Untitled DocumentSAHRA Graduate Student Seminars and Outreach
Macro Theme Area:
Education [Project ID: E14]
PI:
Jim Washburne
CO-PI(s):
Tom Meixner
Basin focus:
Regional SW
Specific area in
basin /
field sites:
N/A
Summary/Goals: The goal of these seminars is to expose both departmental majors and other interested students to the latest science and policy research, particularly as it affect the southwest. The 696 courses alternate spring semester; the regular seminar is held weekly during both the spring and fall semesters. Our students will be encouraged to take advantage of CUAHSI cyberseminars as well as student led discussion on topics ranging from the hydrologic response of wildfire to policy and hydrological implications of streambed restoration and management.
Activities and outcomes during past year:
The advanced topics courses typically attract 6-8 students at UA; the weekly seminar is required of all students (at least 75% of events). Topics covered in the most recent Hot Topics class included: remote sensing applications to hydrology, the quantification of drought, emerging water contaminants, the role of snow in ecosystem carbon balance, recursive model indetification, hotspots at the biogeochemical and hydrological interface and relating hydrological science to peolple and policy.
The HWR696L class for Spring 2004 applied for and won a EPA P3 grant to improve the water quality for a small Mexican town. This effort has been split off into a seperate project.
Plans for the upcoming year:
Continue attracting interesting, interdisciplinary hydrologic science talks.
Starting S07, there will be a resurrgence in SAHRA's interactions with the ecological community on campus. This is partialy driven by NSF CZO, NEON and CLEANER proposal RFP's and partially by three new women hires in RNR that will build the campus rangeland ecology faculty. Additionally, ISPE, ChemE and AWI are spearheading vaarious susstainability initiatives. These are all opportunities to collaborate with local colleagues and expose our students to some of the hottest ideas in hydrology.
