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New TWRI-led Grow Zone project at Wolf Pen Creek Park shows promise for stream restoration, cultivates native plants along urban creek.

Mary Michael Zahed and Deborah Breedlove recently joined the institute’s team. 

TWRI continued to lead and innovate in 2024, and the institute welcomed new TWRI Director Giovanni Piccinni, Ph.D.

Reflecting on a productive year, the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) team is sharing our top 10 most-read articles, including content from the summer 2024 issue of txH₂O and TWRI News.

Program specialists Anna Eismont and Sarah Stannard have joined TWRI’s water team. 

Scientists examined PFAS chemical prevalence in a rapidly urbanizing Rio Grande Valley watershed.

TWRI is hosting the virtual workshop to help water resources and natural resources professionals.

TWRI Research Specialist Ed Rhodes was recently honored for research published on the rangeland implications of the declining Ogallala Aquifer.

Local stakeholders are invited to continue learning about improving water quality in the Medina River below Medina Diversion Lake.

The no-cost program is open to Falls, Bell, Milam and Robertson County residents.

Area residents are invited to the free program.

Local stakeholders are invited to learn about and contribute to improving water quality in the Thompsons Creek watershed.

Outreach and education professionals are invited to the workshop and can learn new evaluation skills and tools such as mapping, surveys and storytelling.

Area residents are invited to the free program.

Local stakeholders can learn about, contribute to improving water quality in the Medina River below Medina Diversion Lake.

Audrey McCrary and Alexander Neal were both honored with the early-career award for outstanding service to the state.

Giovanni Piccinni, Ph.D., brings global and agricultural experience to the institute.

Stakeholders are invited to learn about and contribute to improving water quality in the Medina River below Medina Diversion Lake.

stormwater quality and quantity by measuring the runoff at community garden sites in the Dallas area.

Crista Kieley, a graduate student in the Department of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University, researches the complex forces driving cyanobacterial blooms in warm monomictic lakes, which overturn only once a year.

Loren Henley is the newest team member at the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI). 

Residents are invited to learn about, and contribute to, improving water quality in the watershed.

Residents will learn about, contribute to water quality improvements.

Giovanni Piccinni, Ph.D., will return to Texas A&M AgriLife Research with a wealth of expertise to bolster his new role as director of TWRI effective Aug. 1.

Three new faces and one returning have joined the Texas Water Resources Institute's staff: Marisa Collura, Samantha Murray, Ward Ling and Tina Hendon.

The institute looks back on a productive year of providing science-based, community-supported solutions for Texas’ pressing water quantity and quality challenges through internal expertise and external collaborations.

Meet the new and returning staff joining the institute: Matt Stellbauer, Christine Fernandez and Dean Minchillo.

A first-of-its-kind public awareness study by Texas Water Resources Institute scientists shows that knowledge of PFAS chemicals is low.

TWRI's Duncan Kikoyo, Ph.D., developed a framework that harmonizes the characterization of drainage units on the continent of Africa in recent research published in the journal, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.

Catch up on recent peer-reviewed research by TWRI scientists and water researchers around the state.

Sept. 26-27 in San Antonio water professionals and practitioners are invited to attend the 2023 American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association (ARCSA) Annual Conference and Expo, co-hosted by TWRI.

The Texas Water Resources Institute's water team is growing, and two new staff members recently joined the team: Adriana Williams and Amanda Tague.

Catch up on recent peer-reviewed research by TWRI scientists and water researchers around the state.

The Texas Water Resources Institute will host a free Texas Riparian and Stream Ecosystem Education Program May 31 in Wallisville for area residents interested in land and water stewardship in the Double Bayou Watershed.

The free training will cover the processes and benefits of riparian areas.

Texas A&M University graduate student Sayantan Samanta has produced new data showing reduced or no-tillage management practices' positive impacts on runoff and soil erosion reduction in a Texas agricultural watershed.

The Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education (JCWRE) editors recently selected the paper “Total Maximum Daily Loads and Escherichia coli Trends in Texas Freshwater Streams,” by Michael Schramm and co-authors Lucas Gregory, Ph.D., and Anna Gitter, for the JCWRE Paper of the Year Award.

Catch up on recent peer-reviewed research by TWRI scientists and water researchers around the state.

The Texas Water Resources Institute has published its latest Annual Report, sharing accomplishments and project highlights from 2022.

Catch up on recent peer-reviewed research by TWRI scientists and water researchers around the state.

New research from TWRI research specialist Ed Rhodes and co-authors suggests that rangeland management strategies could help slow the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer, a key freshwater resource.

Read new technical reports and watershed protection plans recently published by the Texas Water Resources Institute's water team.

Catch up on recent peer-reviewed research by TWRI scientists and water researchers around the state.

The Texas Water Resources Institute team continues to expand, and new staff members have joined the TWRI communications team and water team since the fall of 2022.  

The Texas Water Resources Institute team has grown a lot in the past year, and it’s still growing. TWRI’s Luna Yang transitioned from being a graduate research assistant to being a full-time research specialist earlier this year. More recently, Audrey McCrary joined the TWRI team as a program specialist.

The Texas Water Resources Institute is continuing to grow. Three new faces have joined the team in recent months: Alexander Neal as a program specialist, Jason Nitsch as a grant administrator and Jason Gerlich as a research specialist.

TWRI’s new irrigation specialist, Ali Ajaz, Ph.D., sees an innovation opportunity at the nexus of irrigation management and drought monitoring.

Summer 2020 has seen the TWRI team grow, adding Wendy Jepson, Ph.D., in leadership, Ward Ling as a watershed specialist and Lexus Castro in communications.