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Here in the Pacific Northwest, stream restoration is a growth industry (purely anecdotal – I have not done a study). The big issue is restoration as it relates to the salmon fishery: trying to undo the mess we’ve made of the environment.  I’ve been told that the Columbia River produced something like 20 million adult [...]

Opening Plenary – Keynote Speakers .MP3 Rivers for Life Brian Richter, Nature Conservancy .MP3 Riparian Reflections James Karr, University of Washington Tuesday Plenary – Keynote Speakers .MP3 Trees,Streams and Water Quality: Making ConnectionsBernard Sweeney, Stroud Water Research Center .MP3 Old Approaches and New Challenges to Restoring River and Floodplain EcosystemsEmily Bernhardt, Department of Biology, Duke [...]

OPENING PLENARY .MP3 A Vision of the Future for California’s Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta: The Role of GIS, Visualation and Communication – Dr. Robert Twiss Robert Twiss, Professor of Environmental Planning Emeritus The University of California, Berkeley SPECIAL SESSION: Past and Future of GIS and Water Resources .MP3 Past and Future of GIS and Water ResourcesGuest [...]

Hello Water Resources Professionals: Attached are two files:  One that is a rather lengthy document that includes the results of the September 2008 AWRA Water Policy Dialogue held in Washington DC,  cosponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, and the ASCE’s Environmental and Water Resources Institute.  For those of you who like a shorter rendition, I [...]

Action Request!  from Gerry Galloway and Jane Rowan, Immediate Past and Current AWRA Presidents Below is a link to the Federal Register Notice announcing the Administration’s proposed revision to the Principles segment of the Corps of Engineer’s P&G’s.  Please help by getting this document to as many interested parties as possible.  We know that the Corps [...]

Friend and colleague Todd Jarvis sent me the link to an article about demand for hydrogeologists. A number of friends and colleagues are quoted: Roy Haggerty, John Wilson, Dan Stephens. The term “recession-proof” is interesting. I remember when the bottom fell out of the ground water contamination/remediation industry in the 1990s. Lots of hydrogeologists and engineers [...]

A new report, USGS Circular 1323, Ground-Water Availability in the United States, has just been released. This report examines what is known about the Nation’s ground-water availability and places the regional studies by the USGS Ground-Water Resources Program as a long-term effort to understand ground-water availability in major aquifers across the Nation. The report is [...]

Have you ever thought that an industrial waterfront user would have something in common with a riverkeeper or environmental conservation organization?   Recently a partnership of the three Philadelphia Region waterfront authorities (Delaware River Port Authority, South Jersey Port Corporation and the Philadelphia Region Port Authority) collaborated, and developed a Green Ports Initiative with the [...]

Compensatory Mitigation for Losses of Aquatic Resources: Final Rule -Army Corps and EPA Improve Wetland and Stream Mitigation Check out the new rules for compensatory mitigation, hot off the presses.   The heirarchy for mitigation has been turned on its head.  This is good news for mitigation bankers, but what about the resource?  What do you [...]

Did you know that AWRA just held its 5th conference focused on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the analysis and visualization of water resources related data?  AWRA’s Spring Specialty Conference was held in San Mateo, California and was adeptly planned and executed by Lorri Peltz-Lewis and David Maidment (and their able committee), [...]