atlantic City, NJ. FMI: http://www.wef.org/. Friday, July 11. Third Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds (ICRW) (Abstract Deadline). The conference has been organized by the USGS and will be held 8-11 September 2008 in Estes Park, Colorado. The theme is: Planning for an Uncertain Future: Monitoring, Integration, and Adaptation. Registration is open and abstracts are requested by July 11. All abstracts are expected to be developed into final peer-reviewed and approved manuscripts for inclusion in the on-line Conference Proceedings. FMI: http://www.hydrologicscience.org/icrw/. Monday, July 14 - Wednesday, July 16. CUAHSI Biennial Colloquium on Hydrologic Science and Engineering (Resilience & Vulnerability of Natural and Managed Hydrologic Systems). This first CUAHSI colloquium features an exciting line-up of sessions exploring cutting-edge issues in hydrologic science, biogeochemistry, and environmental engineering that can benefit from the community planning that CUAHSI has been leading. Session topics are drawn from the hydrologic synthesis projects currently underway and from observatory planning efforts, including the WATERS Test Beds, Critical Zone Observatories, and various state efforts. Contributed papers are currently being solicited for sessions. The abstract deadline is May 31, 2008. Abstracts may be submitted during the registration process. Note that students from CUAHSI member institutions who present papers will have their registration fee refunded at the meeting. Location: Boulder, Colorado. FMI: http://www.cuahsi.org/biennial/. Tuesday, July 22 - Thursday, July 24. International Water Resources: Challenges for the 21st Century (Universities Council on Water Resources Annual Conference). Abstract deadline: 5 December 2007. Location: Durham, NC. FMI: http://www.ucowr.siu.edu. Monday, July 28 - Friday, August 8. Biofilms Summer School. Sponsored by the Center for Montana State University Biofilm Engineering - Biofilm structure and function research group. The goal of the summer school is to provide the participants with the fundamental knowledge needed to understand biofilm process and fundamental techniques needed in biofilm research. Location: Bozeman, MT. FMI: http://www.erc.montana.edu/. Monday, September 8 - Thursday, September 11. Third Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. The conference will have both oral and poster presentations from universities, government agencies, industry, and stakeholders. Field trips and activities are planned to acquaint participants with alpine and montane ecosystems, hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry. Deadline for Abstracts: May 2, 2008. Location: Estes Park, Colorado. FMI: http://www.hydrologicscience.org/icrw/. Sunday, October 19 - Wednesday, October 22. American Institute of Hydrology Annual Meeting & International Conference. Theme: Hydrologic Extremes & Global Climate Change. Location: Texas. FMI: AIHydro@aol.com. http://aihydro.org. Wednesday, November 5 - Thursday, November 6. Sustainable and Safe Drinkng Water in the Developing and Developed Countries. There will be an excellent international group of invited speakers: Joan Rose, John Briscoe, Walter Giger, Guy Howard, and Clarissa Brocklehurst. Abstracts due: June 15, 2008. Location: Chapel Hill, NC. FMI: http://www.ie.unc.edu/content/news_events/symposia/2008/call_for_papers.cfm. |
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Wednesday, July 16 - Friday, July 18. 4th IWA Young Water Professionals International Conference. A forum for young researchers and professionals working in water and wastewater research, technology and management to present their work and meet their peers from all over the world.
The Conference will consist of papers and posters presentations, career development workshops for all sectors of the water/ wastewater industry and unparalleled networking opportunities. The attendees will also have the opportunity to discover the many unique aspects of the San Francisco Bay area.
Location: Clark Kerr Campus of the University of California, Berkeley, CA. FMI: http://www.iwa-ywpc.org. Monday, October 13 - Wednesday, October 15. Sociotechnological Aspects of Nonrenewable Ground Water Resources: Half-Empty, Hall-Full, Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and Some Paths Forward (International Conference on Nonrenewable Ground Water Resources). The National Ground Water Association (www.ngwa.org), in association with the Institute for Water and Watersheds, The World Bank, and the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO, will host an international conference on nonrenewable ground water. There will be presentations on all aspects of nonrenewable ground water: legal, social, economic, scientific/engineering, institutional, policy, and management. Abstracts are due 7 March 2008. Location: Portland, OR. FMI: http://ngwa.confex.com/ngwa/renew08/cfp.cgi. Saturday, November 15 - Tuesday, November 18. Conference on Predictions for Hydrology, Ecology and Water Resources Management: Using Data and Models to Benefit Society (Hydro Predict '2008). This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scientists and other experts to discuss how to improve predictions by joint use of data and models in the following three fields: (1) hydrology (groundwater, surface water and catchment, including water quality); (2) ecology (wetland, riverine, estuarine, terrestrial); and (3) water resources management (groundwater, vadose zone, and surface water). Location: Prague, Czech Republic. FMI: http://www.natur.cuni.cz/hydropredict2008/. Monday, August 10 - Friday, August 14. Water Engineering for a Sustainable Environment (33rd International Association of Hydraulic Engineers & Research Congress). Co-located with the 19th Canadian Hydrotechnical Conference. Abstracts due December 1, 2008. Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. FMI: http://content.asce.org/conferences/iahr09/. |
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