Archive for August 2007
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- New Waves E-letter - August 29, 2007
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Breaking news about water resources research and education at Texas universities - August 29, 2007
Wurbs joins Texas Water Resources Institute
Dr. Ralph Wurbs, professor in Texas A&M University’s Zachry Civil Engineering Department, has joined Texas Water Resources Institute as a part-time associate director. Wurbs will work with Dr. Allan Jones, director, and Dr. B.L. Harris, associate [...] - Wurbs joins Texas Water Resources Institute
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Dr. Ralph Wurbs, professor in Texas A&M University’s Zachry Civil Engineering Department, has joined Texas Water Resources Institute as a part-time associate director. Wurbs will work with Dr. Allan Jones, director, and Dr. B.L. Harris, associate director, to bring an engineering perspective to the institute.
Wurbs joined the Zachry Civil Engineering faculty in 1980 and has [...] - Central Texas conference highlights water issues, legislation
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By Kathy Wythe
State Sen. Kip Averitt listens as Dr. Allan Jones, TWRI director, talks about the state of Texas of water. During his talk, Averitt summarized provisions in Senate Bill 3.
With Texas predicted to have twice as many people in 2060, planning for the state’s water is not a simple process, said State Sen. [...] - Texas A&M holds third annual desalination conference
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By Kari Miller
Texas A&M University’s Food Protein Research and Development Center – Separation Sciences program presented the third annual “Water Desalination: Water and Wastewater Issues and Technologies,” practical short course from August 5-7 in College Station.
Dr. David Burnett, director of technology at the A&M System’s Global Petroleum Research Institute, describes the mobile reverse-osmosis desalinator [...] - TWRI awards Mills Scholarships to graduate students
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The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) recently awarded Mills Scholarships to 17 Texas A&M University graduate students for the 2007-08 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. TWRI uses the [...] - TWRI grant recipient studies arsenic contamination in groundwater
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By Kari Miller
Texas A&M University international graduate student Dongsuk Han is working with his advising professor Dr. Bill Batchelor from the Department of Civil Engineering to develop a new approach to remove inorganic arsenic contaminants from drinking water.
Han, originally from South Korea and a recipient of a $5,000 2006-2007 Texas Water Resource Institute (TWRI) research [...] - TWRI grant recipient estimates water quality parameters using remote sensing
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By Kari Miller
Texas Tech international graduate student Bassil El-Masri worked with his advising professor Dr. A. Faiz Rahman from the Department of Natural Resources Management to develop spectral indices using remote sensing techniques to monitor water bodies.
El-Masri, originally from Lebanon and a recipient of a $5,000 2006-2007 Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) research grant, said [...] - Junior Master Gardener develops soil, water curriculum
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The newest resource of the National Junior Master Gardener (JMG) Program—Operation W.A.T.E.R.: Dr. Thistle Goes Underground—was recently released and the program’s staff is seeking groups to sponsor training workshops to educate teachers and youth leaders about using this new curriculum.
Developed by Texas Cooperative Extension, this horticulture and environmental science curriculum for students from sixth to [...] - Spatial Sciences Laboratory offers fall training courses
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The Spatial Sciences Laboratory at Texas A&M University is offering several fall training courses including Combined Introductory & Advanced ArcGIS, Beginner and Advanced SWAT and Remote Sensing. These workshops will be at the Spatial Sciences Laboratory located in the Centeq Building in Research Park in Building B, Rooms 212 or 214.
Introductory & Advanced ArcGIS, October [...] - TWRI-EarthKind develop partnership
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The Texas Water Resource Institute (TWRI) and Texas Cooperative Extension’s Earth Kind Environmental Stewardship program recently joined forces through the adoption of a formal memorandum of agreement.
Earth Kind and TWRI will work together to investigate ways to further their common goals of increasing the public’s and specific stakeholders’ knowledge of environmental stewardship as it relates [...]