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The Media of Water:
Stories of general interest about water and water issues in the media.
Always new posts here. Also a few other water blogs have entered the scene:
Brown & Caldwell's newsy entre into the blogosphere. Good info here.
Seven experts debate the ins and outs of conflicts over water in SEED. AWRA Director Michael Campana is one of the experts.
KQED's recent report on the wastewater situation in the San Francisco Bay area. Several other interesting links on this page, too!
This website may be from the Netherlands, but you don't need to understand Dutch to understand the message in these startling and disturbing photos of environmental problems around the world. |
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AWRA Associate Members, conference sponsors and exhibitors are featured in AWRA's new Virtual Exhibit Hall. One of the many membership benefits of the new Associate membership category is visible presence on the AWRA website and an extensive listing in the AWRA Virtual Exhibit Hall. If your company would like to be included in the AWRA Virtual Exhibit Hall, information is here.
Visitors can ramble the virtual halls of the exhibit hall without leaving the comfort of their homes or offices! Use the alphabetical listing, or do a keyword search to find what you need. |
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AWRA Member News Here are a few items of particular interest to AWRA members:
There's Still Time to Renew for 2009
If you haven't renewed yet for 2009, your login to online member benefits has been turned off, but you can still renew:
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Thank you for your continued membership in AWRA!
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Water Resources IMPACT
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Where the Water Resources Jobs Are |
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AWRA Associate Members receive a significant discount on this invaluable service!
With more than 20,000 hits this month, you can be sure your position is being seen by the right people.
If you have position you'd like to have featured in this column with a link to your posting on the AWRA Job Awareness Program, send me an email.
View Open Positions
A wide variety of disciplines representing open positions in the private sector, governmental agencies, and educational institutions. If you're a water resources professional looking for a new job, start here.
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Connections
The E-Newsletter of the
American Water Resources Association
Keeping You Connected
May 2009 |
Dear :
"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."
Spanish proverb
Just a quick reminder that if you are planning on attending the AWRA Summer Specialty Conference in Snowbird next month, we have a couple of deadlines coming up. Register by June 8 for the earlybird rate and make your hotel reservations by June 5 to get the discounted room rate.
You'll get the best rates, and be able to cross two things off your to-do list!
Have the best weekend ever.
Terry Meyer
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Earlybird Registration Deadline June 8!
Hotel Reservation Deadline June 5!
2009 AWRA Summer Specialty Conference
Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort * Snowbird UT
June 29-July 1, 2009
Register today for the best rates on
conference registration fees
Earlybird Registration Deadline:
June 8, 2009
Hotel Reservation Deadline:
June 5, 2009
Registration
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Preliminary Program Coming Soon!
Red Lion Hotel * Seattle, WA
November 9-12, 2009
We received an enormous response to the call for abstracts for the 2009 AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference!
The Program Committee will be pulling together the program over the next couple of weeks, and the preliminary program will be posted shortly thereafter. Watch this space, or bookmark the link and check it often. Here's what we expect to see happening at the conference:
The 2009 AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference will provide a forum for participants to explore the many multidisciplinary aspects of water resources. In addition to the diverse mix of technical sessions offered at all AWRA conferences, we will focus attention on a broad range of technical, social and legal topics that are of national and international interest, including:
- conflicts over water and efforts to resolve them
- recent advances in water resource monitoring
- modeling and analysis
- effects and responses to drought, floods, and other natural calamities
- collaborative efforts to address transboundary and international water issues
Regional topics will highlight efforts to protect and clean up Puget Sound, and address emerging issues on the Columbia River, salmon recovery and stormwater management. Of special interest to AWRA members, the 2009 conference will comprise many special topic sessions, including a presentation and panel discussion of the findings of AWRA's ongoing "Water Resources Concerns in the Next Decade" project, an in-depth survey of AWRA members by IMPACT editors that will elucidate the most important water-related issues facing our country, and identify actions necessary to address them.
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Water Resources Information
The US Geological Survey announces a Public Lecture Series on topics under the general heading of "Science in Action". The lectures will be held at 7:00pm to 8:00pm at the Dallas L. Peck Memorial Auditorium of the Reston, VA headquarters office location. Upcoming lectures include:
June 3, 2009, 7:00 PM
A Field Trip to the Congo--Hydroacoustic measurements in "the river that swallows all rivers."
Visit the link for more information.
Toward a Sustainable and Secure Water Future: A Leadership Role for the U.S. Geological Survey
Toward a Sustainable and Secure Water Future reviews the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Resource Discipline (WRD), one of the nation's foremost water science organizations. This book provides constructive advice to help the WRD meet the nation's water needs over the coming decades. Of interest primarily to the leadership of the USGS WRD, many findings and recommendations also target the USGS leadership and the Department of Interior (DOI), because their support is necessary for the WRD to respond to the water needs of the nation. You can open the full text at the link, or you can sign in to download a PDF.
The International WaterCentre's full (AU$36,000) and partial tuition Water Leader Scholarships 2010 are now open (www.watercentre.org/education/programs) to study Master of Integrated Water Management in Australia. The program takes a multi-disciplinary, whole-of-water cycle approach. It is a co-badged and co-taught degree by premier Australian universities - The University of Queensland, Griffith University, Monash University and the University of Western Australia.
Applications need to be received by August 1, 2009.
Okay, you don't have much time for this one, but I couldn't resist ...
The EPA, Generations United, the Dance Exchange, and the Rachel Carson Council, Inc., announce a poetry, essay, photo and dance contest "that best expresses the Sense of Wonder that you feel for the sea, the night sky, forests, birds, wildlife, and all that is beautiful to your eyes." We want you to share this love of nature with a child and others around you. When we teach our eyes and ears and senses to focus on the wonders of nature, we open ourselves to the wonders around us.
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| AWRA State Section Activities
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Oregon State Section Organizes
A group of water resources professionals is working on organizing an AWRA State Section in Oregon. If you are interested in joining the effort, please contact Michael Campana. |
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| Non-AWRA
Calls for Abstracts |
Portland, OR
October 18-21, 2009
Submit Abstract by:
Denver, CO
April 25-29, 2010
Submit Abstract by:
September 19, 2009
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Green Works to Reduce Flood Losses
Rosen Centre * Orlando, FL
June 7-12, 2009
Quebec City, Québec, Canada
June 9-12, 2009
Prague, Czechoslovakia
June 22-26, 2009 International Hydropower Association 2009 Congress
Reykjavik, Iceland June 23-26, 2009
Utah State University
July 13-17, 2009
Texas A&M University * College Station, TX
August 2-4, 2009
Utah State University
August 10-14, 2009
Sagehen Creek Field Station * Truckee, CA
August 17-21, 2009
Grenoble, France
August 26-28, 2009
North Carolina State University * Raleigh, NC
September 12-14, 2009
Westin Crown Center * Kansas City, MO
September 14-16, 2009
Halifx Marriott * Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canad
September 20-24, 2009
Walt Disney Resort Hotel * Orlando, FL
October 4-8, 2009
Norman, OK
October 26-27, 2009
November 1-5, 2009
The Grand Hyatt * Seattle, WA
November 4-6, 2009
Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil
November 23-24, 2009
Manila, Philippines
Ronald Reagan Building * Washington, DC
January 20-22, 2010 |
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