The University of New Mexico

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Contact: Greg Johnston, (505) 277-1816 or gregj@unm.edu

March 15, 2006

UNM Symposium to Showcase Student Water Research

The First Annual Student Water Symposium at the University of New Mexico will be held Friday, March 24, bringing together invited guests and participants from UNM and other universities at a showcase of student work on Southwest water topics.

The event will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Lobo rooms A & B in the Student Union Building .

Richard Kreiner, P.E. , U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will give the opening talk on the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program. The concluding speaker is UNM Professor Michael Campana, director of the UNM Water Resources Program.

The symposium will include 16 talks and 10 posters on issues like remote sensing, water quality, watershed management, economics of water use, conservation, reservoir management, fire effects on watersheds, and hydraulic modeling.

The symposium is organized by the Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development in cooperation with the UNM Water Resources Program, the student Association of Water Professionals, and WERC: A Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development.

There is no registration fee, but all attendees are encouraged to register in advance. Registration will allow the attendee to access a copy of the program and attend the oral and poster presentations, as well as morning and afternoon refreshment breaks.

Register at http://research.unm.edu/news_events/register/. Please look under Student Water Symposium. Advance registrations will be taken until 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 22, after which time one can register at the symposium.

Registration questions should be directed to Dr. Tim J. Ward, P.E., UNM assistant vice-president for research, at tjward@unm.edu or (505) 277.2328.

 


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