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  • Authentically Wired
    Water and a lot more from Paul F. Miller.
  • AWRA
    The water resources blog of the American Water Resources Association.
  • Blue Marble Earth
    An articulate Earth scientist with an MS in Geography from Oregon State University, Courtney van Stolk explores the 'whys' of this fantastic planet.
  • California Water Blog
    A biologist, economist, engineer and geologist walk onto a bar…From the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC-Davis.
  • Campanastan
    That's 'Campana-stan', or 'Place of Campana', formerly 'Aquablog'. Michael Campana's personal blog, promulgating his Weltanschauung.
  • Chance of Rain
    Journalist Emily Green's take on water and related issues.
  • Dr. Anne Jefferson's Watershed Hydrology Lab
    Anne blogs from Kent State University on a variety of earth science topics.
  • Great Lakes Law
    Noah Hall's blog about - what else - all things wet and legal in the Great Lakes region!
  • International Water Law Project
    Gabriel Eckstein, Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law, comments on international and transboundary water law and policy.
  • John Fleck
    Former science writer @ Albuquerque Journal and current director of the Water Resources Program at U of NM. Topics: Colorado River basin, Western USA water, more!
  • Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy
    From the UC-Berkeley and UCLA law schools, it highlights the latest legal and policy initiatives and examines their implications.
  • Maven's Notebook
    A water, science, and environmental policy blog by Chris Austin, aka 'Maven'. Focus is on California.
  • On The Public Record
    A 'low level civil servant who reads a lot of government reports writes about California water and related topics.
  • Wettit - the water reddit
    Water blog with tons of news items, other blogs, etc.
  • Texas Agriculture Law Blog
    Don't let the name fool you - there are lots of water issues in agriculture and Tiffany Dowell of Texas A&M University does a fabulous job with this important Internet resource. Give it a read - I do every day!
  • The Water Blog
    From the Portland, OR, Water Bureau.
  • The Way of Water
    Dr. Jennifer Veilleux records her fieldwork, research, and thoughts about water resources development and management, indigenous rights, ethics, and a host of other issues.
  • Thirsty in Suburbia
    Gayle Leonard documents things from the world of water that make us smile: particularly funny, amusing and weird items on bottled water, water towers, water marketing, recycling, the art-water nexus and working.
  • This Day in Water History
    Michael J. 'Mike' McGuire, engineer extraordinaire, NAE member, and author of 'The Chlorine Revolution', blogs about historical happenings in the fields of drinking water and wastewater keyed to calendar dates.
  • WaSH Resources
    New publications, web sites and multi-media on water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH).
  • Waste, Water, Whatever
    Elizabeth Royte's ('Bottlemania', 'Garbage Land') notes on waste, water, whatever.
  • Water Matters
    News from the Columbia University Water Center.
  • Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere
    From Sarah Boon - rediscovering her writing and editing roots after 13 years, primarily as an environmental scientist. Her writing centres around creative non-fiction, specifically memoir and nature writing. The landscapes of western Canada are her main inspiration.
  • WaterWired
    All things freshwater: news, comment, publications and analysis from hydrogeologist Michael E. Campana, Professor at Oregon State University and Technical Director of the AWRA.

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30 posts from November 2016

Friday, 25 November 2016

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 19 - 25 November 2016

Lots of rain lately here in the mid-Willamette Valley. Today (12 noon) we're actually seeing  a bit of sunshine.

Kathie Dello, Associate Director of  the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, sent around this screen shot of the Marys River hydrograph, near Philomath, OR, just shy of the 2012 record flood stage.

Dello

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User's Guide - if you are new to this summary: each of the items here is a Tweet from my WaterWired Twitter account for the week ending today, arranged by category. It is not a comprehensive summary of the week's water news; it is my summary.

To access a story, click on the link beginning with 'http://', 'is.gd', or 'bit.ly' (usually). Clicking on a link beginning with '@' will take you to that person's Twitter account; clicking on a link beginning with '#' (hashtag) will take you to a Twitter list containing Tweets about a particular topic. Some items may not have a hot link to a story, which is fine - it may have been just an informational item or a personal message to someone. Or, I may have screwed up and forgotten the link!

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Scroll down to 'Positions Open' and 'Previous Weeks' Positions Open' to see the jobs. All my individual job Tweets are archived at #JobWaWi. Previous weekly summaries are archived at:  #WaWiNews or click here.

Top Twenty
Now available! , Volume 8, Issue 11 (November 2016) (Open Access)

Read 's letter to President-Elect Trump: great summary of water issues facing USA

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Enviro-Sciences - 21 November 2016

Happy Thanksgiving! Oh, Yeah - There's a Water Shortage in Bolivia and AR-15s for $429.99!

Sad day for R.I.P Prof. Miguel Mariño. Thanks for your fundamental contributions to our field

 

Via Marys River near Philomath at major flood stage, just shy of 2012 flood record cc:   View this photo


California
 Plan eNews - 23 Nov 2016: Salton Sea~ GSP Alt~GHG Reduction~CAL FIRE Webinar~Reso RT~Water Summit

 

Canada
Via : Special Issue in Inland Waters is out! Great work by many

 

Climate, Climate Change, and Meteorology
It's just coastal flooding, right? In Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate

 

Conferences, Webinars, Workshops and Calls for Abstracts/Papers
From : Registration is now open for 2017 | May 17-18, Toronto

Conflict, Cooperation, and Security
Yep, it's real. In : Bolivia's severe water shortage triggers national emergency

 

Droughts, Floods, Fires, and Disasters
It's just coastal flooding, right? In Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate

Via : Wildfires tear across drought-striken parts of Peru

 

Education, Events,  and Opportunities
My winter 2017 courses: GEOG 424/524 Hydrology for Water Resources Mgmt; GEOG 540: Water Reso. Mgmt in the US

 

E-Newsletters and E-Newspapers
From SDG Update - 11 November 2016 - SDG Knowledge Hub - cc:

From : The Buzz Newsletter - 25 November 2016 - The Latest Earth and Space Science News!

Via SDG Update - 23 November 2016 - SDG Knowledge Hub

The latest The Water Supply Daily! Thanks to

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Enviro-Sciences - 21 November 2016

 

Ethics, Gender, Indigenous People, Rights
In Slovenia adds water to constitution as fundamental right for all via

As winter settles in, so do Dakota Access pipeline protesters via

Via Water Protectors Attacked at Barricade cc:

CRS Insight Report: ' Projects and Tribal Consultation: Requirements, Policies, and Controversy'

 

Groundwater and Hydrogeology 
 Sad day for R.I.P Prof. Miguel Mariño. Thanks for your fundamental contributions to our field

 

Hydrofracking, Shale Gas, and Energy
From : 'The Current' - 23 November 2016. Your Weekly Guide to All Things Energy & Water!

 

Personal, People, Interviews, and Quotes
 Sad day for R.I.P Prof. Miguel Mariño. Thanks for your fundamental contributions to our field

 

Positions Open  's Water Jobs & More - 22 November 2016 (Updated: 23 November 2016) 

Check out jobs @ 's Water Resources Graduate Program

Check out !  

For the latest  Employment opportunities visit  

Amazing resource! Follow  and visit his website:  

Check out   jobs!  

Positions:  - Various locations and types: enviro science, geology, engineering, restoration, etc. 

Positions:  - Various positions across the USA. Updated regularly.  

Current Positions:  (New York City & environs) - Various. 

Positions (many):  - Various locations and duties.  

Previous Weeks' Positions Open    Josh Newton's Water Jobs & More - 15 November 2016 (updated: 18 November 2016)  

Over 120! Josh Newton's Water Jobs & More - 8 Nov 2016 (Updated: 10 November )  

Josh's Water Jobs - 1 November 2016 (Updated: 5 November) 

 

Previous Weekly Water Summaries - Go To #WaWiNews
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 19 - 25 November 2016  

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 12 -18 November 2016

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 5 - 11 November 2016 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 29 October - 4 November 2016 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 22 - 28 October 2016 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 15 - 21 October 2016 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 1 - 7 October 2016 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 24 - 30 September 2016  

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 17 - 23 September 2016  

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 10 - 16 September 2016 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 3 - 9 Sept 2016  

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 27 Aug - 2 September 2016 

 

Reports, Publications, and Journals
Now available! , Volume 8, Issue 11 (November 2016) (Open Access)

Via : Special Issue in Inland Waters is out! Great work by many

 

Science, Medicine, Health, and Technology 
From : The Buzz Newsletter - 25 November 2016 - The Latest Earth and Space Science News!

Streams, Wetlands, Dams, Lakes, and Ecosystems
Via : Special Issue in Inland Waters is out! Great work by many

 

Visuals and Infographics
Via Happy Thanksgiving! We’re grateful for America’s incredible national parks & public lands. Bryce Canton Pic by Douglas Croft

In 2015 interview : water is essential to economic transformation of Middle East (@ 2:45)

A stoned Loch Ness monster makes an appearance. Via  

RT Beautiful picture of a Humpback Whale in the Hudson River

Water/Land Quality and Contamination
PPCPs Are Turning Our Water Into Chemical Soup

 

Water Supply, Quantity, Reuse, Conservation, Infrastructure
By in Water Recycling May Prompt New Environmental Concerns

 

WTF?
A stoned Loch Ness monster makes an appearance. Via

Posted on Friday, 25 November 2016 at 12:29 PM in Blogs, Twitters, WWW sites, e-Newsletters, & Lists, Tweets Galore It's Friday!, World Water | | Comments (0)

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Thursday, 24 November 2016

Happy Thanksgiving! Oh, Yeah - There's a Water Shortage in Bolivia and AR-15s for $429.99!

A friend received this message yesterday and sent it to me. Yes, State's got it right - read the story.

Enjoy Thanksgiving. 

                         U.S. Embassy La Paz, Bolivia

               Security Message for U.S. Citizens:
                                Water Shortages

November 23, 2016

The U.S. Embassy in La Paz alerts U.S. citizens traveling and residing in Bolivia to the water shortages and rationing affecting La Paz, Cochabamba, Sucre, Potosi, Oruro, and other cities in the Altiplano.  The embassy recommends taking the following precautions in the event of continued water scarcity, civil unrest due to water scarcity, or other unforeseen security and health threats resulting from lack of water. 

All U.S. citizens residing in areas facing severe water scarcity should follow Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) guidelines and have at least three days of bottled water on hand.  FEMA recommends two (2) liters per person, per day.  

All U.S. citizens should plan for the possibility of having to relocate due to water scarcity.  Ensure your passports are valid.  Maintain valid passports, birth certificates and other important documents, along with changes of clothes and essential items ready in the event of emergency travel.  Consider in-country, regional and U.S. options for relocation should the water situation deteriorate further.   

Beware of civil unrest.  Plan your evacuation routes.  Even demonstrations intended to be peaceful can turn confrontational and escalate into violence.  Avoid areas where demonstrations are taking place and exercise caution when in the vicinity of any large gatherings, protests, or demonstrations.

For further information:

Check out the AR-15 Black Friday sale!  Only $429.99 at Fisherman's! 
TG2
"What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pike

Posted on Thursday, 24 November 2016 at 06:51 AM in Amazing!, Events, Water Quantity & Availability, World Water | | Comments (0)

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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Stuart Hamilton Opines: AWRA 2016 Annual Conference Reflections – Improving Water Resilience & Water Monitoring Data

Stuart Hamilton is Senior Hydrologist at Aquatic Informatics, Inc. He is active in Stuart the North American Stream Hydrographers (NASH) organization. He's a 'data geek' - monitoring, acquisition - you name it. 

The opinions expressed herein are his and his alone. I made some minor edits. Here is the link to his blog post.

Here is a PDF of the following post: hamitlon_blog_awra_22nov2016

The sessions and presentations at the AWRA conference in Orlando, Florida, reinforced many observations I have been making about the water sector. Long gone are the days when the conference was dominated by the stereotypical engineer with pocket protectors and a slide rule. A session on ‘women in water’ was a very well-attended celebration of the increasing diversity of the water sector. There are no sessions on nuances of flood frequency analysis or the shear stress of rip rap. There is obviously still a need for water data for conventional engineering purposes but this need has been overwhelmed by a new reality Water management has become increasingly intricate and complex and we can’t assume that we can build our way out of our water problems.

What we can do is use our data, information, knowledge and experience to build effective communities for proactive water stewardship and collaborative management. Water is a fluid common denominator connecting all interests at a watershed scale. Long-term collaborative water-focused communities are needed to drive decisions at time- and space-scales that will ensure water security and sustainability at a watershed scale.

Improving water resilience was either an explicit or implicit theme of many sessions. There is an enormous capital debt in water infrastructure that has accumulated and needs to be paid. A non-discretionary investment is needed not only because of inevitable end-of-life of aging infrastructure but also because the hydro-climatic regime these systems were designed for doesn’t exist anymore. If aging systems don’t fail by chronic decay, they will fail by being overwhelmed by unprecedented event magnitude, duration, extent and frequency.

This massive investment is a once in a hundred years opportunity to examine the relative benefits of grey versus green infrastructure. Increasing the proportion of green infrastructure in the re-build could substantially reduce the total cost of ownership of our water assets. However, there is a lot of work left to be done to prove the efficiency, effectiveness, and savings of green infrastructure investment to ensure that the right decisions are made.

The big take-away from this conference, for me, is that the need for ‘good’ water monitoring data is greater than it ever has been. It isn’t that the traditional uses of data have disappeared it is that there are now an overwhelming number of new uses of water information. The capabilities of the data consumers have been increasing at a pace that, arguably, exceeds the change in capabilities of the water monitoring community.

There are rapidly emerging changes in the technologies, techniques and methods for water monitoring and the effectiveness of these changes should be calibrated against new and emerging fitness for purpose criteria. The water monitoring community is largely absent from this conference. There is a lost opportunity for the data users to learn from the data providers and vice versa.

I had a chat with Michael Campana and Brenda Bateman, the co-chairs of the 2017 conference in Portland, about the opportunity to bring the monitoring community back home to the AWRA. There are many probable causes for this disconnect. Water monitoring agencies are inadequately funded. There is no time, money nor mandate for sending hydrographers to conferences. Most conferences have little to offer a field hydrographer. Monitoring is a place-based activity, the practice of which disperses hydrographers widely rather than bringing them together.

With some planning and coordination we can build a program for Portland that will entice hydrographers in from the field. If we can do that then they can learn from each other, they can learn about the new purposes for which their data are being used, and end-users can learn about the new capabilities of monitoring. Mark your calendar for November 5-9 2017 and plan a trip to Portland, Oregon.

Posted on Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 07:47 AM in Events, Pacific Northwest USA, Water Quantity & Availability | | Comments (0)

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Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Josh Newton's Water Jobs & More - 22 November 2016 (Updated: 28 November 2016)

  Josh_logoFrom Josh:

Budapest Water Summit drinks: As mentioned a few weeks ago, I will be organizing drinks out the night of 27 November at the Summit. If you plan on attending the drinks, just let me know through here, so I can get an idea about numbers, so I can find an appropriate location that I will announce next week.

Note added on 26 November - here is the meeting place:

I apologize for the delay in getting the time and location for drinks in Budapest nailed down, but we will be meeting on Sunday, 27 November at Liebling at 1073 Budapest, Akácfa utca 51.  Starting at 19:00!  Hope to see you there!

Here are Josh's 22 November 2016 jobs online.

As a Word doc: Download 22 November 2016 - JWJ 

As a PDF:  Download 22 November 2016 - JWJ

Check out his website for all the jobs. His jobs are on Facebook, too.  

Follow Josh on Twitter: @joshnewtonH2O. Follow Josh's Water Jobs on Twitter: @joshswaterjobs

Josh's and other job notices are archived here. All the jobs I post are archived at Twitter; the hashtag is #JobWaWi. 

As more jobs come in I will post them at the bottom (Additional Positions) and date when I post them. I start the additional positions with the ones I posted the week before that are still open. I am also posting some general job sites. 

Some General Employment Resources:

1) Check out  - Vacancies in aid, development, humanitarian & nonprofit sector (volunteers, consultants or F-T employment) 

2) UN Jobs in Water Resources

3) UN Jobs in Water Management

4) UN Jobs in Water and Sanitation

5) Global Water Jobs

6) WASH Vacancies

7) Academic Jobs Online

8) Get Hydrology Jobs

9) AAG Jobs

18) State of Washington Careers

19) Idaho DEQ 

20) OSU Water Resources Program

21) Water District Jobs

To the jobs!

Josh’s Pick:

1) Environmental Sustainability Manager – PepsiCo (Purchase, NY, USA): Until filled (It’s not common to get private sector jobs like this on here, as much as I would like to have more, and this is a very interesting one)

 

Minimum experience level requested:

0-4 years

2) Advisor (m/f) to support the Congo River Basin Commission CICOS – GIZ (DRC): 18 December

3) Program Manager Sustainability – McDonald’s (Oak Brook, IL, USA): Until filled

4) Project Manager (CITYnvest project) – Climate Alliance (Brussels): 30 November

5) Senior Policy and Advocacy Associate – InterAction (Washington DC): Until filled

6) Development Officer – Resources for the Future (Washington DC): Until filled

7) Program Coordinator – Chino Basin Water Conservation District (Montclair, CA, USA): 5 December

8) French speakers: Chargé(e) de Programme Environnement Changements Climatiques – UNDP (Mauritania): 23 November

5-9 years

9) Program Director – TNC (Santa Fe or Taos, NM, USA): 30 December

10) Manager (Conservation Strategy and Innovation) – WWF (Nairobi): 6 December

11) Program Coordinator (South Asia Program, India) – International Rivers (Mumbai): 15 December

12) Programme Management Officer – UNEP (Paris): 15 January 2017

13) Senior International Water Sector Specialist – MWH (Washington DC): Until filled

14) Conservation Director – Izaak Walton League of America (Gaithersburg, MD, USA): 1 December

15) Senior Research Associate (Climate Change Strategies) – Climate Analytics (Samoa): 15 December

16) Communications, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Specialist (WASH-FIN) – Tetra Tech (Arlington, VA, USA): Until filled

17) Executive Director – Kentucky Waterways Alliance (Louisville, KY, USA): Until filled

18) Project Coordinator (ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC)) - RECOFTC (The Center for People and Forests) (Bangkok): 5 December

19) Swedish speakers: Head of Resources and Development Unit, and Senior Project Manager – SEI (Stockholm): 4 December

20) Senior Environmental and Climate Advisor – Camris International (Crystal City, VA, USA): Until filled

21) Senior Social Development Specialist (Safeguards and Sustainability Standards) – World Bank (Myanmar): 7 December

22) Sustainability Manager – Harvard Kennedy School (Cambridge, MA, USA): Until filled

23) Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist – Winrock (Bangkok): 1 December

24) Director of Finance and Operations – International Rivers (Berkeley, CA, USA): Until filled

10+ years

25) President/CEO – Green Cross International (Geneva): 2 December

26) French speakers: Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director – My Drop in the Oceans (Geneva): Until filled

27) Mountain Ecosystem-based Adaptation Program Director – The Mountain Institute (Washington DC): Until filled

28) Executive Director – ReFED (Various, USA): Until filled

29) Senior Urban Development Specialist – ADB (Vietnam): 2 December

30) Director of Investor Initiatives – CDP North America (New York): 16 December

31) Mekong basin nationals: Sustainable Hydropower Specialist (Re-advertisement) – Mekong River Commission (Laos): 9 December

32) Programme Manager, Knowledge and Sustainability – IUCN (Bangkok): 4 December

33) Head of Directorate Office/Science to Policy Coordinator – IIASA (Vienna): 5 December

Not stated (other):

34) Project Assistant (Sustainable Energy Investments Forums) – Climate Alliance (Brussel): 30 November

35) Chief Executive Officer – Heal the Bay (Los Angeles, CA, USA): Until filled

36) Program Manager – Watershed Stewards Program (Fortuna, CA, USA): 2 December

37) Public Communications Manager – LOTT Clean Water Alliance (Olympia, WA, USA): 28 November

38) Executive Director – Conservation Lands Foundation (Durango, CO, USA): 16 December

39) International Development Hydrogeologist – British Geological Survey (Edinburgh): 4 December

Not stated (academic):

40) Assistant or Associate Professor – Utah State University (Logan, UT, USA): 17 December

41) Post Doctoral Research Associate – University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Amherst, MA, USA): 19 December

42) Postdoctoral research associate in regional climate change and its impacts study – Chapman University (Orange, CA, USA): 17 December

43) Associate Professor of International Affairs – Penn State University (University Park, PA, USA): 30 November

44) Multiple Faculty Positions in Water Sciences – Hohai University (China): 14 January 2017

45) Professor of Civil Engineering (Water Resources Engineering) – University of Sherbrooke (Canada): Until filled

46) Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Hydrogeology or Ecohydrology – University of Louisiana-Lafayette (Lafayette, LA, USA): 15 December

47) Faculty Position – University of Victoria (Canada): 15 January 2017

48) Post-Doctoral Research Associate – Society for Risk Analysis (Durham, NC, USA): Until filled

49) Post-Doctoral Fellow Researchers in Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment – Resources for the Future (Washington DC): 9 December

50) Assistant Professor (Watershed Engineering) – Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, VA, USA): 9 January 2017

51) Full Professor, associate Professor or Tenure-Track in Ecology – University of Lausanne (Switzerland): 11 December

52) Director (Salish Sea Studies Institute) – Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA, USA): 12 December

WASH:

53) French speakers: Technical Advisor I (Emergency WASH) – CRS (Various): Until filled

54) Program Manager I (WASH) – CRS (Sierra Leone): Until filled

55) WASH Specialist (Re-advertisement) – UNICEF (Nigeria): 22 November

56) WASH & Infrastructure Technical Manager – Danish Refugee Council (Somalia): 30 November

57) Arabic speakers: WASH Team Leader – Danish Refugee Council (Iraq): 24 November

58) India Program Liaison Manager – Water for People (Denver, CO, USA): 2 December

59) WASH Technical Referent (Community Health Promotion) – ACF (Lebanon): Until filled

60) WASH Program Manager – CARE (Iraq): 26 November

61) Regional Technical Advisor (Southern Africa) – WaterAid (Southern Africa): 9 December

62) Project Manager WASH – INTERSOS (Somalia): 2 December

63) WASH Cluster Co-Chair – DACAAR (Afghanistan): 30 November

64) French speakers: Un(e) Responsable Technique WASH - Première Urgence - Aide Médicale Internationale (Cameroon): 31 December

65) WASH Coordinator – Solidarités International (Myanmar): Until filled

66) WASH Specialist – UNICEF (Ethiopia): 1 December

67) Finance and Admin Manager – Arche noVa (Iraq): 28 November

Consultancies:

68) French speakers: Formulation of a long-term IFRC led WASH Programme Proposal for Haiti with a focus upon cholera control, mitigation and surveillance – IFRC (Haiti): 15 December

69) Arabic speakers: Environment Expert – UNDP (Lebanon): 30 November

70) End of Term Evaluation of the Environment and Natural Resources Management Project – UNDP (Malawi): 2 December

71) Drin basin nationals: Call for the provision of technical support for the preparation of three thematic reports of the Drin Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis – GWP-MED (Various): 23 November

72) WASH Sector Scoping Study for Domestic Resource Mobilisation (WCARO) – UNICEF (Dakar): 29 November

73) International Nautical Legal Consultant – Mekong River Commission (Home-based): 9 December

74) International Nautical Legal Consultant II – Mekong River Commission (Home-based): 9 December

75) Knowledge Management and Learning expert to support the Preparation and Facilitation of a Knowledge Management Retreat – UNICEF (Switzerland): 23 November

76) Green Growth Assessment Specialist Consultant – GGGI (Jakarta): 2 December

77) Outcome Evaluation of UNDP’s Environment and Sustainable Development Programme in Ukraine – UNDP (Ukraine): 29 November

78) International Consultant to develop vulnerability guidelines and risk and vulnerability maps for Laamu Atoll – UNDP (Maldives): 30 November

79) Communications Consultant – UNDP (Bangkok): 2 December

80) Ghana nationals: National Consultant (Roll-out of the Basic Sanitation Information System (BaSIS)) – UNICEF (Ghana): 3 December

Tenders:

81) Scoping study for development of a sanitation investment planning tool – WSUP (Bangladesh): 11 December

82) “Multipurpose management of Skadar Lake vegetation through biomass collection and production of fuel briquettes in Montenegro - Phase 1” – GWP-MED (Montenegro): 30 November

83) Call for Offers for the preparation of two Thematic reports of the Drin Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis – GWP-MED (Various): 30 November

Internships:

84) Environmental Sustainability & Disaster Resilience (ESDR) Team – UNDP (Sri Lanka): 28 November

Scholarships:

85) MS Graduate Assistantships in Remote Sensing, GIS, Applied Earth Sciences - University of Alabama-Huntsville

Additional Positions:

Posted: Last Week

86) Position:  (Martinez, CA) - Maintenance Planner. Closes: 12 December  

87) Position:  (Yuma, AZ) - Native American Program Coordinator. Closes: 6 December   (tnx )

88) Position:  (Hillsboro, OR) - Engineer, Watershed Management Dept. Closes: 5 December  

89) Position:  (Martinez, CA) - Control Systems Engineer. Closes: 12 December.  

90) Position:  (SLC, UT) - Supervisory Hydrologist. Closes: 7 Dec.  

91) Position:  (Boulder City, NV) - Civil Engineer (Hydrologic). Closes: 1 Dec   (tnx )

92) Position:  (Santa Cruz, CA) - T-T Asst Prof, Fresh Water. OUF; App review: 23 November  

93) Position:  (Lenexa, KS) - Director, Water, Wetlands and Pesticides Division. Closes: 19 December  

94) Position:  (Washington, DC) - Irrigation Program Specialist. Closes: 2 December  

95) Postdoc Position: Helmholtz Zentrum (Geesthacht, DE) - Trait-based Ecosystem Modeling. Closes: 11 Dec  

96) Position: (Manteo,NC) - Interdisciplinary (Chief of Resource Management). Closes: 28 Nov

97) Position: (Boulder City,NV) - Ag Engineer (Pathways Recent Grad). Closes: 5 Dec tnx

98) Position: (Syracuse, NY) - T-T Asst. Prof.- Environ Resources Engineering. OUF; App rev: 1 Dec

Posted: 23 November 2016 

99) Position: Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (Walla Walla, WA) - Fisheries Habitat Biologist. OUF; First screening: 16 Dec  
Download CTUIR_Fish_Habitat_Biologist

100) Position: Snohomish County (Everett, WA) - Senior Planner - Public Works. Closes: 30 November

101) Position: (Spokane, WA) - Soil Conservationist. Closes: 29 November

102) Position: (Newport, OR) - Ecologist. Closes: 2 December

Posted: 25 November 2016

103) Position: (NYC, NY) - Associate Research Scientist.

Posted: 28 November 2016

104) Position: (Seattle) - Water Quality Planner/Project Manager I (Limnologist). Closes: 14 Dec

105)  Position: (Stephenville, TX) - Research Scientist. OUF; App review: Immediately  

106) Position:  (La Grande, OR) - NE Oregon Project Manager. Closes: 15 Dec  

"This we know, all things are connected." - Chief Seattle

Posted on Tuesday, 22 November 2016 at 06:04 AM in Josh Newton's Water Jobs & More!, Opportunities & Positions, World Water | | Comments (0)

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Monday, 21 November 2016

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Enviro-Sciences - 21 November 2016

  Elaine2My best Thanksgiving wishes to my American friends. Special thanks to my friend Elaine, who does an amazing job assembling these bulletin boards each Monday!

Would you be interested in receiving these Bulletin Boards via email directly from Elaine? Send an email to  [email protected] with the word “subscribe” in the subject line and the email address will be added to Elaine's email list. 

Elaine's previous Bulletin Boards are archived here and at #EJHBB on Twitter.   

Here is a link to the weekly water news and jobs for 12- 18 November 2016. 

Note: all the links should be hot; if not, paste the URL into your browser. The PDF and Word lists below contain the URLs.

Here are the lists in Word/PDF: 

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Geosciences Bulletin Board - 21 November 2016. Compiled by Elaine J. Hanford. 

Updates on the M7.8 EQ in New Zealand

Here’s a novel idea: think of carbon not as an enemy, but as part of the natural world!

Carbon emissions have “leveled off” over the last three years

“State of the Climate Report” delivered to UN Summit in Marrakech, Morocco

CO2 is being stored in rocks in Iceland (video)

At 187.63 carats, the Foxfire diamond is largest gem-quality stone found in North America (video)

Understanding the monsoon – some are wet and some are dry

Excavating a real Jurassic Park in Wyoming (video)

Coprolite collection in Florida certified by Guinness World Records as the largest

New data suggests Chicxulub meteor may have punctured the Crust

Coupling geochemistry & geochronology with field observations to study tectonic plate movements

“The Barnyard” is one of the largest, most diverse & well-preserved deposits of Pliocene animals

Forest fires since 1600 in Sierra Nevada influenced more by human land use than climate

Rip in oceanic crust initiates submarine volcanism along mid-ocean ridge in the Pacific

Photo-essay: Beppu, on the island of Kyushu in Japan, has 3,000 volcanic spring vents

“Comminution dating” helps unravel geological & climatic history of Antarctica

Fires, some caused by arson, are still burning across the southeast

Half of coral species in Caribbean survived climate change between 1 and 2 myo

How much damage will a major EQ cause along the San Andreas Fault

Wolfcamp Formation now being called the biggest shale oil field in the US

Microfossils reveal geologic history of 3 billion year old rocks in Australia suggesting life on land

Massive eruptions with deep mantle contribution led to mass extinctions 170 to 90 myo

Sky over New Zealand lights up with “earthquake lights” (video)

Texas looks at earthquakes as a result of link between seismicity & wastewater injection

Takes lots of TLC to preserve, protect, and organize all those valuable fossils

Natural versus human-induced earthquakes

Hawaii – well worth the time to explore its beaches, reefs, volcanoes, waterfalls

Excerpt from:  “The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age”

 

Enviro-Sciences Bulletin Board - 21 November 2016. Compiled by Elaine J. Hanford. 

WHO declares Zika virus is no longer a global health emergency – still a long-term problem


If you’re a bear, then scratching your back on a tree feels good! (videos)

The dilemma of blaming global warming on CO2 in the atmosphere

Human-induced genetic evolution of maize (corn on the cob)

Animals locked in battle, sometimes to the death

Stephen Hawking gives humans about 1,000 years till extinction of humanity

Genetically inserting thale proteins into plants increases their growth by 14 to 20 percent

Resource material: Patterns of zoonotic disease in mammals across the world

New shelter moves into place over failed Chernobyl nuclear reactor (video)

Space debris crashes into Myanmar

Using falcons to control pest birds in the vineyards more effective than modern technology

Photograph is good proof that panthers are expanding range in Florida

Goals for reducing, recovering & recycling food loss and waste in the US - Sustainable Materials Management, formerly called Municipal Solid Waste

World Bank Report suggests natural disasters drive at least 26M people into poverty each year

USDA role in National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) marks 20 years

Raising the specter of “the economy” versus “the environment” when it comes to National Monuments

Dakota Access Pipeline construction halted by Army Corps of Engineers – insists on Tribal input

NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation to investigate cause of death of tens of thousands of fish in Shinnecock Bay - likely due to hypoxia (video)

Vermont investigated outbreak of Fowl Cholera that wiped out half of Orwell Farm turkeys

Yellowstone Hot Spring is deadly for man seeking a “hot pot”

Glyphosate pesticide residues found in many common foods from Cheerios to Kashi cookies

UN marked World Antibiotic Awareness Week & warns of a future without effective antibiotics (video)

Video may document fencing in bison to allow construction of Dakota Access pipeline

USDA & Alaska Airlines celebrate first wood waste-to-jet-fuel commercial flight

Proposed massive surface water reservoir near Maxwell, California, is controversial – is it linked to the Delta Tunnel project?

Algae growing on plastic in the ocean may make it smell more like dinner to marine birds

Quantifying hidden environmental costs of methylmercury associated with hydroelectric dams

Human-made droughts and floods can be prevented by improved water resource management

Study links immune system, gut bacteria & glucose metabolism – important for Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome 

Newly discovered antibody N6 from HIV-infected person neutralized 98% of HIV strains tested

If food is not grown in soil, can it be called “organic”?

North Carolina seeks $1B federal disaster recovery funds for estimated $2B damage from Hurricane Matthew

Humans hunting the mammals of the world to extinction

You are what you eat, including dietary supplements – study suggests most supplements are of little value

Predicting recycling behavior: more likely to recycle things that relate to self-identity

Natural processes associated with flooding of the Mississippi River may isolate some farmland on Dogtooth Bend

Red squirrels in the British Isles may be reservoir with bacterial species that cause leprosy in humans

Explaining the historic 1952 London smog and the current conditions in China

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence." - Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on Monday, 21 November 2016 at 08:50 AM in Blogs, Twitters, WWW sites, e-Newsletters, & Lists, Elaine Hanford's Bulletin Boards, Potpourri | | Comments (0)

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