Author: Cameron Castilaw
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2025 Texas Watershed Planning Short Course equips water professionals
The 14th iteration of the Texas Water Resources Institute’s Texas Watershed Planning Short Course training took place Jan. 27-30 at the Mayan Ranch in Bandera. Part of the Texas Watershed Planning project, the 4-day course brought together 35 water professionals from across the United States to learn the ins and outs of watershed protection plans and best…
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Meet TWRI’s newest water team members
Anna Eismont (left) and Sarah Stannard (right). Photos by Cameron Castilaw, TWRI. As 2024 comes to an end, the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) has added two new water team staff members. Anna Eismont joined the team in October as a program specialist. In this role, she works to address water quality and quantity concerns through…
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Turfgrass Field Day showcases field advancements
Ambika Chandra, Ph.D., at the 2024 Turfgrass and Landscape Field Day Research and experiments are exciting to read about, but even more fun to see up close and personal. Texas A&M University and Texas A&M AgriLife scientists working in turfgrass recently gave people that chance at their Turfgrass and Landscape Field Day. Hosted this year…
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Q&A: How does flooding impact water quality monitoring?
Texans are no strangers to severe weather events. Each year brings its challenges of potential droughts, fires, hurricanes, flash floods and more. A heavy rain season brings additional challenges to the water team at the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) and their monthly routine water quality sampling visits to water bodies around Texas. We talked…
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Behind the scenes: water quality monitoring at Town Creek
This week the Texas Water Resources Institute’s water team was out at Town Creek, one of our newest project sites, conducting regularly scheduled water quality monitoring. Research specialists Shaylynn Postma and Amanda Tague, along with student technician Janelle Wright, measured flow rate, pH, velocity and other instream conditions, and collected samples from the three sites for E.coli. Over time, monthly water…
