JANUARY 2015
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Mark Dunning (r) presents AWRA's prestigious Mary H. Marsh Medal to Ronald W. Sullivan during AWRA's 2014 Annual Conference.
AWRA Calls for Water Resources Management
Award Nominations 

DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2015  

The American Water Resources Association annually recognizes outstanding individuals in the water resources profession. We are pleased to announce the opening of the awards nomination period. Nominees need not be members of AWRA. All water resources professionals are encouraged to nominate themselves, or others, for AWRA awards.
AWRA Webinar

Farms and Rivers: Balancing Between Food Production and the Environment

FEBRUARY 10, 2015 | 1pm ET

 

Speaker: David Zetland 

Farmers use most of the world's "developed" water, but their supplies are under strain from climate change, increasing environmental demands, and the need to feed additional billions of people. Join us in this webinar to discuss how to reconcile these overlapping forces with market--and regulatory--mechanisms using examples from around the world. Presentation followed by Q&A. PDH credit available. 

Webinar software provided by: MWH Global  
Media of Water

VIDEOS, WEBCASTS

Protecting the Arctic National Wildlife RefugeAdministration Moves to Protect
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
President Obama announces that The Department of Interior released a revised Comprehensive Conservation plan to better sustain and manage Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This far northern part of Alaska is known to Alaska Native communities as "The Sacred Place Where Life Begins".


DamNation - Official Film TrailerDamNation Film Screening and Discussion

DamNation's majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move us through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature. Presented at UW Stevens Point, in partnership with student groups: The Fisheries Society and The American Water Resources Association, Feb. 11, 7pm. Details... 

 

 CONTINUING EDUCATION 

AWRA 2015 Conference News

 

Summer Specialty Conference on Climate Change Adaptation  

Exhibit Information 

Sponsor Information  

Hyatt Regency French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

June 15-17, 2015

Annual Water Resources Conference  

EXTENDED! Call for Special Session Proposals Deadline: February 6, 2015 

Super Saver Registration Deadline: September 4, 2015 

Exhibit Information

Sponsor Information 

Grand Hyatt Denver, Denver, Colorado

November 16 - 19, 2015
From the AWRA Blog
G. Tracy Mehan III, an attorney and Mississippi River basin kid just like authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer, penned this excellent review of their book, Mississppi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disasters. Tracy was kind enough to send his review, which will appear in the January-February 2015 issue of The Environmental Forum...»

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 17-23 Jan. 2015

For those of you who enjoyed The Oregon Water Conference (TOWC) in 2011 we are hoping to resurrect it in 2016. We will likely be partnering with the immensely successful OSU Hydrophiles' Water Research Symposium. Details are being worked out and I'll let you know when we've got something firm. Tentative dates are 17-19 April 2016 on the Oregon ...» 

  

These comments are directed to water professionals (real or wanna-be) and not to hoi polloi (not intended as a derogatory term). Some faithful readers might get a sense of déjà vu when they read this post. I feel obliged to repeat that December 2008 missive. Today there is a lot of chatter about water budgets and how similar they are...» 

  

DEADLINE: APRIL 22, 2015 
AWRA is proud to announce the availability of no less than $4,000 in scholarships derived from the proceeds of the Richard A. Herbert Memorial Educational Fund. The Herbert Memorial Educational Fund was named to honor Richard A. Herbert, a champion for water resources education. All applicants must be student members of AWRA national, and all applications must be complete and submitted electronically as one document to info@awra.org. If you are not an AWRA Student member, please consider joining. Learn more here....»   


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EVENTS CALENDAR

Urban Riparian Symposium February 11-13, 2015 Austin, TX

 

AWRA Wisconsin State Section 39th Annual Meeting - Wisconsin Water Resources and Agriculture 

March 5-6, 2015 Oconomowoc, WI

 

National Waterways Conference 

March 16-18, 2015
Arlington, VA

 

Water Resources Research Institute's 17th Annual Conference 

March 18-19, 2015

 

Raleigh, NC

 

March 30-April 1, 2015
LA Airport Hilton

 

Portland, OR
April 28-30, 2015

70th Soil and Water Conservation Society's International Annual Conference
July 26-29, 2015
Greensboro, NC


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