Student Selected as Summer Intern
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Claire
Landowski has been awarded the 2008 Montgomery & Associates
Summer Internship at the Water Resources Research Center. She was
chosen from among a number of well qualified candidates. Ms. Landowski,
an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona, is majoring
in geosciences and journalism. She has written for the Arizona Daily
Star, served as news editor for a small monthly paper and traveled
to Antarctica on a National Science Foundation grant. Her varied
interests and experience eminently qualify her to take on the challenge
of explaining the complexities of water science and policy to a
wide audience. She says, “I hope I will be able to use the
internship to pursue both geology and journalism and help narrow
the gap between the science and non-science communities.”
The WRRC welcomes Ms. Landowski as its 2008 summer intern.WRRC’s Colorado River Conference Charts Currents of Law and Public Policy
What does John Wesley Powell’s exploration of the Colorado River
and the upcoming University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center
conference have in common? Each in its way is a quest to understand the
Colorado River.
Back in 1869 and 1872, John Wesley Powell’s historic Colorado River
expeditions braved treacherous currents and the unknown to explore, map
and collect geologic data.. “The Importance of the Colorado River
to Arizona’s Future” addresses contemporary issues relating
to Arizona and the Colorado River. Instead of the heady drama of navigating
the river, the conference will chart the unpredictable currents and crosscurrent
of law and public policy.
The conference interest is historic rather than geologic time. The starting
point is 80 years ago when the Boulder Canyon Project Act authorized Arizona’s
2.8 million acre-foot allocation. Then, 40 years ago the Colorado River
Basin Project Act authorized construction of the Central Arizona Project.
The question posed by the conference is what can be expected in the next
40 years in Colorado River affairs. The conference is positioned at the
crossroads between the Colorado River past and the future.
The WRRC conference, presented in collaboration with the Central Arizona
Project, is scheduled for June 24 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort &
Spa in Phoenix. Visit the WRRC web site, www.cals.arizona.edu/azwater/,
to register or for additional conference information.
See page 12, the back page of the newsletter, for the conference agenda.
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