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- Texas Water Resources Institute establishes office to analyze critical water issues
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The Texas Water Resources Institute recently established the Office of Strategic Water Issues to provide non-biased, science-based analyses of critical water issues facing Texas, according to Allan Jones, the institute’s director.
Jones said the office will develop consensus recommendations and communicate these to policy and decision makers to help them make informed decisions on these complicated [...] - University of Texas student researched environmental flow model
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By Courtney Swyden
Marc Russell, a former University of Texas marine sciences graduate student, and advising professor, Dr. Paul Montagna, developed a hydrological/biological model to determine the effects that freshwater inflow has on an estuarine function.
An estuary is freshwater inflow mixing with salt water. The function, productivity and impairment of an estuarine ecosystem are linked to [...] - Graduate student assesses accuracy of Soil and Water Assessment Tool
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By Courtney Swyden
Texas A&M University graduate student Xuesong Zhang is working with his advising professor Raghavan Srinivasan, director of Texas A&M’s Spatial Sciences Laboratory, to evaluate and improve the accuracy and reliability of the SWAT model or Soil and Water Assessment Tool. SWAT, developed by USDA-Agricultural Research Service and Blackland Research and Extension Center in [...]