Archive for August 2006
- Fact sheets available on technologies to reduce phosphorus runoff
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By Courtney Swyden
Going into its second year of evaluating new technologies, Texas Cooperative Extension and Texas Water Resources Institute are collaborating to reduce high levels of phosphorus runoff from two Central Texas watersheds. The New Technologies for Animal Waste Pollution Control project, funded through a 319 grant from the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation [...] - Graduate student researches insect control of saltcedar
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By Courtney Swyden
Results from a Texas A&M Entomology graduate student’s research on using saltcedar beetles as a biological control for saltcedar showed that in one year the insects can help defoliate this invasive, water consuming tree.
“Results from field cage and natural experiments indicate that one full season of defoliation has adverse consequence for the trees,” [...] - TWRI awards Mills Scholarships to graduate students
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COLLEGE STATION –The Texas Water Resources Institute recently awarded Mills Scholarships to 13 Texas A&M University graduate students for the 2006-07 academic year to pursue water-related research.
TWRI’s Mills Scholars Program, an endowed fund that supports research in water conservation and management, provided the $1,500 scholarships to the students to use for education-related expenses. The scholarship [...]
