ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - February 7, 2013.  USACE IWR’s Lillian Almodovar, member of the U.S. Section PIANC and PIANC’s International Co-Operation Commission (CoCom), led a U.S. Section PIANC effort to organize a series of November 2012 seminars and training activities in Bogota and Cartagena to support the new PIANC Colombia section. The General Maritime Directorate of Colombia (DIMAR), which heads the Colombia section, had requested...

ALEXANDRIA, VA - February 5, 2013. USACE IWR’s Conflict Resolution & Public Participation Center of Expertise and Directory of Expertise (CPC) has released the 7th Annual Report on the Use of Environmental Conflict Resolution in USACE. The CPC compiled the report based on responses from each USACE Civil Works division and the Engineer Research and Development Center.  The USACE report is submitted through the Office of the Assistant...

WASHINGTON, DC - January 9, 2013.  Adapting to future climate change impacts requires capabilities in hydroclimate monitoring, short-term prediction and application of such information to support contemporary water management decisions. These needs were identified in a report, "Short-Term Water Management Decisions: User Needs for Improved Climate, Weather, and Hydrologic Information," published by the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army...

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - January 8, 2013.  IWR team member Dr. Jerome Delli Priscoli was recently elected to the World Water Council Board of Governors. Mr. Steve Stockton, USACE Director of Civil Works, was elected alternate. The elections to the Board of Governors were made at a November 16-19, 2012 meeting of the general assembly of the World Water Council in Marseilles, France. Dr. Delli Priscoli, who has served on the council’s...

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - December 21, 2012. USACE IWR’s International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM), under the auspices of UNESCO, held its inaugural advisory board meeting on December 4-5, 2012. The meeting was held in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State. ICIWaRM is an international water resources technical center at IWR and is the only UNESCO International Hydrological Programme Category 2 water center...

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - December 21, 2012.  The International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM), under the auspices of UNESCO, held a meeting of its partners on December 4, 2012. The partners reviewed the center’s accomplishments from 2009 through 2012. They then each shared a summary of their specific activities related to ICIWaRM and UNESCO. ICIWaRM activities centered around continuing education, research and...

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - December 11, 2012. USACE IWR team members recently led a three-day workshop on scenario and Shared Vision Planning for a Nam Kam River sub-basin of the Mekong River in Thailand. The team of subject matter experts included Dr. Guillermo Mendoza and Aaron Willis with IWR’s International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM) and Dr. Hal Cardwell with the Conflict Resolution & Public Participation...