The Connecticut Institute of Water Resources is co-sponsoring several water related seminars this semester.  All are free and open to the public.

• CTIWR Kennard Water Resources Lectures:  Hydrologic Information Systems, Richard Hooper, CUAHSI, Oct 29 and Oct 30 (FLIER .PDF)
• Natural Resources and the Environment Seminars: B. Chernoff Nov. 20 and C. Bellucci Dec. 4

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CTIWR Kennard Water Resources Lectures, Oct 29^th and 30^th

“Hydrologic Information Systems”

Dr. Richard Hooper
President and Executive Director of CUAHSI
(Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc.,   http://www.cuahsi.org/ )

As a part of the CTIWR Kennard Water Resources Lectures, Dr. Richard Hooper, President and Executive Director of CUAHSI, will be presenting two talks on the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System project.  The goals of the CUAHSI-HIS are to unite the nation's water information, to make it universally accessible and useful, and to provide access to the data sources, tools and models that enable the synthesis, visualization and evaluation of the behavior of hydrologic systems.

·  Thursday, October 29, 2 PM,
Auditorium, CT DEP, Hartford:  
“A Simplified Approach to Data Publication and Sharing using Web Services.”  

In this first talk, at the DEP, Richard will discuss the experience of the Texas state agencies with responsibility for water management and their experience in integrating water information databases across organizations using the CUAHSI tools.

·   Friday, October 30, 2 PM,
Room 100, W.B. Young Building, UCONN Storrs Campus: 
“Advancing Environmental Research through Data Sharing.” 

In this second talk, at UCONN, Richard will give provide a look “under the hood” of the web-based tools, geared towards a more technically inclined audience. WHO SHOULD ATTEND:  Anyone who uses or is responsible for maintaining water information that may be used by multiple organizations, especially those with responsibility for managing the supporting information systems.

Please circulate the attached flier widely.

(These talks are co-sponsored by the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Environmental Engineering Program and the Center for Environmental Science and Engineering at UCONN.)

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NRE Water Seminars

CTIWR also co-sponsors the seminar series hosted by the Department of Natural Resources and the Environmentat UCONN. For a link to the complete series, see: http://www.nre.uconn.edu/nreseminars.html.  Two of the upcoming water related seminars include:

·  Friday, November 20, 2 PM
Room 100, W.B. Young Building, UCONN Storrs Campus:
“River of the Undammed: Metapopulation Dynamics of Aquatic Community in the Eightmile and Coginchaug River Basins,”  
Barry Chernoff, Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University.

·  Friday, December 4, 2 PM
Room 100, W.B. Young Building, UCONN Storrs Campus:
“Predicting Biological Potential in Connecticut Streams Using a Geographic Information Systems Approach,” 
Christopher Bellucci, Environmental Analyst, Bureau of Water Protection and Land Reuse, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.