AWRA Meeting Series & Featured Collections

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

GIS is an integrating technology, multidisciplinary by nature. Thus, AWRA members were early adopters GIS. AWRA specialty conferences on GIS, starting in 1993, have presented increasingly sophisticated, state-of-the-art applications of GIS to water resources. Peer-reviewed papers on GIS are regularly found in JAWRA, and Impact has published issues on GIS.

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Adaptive Management

AWRA has produced a wide array of Impact articles and JAWRA papers which touch on the history, the basic philosophies, and tenets of adaptive management in water-resource management. A specialty conference in 2006 and another scheduled for 2009 address some of the tough issues associated with implementing adaptive management programs and some new and exciting applications of adaptive management in the future.

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Policy Dialogue

The first National Water Resources Policy Dialogue, held September 17-18, 2002 in Washington, DC raised a clear message to develop a National water vision and to deal with water issue on a holistic basis. Since the first Dialogue, AWRA has held two more Dialogues in this continuing series.

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