Watershed Management Council
Advancing the Art and Science of Watershed Management Since 1987

 Announcing: A Call for Papers and Posters 

 The Water Quality Information Center's listing of water-related conferences and calls for papers was updated today. The listing is available at

http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/meetings.shtml

"Required viewing" for those who want to know about the world, now and what it can become. Click the post title to view. 

Water, Open Access Journal Published Online
Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 2010), Pages 120-320 at
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/2/

Table of Contents:

Frederick A. Armah, David O. Yawson, Genesis T. Yengoh, Justice O. Odoi
and Ernest K. A. Afrifa

 We have recently advertised this position at Water for People, and are looking for someone with energy and enthusiasm to drive our work forward.

 River Restoration: Fluvial-Geomorphic and Ecological Tools     

Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI)

www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/CDRI

www.mdpi.com/journal/water/   

From the first article in the first issue: 
John Bridgeman
School of Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

The Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) is a reference Web site for resource managers anddecisionmakers who need information and tools to address climate change in planning and project implementation. Changing climates have already catalyzed changes in environments throughout the United States, and future effects are expected to be greater. Although future scenarios are daunting, managers can do much to promote adaptation to climate change and encourage reduction of human effe

Lloyd G. Carter's provocative article about the Westlands Water District in California's Great Valley.

Get it here: pubs.usgs.gov/atlas/geologic/ 

The Shape of the Universe

Howard Reingold

If you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette against the sky. That self-similar 4-D explosion of branching branches is a clue to a cosmic riddle or two, and a key concept in fields as unrelated as vascular surgery and software design.

The Buddha knew this, and so do neurologists, database programmers, and mythologists.

And he talks about water and restoration. We have arrived gang.www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB

Jamie Workman's book, Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, is being released today. It's next on my 'must read' list.