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WRRC Weekly Wave
December 11, 2015
Volume 3, Issue 39
In This Issue:
- Call for WRRC 2016 Annual Conference Poster Abstracts
- Dates for 2016 Brown Bag Seminars
- Survey: Give us Your Thoughts on Conserve2Enhance
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CALL for 2016 WRRC Annual Conference
Poster Abstracts
The University of Arizona (UA) Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) is now accepting abstracts for the poster session at its March 21, 2016 Annual Conference, "#AZwaterfuture: Tech, Talk, and Tradeoffs." The deadline for submitting an abstract is Monday, Feb. 15, 2016.
Interested students, researchers, and practitioners are invited to submit poster abstracts on research related to the conference theme of innovation in water resources, including water technology, communication and engagement around water, new or newly reevaluated approaches to water quality, supply, climate, environment, the role of governments and markets, and water management and policy. Students are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts. Prizes will be awarded for the best student posters and awards will be announced at the reception immediately following the conference.
As a UA Cooperative Extension unit, the WRRC offers its Annual Conference to inform Arizonans about timely water topics.
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Save these WRRC Brown Bag Dates
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Speaker: Randy Hanson, Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center, San Diego, California
Time/Location: 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. / WRRC Sol Resnick Conference Room (350 N. Campbell)
Speaker: George Frisvold, Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
Time/Location: 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. / WRRC Sol Resnick Conference Room (350 N. Campbell)
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Speaker: Eve Halper, Natural Resources Specialist, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and Kathy Chavez, Water Policy Manager, Pima County
Time/Location: 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. / WRRC Sol Resnick Conference Room (350 N. Campbell)
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Survey: Give us Your Thoughts on Conserve2Enhance (C2E)
Conserve2Enhance (C2E) is an innovative program developed by the WRRC to help individuals and businesses conserve water and then put the value of those water savings back into their communities through locally-led projects. We need your help to shape the future of C2E! Whether you have been a participant from the beginning or have never heard of C2E before, we need your input to make C2E a tool that can be used by communities across the United States.
Take the survey here. The survey asks questions based on your familiarity with the program and will take 5-10 minutes to complete.
We appreciate your time! For any questions, please contact Ashley Hullinger at
hullinger@email.arizona.edu.
Please help us obtain as much feedback on C2E as possible by forwarding the survey link to your list serves and others that are interested in water, education, or community engagement.
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I Think Therefore I Am: Providing a Method for Thinking About Where Our Water Comes from
In Nov. 2015, Arizona Project WET (APW) presented a session on DSRP (Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, and Perspectives) thinking in water education at the 2015 Arizona Science Teachers Association Conference. The session, "I Think Therefore I Am," engaged teacher participants in using DSRP to think about the natural systems that supply water to Arizona's water management system. By employing a framework to structure reflective thinking, information and thought can be transformed into deeper learning and understanding.
For APW, DSRP is the language and process through which students think metacognitively, make connections between their ideas, and become better prepared for the world and their future. DSRP contains the four fundamental ways that we all think by: making distinctions, seeing systems, uncovering relationships, and understanding perspectives.
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Miss out on a WRRC Brown Bag Seminar? Catch up via GoToWebinar
If you have missed out on a WRRC Brown Bag seminar and would like to catch up, PDF presentations and GoToWebinar webcasts of many past Brown Bags are available on the WRRC website.
International, U.S., regional, and local speakers addressed WRRC audiences on a range of timely water topics, from funding water infrastructure and addressing water quality to desalination and water supply resiliency.
This year, 138 people visited the WRRC website to watch recordings and access presentation slides of past Brown Bag seminars.
To catch up on past WRRC Brown Bags, click here and choose the Brown Bag seminar that interests you.
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Presentations from RNRF Congress on Sustaining Western Water Available
Presentations from the Congress on Sustaining Western Water, held on Dec. 1-2, 2015, are now available online. The Congress was organized by the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation (RNRF) and featured discussion of methods and opportunities to sustain water resources. Video coverage and
One of the featured speakers was WRRC Director Sharon B. Megdal, who presented on "Sustainable Water Use in the Arid Southwest." Dr. Megdal talked about surface and ground water management practices in the Southwest, transboundary efforts between the U.S. and Mexico, environmental flows, and more.
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UA Professor Ty Ferré Named 2016 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer
Ty Ferré, Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources and Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, has been selected as the 2016 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer by the National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation (NGWREF).
Being the 2016 Darcy Distinguished Lecturer will allow Professor Ferré to travel throughout the world to give his talk "Seeing Things Differently: Rethinking the Relationship between Data, Models, and Decision-Making." The talk will address how to make decisions about water, and how we can improve decision making under uncertain conditions.
He anticipates giving his talk to about 100 different audiences in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, Chile, Brazil, South Africa, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand.
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National Report Gives AZ Low Marks for Climate Change Preparedness
A national report released this month by non-profit science organization Climate Central, examines the weather preparedness of all 50 states using a grading process comprised of five individual graded components: extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, and coastal flooding. The report gave Arizona a C- in overall climate change preparedness. The state received a C+ in extreme heat, a D+ for drought, and a D- for wildfires.
An Arizona Daily Wildcat article covered the story and included comments from WRRC Director Sharon B. Megdal and Katherine Jacobs, Director of the UA Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions.
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Water RAPIDS Reviews Water Supply and Demand in the Upper Gila Basin
On Dec. 2nd, the Water RAPIDS (Research and Planning for Dryland Systems) team co-led a regional workshop in Safford with Arizona Cooperative Extension and the Gila Watershed Partnership to review current and future water supply and demand in the Upper Gila watershed. The workshop involved active participation from a broad variety of water users in the development of water management alternatives, including local government representatives, federal agencies, industry leaders, farmers and ranchers, and concerned community members. This meeting was part of an ongoing multi-year project to assist local stakeholders in creating a robust watershed planning and management process.
Reports, workshop summaries, a regional Water Atlas, and additional information about the watershed planning work in the Upper Gila may be found here.
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