WRRI Annual Conference

March 27-28, 2012 Jane S. McKimmon Center, Raleigh NC 

Join us for the 14th Annual WRRI Conference, the premier research conference focusing on North Carolina's Water Resource Issues, Solutions, and Opportunities. The North Carolina Water Resources Association (NCWRA) will again be a key partner, with the NCWRA Annual Symposium "Mitigation Policy in NC: Is the Train on the Right Track?" being an integral element of the conference program. Local and state governments are under increasing pressure to protect and restore water resources and maintain the ecological integrity of aquatic habitats. Yet, experience has shown that restoring physical habitat alone may not be sufficient to achieve thriving biological communities, and that the interactions of a vast array of environmental variables and the complexities of ecosystem science make restoration needs difficult to understand and efforts costly to plan, implement, and regulate. The goal of the symposium is to help us better understand these complexities and prepare for the future restoration and protection of NC's water resources.

Submit your abstracts for session themes, and oral and poster presentations based on your own work in water resources. Abstracts will be accepted until February 17, 2012. A special themed concurrent session that explores the ecosystem science and ecology as it relates to restoration and ecological uplift of water resources will complement the coverage of mitigation policy in the NCWRA symposium. We encourage abstracts on this area of research.

Student awards for the NCWRA student poster competition include cash awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, and honorable mentions, as well as a complimentary full conference registration to the 2012 National Water Resources Association Annual Conference in Jacksonville, FL for the first place student poster winner.

Who should attend? Undergraduate and graduate students studying water-related issues; University and corporate researchers; Environmental professionals and non-profit environmental organizations; Representatives from local, state, and federal government agencies; Business and industry professionals with an interest in water-related issues.

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