Call for Papers

Southeastern Environmental Flows Partnership (SEEFP) Conference

‘Environmental Flows: Water for People and Nature in the Southeastern U.S.’

October 27-29, 2008

Classic Center, Athens, Georgia.

Increasing demands for offstream water use and recent droughts have emphasized the need for establishing sustainable water use policies within the southeastern U.S. In 2006, a working group of hydrologists, ecologists, engineers, and water policy and management experts formed the Southeastern Environmental Flows Partnership (SEEFP). The focus of the partnership is to gain needed perspectives regarding the sustainability of water supplies, restoring and protecting water quality and aquatic habitat, and providing information to planners and policy-makers. SEEFP is organizing an environmental flows conference with the theme of ‘developing a dialog for balancing human and environmental needs for water in a rapidly changing region’. The conference will have keynote sessions discussing: ‘Global Perspectives on Water Issues’, ‘Demographic Forces Affecting the Southeast’, ‘The Science of Environmental Flows’, and ‘Policy Issues Related to Environmental Flows’. Contributed sessions include: policy and economics of environmental flows, environmental flows and stream health, data and modeling needs, public and stakeholder involvement, and growth management and environmental flows. To submit an abstract or learn more about this conference please see the contact information below.

Contact:

Steve Golladay, J.W. Jones Ecological Research Center, sgollada@jonesctr.org

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/seflows