TWRI anticipates funding 10 graduate research enhancement grants of up to $5,000 in the area of water resources. Download information and submission forms below.

• Information/application packet
• Budget form

We expect the funds will become available to graduate students in March 2010. Funding amount/availability is pending availability of funds from USGS, who have notified TWRI that congressional funding for this program is uncertain, but anticipated.

The deadline for submission is December 17, 2009.

Please share this information with professors and students in your department or research unit.

The program of more than 75 expert presenters and workshop facilitators will explore the potential to more effectively manage and protect water resources, on both a local and regional scale, through applications to these interfaces within watershed and community dynamics: Natural Systems Interface, Natural and Human Systems Interface, and People to People Interface.

The event will culminate with a panel of representatives from various major water resources management programs in Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 and key decision makers in statewide water related issues, emphasizing the processes by which these programs integrate with each and challenges they face in achieving preferred levels of integration.

The full agenda is available at the River Systems Institute Web site. For further information, contact conference coordinator Annette Paulin at 512-754-9179 or conference09@grandecom.net.

For more information, visit the EPA Web site. To register, see the Water Education Web site or contact Courtney Swyden at CMSwyden@ag.tamu.edu.

This workshop is for research and Extension faculty from Texas AgriLife as well as other universities with interest and expertise in developing collaborative water research and Extension programs. Key state and federal water agency personnel will discuss the agency roles, research and education needs, collaboration opportunities, and available funding programs.

Dr. Robert Glennon, author of the book Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, is the featured speaker. For more information and registration, visit the H2O4TEXAS Web site.

The course will focus on fundamental concepts of pressure conduit system modeling and implementation of modeling applications using EPANet and the EPANet Toolkit. Participants will work through several hands-on exercises using the EPANet software and learn basic techniques for using the EPANet Toolkit from the Visual Basic for Applications module of Microsoft Excel.

Participants will learn the following skills:

• Creating new water distribution system models in EPANet,
• Simulating new and existing models for a variety of applications,
• Processing EPANet output in a variety of forms to generate useful tables, graphs, and maps,
• Linking GIS data with EPANet using public-domain utility programs, and
• Creating advanced simulations and output processing using the EPANet Toolkit and Visual Basic for Applications.

Course instructor Dr. Kelly Brumbelow, assistant professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, has more than 14 years experience in water resources engineering, planning, and management.

For more information, contact Courtney Swyden at CMSwyden@ag.tamu.edu, or visit watereducation.tamu.edu to register for the course.

These workshops, organized by TWRI, developed and led by Tetra Tech, and funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, taught participants how to conduct watershed outreach campaigns to help reduce nonpoint source (NPS) and stormwater pollution, improve water quality on a priority watershed basis, and facilitate greater total maximum daily load and watershed-based plan implementation.

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