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to pack up your gear and break down
<br />the kitchen, followed by a joint effort to
<br />July
<br />load the boats. Once the boats were
<br />17 -18 Water Education Foundation Update on Water Law and Policy Briefing,
<br />loaded and ready to go, a talk was given
<br />San Diego, CA • Contact: Diana Farmer, 916- 444 -6240, e -mail:
<br />by someone knowledgeable within the
<br />dfarmer@watereducation.org • www.watereducation.org
<br />group on topics ranging from Leave -No-
<br />23 -25 28 Annual Colorado Water Workshop, Gunnison, CO
<br />Trace camping ethics to geology of the
<br />Contact: George Sibley, Western State College, e -mail: gsibley@western.edu
<br />canyon. We were usually back on the
<br />river by 10 a.m.
<br />27 -30 American Society of Agricultural Engineers 2003 Annual International
<br />About three hours were spent on the
<br />Meeting, Las Vegas, NV • Contact: ASAE, 269 - 429 -0300,
<br />fax: 269- 429 -3852 • www.asac.org
<br />river before breaking for a make -your-
<br />own sandwich lunch on a sandy
<br />August
<br />riverbank. After an hour for lunch, it
<br />4 -5 Annual Symposium of the American Membrane Technology Association,
<br />was back on the river for another four
<br />Boulder, CO • Contact: American Membrane Technology Association,
<br />hours before stopping for the night on
<br />760- 643 -1750 • www.membranes- amta.org
<br />another beach.
<br />12 New Mexico Symposium on Hydrologic Modeling, Socorro, NM
<br />When you're on the river, it's easy to
<br />Contact: Catherine Ortega Klett, 505- 646 -1195, e -mail
<br />forget about the outside world and
<br />coklett@wrri.nmsu.edu • wrri.nmsu.edu
<br />possibly, that is part of its allure. Instead
<br />of television, we watched bald eagles,
<br />September
<br />bighorn sheep, condors, the endangered
<br />1 -5 16`6 Ozone World Congress, Las Vegas, NV
<br />Kanab ambersnail, and the weather as it
<br />Contact: GDT Corp., 623 -587 -8858, fax: 623 -587 -1511
<br />shifted from rain to wind to sun to
<br />www.gdt- h2o.com
<br />snow. In actuality, we really had no
<br />16 -19 MODFLOW and More 2003: Understanding through Modeling, An
<br />contact with any outside presence, and
<br />International Ground Water Modeling Conference and Workshops,
<br />for all we knew the rest of the Earth
<br />Golden, CO • Contact: IGWMC, 303 - 273 -3103, fax: 303 - 384 -2037,
<br />could have fallen away leaving just us,
<br />e -mail: igwmc@mines.edu
<br />the sky, the canyon and the Colorado.
<br />17 -20 Arizona Hydrological Society 2003 Annual Symposium: Sustainability
<br />There's really something to be said for
<br />Issues of Arizonas Regional Watersheds, Mesa, AZ • Contact:
<br />that simplicity, in this day and age, with
<br />29 -Oct 3 Natural Attenuation, Risk Assessment and RBCA, San Diego, CA
<br />its pressure to be constantly in contact
<br />Contact: Julie Shaw, National Ground Water Association, 800 - 551 -7379, e-
<br />with everyone about everything. When
<br />mail: jshaw@ngwa.org • www.ngwa.org /education /index.html
<br />you're on the river, priorities change. All
<br />that really seemed to matter is that you
<br />October
<br />had food, water, a warm /dry place to
<br />11 -15 WEFTEC: 76th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference, Los
<br />sleep, and that your boat still floats.
<br />Angeles, CA • Contact: Water Environment Federation, 800 - 444 -2933,
<br />Everything else took care of itself.
<br />fax: 703- 684 -2471 • www.weftec.org
<br />Floating down the Colorado River
<br />12 -15 10th Annual Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, Vail, CO
<br />also is a lesson in history, of both pre-
<br />Contact: Linda Hinshaw, 970- 491 -6081, fax: 970- 491 -3584,
<br />human and since our arrival. The walls
<br />e- mail: lhinshaw@engr.colostate.edu
<br />of the Grand Canyon tell their own
<br />15 -17 Water Education Foundation Southern California Groundwater Tour
<br />story of time — the natural history — by
<br />Contact: Diana Farmer, 916- 444 -6240, e -mail: dfarmer@watereducation.org
<br />revealing some of the oldest rocks on
<br />www.watereducation.org
<br />Earth, many nearly 2 billion years old.
<br />Oct 22 -23 Planning for Uncertainty: 14x6 Annual South Platte Forum
<br />Sedimentary layers divulge large
<br />Contact: Jennifer Brown, 970- 213 -1618, fax: 309 - 214 -4664, e -mail:
<br />catastrophic events, such as floods and
<br />jennifer@jjbrown.com • Southplatte.jj brown. com
<br />volcanoes, which left behind large
<br />November
<br />deposits,
<br />It is believed by some that those first
<br />2 -5 American Water Resources Association Annual Conference,
<br />to see, touch, taste, and use the Colo-
<br />San Diego, CA • Contact: Harriette Bayse, 540 - 687 -8390,
<br />rado River were likely the "Ancestral
<br />fax: 540 - 687 -8395 • www.awra.org
<br />Puebloan Culture" (previously known as
<br />Contact Sue McClurg with your calendar items
<br />Continued on page 11
<br />916 -444 -6240 or smcclurg@watereducation.org
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