Tag: Dallas Center
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Drought-resistant plants for North Texas yards
Dallas-based TWRI Program Specialist Dean Minchillo shares insights on residential landscape plants that are drought-resistant and can thrive in North Texas’ heat.
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Bridging the gap between green stormwater infrastructure research and implementation
Despite the numerous advantages of green stormwater infrastructure, implementation is not widespread in Texas. What are the barriers preventing implementation and what can be done to address them?
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Texas A&M AgriLife Water Symposium builds collaborations
More than 100 water professionals, researchers and agricultural producers gathered Aug. 12-14 in Dallas for the Texas A&M AgriLife Water Symposium and to work toward future collaborations addressing Texas water challenges. Hosted by the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI), Texas A&M AgriLife, and the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas, the event…
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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. A turfgrass open…
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Environmental education impacts and measurement workshop set for Oct. 22 in Dallas
Extension, outreach and education professionals from all fields are invited to an Environmental Education Measuring Impacts Workshop on Oct. 22 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas. The training will cover how to use mapping tools, surveys and storytelling to evaluate the impacts of science education programs and boost program growth.…
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Meet a scientist: Bardia Heidari
Article originally written by Cameron Castilaw How can a love for animals lead to a career in water research? For Bardia Heidari, Ph.D., who grew up with dogs, rabbits, turtles and parrots in Tehran, Iran, animals inspired questions about how they interacted with their environment. Now a research scientist for the Texas Water Resources Institute at…
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Meet TWRI’s Urban Water Program team
Kelly Albus, Bardia Heidari, Dean Minchillo, Emily Monroe, and Samantha Murray. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex faces many water-related challenges in the coming decades, as population growth simultaneously increases water demand and alters the landscape, while impacts from climate change affect the available water supply. Texas A&M AgriLife has teams of experts around the region working to…
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Texas students compete in the Slingshot Challenge
This spring hundreds of middle and high school students in Texas produced educational videos about environmental science for the National Geographic Slingshot Challenge. Thanks to tireless efforts from educators and Texas A&M AgriLife professionals supporting the students’ ingenuity and hard work, their videos and ideas could help slingshot communities into a more sustainable future. Kelly Albus, Ph.D.,…
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Teacher training on citizen science and Junior Master Gardener set for July 12 in Fort Worth
ACCESS Water workshops provide teachers with hands-on learning. (Photo courtesy of Kelly Albus.) TWRI invites teachers who work with students of all ages to a Junior Master Gardener and Citizen Science Training July 12 in Fort Worth. Onsite check-in will begin at 8:30 a.m., and the training will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the…
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Water research roundup: new research from TWRI and around Texas
(Photo by Michael Miller, Texas A&M AgriLife Marketing and Communications.) Article originally written by Madalyn Richards Read recent peer-reviewed publications by Texas Water Resources Institute and Texas A&M AgriLife scientists: A planning framework to mitigate localized urban stormwater inlet flooding using distributed Green Stormwater Infrastructure at an urban scale: Case study of Dallas, Texas: In a study…
