President's Message
January
2009
Upcoming Leadership Changes for the AWRA Board
It seems that with every presidential election and inauguration
we hear about how important this election is and how critical the
issues are facing us this election cycle. And each time it is probably
true. However, it is undeniable that we are presently facing many
monumental challenges. These include a world-wide economic crisis,
energy challenges, climate change, a major reduction in the scientific
workforce due to the retirement of the baby boomers, and an apparently
growing lack of faith in traditional institutions, including scientific
institutions, to name a few....
AWRA News
Serve
AWRA is pleased to announce that the 2009 Call for Nominations to
the AWRA Board of Directors (for terms that begin January 1, 2010)
is now open. AWRA is seeking nominations for the following position
President-Elect (one-year term, succeeds to President in following
year); Secretary/Treasurer (three-year term); and two Directors
(three-year terms). Deadline for nominations is May 4, 2009
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Congratulations to the two winners of AWRA’s
2008 Annual Water Resources Conference Student Presenter Competition
held during the conference in New Orleans, LA, Nov. 17-20 :
Gordon Brown and Hilary Robinson.
To all conference participants and sponsors,
I would like to say thank you, for making the 2008 Annual Water
Resources Conference in New Orleans such a huge success!
In September 2008 the American Water Resources
Association (AWRA), the Environment and Water Resources Institute
of the American Society of Civil Engineers (EWRI/ASCE), and the
National Wildlife Federation (NWF) brought together water resource
experts from the public and private sector, congressional staff,
and federal agencies to review the results of three National Water
Policy Dialogues conducted by AWRA in 2002, 2005, and 2007 at the
request of 10 federal water resource agencies...
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National Science Foundation Research
Experiences for Undergraduates - 2009 Program at Virginia Tech
Applications
are invited from qualified and motivated undergraduate students
(sophomores, juniors and rising seniors - science and engineering
majors) from all U.S. colleges/universities to participate in the
third year of a 10-week (May 31-August 7, 2009) summer research
in interdisciplinary watershed sciences and engineering at Virginia
Tech.
The research program is funded through the National Science Foundation
– Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU) program.
Application materials, possible research projects and other program
activities are
posted
here.
Deadline for application submission is
March 2, 2009.
Successful applicants will be informed by March 20, 2009. Contact
:
Dr. Tamim Younos ( phone: (540)231-8039
tyounos@vt.edu
).
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Book Reviewers Needed |
JAWRA includes a book review section to keep
readers abreast of the latest publications. The quality of the book
review section depends on having qualified professionals willing
to review books. We are always in need of reviewers. If you would
be willing to review a book, please contact the Book Review Editor,
Dr. R.H. McCuen at
rhmccuen@eng.umd.edu.
Provide him with: (1) an email address; (2) a complete mailing address
including ZIP; and (3) a list of keywords that describes your areas
of interests. Book reviews are generally about 1000 words in length.