[AWWA-WEF] [awra_uw] TONIGHT: AWRA Winter Mixer (fwd)

[krism1 at u.washington.edu]

Greetings fellow AWWA Section Members,

The AWRA student chapter is having a mixer tonight with their professional chapter, and I wanted to encourage any of you who might have interest in water resources along with water quality, to attend tonight if you have the time.  This would be a great chance to network with fellow students and industry professionals, along with hearing a speaker.  Attendance is 10$, which gains you membership to AWRA for the year.  Event begins at 7:30 pm, to be held at the WAC which is on the SE side of Husky Stadium.

Best Regards,
Kris M.

Kris McArthur
Graduate Student
Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Washington
206-853-7039

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:56:43 -0800
From: Erin Donley <edonley6 at gmail.com>
Reply-To: edonley at u.washington.edu
To: cfrgrads at u.washington.edu, ceginfo at uw.edu, awra_uw at washington.edu,
     gepfalist at u.washington.edu, The Water Center <cwws at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [awra_uw] TONIGHT: AWRA Winter Mixer

American Water Resources Association Winter Mixer -- Please join the student
and professional AWRA chapters for an evening of networking and
refreshments! *Wednesday, January 20th 7:30PM to 9:30PM at the *UW
Waterfront Activities Center <http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?WAC>

Meet water resource professionals from around the state! *Beer and light
refreshments will be served.* As always, this is an outstanding opportunity
to network with potential employers in water resource fields.
·  Cost: This event is *FREE *to members. Non-members may pay $10 at the
door -- this fee will cover admission and yearly membership dues. ·
Featured Speaker: Dr. Ashley Steel *Riverine thermal regimes: Human
alterations and biological consequences*

·  *Speaker Bio:* Ashley Steel is currently the Station Statistician for the
USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station. Ashley is both a consulting
statistician and quantitative ecology research scientist. Her research
interests include the development of methods for linking landscape-scale
patterns with in-stream responses, quantification of complex ecological time
series, and identifying the best uses of modeled data. Her mission is to
leverage statistical tools to improve ecological understanding and to
explore how the quantification of uncertainty can be used to improve the
management of natural resources. Before joining the PNW Research Station in
October 2009, Ashley was the Team Lead for the Landscape Ecology and
Recovery Science Team at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center. She has
a PhD in Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management (QERM) and MS degrees
in Ecology and in Statistics from the University of Washington.
·  *Talk Abstract:* Land-use, hydro-power and climate change are clearly
altering riverine thermal regimes. However, because of the complexity of
these thermal regimes, it is often difficult to quantify anthropogenic
changes or to understand and predict the biological consequences of that
change. Part of the difficulty in capturing the complexity of natural
thermal regimes is that they vary at multiple scales across both space and
time. Wavelet analysis is a neat statistical tool that can decompose the
complex signal of water temperature into daily, weekly, or monthly signals.
Wavelets have successfully been used to quantify the impact of dams on
downstream thermal regimes. And, wavelet analysis can describe linkages
between land-use within a watershed and riverine thermal fluctuations.
Although we are beginning to quantify these anthropogenic changes, we don't
yet have an estimate of the biological impacts of thermal alterations. In
particular, we have little understanding of the impacts of altered thermal
regimes beyond changes in mean temperature. For example, what are the
consequences of altered daily and seasonal variance? To begin to unravel
those biological impacts, we are conducting a controlled egg incubation and
emergence experiment. Much of our understanding of climate change and
land-use change is based on models and data collected over large spatial
scales but our understanding of biological impacts is necessarily based on
field studies and laboratory experiments. How can we scale up the results of
this or similar experiments to estimate the biological consequences of
future thermal regimes at landscape scales?
Please contact me with any questions!

Hope to see you there!
Erin Donley

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Erin Donley
MS/MPA Candidate
University of Washington
College of Forest Resources
Box 352100
Seattle, WA 98195
edonley at u.washington.edu
Cell (510) 847-8573
Office (206) 221-5406


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