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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Welcome
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Montana Water Center Fellowship Awarded |
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The Montana Water Center is pleased to announce an award of $5,000 to its first Student Water Research Fellow. Megan McBride, University of Montana graduate student, will conduct research during the 2004-2005 research year entitled "Recreation on the Upper Yellowstone River: Use and Place Attachment." Offered for the first time by the Water Center, the award is made to an undergraduate or graduate student at a Montana institution conducting research on a critical water resource issue in the region. McBride was chosen from a pool of 14 competitive applications.
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Montana AWRA Call for Papers Deadline
The deadline has passed, but if you are still hoping to submit an abstract for the American Water Resources Association -- Montana Section meeting in Helena on October 4 and 5, 2004, you may be in luck. Please go soon to the AWRA Montana Section web site and respond to the call for abstracts, or call (406) 994-1772 for more information. |
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| Montana Water Summer Reading |
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Proceedings Hot Off the Press
The proceedings for the Seventh International Symposium on Fish Physiology, Toxicology, and Water Quality held in Tallinn, Estonia on May 12-15, 2003, are now available online at the symposium web site. This meeting was planned and facilitated by the Montana Water Center to bring together investigators from many nations to address all aspects of hypoxia, eutrophication and fish health.
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Enviromapper
A New Version of EnviroMapper is now available EPA’s Office of Water web site. EnviroMapper for Water provides a web-based mapping connection to a wealth of water data. You can use it to view and map water supply and water quality data at the national, regional, state or local levels. This latest release of EnviroMapper features several new layers of water data including EPA’s national water quality database STORET, National Estuary Program study areas, and the location of nonpoint source projects. For more information, contact Tommy Dewald by phone at (202) 566-1178 or by email. |
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Urban Watershed Manual Series
EPA's Center for Watershed Protection (CPW) has just published three manuals of an 11-manual series called the "Urban Subwatershed Restoration Manuals." The series will assist local and state managers craft urban watershed restoration plans. Each manual is approximately 100 pages long, and may include a CD with software to enable data collection and storage. The first three can be downloaded for free from the CPW web site for the next six months. |
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New National Research Effort Needed to Secure Water Supply
Recently the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board issued a study entitled "Confronting the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research." A pre-publication copy of this report is available on the National Academies web site. The report urges the United States to make a new commitment to water research in face of severe water problems in all parts of the country. In particular, a new mechanism is needed to coordinate water research currently fragmented among nearly 20 federal agencies.
The best statement on current research needs can be found in the 2001 National Research Council report “Envisioning the Agenda for Water Resources Research in the 21st Century.” The new report is a follow-on to that study. It identifies a set of principles that can be used to help set priorities in the future. For example, officials should ask whether proposed research is of national significance, and whether it complements the overall research portfolio on water resources. Research projects should involve scientists from multiple disciplines, study system-wide effects, consider uncertainties, and address how humans and ecosystems can adapt to changes in water resources.
The report was sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey. The National Research Council is the principal operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Medicine. It is a private, nonprofit institution that provides science and technology advice under a congressional charter. |
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| USGS Online Publications |
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Status and Trends of the Nation’s Biological Resources . . .
This major USGS publication on national biological resources compiles status and trends information on ecosystems, plants, and animals. Go to the USGS web site for more details. |
Estimated Water Use in the United States in 2002 . . .
The U.S. Geological Survey announces USGS Circular 1268 available at the USGS web site. This study estimates surface and groundwater withdrawal and consumption in the United States in 2000 for many uses. Access to Nationwide Invertebrate Community Data . . .
Invertebrate community data from 1,700 stream sites in more than 50 major river basins across the Nation can be downloaded from the NAWQA Data Warehouse. Data are from more than 5,000 invertebrate community samples that were collected from 1993 through 2002 by the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The NAWQA Data Warehouse also provides online access to data on fish communities from more than 1,000 stream locations, as well as data from thousands of water-quality samples from about 6,400 stream sites and 7,000 wells, and from streambed sediment and aquatic animal tissue. Water-quality samples were analyzed for pesticides, trace elements, volatile organic compounds, and nutrients; sediment and tissue samples are analyzed for organic compounds, such as DDT, and trace elements, such as mercury. |
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So many meetings, so little time. Even so, there are a few that water folks just shouldn't miss! Find more information on these and other upcoming events on the Events Calendar at MONTANA WATER.
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Allocating Water: Economics and the Environment
Portland, OR, July 20 - 22, 2004
This conference will bring together academics, federal and state agencies, water managers, and other professionals to discuss approaches and policies for allocating water. Interesting and innovative case studies, analyses of current water allocation problems in several US river basins, and proposed new techniques will be presented. [INFO]
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 Montana Watershed Coordination Council Meeting, Helena, MT, July 14, 2004 [INFO]
Science in Our Region -- STAR Environmental Seminar, Chicago, IL, July 14, 2004 [INFO]
Solving Conflicts with Beaver, South Lake Tahoe, CA, July 14 - 15, 2004 [INFO]
Waterpower XIV, Austin, TX, July 18 - 22, 2004 [INFO]
Soil and Water Conservation Society 2004 Annual Conference - Call for Papers, St. Paul, MN, July 24 - 28, 2004 [INFO]
2004 Environmental Training Institute for Small Communities, Morgantown, WV, July 27 - 30, 2004 [INFO]
Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, New York, NY, July 30 - August 2, 2004 [INFO]
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, August 1 - August 6, 2004 [INFO]
2004 ASAE/CSAE Annual International Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 1 - August 4, 2004 [INFO]
Workshop on the Design and Operation of Adsorptive Processes for the Removal of Arsenic from Drinking Water, Cincinnati, OH, August 10 - August 11, 2004 [INFO]
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