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WATER
E-NEWS Vol. 1 Issue 4 November-December 2002
http://ag.udel.edu/dwrc/newsletters/Nov-Dec02.htm
UD Water Resources
Agency (WRA) http://www.wr.udel.edu/
In
this issue of our monthly Water E-News,
we announce new undergraduate internships in water resources, graduate student
and professional opportunities and project funding, upcoming conferences, and
new information sources in water resources.
New DWRC Undergraduate Internship Program for 2003
The DWRC will offer both
general and co-sponsored undergraduate internships in water resources for
2003-2004. Co-sponsors to date and areas
for internships include the UD College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Animal
and Food Sciences, Entomology and Applied Ecology, Bioresources
Engineering, Applied Economics and Statistics, or Plant and Soil Sciences),
College of Marine Studies (Marine Biology and Biochemistry, Marine Policy,
Oceanography, or Physical Ocean Science & Engineering), College
of Engineering (Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, or
Mechanical Engineering), Water
Resources Agency (water resource policy), and Department of Plant and
Soil Sciences (nutrient management and water quality).
Application and program requirements remain as last year and may be viewed at http://ag.udel.edu/dwrc/jobs.html#2002InternshipInfo.
GRADUATE
STUDENT, POST-DOC and PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Purdue University is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Watershed
Hydrologist Assistant/Associate Professor (tenure track, academic year
appointment ) available in January 2003 in the Department of Agronomy, The
Environmental Sciences and Engineering Institute, in West Lafayette, IN. For
complete details see http://www.agry.purdue.edu. Contacts are Dr. Ronald Turco rturco@purdue.edu
or Dr. Craig Beyrouty beyrouty@purdue.edu.
Application postmark deadline is
For AIP: http://www.aip.org/pubinfo.
For APS: http://www.aps.org/public_affairs/fellow/index.html
For AGU: http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy//sci_pol.html
For OSA: http://www.osa.org/aboutosa/awards/other/congress.cfm
The
Environmental/Social Change/Political career opportunities
for college water resources seniors are offered to direct year-round
environmental campaigns by
PROJECT
FUNDING AND AWARDS
The National Institute for Water Resources (NIWR) National Competitive Grants
RFP for 2003 will soon be available. To view last year's RFP, visit https://niwr.org/104G_RFP. Abstracts of funded year 2000 projects funded
totaling $1 million are at http://water.usgs.gov/wrri/00grants/nationalindex.html
The
National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project (NDWRCDP)
announces the availability of funding for two projects that focus on a
Micro-Scale Evaluation of Phosphorus Removal
The
EPA is encouraged by recent favorable House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
actions on its $21 million request for the Watershed Initiative. Once the funds are appropriated, the Agency
plans to select up to 20 watersheds throughout the country for grants to
support promising watershed-based efforts toward cleaner water. See the EPA’s Watershed Initiative site at http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/initiative for details.
EPA and other partners announce the 2003 National
Wetlands Awards. Nomination forms are on
the website http://www.eli.org/nwa/nwaprogram.htm. The deadline is January l0, 2003. For questions, contact Erica Pencak at
202-939-3288 or email wetlandsawards@eli.org.
Nominations
are now being accepted for both the 2003 Stockholm Industry Water Award (www.siwi.org/siwa) and the 2003 Swedish
Baltic Sea Water Award (www.siwi.org/sbswa).
LOCAL CONFERENCES
“Responsible
Water Use in the Garden,” daylong event exploring water-wise gardening,
co-sponsored by the Longwood Graduate Program and Winterthur’s Garden Division
on Saturday March 29, 2003 at Winterthur.
Registration is due March 17 and the $105 fee ($45 for students with ID
over age 12) includes all lectures on regional water supply, responsible water
use and garden design and plant selection for conservation, tours of gardens
and galleries, lunch and refreshments.
For information or a registration brochure, visit www.udel.edu/LongwoodGrad
under “Symposium” or contact: Gerry Zuka, 302-831-2517 gerryz@udel.edu.
OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Call
for papers, posters, special sessions, workshops: Deadline Fri. Dec. 13. Soil and Water Conservation
Society 2003 annual conference,
The
American Water Works Assn. is sponsoring their national source water protection
meeting on Jan. l9-22 in
USDA’s
Water Quality Conference will present work accomplished since 2000 under
the National Integrated Water
Quality Program (NIWQP),
USGS
– AWRA specialty conference "Agricultural Hydrology and Water
Quality" (
The
First Announcement and Call for Abstracts for the 2003 World Water Week in
NEW WATER RESOURCES INFORMATION SOURCES
Nov. 2002 marked the first issue of the “Envirocast News” water
e-newsletter. This joint project of the
National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) and the
Center for Watershed Protection(CWP) is produced
monthly in partnership with StormCenter Communications under an EPA-awarded
agreement. For
timely and informative environmental stories, information and resources
relating to weather and watersheds-particularly the Chesapeake Bay Watershed –
highlighting impact on our everyday lives, visit www.stormcenter.com/envirocast.
U.S.
Geological Survey Water Education Poster Series on Wetlands, Water Use,
Wastewater, Navigation, Groundwater, and Water Quality is now available, with
each poster distributed in elementary and middle school student versions.
http://water.usgs.gov/outreach/OutReach.html
and http://www.usgs.gov/education/
Newly released reports:
EPA 2000 National Water Quality Inventory. Visit www.epa.gov/305b/2000report.
USFS Watershed Restoration Partnerships FY01 Accomplishments. Visit www.fs.fed.us/largewatershedprojects/
and click “Annual
Reports”.
“State of the Nation’s Ecosystems” from
the
New Internet applications:
Local
officials seeking to hire consultants for environmental services are encouraged
to visit the Local Government Environmental Assistance Network's (LGEAN's)
directory of environmental consultants at http://www.lgean.org/consultants. For more information, contact Andrew Seth at
202/962-3622 or lgean@icma.org. Searching for environmental consultants by
keyword, service area, location, or name of consultant/company is supported,
providing a description of company services, local government references, and
contact information.
EPA
is pleased to announce the new Watershed Academy Web-based training
module, “Introduction to the Clean Water Act”, at: http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/cwa/, which provides 65 slides
explaining the major CWA programs: 1) water quality standards, 2)
antidegradation policy, 3) waterbody monitoring and assessment, 4) reports on
condition of the nation's waters, 5 ) total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), 6)
NPDES permit program for point sources, 7) Section 319 program for nonpoint
sources, 8) Section 404 program regulating filling of wetlands and other
waters; 9) Section 401 state water quality certification; and 10) state
revolving loan fund (SRF). For more
information about EPA's Watershed Academy Web-Based Training and Watershed
Management Certificate program go to http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/.
EnviroMapper
for Water
is an internet-accessible GIS application that dynamically displays information
about US bodies of water at www.epa.gov/waters/enviromapper/v2new.html
The new USGS National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI) is a free, web-based database facilitating comparisons and sharing of water quality monitoring methods data, at http://www.nemi.gov. The NEMI database contains chemical, micro-biological and radiochemical method summaries and will be expanded to include biological and other methods.
The
CSREES National Water Quality Program web site is now available at http://www.usawaterquality.org. The new site builds upon the 10 Regional
Water Quality web
sites (also accessible at the above URL), which were funded through the CSREES National Integrated Water
Quality Program (NIWQP). Links are provided to the existing four National
Facilitation projects funded through NIWQP. This is a unique opportunity to
access information about existing water quality programs and activities across
the states and associated territories.
USDA
and the state of
WATER
QUALITY MODELING EXPERT JOINS UD FACULTY
Dominic DiToro, a senior level scientist /
engineer known world-wide for his expertise in water quality modeling, is
joining the faculty of the UD Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
in January. His web site is http://www.engineering.manhattan.edu/environmental/faculty/Dditoro.html
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