Archive for March 2008
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- New Waves E-letter - March 31, 2008
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Breaking news about water resources research and education at Texas universities - March 31, 2008
Rio Grande Basin Initiative wins Environmental Excellence award
The Rio Grande Basin Initiative (RGBI) project was recently selected as the first place winner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) 2008 Texas Environmental Excellence Award (TEEA) in the agriculture category.
The [...] - Graduate students receive water research grants
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Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) recently funded 10 water-related research projects for graduate students from Texas A&M University and the University of Texas.
The students were awarded up to $5,000 to begin, expand or extend water-related research projects. The institute funds the graduate student projects through funds provided by the U.S. Geological Survey as part [...] - Texas A&M scientists participating in climate change conference
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Several Texas A&M University scientists will join other national and state researchers speaking at the climate change conference, “Forecast: Climate Change Impacts on Texas Water,” April 28-30, 2008, at the Texas State Capitol Extension in Austin.
The conference will feature national climate change scientists who have conducted cutting-edge work in the prediction of global warming and [...] - Fellowships available for minority graduate students studying water-related fields
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Texas A&M University’s Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Water Management and Hydrologic Science Degree Program are cooperating to offer generous fellowships for up to five minority (African-American, Hispanic, or Native American) graduate students seeking a doctorate in certain water-related fields, including water quality, watershed modeling, geographic information systems, environmental microbiology or environmental [...]
- Team meets to promote stream restoration
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Central Texas Stream Team (CTCS), a voluntary and interdisciplinary group of experts formed to develop and promote strategies and solutions for protection and restoration of Central Texas rivers and streams, recently held its first meeting in Temple.
More than 80 attended the daylong March 13 meeting that was directed toward city engineers, planners and developers, said [...] - Baylor scientists researching pharmaceuticals in water
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Baylor University researchers are working to figure out a way to clean chemical compounds such as those found in Prozac and birth control pills out of the water supply, according to a news story in the university’s student newspaper.
Dr. Bryan Brooks, environmental studies associate professor and director of the Ecotoxicology and Aquatic Research Laboratory, and [...] - Graduate student researches exotic mud crab introductions
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Texas A&M University graduate student Terrence Boyle Jr., under the direction of Dr. Mary Wicksten, biology professor, is studying the mud crab, Rhithropanopeus harrisii, recently introduced to Texas. The crabs are known to foul up water intake pipes.
The crab, first reported in Possum Kingdom Reservoir during the summer of 1998, has since been confirmed in [...]