Institute for Water and Watersheds

The IWW hosts several water-related seminar series and other regional events each year.

In the Fall, the IWW or the Water Resources Graduate Program sponsors a seminar series that usually has a water management focus.

In the Winter, the Hydrophiles water resources club or the Water Resources Graduate Program often sponsors a seminar series.  

In the Spring, Hydrophiles, various OSU departments, the IWW, and others sponsor a Spring Hydrology Seminar Series.

Throughout the year the IWW also sponsores various other events. Below is a list of past events and links to program materials.

2013

• 2013 Water Research Symposium - A one-day workshop highlighting the variety of outstanding student research in the fields of water resources science, engineering, policy, and management.  The event is co-sponsored by the IWW and the OSU Water Resources Graduate Program.

   

• Spring 2013 Water Resources Seminar Series: Land, Water, & Atmosphere: the Next 50 Years, Wednesdays from 4-5 PM in ALS 4000, April 3rd to June 5th

• Willamette Water 2100 Cyberseminars (seminars were recorded and can be viewed online)- 
  • Anne Nolin - Mountain Snowpack and Vegetation: Implications of Disturbance, Jan 11
  • Phil Mote - Development of Regional Climate Scenarios and Their Application to Willamette Water 2100, Jan 25
  • Andrew Plantinga - Land-use Models for Willamette Water 2100, Feb 8
  • Desiree Tullos - Flood Frequency and Water Scarcity in the Santiam Basin in a Changing Climate, March 1
  • Allison Danner - Will We Have to Change the Rules? The Implications of Climate Change for Reservoir Operations at Oregon's Cougar Dam, Thesis Defense, March 21
  • Naomi (Christina) Tague and Elizabeth Garcia, UCSB - Modeling ecohydrologic processes in mountain watersheds - Implications for the Willamete Watershed, April 26
  • Scott Wells - Willamette River Basin Hydrodynamic and Temperature Modeling, May 17

2012

• Fall 2012 - Water Resources Seminar Series.  Co-sponsored with the Water Resources Graduate Program.

• Innovations in International Waters - Summer Session- Includes:
  • July 9 - Water Apartheid? The politics, practices and prospects of water provision in Mumbai, India by T.K. van Dijk, Amersterdam Institute of Social Science Research
  • July 11 - The Role of Science and Economics in the Murray Darling Basin Environmental Water Reforms by Dr. Jeff Conner, Sustainable Ecosystems Division of Natural Resource Economics and Decision Science Group, CSIRO, Australia.

• 2012 Water Research Symposium (formerly Water Day), May 18, 2012 in the Memorial Union - A one-day conference that highlighted the variety of outstanding research projects being conducted by students at Oregon State University and other regional universities in the fields of water resources science, engineering, policy, and management.

• Willamette Water 2100 Learning and Action Network Workshop, May 29, 2012, Chemeketa Center for Business and Industry, Salem, Oregon - An opportunity for stakeholders to learn about and to provide feedback on the Willamette Water 2100 Project’s effort to model the Willamette water system and to help the project research team understand the current and future water issues facing basin stakeholders and public agencies.

• Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: Innovations in International Waters, April 4-June 6, 2012, Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00 pm, ALS 4000

• Winter 2012 Water Resources Seminar Series: Water Sustainability in an Era of Change, January-March 2012, Wednesdays, 4-5 pm, ALS 4000

• Winter Water Film Series - January-March 2012, Tuesdays, 4-5:30 pm, Memorial Union La Raza Room

• Documentary Film for Water Resources - Winter 2012, WRP599 Special Topics

2011

• 50th Anniversary of Water Resources Research at Oregon State University – September 30, 2011, 4-7 pm, The Brew Station, Celebrate the 50^th anniversary of IWW on the OSU campus on the first day of the new water year, including a preview of the IWW-50 Documentary Film. 

• Fall 2011 Water Resources Seminar Series: At the Interface of Science and Policy - September 28-November 30, 2011, Wednesdays, 4-5 pm, Kelley Engineering Building 1001.

• How tritium illuminates watershed structure for quality and quantity modeling - May 26, 2011, 1 pm, Richardson 107, Speaker: Mike Stewart, Principal of New Zealand’s Aquifer Dynamics LTD

• Exempt Wells: Problems and Approaches in the Northwest - May 17-18, 2011, Marcus Whitman Hotel, Walla Walla, Washington.  Sponsored by the university water resources research institutes of Washington, Montana, Idaho, Colorado and Oregon.

• OSU Water Day - May 17, 2011 in Wilkinson 203, OSU.  A first annual event for OSU water resources graduate students to present their research to each other and to the broader community.  Sponsored by IWW and the Water Resources Graduate Program.

• Brown-Bag Luncheon Presentation Global crises in water MANAGEMENT: Getting to an exchange about the need for additional post graduate water education. And a preview DVD on ongoing work in Brazil | Dr. Richard Meganck, Institute for Water & Watersheds, On assignment for the US Army Corps of Engineers | Friday, May 6, noon-1 pm, Wilkinson 203 | View the video online.

• IWW Special Seminar: Forests, water management and research in New South Wales, Australia | Speaker: Ashley Webb, Research Scientist, Forests NSW, Australia | Friday, April 22, 11 am-noon, Richardson 107

• 2011 Darcy Lecture: Development of Reliable Hydrologic Data Sets in Difficult Environments: Case Studies from Benin Africa - April 15, noon-1 pm, Room 203, Wilkinson Hall, Oregon State University.  Sponsored by the National Groundwater Association, the Institute for Water and Watersheds, the Water Resources Graduate Program and Geosciences

• 2011 Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: Climate Impacts on Freshwaters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Wednesdays, March 30 through June 1, 2011.  On the OSU campus in ALS 4000.  Seminar sponsors: IWW, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Water Resources Graduate Program and Hydrologic Engineering Inc.  Video recordings of each seminar will be available online.

• Thursday, February 17, 4:00-5:00 pm, Strand 111 - Sustainable co-development as an instrument of international cooperation: the case of sustainable water resources management | Jean Fried is a Senior Consultant at UNESCO, a Project Scientist at the Department of Planning, Policy and Design of the School of Social Ecology of the University of California, Irvine, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainability of the California State University, Fullerton | Sponsored by IWW and the OSU Water Resources Grad Program
  

• Friday, February 18, noon-1 pm, Wilkinson 203 - Pizza lunch with Jean Fried (see bio info above) | Sponsored by IWW and the OSU Water Resources Grad Program

2010

• Fall Seminar Series 2010 - Water Law & Policy in a Changing Environment

• Spring Seminar Series 2010 - Breakthroughs in Hydrology Monitoring: from Pore to Watershed Scales

• Winter Seminar Series 2010 - Water Film Series (PDF). Some of these films will also be shown on the Oregon Coast in Yachats and Lincoln City.

• Other special seminars and events 2010:

  • December 9, 2010 - IWW Special Seminar: Identifying multi-decadal catchment travel times and hydrological trends: the value of long-term monitoring data Speaker: Nicholas Howden, Senior Lecturer in Water, WEM Program Director, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, UK -- This seminar was recorded and is available to view online.

  • November 30, 2010 - IWW Special Seminar: Microbial Methane Oxidation in Terrestrial Systems Speaker: IWW Fellow Dr. Martin Schroth, Professor of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich

  • October 29, 2010 - Special IWW Lecture: Long-term monitoring of nitrate - implications for science, policy and management Speaker: IWW Fellow, Dr. Tim Burt, Department of Geography, Durham University

  • October 26, 2010 - Special IWW Lecture: Rebuilding disturbed landscapes - How computer models can aid environmental rehabilitation Speaker: IWW Fellow, Dr. Greg Hancock, Department of the Discipline of Earth Sciences at the University of Newcastle

  • October 15, 2010 - IWW Special Seminar: A robust methodology for conducting large-scale assessments of current and future water availability Speaker: David Post Program Director, South Eastern Australian Climate Initiative, CSIRO Land and Water

  • October 14, 2010 - Special IWW Lecture: Nitrogen Dynamics and Hydrochemical Impacts of Rain-fed Agriculture:
 Case of the PalouseSpeaker: Kent Keller, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University and Co-Director, Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach (CEREO)

     

  • May 25, 2010 - Life Cycles: Sustaining the Flow of Water, Fish, and Human Cultures Speaker: Brian Richter, Ph.D., Co-Director, Global Freshwater Program The Nature Conservancy, Charlottesville, Virginia

  • March 12, 2010 - High-frequency field-deployable isotope analyzer for hydrological applications Speaker: Manish Gupta, Oregon State University

2009

• Spring Seminar Series 2009 - Impending Water Crises and Solutions

• Winter Seminar Series 2009 - Water Film Series. This film series will also be shown in Newport, Oregon at Hatfield Marine Science Center.

• Fall Seminar Series 2009 - Corruption and Ethics Issues in Water Resources

• Other special seminars and workshops in 2009:

• June 8-9, 2009, Isotope Hydrology and Biogeochemistry Workshop. The workshop covered the fundamentals of  isotope hydrology and biogeochemistry with presentations by Dr. Jeff McDonnell (Oregon State University), Dr. Carol Kendall (USGS) and Dr. Rick Hooper (CUAHSI). Presentations were digitally captured and are available through the OSU Hydrophiles Web page. This workshop was jointly sponsored by the USGS, OSU Water Resources Graduate Program, and the CUAHSI-Hydrologic Measurement Facility.

• January 29, 2009, 7-9 p.m. - The State of the Willamette River: Panel Discussion, Corvallis-Benton County Library, Corvallis, Ore. Join panelists from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Army Corps of Engineers, Willamette Riverkeepers, and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to talk about the state of the Willamette. Moderated by Todd Jarvis, Institute for Water and Watersheds. Held at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. Sponsored by the Corvallis Environmental Center and the Institute for Water and Watersheds.

• January 22, 2009 3:30-5:00 p.m., MU 206. The Problem of Water: Misallocation and Mismanagement. Speaker: Gary D. Libecap, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor, Corporate Environmental Management, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, National Bureau of Economic Research Hoover Institution. Sponsored by the Institute for Water and Watersheds and the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

2008

• Spring 2008 - Water in the West (videos and PDFs of presentations are available online)

• Winter 2008 - Water Film Series

• Fall 2008 - When Water Does Run Uphill: The Economics and Politics of Water in the 21st Century

• Other special seminars and events in 2008

• • May 2, 4-6 p.m., MU 208. Cynthia Barnett, journalist, environmental historian and author of Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Waters of the Eastern U.S.

  • April 21, 2008. Kevin McRay, Executive Director, National Groundwater Association, America's Groundwater Dependence: Trends and Forecasts in a Changing Marketplace. Presented as a Webinar.

  • April 23, 2008 2:00-4:00 p.m., OSU Memorial Union 208. Living Waters: Connection and Separation in Water, from Physical, Legal, Political, and Spiritual Perspectives. Speakers include: Scott Leibowitz, Aaron Wolf, Benjamin Barnett.

  • December 11, 2008 - Wells and the Well-Being of Oregon, Northwest Viticulture Center, near Salem, Oregon. Sponsored by IWW and Oregon Sea Grant Extension. Kevin McCray, Executive Director of the National Ground Water Association, was the keynote speaker. View presentations from the symposium.

  • October 13-15, 2008 - International Conference on Nonrenewable Ground Water Resources, Portland, OR. Sponsored by the National Ground Water Association, in association with the OSU Institute for Water and Watersheds, The World Bank, and the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO.

  • September 25, 30 and October 7, 14, 21, 2008 - Oregon Statewide Water Roundtables: A flowpath for the future of Oregon's Water Resources. Convened by Institute for Water and Watersheds, OSU Institute for Water and Watersheds, Oregon Sea Grant Extension, OUS Institute for Natural Resources and the Oregon House Committee on Energy and the Environment

  • February 28, 2008 - Aquifer Storage and Recovery and Artificial Recharge in Oregon: Overcoming Technical, Regulatory, and Social Challenges, LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR - Convened by OSU Institute for Water and Watersheds and Oregon Water Resources Department.

2007

• Spring 2007 - Tracers in Hydrology

• Winter 2007 - Hydrophiles Seminar - Getting Involved in Oregon Water Issues; Water Film Series

• Fall 2007 - Revisiting Restoration, Reconstruction, and Renaturalization of Engineered Landscapes: Technical, Political, Legal and Natural Resistance

• Other special seminars and events in 2007:

  • May 11, 2007. Dr. Jerome Delli Priscoli, Senior Advisor at the Institute for Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers, Editor in Chief of the International Journal,Water Policy

  • April 25-26, 2007. Ray Newmyer, Hydrogeologist& Hydrophilanthropist, NWP Drilling & Consulting. Two lectures on: Drilling Through Cultures and Drill Rig Applications for Hydrologists.

  • November 7-9, 2007 - Water in the Pacific Northwest, Moving Science into Policy and Action, Stevenson, WA. IWW was a co-sponsor for this event.

  • November 12-15, 2007 - Annual Conference of the American Water Resources Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico. IWW Director Michael Campana was the Conference Chair for this meeting.

  • June 25-27, 2007. The Energy-Water Nexus: Meeting the Energy and Water Needs of the Snake/Columbia River Basin in the 21st Century, Boise, Idaho. IWW was a co-sponsor for this event.

2006

• Winter 2006 - Some OSU Hydrology Alumni and their current jobs and projects

• Fall 2006 - The Politics of Water