CUAHSI Board of Directors Meeting - Held on January 8-9, 2008

CUAHSI's Board of Directors met in Washington, D.C. on January 8 and 9. Among other matters discussed at the meeting, the Board held elections for the following Officer and Executive Committee (ExComm) positions:

• Chair-Elect: Jay Famiglietti (University of California - Irvine)
  ExComm term expires 12/31/2010
• At-Large Executive Committee Member: Fred Scatena (University of Pennsylvania)
  ExComm term expires 12/31/2008
• At-Large Executive Committee Member: Juan Valdes (University of Arizona)
  ExComm term expires 12/31/2009
• Secretary: Kevin Dressler (Pennsylvania State University)
• Treasurer: Brian Waldron (University of Memphis)

Thank you to all those individuals who participated in these important elections.

For other items of discussion, please refer to the draft meeting minutes found on the CUAHSI Board Minutes page at www.cuahsi.org/board-index.html.

Planning Underway for the CUAHSI Biennial Science Meeting: Resilience & Vulnerability of Natural and Managed Systems

Themes: Integrated Observations; Water Cycle Modeling; Advanced Instrumentation; Humans and the Water Cycle. Scheduled for July 14-16, 2008 in Boulder, Colorado. Watch future eNew Briefs for further details.

Planning for an Uncertain Future: Monitoring, Integration, and Adaptation

Hydrologic resources shift daily in response to changes in population, land use, and climate. CUAHSI is co-sponsoring the Third Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds (ICRW) to be held in Estes Park, Colorado on September 8-11, 2008 where scientists, water managers, and stakeholders will come together to present research and discuss how to best reach common goals during our uncertain future. In particular, adaptive management will be presented as an appropriate tool to leverage decision making, science, and monitoring to the benefit of all. The conference will have both oral and poster presentations from universities, government agencies, industry, and stakeholders. Field trips and activities are planned to acquaint participants with alpine and montane ecosystems, hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry.

Registration for this signal event will be open later in January 2008. In the meantime, please visit the ICRW Web site at www.hydrologicscience.org/icrw/ for additional information.

CUAHSI Announces the Hydrograf(x) Visualization Competition

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The goal of this competition, sponsored in part by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI), is to foster greater understanding and appreciation of hydrologic science. This competition also provides graduate students with an opportunity to present the results of their research endeavors in a non-traditional format as well as to audiences that they would not regularly reach.

This competition is open to full-time graduate students registered in a degree-granting program as of 1 May 2008. The deadline date for submissions is 1 September 2008. All individuals will be required to submit an entry form and a statement of verification signed by their graduate advisor/mentor/ studies supervisor or equivalent affirming the individual graduate student's eligibility.

Posters will be sent to institution representatives for display in their Departments/Universities. A full color PDF version of the poster (8.5x11) is available on the Web site. Anyone interested in receiving a full-size poster (18x24) should email David Kirschtel at commgr@cuahsi.org.

For additional information, please visit the Hydrograf(x) Web site.

San Juan Mini-Grant Program Offered by the Mountain Studies Institute (MSI)

The research themes should cover graduate students in hydroscience: Research must be related to at least one of the five themes that compose MSI's program.

1. Land and Communities in Transition
2. Climate Variability and Change
3. Air Quality
4. Ecosystems and Biodiversity
5. Water and Snow

Application Deadline: March 14, 2008.

For full instructions, go to: www.mountainstudies.org/Research/miniGrant.htm.