Author: Cameron Castilaw
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A day with TWRI’s water quality monitoring team
What goes on when our water quality monitoring team goes out to conduct regular monitoring? Michael Miller of Texas A&M AgriLife Marketing and Communications tagged along with one of our teams on a warm June day to photograph how it’s done. At various locations along Carters Creek, this team performed regular water quality monitoring, observed…
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Student spotlight: Trevor Johnson
(Photo by Sam Craft, Texas A&M AgriLife Marketing and Communications.) Funded in 2021 by a $10-million, 5-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Southern Great Plains Regenerative Agriculture project is working to intensify agricultural production in an environmentally sustainable way to enhance agronomic, economic, and community resiliency in the Southern Great Plains by successfully integrating regenerative…
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Spring watershed coordinator roundtable tours Baffin Bay, gathers Texas water leaders
(Attendees at the watershed coordinator roundtable event in Baffin Bay. Photo by Cameron Castilaw, TWRI.) Watershed coordinators and other water resource professionals convened in Corpus Christi for a two-day watershed tour and roundtable April 18-19. Part of TWRI’s Watershed Planning Short Course program, the semi-annual Texas Watershed Coordinator Roundtable gives attendees the opportunity to network and discuss…
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Texas Legislature: water bills outlook
Every two years the Texas Legislature convenes in Austin for a whirlwind 180-day session full of meetings, hearings and work. Thousands of bills are filled covering just about any topic you can think of. Numerous water and natural resources bills have been filed in the 88th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature. Here are just a…
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Meet a scientist: Yina Liu
People find their path in life in many different ways. For Yina Liu, Ph.D., she thought hers would be taking over the family business in Southern China, and she began her academic career by pursuing a degree in economics at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). That all changed one day in college when she…
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What are PFAS?
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a category of thousands of manufactured chemicals, defined by their bonds between carbon and fluorine molecules, one of the strongest known chemical bonds. While scientists have known of PFAS since the 1940s, there are still many unknowns about PFAS and their long-term effects on people and the environment.…
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Rangeland management is key to sustaining the Ogallala Aquifer
Center pivot irrigation system. (Thomas Marek, Texas A&M AgriLife Research) Spanning from South Dakota to Texas, the Ogallala Aquifer is the largest freshwater aquifer in North America. But despite its size, the Ogallala is drying up. Scientists have reported for years that, if recharge and use continue at current rates, research shows that much of the…
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TWRI names two professors Faculty Fellows, awards federal funding
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) has named two Texas A&M University professors 2022 Faculty Fellows, awarding $15,000 in federal funding to each faculty member to support their research: Yina Liu, Ph.D., an assistant professor from the Department of Oceanography and Xingmao ‘Samuel’ Ma, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, each for proposals related to per-…
