Poster Session
All student meeting participants are expected to share a poster related to their work since our last meeting in Feb. 2002. In addition, one representative of each poster will tantalize or otherwise introduce to the audience the most interesting aspect of the work in 1 MINUTE or less. You are allowed ONE simple PowerPoint slide. Poster numbers will be assigned in relation to floor location.

Poster Abstracts – Due Sept. 22, MS Word format, 10 pt Times New Roman
· Centered: Title, Authors, Institutional affiliation
· 100-200 word abstract
· Email attachment to: Jim Washburne, jwash@hwr.arizona.edu

Poster Summary Slide – Due Oct. 3, 1 page, PowerPoint format, Landscape
· Include: Title, Authors, Institutional affiliation, Poster Number
· Visual, Simple, Interesting
· Limit content to one or two important points – no outlines!
· Email attachment to: Jim Washburne, jwash@hwr.arizona.edu

Poster – 8 ft x 4 ft display boards, typical size ~56in x 36in, pins or Velcro
· Be ready to present a one-minute, one-slide oral summary of your poster.
· Remember that the audience will be very broad, so work to make your material understandable.
· Please include your assigned poster number in the slide.

Round-table Discussion – Center-wide student issues

The faculty and students you work with as a graduate student play a significant role in your development as a scientist. SAHRA encourages its students to interact with other students, become more interdisciplinary, take part in professional meetings and workshops, and help promote hydrologic literacy through community service such as K-16 outreach. NSF is very keen on promoting these activities and wants to know how SAHRA’s distribution across multiple institutions limits what they call “serendipitous creative interactions” among far-flung individuals.

We are planning a student-led round-table discussion on Thursday that examines both current opportunities and possible new activities that foster serendipitous creative interactions. The goal of this session will be to explore what kinds of interactions students find most beneficial to creative or interdisciplinary understandings, to highlight successful existing institutional and departmental interactions, and to recommend new departmental or multi-institutional activities to improve serendipitous creative interactions.

Round-table Discussion Details – Thursday Oct. 16, open to all participants, ~1 hour
· Student representatives: one each from UA, NMT, UNM, UCI plus one or two at-large candidates to represent the other institutions. The first four candidates will be appointed by their institution’s program director. Contact jwash@hwr.arizona.edu if you would like to be considered for one of the “at-large” positions.
· Preliminary teleconference for student representatives only, scheduled for around Sept. 11 or 12, to coordinate strategy and exchange ideas.
· Final coordination: in person, after the field trip on Tuesday, Oct. 14.

Please contact Jim Washburne if you have any questions or comments. We look forward to seeing you in October!