FEBRUARY 2015
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AWRA Webinar

Clear Choices Clean Water - An Effective Outreach & Education Campaign to Reach the Masses

MARCH 25, 2015 | 1pm ET

 

Speakers: Lyn Crighton, Executive Director, Tippecanoe Watershed Foundation, Indiana and Jill Hoffmann, President and Principle Owner, Empower Results, LLC  

 

The Clear Choices Clean Water Initiative is a high-quality social marketing strategy designed to get average citizens to make everyday choices that benefit local lakes and streams. Join us for a strategic session on 'how to get people to care', 'how to get people to respond', 'how to measure your outreach success', and most importantly, 'how to partner with us to launch a Clear Choices program in your area to meet your outreach goals'. The webinar will share insights on how this diverse and effective campaign was created, how it works, and how it can create invaluable metrics for your reporting while engaging the public across many creative and unique outreach mechanisms. Presentation followed by Q&A. PDH credit available. 

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Media of Water

VIDEOS, WEBCASTS

Troubled Water
Troubled Water 
A severe water crisis is facing Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. In this film, local people and experts try to tackle this growing water problem. There are solutions, but the government and the people need to act quickly.




 CONTINUING EDUCATION 

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.
From the AWRA Blog
The Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) is seeking a new associate editor (AE) in surface water hydrology. The person in this position will evaluate journal article manuscripts about processes and interactions controlling surface water hydrology and about prediction of surface water hydrology. Surface water hydrology manuscripts submitted to JAWRA span a wide...»

Clean Water Act & Wetlands: Preservation
Is a Flawed Mitigation Strategy
Jessica Owley, an Associate Professor at SUNY Buffalo Law School, penned this article, 'Preservation is a Flawed Mitigation Strategy', published in Ecology Law Currents last month. Good article. Can you spell 'L-A-N-D  T-R-U-S-T-S'?...» 

 

Why Interdisciplinary Academic Programs Don't Work The Way They Should

Some of us had a meeting yesterday in which the new Marine Studies Initiative was discussed. The MSI is a proposed interdisciplinary (ID) program here at Oregon State University. As usual, some in the group commented on how tough it is to maintain ID programs, that the academic landscape is littered with failed ID programs, blah, blah, ...»

 

For IWRM to Succeed, it Must be Embraced as a Social and Political Process
PRESIDENT'S COLUMN, FEBRUARY 2015 by John Tracy, AWRA President
There is a quote that was made by President Woodrow Wilson many years ago that I feel embodies much of what we need to understand about the planning and management of our country's natural resources.  I think this quote is particularly relevant to the discussion surrounding...»

 

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...»  

   
The Florida State Section of AWRA is very pleased to announce the winners of their inaugural Statewide Student Research Poster Contest.

Undergraduate student division:
Aidan J Dermody-McKeen and Blake E. Clement
Oxbridge Academy of the Palm Beaches
Josemaria P. Silvestrini
Oxbridge Academy of the Palm Beaches
Samantha C. Spritz
Oxbridge Academy of the Palm Beaches
Daniel Franco and Sebastian Arbelaez
FGCU College of Engineering
 
Graduate student division:
Amy K. Langston
University of Florida
Grant B. Weinkam
University of Florida
Laura C. Rodriguez-Gonzalez and Karl A. Payne
University of South Florida 

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Summer Specialty Conference on Climate Change Adaptation  

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Hyatt Regency French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana

June 15-17, 2015

Annual Water Resources Conference  

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Grand Hyatt Denver, Denver, Colorado

November 16 - 19, 2015
EVENTS CALENDAR

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

AWRA-NCR Water Resources Symposium
April 10, 2015
University of the District of Columbia (UDC)

 

Portland, OR
April 28-30, 2015

 River Restoration:
Fluvial-Geomorphic and Ecological Tools
June 15-19, 2015

Provence, France


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


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