Job Title: General Counsel (OSE #64956)
Closing Date/Time: Friday 12/20/13, 5:00 PM Mountain Time
This position is located in the Office of the State Engineer, Litigation and Adjudication Program (LAP), where the successful applicant will perform the highest level legal services as the General Counsel for the agency and LAP Program Director.
The New Mexico Academy of Science is pleased to present a talk by renowned expert in satellite remote sensing by Dr. Thomas Schmugge.
Time, Date, and Location: 5:30 PM, Wednesday, October 8th, at the Museum of Nature and Science, Las Cruces, NM.
Please follow link for additional information. http://www.nmas.org/news/rain-in-new-mexico-past-present-and-future-a-presentation-by-tom-schmugge
Closing date: 5:00 p.m., November 28, 2012
The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute (NM WRRI) announces availability of U.S. Geological Survey 104B grant funds. These funds are made available through the Water Research Act to support research that improves management of the waters of New Mexico. For Fiscal Year 2013, only partial funding is available due to the current federal budget continuing resolution. NM WRRI expects to fund one $30,000 grant with 104B funds in FY 2013.
In the spring of 2013, a separate NM WRRI RFP is anticipated contingent on New Mexico state funding allocations for FY14 and will fund an additional one to four $25,000 seed grants.
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The October 2012 issue of the Divining Rod newsletter is now available online.
Join us this fall at New Mexico’s premier annual water conference. The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute is proud to have its 59th annual conference in the state’s capitol this fall. Over 300 participants are expected at this year’s event where the state’s water experts and interested citizens will gather to discuss New Mexico’s water future.
During the day-and-a-half program, the NM WRRI will host a poster session along with its partners Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory. This 90-minute session is the perfect opportunity to exchange information, showcase water projects, and update colleagues on water research. The session allows students, faculty, agency staff, and private entities to network with colleagues from throughout the state and region, providing opportunities for collaboration.
This year’s conference will focus on a new NM WRRI initiative, made possible through the 2014 New Mexico State Legislature. Projects are underway to develop critical data synthesis to address water scarcity challenges. With our state facing long-term droughts, multi-million-dollar lawsuits, water shortages, and water quality issues, it’s critical to assess the state’s water availability and use on a yearly time frame. The Institute, with many collaborators statewide, is developing a statewide water assessment that will help identify the relative magnitudes of water issues and will help move state water planning forward. An up-to-date assessment for water policy guidance will help New Mexico plan for a sustainable water future as every sector of our economy, including jobs, education, culture, and health relies on available and good quality water.
The statewide water assessment initiative will provide a practical informational tool for state water planning. The assessment will utilize state-of-the-art data streams from remote sensing and new data networks to show up-to-the-minute water conditions (such as evapotranspiration from satellites). The development of the statewide water assessment will include the water use diversity of New Mexico: acequias, pueblos, groundwater extractors, energy providers and municipalities, river corridor users, and rangeland producers among others and will be coordinated with New Mexico’s water management agencies. The assessment will be made available to researchers to support cutting-edge multidisciplinary water research. The water assessment will include all water inputs and outputs to the state to enable hydrology-based water planning for a sustainable future.
NM WRRI is offering a very affordable conference registration fee in order to draw as many New Mexicans as possible to the event. Come learn more about the statewide water assessment program and hear our state’s water experts update us on water issues facing the citizens of New Mexico. We’ll look forward to seeing you at La Fonda in Santa Fe on November 18-19, 2014.
Students enrolled full-time in a degree program at an New Mexico educational institution are eligible for water-related research grants of up to $6,000.
Projects will start October 1, 2014.
For more information and proposal guidelines Click Here
Water scarcity to be topic of 57th annual New Mexico Water Conference at NMSU. While much attention has been paid of late to the serious short-term drought situation facing farmers in the American Midwest, New Mexico continues to be immersed in the worst two-year drought period in decades.
In this context, it is timely that the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute will present the 57th annual New Mexico Water Conference, “Hard Choices: Adapting Policy and Management to Water Scarcity.”
NM WRRI 58th Annual New Mexico Water ConferenceNew Water Realities: Proposals for Meaningful Change |
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Call for POSTER ABSTRACTSDeadline: October 4, 2013Poster abstract guidelines are online at http://2015.wrri.nmsu.edu/?page_id=589 |
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Fifty years ago President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 17, 1964, signed into law the Water Resources Research Act establishing a Water Resources Research Institute in each state. The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute was one of the first institutes established under the WRRA. New Mexico Senator Clinton P. Anderson was instrumental in designing the Act as he saw the need for academic institutions to lead the way in producing research that would help solve the nation’s water problems.
The 54 institutes nationwide (the WRRA established a water institute in each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam) partner with the U.S. Geological Survey to “…enlist the intellectual power of universities and research institutes in a nationwide effort to conserve and utilize our water resources for the common benefit.” On the 50th anniversary of the Act, the USGS acknowledged the Water Resources Research Institutes for “path-breaking research, developing innovation information and technology transfer programs, and providing training to more than 25,000 students in their 50-year history.”
The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute continues its efforts to deal with statewide water scarcity issues that impact every sector of our economy and looks forward to assisting New Mexico in the next 50 years.
The USGS press release, USGS Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Water Resources Research Act: Vital research on water flows from 1964 law is available at: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3937&from=rss_home#.U8fxhk9OWUl