Shenandoah Pure Water Forum

Announcements provided by Jane Walker of the Virginia Water Monitoring Council

1. Call for 2009 World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) Events
2. Order Deadline for The Volunteer Monitor Newsletter — Sept. 30, 2009 (TODAY)
3. Internship Opportunities with Montgomery County, Maryland Department of Environmental Protection
4. Rain Barrel Workshop — October 10, 2009
5. Virginia Water Research Conference – October 15-16, 2009; Online registration deadline: Oct. 2, 2009
6. Annual Soil & Water Conservation Society Meeting:  Oct. 15, 2009; Reg. deadline October 7, 2009
7. Volunteers Needed for Stroubles Creek Restoration — Sept. – Oct. 2009
8. EPA’s Water Laboratory Alliance Security Summit —  Oct. 22 – 23, 2009
9. Workshop — Water and the Developing Landscape: Stormwater Regulations, Explanations & Opportunities — October 28, 2009
10. Statewide/Regional Ground-water Level and/or Quality Monitoring Pilot Projects – Statements of Interest due October 30, 2009
11. Well Informed Newsletter — September Issue

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Please visit Shenandoah Pure Water Forum’s Fish Kill Portal for a new post on the USGS Report on Intersex Bass in U.S. Rivers.

Andy Jackson, K-12 Science Coordinator, Harrisonburg City Public Schools is inviting the public to attend the Documentary movie on Rachel Carson (see link to movie poster below) to be screened at Harrisonburg High School Thursday night Sept. 17th –starts at 7 pm and ends by 8:30 pm

Rachel is the author of the book Silent Spring which in 1962 brought attacks on her viewpoint by the chemical industry, the government and the press.
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Announcements provided by Jane Walker of the Virginia Water Monitoring Council

1. VWMC seeking nominations for members to serve on Steering Committee
2. World Water Monitoring Day — September 18, 2009 (Data accepted from sites monitored between March 22 — December 31)
3. 28th Annual International Submerged Lands Management Conference — Free Webinar — Various dates in September and October, 2009
4. 40th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium — October 2 to 4, 2009
5. Mapping Virginia Communities: An Introduction to GIS and Community Analysis — October 9, 2009
6. Virginia Water Research Conference — October 15-16, 2009
7. Volunteer Opportunity — Extreme Stream Makeover: Blackwater Creek — Oct 19-22, 2009
8. Workshop: Water and the Developing Landscape: Stormwater Regulations, Explanations & Opportunities  – October 28, 2009
9. USGS Water Resources Lecture — “How to Add Natural Tracers to Your Hydrological Toolbox” — November 3, 2009
10. EPA Seeks Comments on New Information about Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
11. EPA document: “Pandemic Influenza Fact Sheet for the Water Sector”

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Announcements provided by Jane Walker of the Virginia Water Monitoring Council

1. River and Beach Clean Up Events — September 1 – October 31, 2009
2. 2009 SESWA Annual Conference — September 30 – October 2, 2009
3. 2009 Chesapeake Watershed Forum — October 9 – 11, 2009
4. Virginia Water Research Conference — October 15-16, 2009
5. 2010 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference: GIS & Water Resources VI — March 29-31, 2010
6. National Environmental Methods Index (NEMI) — http://www.nemi.gov
7. USGS Study Results Released on Mercury Contamination — http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/mercury/
8. Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) — http://www.cocorahs.org/
9. Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration Website — http://executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net
10. Website — GoodGuide — www.goodguide.com

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Announcements provided by Jane Walker of the Virginia Water Monitoring Council

1. 40th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium: Geomorphology and Vegetation: Interactions, Dependencies, and Feedback Loops — October 2-4, 2009; August 21, 2009 deadline for Poster Abstracts; Student Travel Grant Applications: and Early Registration.
2. Green Infrastructure Workshop — September 11, 2009
3. 7th National Monitoring Conference — Call for papers and workshops/short courses! — April 25-29, 2010; Abstracts due: September 19, 2009
4. 2009 Watershed Institute — September 22-25, 2009
5. 2009 AWRA Annual Water & Resources Conference — November 9-12, 2009 (Register by October 9, 2009 for the best rates)
6. A National Framework for Ground-Water Monitoring in the United States
7. Invasive Species — Wavy Leaf Basket Grass
8. Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration Website
9. Online Predictions for Stream Concentrations of Atrazine

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