THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN SOLVING THE EARTH’S EMERGING WATER PROBLEMS
October 8-10, 2004
Beckman Center of the National Academies
100 Academy Drive, Auditorium
Irvine, California
Organized by William Jury and Henry Vaux
PROGRAM
Friday, October 8 |
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6:00-8:00 pm |
Registration and Welcome Reception (Hyatt Newporter – Plaza Arbor) |
Saturday, October 9 |
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7:45 am and |
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8:00 am |
Buses Depart Hyatt Newporter to Beckman Center |
8:00 am |
Breakfast |
Introductory Remarks |
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9:00 am |
Henry Vaux and William Jury |
Session I: Water Problems from a Global Perspective |
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9:15 am |
Malin Falkenmark (Stockholm International Water Institute), Global Problems of Water Scarcity and Conflict |
10:00 am |
Michael Dettinger (U.S. Geological Survey and Climate Research Division/ Scripps Institution of Oceanography), The Implications of Global Change for the World’s Water Resources |
10:45 am |
Break |
11:00 am |
Pat Brezonik (University of Minnesota), Global Water Quality: Implications for Supply and Health |
11:45 am |
Alexander Zehnder (Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology), Feeding a More Populous World |
12:30 pm |
Lunch |
Session II: Water and the Environment |
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2:00 pm |
William Lewis (University of Colorado), Evaluating the Importance of Aquatic Ecosystems |
2:45 pm |
Barbara Bedford (Cornell University), Recent and Prospective Scientific Advances in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecology |
3:30 pm |
Break |
3:45 pm |
Will Graf (University of South Carolina), Science for Water Development and Wildlife Preservation |
4:30 pm |
Elías Fereres (University of Cordoba, Spanish Academy of Engineering), The Increasing Importance of the Agricultural/Environmental Tradeoff in Managing Water Resources |
5:30 pm |
Poster Session and Reception |
7:00 pm |
Dinner |
8:45 pm and |
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9:00 pm |
Buses Depart Beckman Center for Hyatt Newporter |
Sunday, October 10 |
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7:45 am and |
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8:00 am |
Buses Depart Hyatt Newporter to Beckman Center |
8:00 am |
Breakfast |
Session III: New Perspectives in Water Management |
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9:00 am |
Alessandro Palmieri (World Bank), The Prospects and Problems of Storage |
9:45 am |
Rhodes Trussell (Trussell Technologies), The Prospects for Emerging Water Technology |
10:30 am |
Break |
10:45 am |
Frank Rijsberman (International Water Management Institute), Soft Path Technologies for the Developing World |
11:30 am |
Richard Evans (Sinclair-Knight-Mertz), Groundwater Resource Management Challenges in North China |
12:15 pm |
Lunch |
Session IV: The Importance of Water Institutions |
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2:00 pm |
Helen Ingram (University of California, Irvine), The Importance of Institutions and Policy in Resolving Global and Regional Water Scarcity |