Calendar of events

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Dr. Sally Ride's first spaceflight at the Earth Then, Earth Now : Our Changing Climate Educator Conference. The conference will focus on understanding climate change, especially how the Earth has changed since Dr. Ride's 1983 shuttle mission. Educators will have the opportunity to investigate basic science behind climate change and its global impact on every ecosystem around the world... Full description

Education in a Changing Climate is a week-long workshop for environmental educators at all levels and all kinds of settings. Participants will develop skills that will help them bring environmental issues, especially climate change, into their classrooms, nature centers, zoos, museums, and curriculum... Full description

The XVII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2008) will be a forum for the dissemination of the latest ideas in the development and application of advanced computational techniques to problems in water resources and related fields, including surface and subsurface hydrology, petroleum exploration, contaminant remediation, carbon sequestration, ecohydrology, climate change, nuclear waste storage, and associated chemical and biological processes... Full description

Participants at the XVII Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2008) conference are encouraged to attend a special session on the use of ecoinformatics for water resource modeling. Water resource data is now available from a broad array of government, local, and private entities. Ideally this data would be readily selectable and usable in modeling environments... Full description