Dear Colleagues: 

 

Register now <http://www.treeo.ufl.edu/conferences/water/reg.aspx>  for
the first University of Florida Water Institute Symposium in
Gainesville, Florida during February 27-28, 2008. If you register before
December 31, 2008 the registration fee is only $150.  Students can
attend for only $50 if they register by December 31, 2008!

 

 

The theme of the conference is Sustainable Water Resources:  Florida
Challenges, Global Solutions, and we are looking forward to an
intellectually stimulating and thought-provoking event.  Over 150
speakers, panelists, and poster presenters have committed to participate
in the symposium, and we expect an attendance of over 300 water resource
professionals.  We have a great line-up of plenary speakers who have
committed to participate including:

 

*         Dr. Peter Gleick
<http://www.pacinst.org/about_us/staff_board/gleick/>   (co-founder and
President of the Pacific Institute) who will kick-off the conference
with a global look at connections between water and human health, the
hydrologic impacts of climate change, and sustainable water use

*         Dr. Robert Hirsch
<http://www.usgs.gov/future_challenges/hirsch.asp>  (Associate Director
for Water, USGS) who will be the plenary speaker on the challenges of
population growth and land use change to water resources sustainability
from a national perspective

*         Dr. Steve Zebiak
<http://portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt?open=1&objID=5034&paren
tname=CommunityPage&parentid=6&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true>
(Director of International Research Institute for Climate and Society,
Columbia University) who will be the plenary speaker on the challenges
of climate variability and climate change to water resources
sustainability 

*         Dr. Lora Fleming
<http://www.biomed.miami.edu/epi/faculty_fleming.php>  (Co-Director of
the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, University of
Miami) who will be the plenary speaker on public health challenges to
water resources sustainability

 

We will systematically be moving from a global to national to local
perspective during the conference, as well as from presentation formats
to more interactive panel discussions and town hall meetings.  We will
wrap up with a panel session, featuring the Executive Directors of each
of the Water Management Districts, that focuses on Florida's Water
Policies and Programs and Implications for a Research and Education
Agenda.

 

For details on the agenda, accommodations and on-line registration see
www.waterinstitute.ufl.edu/symposium . 

 

We hope to see you in Gainesville in February 2008!

Wendy Graham
Carl S. Swisher Chair in Water Resources
Director UF Water Institute
PO Box 116601
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611-6601

 

Phone 352-392-5893 x 2113
Email  [log in to unmask]
www.waterinstitute.ufl.edu