In This Issue
The Media of Water
Check Out AWRA's Virtual Exhibit Hall
AWRA Half-Year Member Offer
2009 AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference -- Breaking News
2010 AWRA Specialty Conference -- Call for Abstracts Online
Water Resources Information
AWRA State Section Activities
Non-AWRA Calls for Abstracts
The Media of Water:
Stories of general interest about water and water issues in the media.
 
Always new posts here.  
 
 This link takes you to a National Geographic photo gallery of endangered freshwater environments, but there are links to other photo galleries on the page. No one does photos better.
 
Forty years ago the Cuyahoga River actually caught fire when a spark from a train ignited industrial waste on the river. NPR provides an update at the link.
 
Have you seen something in the news that we should share?  Email me the link.
Know someone who needs this information?
Pass it on!
 
Send to a Colleague
Check Out AWRA's 
Virtual Exhibit Hall!
virtual exhibit hall
 
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.
AWRA Member News
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 Half-Year Member Campaign Underway
 
Click here to
& simply enter
OFFER CODE HY809
to join as a half-year member.
 
 You'll save on your AWRA Annual Conference registration and you'll have online access to the AWRA publications you've missed from the beginning of the year until now, too!
 
Water Resources IMPACT
 
AWRA Job Awareness Program
Where the Water Resources Jobs Are
AWRA Job Board 
 
Post a Job
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.
 
Available to AWRA Members at no charge!
 

Connections

The E-Newsletter of the

American Water Resources Association

Keeping You Connected

June 2009

Dear :
 
"A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul."-- Kahlil Gibran
 
I think everyone is on vacation this week.  Traffic is lighter, the phone is ringing less, even email traffic has slowed a bit. 
 
So, just for fun ...
 
I'm planning a long weekend get-away in early September, and I need some inspiration.  What are your vacation plans this summer? Or, what has been the most unexpectedly good vacation you've taken recently?  I'm looking for someplace with water (naturally), that won't be too cold, in the continental US, with plenty of outdoor activities/sightseeing/natural wonders as well as great food.
 
Best response (as judged by me) gets an AWRA t-shirt.
 
Send me your ideas (and your t-shirt size) by July 12.  I'll share them in the next newsletter.
 
Thanks for playing!
   
Terry Meyer
AWRA
Preliminary Program Coming Soon!
Red Lion Hotel * Seattle, WA
November 9-12, 2009
 
 Breaking Conference News!
  • Red Lion Hotel reduces the room rate for the AWRA Conference to $149/night single/double. (It was $165/night!) Make your reservation now!
  • The huge response to call for abstracts necessitates expanding to 5 concurrent sessions all conference days.  The poster session is fully subscribed! The Preliminary Program is being finalized and will be online shortly.  Watch this space, or bookmark the link and check it often. 

Here's what we expect to see happening at the conference:

75 Concurrent Sessions 

Technical session tracks on:

  • water quality
  • information management
  • Endangered Species Act
  • international
  • urbanization
  • climate change
  • surface water
  • green infrastructure
  • ecosystems
  • planning
  • groundwater
  • policy & legal
  • water & energy

Panels on:

  • river restoration
  • Endangered Species Act
  • coastal zone management
  • water use disputes
  • regional water benchmarking in the Middle East & North Africa
  • transboundary integrated water resources management
  • World Water Forum
  • restoration of Puget Sound

Events & Activities

  • pre-conference field trips & workshops
  • outstanding plenary session, networking opportunities, fun run, Tuesday nite event
  • bustling exhibit hall and lots of poster presentations

Registration  *  Conference Home

  *  Hotel Info

Call for Abstracts Online!
spring 2010 header
GIS & Water Resources VI
Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel * Orlando, FL
March 29-31, 2010
Submit Abstracts by:  October 9, 2009
 
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become a fundamental tool for the analysis, planning and management of environmental and water resources systems. This Specialty Conference continues the AWRA biennial tradition of surveying the state of knowledge in the field, following the 2004 conference in Nashville, 2006 conference in Houston and 2008 conference in San Mateo. Because of its interdisciplinary approach to water resource opportunities and problems, AWRA provides an excellent professional home for the most comprehensive forum on the application of GIS to water resources engineering and sciences. 
 
Both the breadth and depth of GIS application areas in water resources and the number and variety of GIS software tools to support such efforts have expanded dramatically in recent years. Hence it is expected that this conference will include presentations and topics on a number of exciting new developments and research findings at the intersection of GIS and water resources engineering and sciences. Researchers, practitioners, and students working in this field are encouraged to attend, keeping in mind that GIS includes commercial or open source software, custom geospatial modeling solutions, virtual worlds, web-based mapping, and more!
 
Conference Home
 
Water Resources Information
 
The Scientist is conducting its seventh annual "Best Places to Work for Scientists in Academia survey.  If you are you a full time scientist permanently employed in an academic, hospital, government, or research organization, The Scientist is conducting a survey of institutions that employ scientists and we would like your opinion of your place of work.  This survey is not for postdocs and others in non-permanent positions.
The results of the survey will be published in The Scientist, November 2009 issue. Please let your coworkers know about this survey...the more responses we receive the more valuable the results will be.
Survey closes Noon EST, July 3, 2009.
 
 Summer of Service
On June 22, the President and his Cabinet officially launched the Summer of Service and encouraged Americans to volunteer for their communities. This newly announced Summer of Service campaign offers an opportunity to promote volunteer monitoring and watershed stewardship and build up your roster of volunteers and raise awareness. Nonprofit organizations with a need for volunteers are encouraged to register at www.serve.gov

 USGS Hurricane Website
It's hurricane season again, and the USGS reminds us that its hurricane website highlights important storm information, pictures of coastlines before and after the storm, flood levels, and information on the timing, extent, and magnitude of storm tides.
AWRA State Section Activities
Florida State Section
The Casa Marina * Key West, FL
July 16-18, 2009
 
Water Planning in a Time of Uncertainty
Isleta Casino and Resort * Isleta, NM
October 14 - 16, 2009

 Pennsylvania State Section
Lycoming College * Williamsport, PA
October 22 -23
 
Oregon & Idaho State Sections Organize
Water resources professionals in Oregon and Idaho are organizing AWRA State Sections.  If you are interested in joining the effort, please contact Michael Campana for Oregon, or Kathy Peter for Idaho.
Non-AWRA
Calls for Abstracts 
Wuhan, China
November 1-5, 2009
Submit Abstracts by:
June 30, 2009
 
Hilton Head Island, SC
February 21-25, 2010
Submit Proposals for Workshops/Symposia:
July 15, 2009
Submit Proposal for Oral & Poster Presentations:
September 15, 2009

From Volcanoes to Vineyards: Living with Dynamic Landscape
Portland, OR
October 18-21, 2009
Submit Abstract by:
Denver, CO
April 25-29, 2010
Submit Abstract by:
September 19, 2009
 
Submit Abstract by:
January 8, 2010


 

Other Water Resources Conferences
  
 
Utah State University
July 13-17, 2009 
 
Marco Island Marriot Resort  * Marco Island, FL
July 22-24, 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
 
Westin Kierland Resort & Spa  *  Scottsdale, AZ
August 30-September 2, 2009 
 
Floodplain Management Association Annual Conference
The Fairmont Hotel  * San Jose, CA
September 8-11, 2009

Second International Conference on Forests & Water in a Changing Environment
North Carolina State University  *  Raleigh, NC
September 12-14, 2009
 
and the Future of Resevoirs
Westin Crown Center  *  Kansas City, MO
September 14-16, 2009
 
Halifx Marriott  * Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canad
September 20-24, 2009
 
Walter E. Washington Convention Center  *  Washington, DC
September 29 - October 1, 2009 
 
Walt Disney Resort Hotel  *  Orlando, FL
October 4-8, 2009
 
CSIR International Convention Center  *  Pretoria, South Africa
October 19-23, 2009 
 
International Water Prize Ceremony
Norman, OK
October 26-27, 2009
 
First Southeastern Water Trails Forum
Chattanooga Marriott  *  Chattanooga, TN 
October 29-30, 2009
 
November 1-5, 2009
 
 Waterfront Place Hotel *  Morgantown, West Virginia.
November 3-5, 2009 

11th International Conference on Estuarine & Coastal Modeling
The Grand Hyatt  *  Seattle, WA
November 4-6, 2009
 
Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil
November 23-24, 2009 
 
Manila, Philippines
November 23-27, 2009
 
The New Green Economy: Aligning Science, Education, and Markets
Ronald Reagan Building  * Washington, DC 
January 20-22, 2010


 

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