'Water Science Ready for Big Science?' Water Initiative Seminar Topic

Utah State University professor David Tarboton presents the USU Water Initiative’s Wednesday, Jan. 23 seminar, “Is Water Science Ready for Big Science?” The gathering will be held at 4 p.m. in the Biology-Natural Resources building, room 102. His talk is free and open to all.

Tarboton, a professor in USU’s Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Utah Water Research Laboratory, will discuss efforts by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science and its WATERS Network to establish a large-scale research infrastructure, along with the role USU can play.

 

WATERS, an acronym for Water and Environmental Research Systems, is proposed as a networked infrastructure of environmental field facilities working to promote multidisciplinary research and education on complex, large-scale environmental systems.

 

The USU Water Initiative is an interdisciplinary collaboration of the university’s Utah Water Research Laboratory and the colleges of Agriculture, Business, Engineering, Natural Resources, Science and Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. Established in 2003, the initiative fosters collegial sharing of water-related research and ideas throughout campus and the community.

 

Upcoming Water Initiative seminar speakers include Douglass Shaw, professor of water resources policy and economics at Texas A&M University, on Jan. 30; Michael Dietz, faculty member in USU’s Department of Environment and Society, on Feb. 6; and Douglas Jackson-Smith, faculty member in USU’s Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, on Feb. 13.

 

All seminars begin at 4 p.m. in BNR 102.

 

 

Contact: Kim Schreuders [kimas@cc.usu.edu], 435-797-2941