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Appendix B
WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD

R. RHODES TRUSSELL, Chair, Trussell Technologies, Inc., Pasadena, California

RICHARD G. LUTHY*, Chair, Stanford University, Stanford, California

JOAN B. ROSE*, Vice Chair, Michigan State University, East Lansing

RICHELLE M. ALLEN-KING*, Washington State University, Pullman

MARY JO BAEDECKER, U.S. Geological Survey (retired), Reston, Virginia

GREGORY B. BAECHER, University of Maryland, College Park

KENNETH R. BRADBURY*, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Madison

JAMES CROOK*, Water Reuse Consultant, Norwell, Massachusetts

JOAN G. EHRENFELD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

DARA ENTEKHABI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

EFI FOUFOULA-GEORGIOU*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

GERALD GALLOWAY, Titan Corporation, Reston, Virginia

PETER GLEICK, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, California

CHARLES N. HAAS, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

KAI N. LEE, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

JOHN LETEY, JR.*, University of California, Riverside

CHRISTINE L. MOE, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

ROBERT PERCIASEPE, National Audubon Society, Washington, D.C.

JERALD L. SCHNOOR, University of Iowa, Iowa City

LEONARD SHABMAN, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.

KARL K. TUREKIAN, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

HAME M. WATT, Independent Consultant, Washington, D.C.

CLAIRE WELTY, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore

JAMES L. WESCOAT, JR., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Staff

STEPHEN D. PARKER, Director

LAURA J. EHLERS, Senior Program Officer

JEFFREY W. JACOBS, Senior Program Officer

WILLIAM S. LOGAN, Senior Program Officer

LAUREN E. ALEXANDER, Program Officer

MARK C. GIBSON, Program Officer

STEPHANIE E. JOHNSON, Program Officer

M. JEANNE AQUILINO, Financial and Administrative Associate

ELLEN A. DE GUZMAN, Research Associate

PATRICIA JONES KERSHAW, Senior Program Associate

ANITA A. HALL, Program Associate

DOROTHY K. WEIR, Senior Program Assistant

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Terms expired June 30, 2004.
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Across the United States, municipalities, counties, and states grapple with issues of ensuring adequate amounts of water in times of high demand and low supply. Instream flow programs aim to balance ecosystem requirements and human uses of water, and try to determine how much water should be in rivers. With its range of river and ecosystem conditions, growing population, and high demands on water, Texas is representative of instream flow challenges across the United States, and its instream flow program may be a model for other jurisdictions. Three state agencies—the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)—asked a committee of the National Research Council (NRC) to review the Programmatic Work Plan (PWP) and Technical Overview Document (TOD) that outline the state’s instream flow initiative. The committee suggested several changes to the proposed plan, such as establishing clearer goals, modifying the flow chart that outlines the necessary steps for conducting an instream flow study, and provide better linkages between individual studies of biology, hydrology and hydraulics, physical processes, and water quality.

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