+ 25th Annual Arizona Hydrological Society Symposium - Sep 18-21, 2012

• Call for Abstracts -- Deadline June 30
• Confluences: 25 Years Bringing Water, Science, and People Together
• The Phoenix Chapter of AHS is soliciting abstracts for papers and posters to be presented at the AHS 25th Annual Symposium to be held September 18-21 at the Desert Willow Conference Center, 4340 E. Cotton Center Boulevard, Phoenix, Arizona
• The Annual AHS symposium is a premier event in the southwest for hydrology and water resources science, engineering, and public policy
• AHS solicits descriptions of projects and research from hydrologists, geologists, engineers, planners, water policy and legal professionals, and teachers
• This year's symposium will also encourage poster submittals
• The technical sessions will focus on the following topics related to water and water science in Arizona and the Southwestern United States
  • Water-Energy nexus
  • Surface Water-Groundwater Interaction
  • Water Reuse
  • Water Harvesting
  • New Technologies
  • Water Quality
  • Conservation
  • Recharge
  • Surface Water
  • Groundwater Remediation
  • Monitored Natural Attenuation
  • Drought Conditions
  • Tribal Issues
  • Modeling and GIS
  • Sustainability
  • Colorado River Issues
  • Water Rights and Adjudications
  • Privatization (who owns the water?)
  • Regulatory Issues
  • Water Supply and Delivery-Distribution
  • Climate Change
  • Growth
  • Social Ecological Systems
• FORMAT-CONTENT:  Abstracts should be 250 words or less and include title, authorship, and affiliations.  Please include a brief biographical sketch of the primary author(s).  Contributors will be notified of abstract acceptance on or about July 15.
• SUBMIT ABSTRACT:  Submit your abstract electronically no later than June 30 to Summer Waters at swaters@cals.arizona.edu
• For additional information, contact Summer Waters at (602) 827-8200 Ext 349 or swaters@cals.arizona.edu or Ted Lehman at (480) 222-5709 or ted@jefuller.com

+ WRR Special Section Honoring Symposium 2012:  Hydrologic discovery through physical analysis -- Honoring the scientific legacies of W. Brutsaert and J.-Y. Parlange

• Announcement and Call for Papers for the Water Resources Research Special Section Symposium to honor Drs. Brutsaert and Parlange
• All papers are due by September 30, 2012.  Outlines, proposed bibliographies, and drafts of review articles will be made available as soon as possible to authors of Letters to assist them in their writing
• This will be a unique format for a special section, as there will be two categories of papers:  Review Articles and Letters.  See Announcement for details.
• Topics that will definitely appear in the Special Section - Review paper coordinator listed
  • Erosion - Graham Sander
  • Instability and Fluid Mechanics - David DiCarlo
  • Hysteresis and Thermodynamics - TBA
  • Infiltration (with Air escape and Time Compression Analysis) - Shmuel Assouline
  • Boussinesq and Runoff Relationships - Peter Troch
  • Evaporation -  Michiaki Sugita
  • Turbulence in Atmospheric Boundary Layer - Nelson Luis Dias
  • Atmospheric Radiation - Kuo-Nan Liou
  • Flow in Open Channels - Andrea Rinaldo
  • Solute Transport - Andrew Barry
• Addiitonal topic areas for which Review Article Lead Authors are invited to volunteer include (see p. 2 of Announcement for references to key articles):
  • Solutions to the Blasius Equation
  • Recirculating Flows
  • Molecular diffusion into a turbulent atmosphere
  • Parameterization of capillary properties of soils
  • Bulk transfer characteristics of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer
  • Sound wave propagation in soils
• For more information, contact John Selker, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Room 210 Gilmore Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3906 or +1-541-737-6304 or John.Selker@oregonstate.edu

+ 6th Annual Graduate Climate Conference - October 26-28

• Will be held at the University of Washington Pack Forest Conference Center, Pack Forest, WA
• This is a climate science conference organized BY graduate students FOR graduate students
• Atmospheric, biological, engineering, earth, and ocean science students are encouraged to present research on climate and climate change
• In the past, lodging and accomodations were covered by the conference for all participants
• Travel funding will be awarded to as many students as possible
• Abstract submission will open in March 2012 (via the website)
• Interested in any research, in any science discipline, dealing with climate or climate change
• See website www.atmos.uw.edu/gcc/ for details

+ Sediment Transport Modeling in Hydrological Watersheds and Rivers - November 14-16

• International conference to be held in Istanbul, Turkey
• Theme:  Erosion and solid transport under Mediterranean conditions, an activity of Med Friend, a UNESCO IHP initiative
• Call for abstracts:  Submission deadline May 15
• Venue:  Conference will be held in the Barcelo Eresin Topkapi hotel
• See the conference website for complete details
• Express your interest in participating by completing a short form
• Contact:  Prof. Dr. Hafzullah Aksoy, Istanbul Technical University, President Elect, International Commission of Surface Water (ICSW), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) at medfriend@itu.edu.tr

+ 4th International Conference on Science in Society - November 17-19

• Will be held at the University of California-Berkeley Campus
• This conference addresses the social impacts, values, pedagogies, politics, and economics of science and represents a wide range of academic disciplilnes
• Conference will include plenary presentations from leading speakers, as well as parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers, and researchers
• Current Call for Papers deadline is March 20.  Future deadlines for Call for Papers will be announced on the website below
• See website science-society.com/conference-2012/ for details

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