Tag: Urban WISH
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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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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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Hundreds of Texas students produce environmental science videos for Slingshot Challenge
A shot from a Wimberley ISD student’s Slingshot Challenge video, discussing the Edwards Aquifer and One Water systems for school buildings. (Courtesy of Kelly Albus.) Thanks to tireless schoolteachers, students’ ingenuity and hard work, and support from Texas A&M AgriLife professionals, this spring hundreds of middle and high school students in Texas produced educational videos…
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Partnership leads to civic innovation planning grant award
The National Science Foundation recently announced project awards for its Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) planning grant program, and Wendy Jepson, Ph.D., Texas Water Resources Institute associate director and University Professor of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a recipient. Jepson and the Urban Water Innovation and Sustainability Hub (Urban WISH) team at the Texas A&M AgriLife…
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New staff members join Texas Water Resources Institute urban water team in Dallas
Article originally written by Chantal Cough-Schulze Over the last few months, the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) has added two new staff members, both research scientists, to the team: Sayd Randle, Ph.D., and Bardia Heidari, Ph.D. Both Randle and Heidari will be joining a growing interdisciplinary team at the Texas A&M AgriLife Center at Dallas, also…
