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February 21, 2020 / Volume 8, Issue 7
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WRRC Makes Connections at D.C. Meetings
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The UArizona WRRC is one of 54 Water Resources Research Institutes and Centers in the U.S, with one located in each State, as well as in the District of Colombia and in three U.S. Territories. Established under the Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) and administered by the U.S. Geological Survey, these institutes promote knowledge and technology transfer and facilitate research that helps to train students and address state and regional water problems. Earlier this month, Associate Director Claire Zucker traveled to Washington, DC for the 2020 meeting of the National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR). At this annual meeting, institute directors build relationships, learn from each other's program efforts, and share information about regional and national water issues. While in Washington, Ms. Zucker met with congressional staff members to discuss WRRC accomplishments and programs, and to highlight the need for continued federal support for Water Resources Research Institutes. NIWR plays a major role in addressing the unique water-related concerns of the individual states and the nation by providing a national platform for collaboration.
Information on the WRRA Program here
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Final Webinar in Our "Get Ready" Series
A series of presentations in collaboration with the Central Arizona Project on a range of topics linked to the management of the Colorado River system.
- Patrick Dent, Director of Water Policy, CAP
- Austin Carey, Planning Analyst, Resource Planning and Analysis, CAP
- Angie Lohse, Senior Policy Analyst, CAP
- Chris Brooks, Senior Water Resources Analyst, CAGRD
- Orestes Morfin, Planning Analyst, Colorado River Programs Department, CAP
- Mohammed Mahmoud, Senior Policy Analyst, Colorado River Programs Department, CAP
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Know About Your Water
Green Valley - Sahuarita
Time/Location:
10:30 a.m. - noon, Desert Hills Center, 2980 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley, AZ
This encore presentation, sponsored by the Green Valley Council Environment Committee, will touch on everything you want to know about water resources in the Green Valley-Sahuarita area. The culmination of a project funded by the Freeport McMoRan Community Investment Program, this interactive presentation offers neutral, independent information on water supplies, uses, and quality, as well as community and individual actions to conserve and augment water resources in the region.
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Upcoming Brown Bag Seminars
- April 1 - Kathy Jacobs and Amy McCoy, Colorado River Conversations
- April 8 - Kacey Ernst, Mosquito-borne Disease and Climate Storage Change
- April 16 - Student Research Presentations
- April 29 - Marie Pearthree, Mike McGuire, Book: Tucson Water Turnaround: Crisis to Success
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 WRRC Hosts Another Informative Webinar
The WRRC held its second webinar in the "Get Ready" series on Tuesday, February 18. This webinar featured presentations from committees of the Governor's Water Augmentation, Innovation, and Conservation Council (GWAICC). Panelists included Philip Richards, Chair of the Desalination Committee, Wade Noble, Chair of the Long-term Water Augmentation Committee, and Timothy Thomure, Co-chair of the Post-2025 AMAs Committee.
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WRRC Research Scientist Travels to India for Panel Review
On February 13 and 14, WRRC Research Scientist Jean McLain participated in a panel to review antibiotic resistance proposals submitted to the UK Research and Innovation National Environment Research Council (UKRI NERC). The UKRI NERC is a British Research Council that supports research, training, and knowledge transfer activities in the environmental sciences. The panel reviewed 39 research proposals, all representing collaborations between UK- and India-based scientists, focused on assessing the environmental impact of antibiotic manufacture in India. India is a leading country for worldwide antibiotic manufacture; subsequent pollution of the environment with residual chemicals has led to extensive environmental antibiotic resistance. Dr. McLain, who has been studying environmental antibiotic resistance for nearly 15 years, was the only U.S. scientist invited to participate in the panel.
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Change takes courage. Leaders from Creighton School District took the plunge into learning through inquiry and exploration with two APW facilitators. They spent their entire day putting themselves in their students' shoes, feeling what it was like to learn science from scratch.
They creatively engineered a physical model and had fun learning that failure is a part of the process! When taken outdoors to conduct field science investigations, they learned their discoveries ultimately led to more questions. Throughout the day, they experienced learning that was at times exhilarating and at others infuriating.
As leaders they need to know how their students and teachers feel when confronted with such challenges. With so many limits and structures in place in our current school system, how do we sustain curiosity and provide a scientific foundation for thinking, as the Arizona Science Standards ask us to do? Creighton administrators are trying to answer that question by embracing change, becoming curious learners, unashamed of not knowing, and by developing and using thinking skills that will help them figure things out, now and in the future.
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Chocolate Fest Honors Photo Contest Winners and the Santa Cruz River
This year's Chocolate Fest did not disappoint - an extravaganza of tasty chocolate treats, including a chocolate river, combined with delightful water conversations to renew or make new connections with others in the water world. We were very pleased to have two WRRC photo contest winners in attendance. Jerry Webster described how he captured the winning "nature category" photograph; a captivating picture of a bobcat swimming in the Santa Cruz River. Torran Anderson described how he caught the moment when Chris Yazzie was collecting a water sample on the Navajo Nation, which won in the "people category." The informal program also included brief remarks about the impact of the flowing Santa Cruz River on our community and profession by Ecologist Claire Zugmeyer from the Sonoran Institute and Water Conservation Manager Candice Rupprecht and Hydrologist Maya Teyechea from Tucson Water. Several others shared their thoughts and reflected on the progress we have made to re-build an ecologically healthy and vibrant Santa Cruz River in Tucson.
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