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Its presence and quality defines the success of every individual, community, and society.

“Water systems...can act as a powerfully unifying resource, so it is ironic to the point of absurdity that water education, management, and discourse are so fragmented. To truly assess water resources in their most holistic sense, one needs to include the many aspects of the hydrologic cycle, from meteorology to surface hydrology to soil sciences to groundwater to limnology to aquatic ecosystems. And that is just the physical system. One should also have an integral sense of the human dimensions, from economics to law to ethics to aesthetics to sociology and anthropology. Universities and management institutions are simply not organized along these lines; often they are fragmented to the point where even surface water and groundwater, quality and quantity, are separated out as if they were not inextricably inter-related.”

Aaron Wolf, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University

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4/24/2008: CWS Sponsored Lecture

Thursday, April 24, 2008
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Colin Brooks, Research Scientist, MTRI
“The connection between land use / land cover and water quality in the agricultural Upper Tiffin River watershed of southeastern Michigan”
EERC 100 at 3:00 pm
Abstract...

4/8/2008: Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago is currently accepting employment applications for its Research Scientist I positions.
For more information, view the following links:
MWRD Website...
Recruitment Email Notice...
Research Scientist I description...
Research Scientist I application...

World Water Day - Poster and Art Competition Winners

Research Poster - 1st Place: Andrea Munoz Hernandez (CEE)
The Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Water Resources in a Semi Arid Region in Mexico:
The Rio Yaqui-Basin
(View as PDF...)


Research Poster - 2nd Place: Kevin Endsley, Sylvia Espino, Josh Richardson (GMES)
Groundwater Investigation Using Resistivity Surveys on a Terminal Moraine, Bering Glacier (View as PDF...)



Research Poster - 3rd Place: Stacey Pilling (SS)
Pesticide Exposure in the Yaqui Valley: Perceptions and Realities of the Green Revolution (View as PDF...)




Art: Watercolor - 1st Place: Valerie Fuchs (CEE)
Cavus Exploratus (the water beneath)




Art: Photography - 1st Place: Stacey Pilling (SS)
Salto de Agua
(Image is copyrighted by artist)


Art: Photography - 2nd Place: Bode Morin (SS)
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(Image is copyrighted by artist)


World Water Day, March 24th, 2008 -

7:00 p.m.
"The Great Lakes Water Wars"
Author & Lecturer: Peter Annin, Associate Director
Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources

March 24th, 2008 - Rozsa Center - 7:00 p.m.
Book Signing following lecture.

Biography...

Book Press Release...

Other 2008 World Water Day Events

9:00 - 5:00  CWS Research Poster and Art Competitions - March 24, 2008
Memorial Union Ballroom A

2:30 - 4:00  Demonstration of Watercolor Techniques
Memorial Union Ballroom A (Lobby)

4:00 p.m.    “Temperature in the Great Lakes”
Jay Austin, Assistant Professor
Large Lakes Observatory, Department of Physics
University of Minnesota, Duluth

Minerals & Materials Bldg, U113
Sponsored by the Michigan Tech Remote Sensing Seminar Series

PDF of "Call for Posters and Artwork" flyer...

Registration forms and submission guidelines are now available...

 

November 13, 2007 - MTU Sustainability Faculty Hiring Initiative advertisement...

October 8, 2007 - CWS Sponsors Public Lecture
      Thomas E. Croley II, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
     "Great Lakes Hydrology Modeling with the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System" (abstract...)
      DOW 642, 3:00 p.m.

October 5, 2007 - MTRI Lecture and Poster Session
      Colin Brooks, Research Scientist and Manager of Environmental Science Laboratory, MTRI
     "Using web-based decision support systems to understand the impacts of contamination on
      Great Lakes rivers and human health"
     M&M (building 12), room U113 at 2:00 p.m.

      Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) poster presentations
      Fisher Hall on the first floor near the Aftermath Café (9:00 to 11:30 AM) and (1:30 to 4:30 PM)

September 24, 2007 - CWS Sponsors Public Lecture
      Melvyn Visser, Chemical Engineer, MTU Class of 1959
     "Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Great Lakes:
      Evolution of the Understanding of their Source and Transport" (abstract...)

September 19-20, 2007 - Workshop on the State of the Upper Peninsula’s Water Quality
      Great Lakes Environmental & Molecular Sciences Center (GLEAMS)
      Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)

      Memorial Union Building (MUB), Ballrooms A&B (agenda...)

September 20, 2007 - Michigan Technological University Sustainability Faculty Hiring Initiative...

September 13, 2007 - CWS Co-sponsors a Community Workshop
A Workshop for Shoreline Communities: Living Beside the "Big" Lake for Cities of Houghton & Hancock ...

May 24, 2007 - List of Water Related Courses Added to CWS Education Web Page...

CWS Archived Events
     October 2006 - October 2007
     October 2005 - October 2006

 

About MTCWS / Research / Education / Outreach

Michigan Tech Center for Water and Society
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, Michigan, 49931-1295, USA

Center E-mail: mtcws@mtu.edu

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