9th Annual
Student World Water Forum
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 15 – 16, 2012
at the UNR Joe Crowley Student Union (JCSU)
EXPLORE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY WATER-RELATED ISSUES AT LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS.
GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF ALL DISCIPLINES ARE INVITED!
Questions or comments? Contact the SWWF Committee at swwf@lists.unr.edu
Thursday, Nov. 15 – JCSU Great Room
Friday, Nov. 16 – JCSU Room 324
8:45am – 9:00am
9:00am – 9:50am
10:00am – 11:00am
11:15am – 12:15pm
12:15pm – 1:00pm
1:00pm – 2:00pm
2:20pm – 3:00pm
3:15pm – 4:05pm
4:15pm – 5:05pm
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Meet and Greet Coffee
Session I: International Case Studies
Session II: Dams
Session III: Managing Water Quality
and Infrastructure
Lunch (not provided)
Session IV: Drinking Water
Contamination
Session V: Emerging Issues
in Water Resources
Session VI: Water Sustainability:
Issues and Progress
Session VII: Pollution and Alteration
of Ecosystems
Session VIII: Poster Session
8:45am – 9:00am
9:00am – 10:00am
Poster Group I: Methods of Analysis
Poster Group II: Case Studies
Poster Group III: Climate Change
Poster Group IV: Ecosystems
Davidson Math and Science Building:
Neil J. Redfield Commons
Meet and Greet Coffee
Session IX: Sources of Contamination:
Effects on Humans and Ecosystems
10:15am – 11:05am Session X: Water Resources:
Methods of Preservation
11:20am – 12:20pm Session XI: Global Lake Issues
12:20pm – 1:00pm Lunch (not provided)
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Session XII: Water Policy and
Governance
2:15pm – 3:05pm
Session XIII: Desalination and
Groundwater
Davidson Math and Science Building:
Neil J. Redfield Auditorium, Room 110
4:00pm – 5:00pm
5:00pm – 7:00PM
Keynote Speaker
SWWF Closing Social
Keynote Speaker: Friday, Nov. 16 at 4pm in the Davidson Math and Science Building: Redfield Auditorium, Room 110
Dr. Daene McKinney of the University of Texas, Austin
“High Mountain Glacial Watershed Research”