Category: 2023
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Water research roundup: new research from TWRI and around Texas
The Blanco River, near Wimberley. (By Chantal Cough-Schulze) Read recent peer-reviewed publications by TWRI scientists: Catch up on water-related research from universities around Texas:
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Meet TWRI’s new staff members
Saboor Rahmany, Leslie Lee, Cameron Castilaw, and Shaylynn Postma The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) team continues to expand, and new staff members have joined the TWRI communications team and water team since the fall of 2022. Saboor Rahmany began as a program specialist in TWRI’s water team in January 2023, working to address water quality and…
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Texas Water Journal publishes commentary in new 2023 issue
Cover image for Texas Water Journal, Volume 14, Number 1: Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas. (©2022 Rob Doyle, Pluto911 Photography) The Texas Water Journal has published a new commentary in volume 14, titled Water Infrastructure and Supply Are the Backbone or Achilles’ Heel of Texas’ Future: The Choice is Ours, by Senator Charles Perry, Chairman of the…
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Meet a scientist: Xingmao “Samuel” Ma
Article originally written by Cameron Castilaw When Xingmao “Samuel” Ma, Ph.D., was a young student deciding what career path to follow, he was inspired by seeing the environment and its care becoming a central issue. Ma decided he wanted to help, and now, 30 years later, his path as an environmental engineer has put him in…
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Texas A&M AgriLife scientist publishes complete U.S.-Mexico borderlands aquifer map
Worldwide, natural resource agencies and officials have counted the number of shared groundwater aquifers flowing beneath the U.S.-Mexico border at 11. But new research published by a Texas A&M AgriLife scientist reveals a more complicated picture: there are, in fact, 72 shared groundwater aquifers in the region. Combining years of geological and hydrological research, the map shows…
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Researchers solve one of the Borderlands’ biggest water puzzles
Article originally written by Caroline Tracey – High Country News The U.S. and Mexico share underground water basins that span more than 121,500 square miles of the Borderlands. But the two countries have no regulations for managing those common aquifers, in part, because historically very little was known about them. That’s changing. On Dec. 28,…
