Dr. Michael E. Campana, a hydrogeologist and international expert on a range of water management and education issues, became Director of the Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University (OSU) on June 1, 2006. Prior to assuming the position at OSU, Dr. Campana served as the director of the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico. He has done extensive research on water resources in developing countries, transboundary water resource issues, water allocation and availability, and other areas. He is also founder and president of a charitable foundation that funds and undertakes water, health, and sanitation projects in developing nations. Dr. Campana received his doctorate in hydrology from the University of Arizona. The Institute for Water and Watersheds (IWW) is the state water resources research institute for Oregon and is one of 54 state- or territory-based, institutes established by the 1964 Federal Water Resources Research Act. Through this program, the IWW receives federal matching funds from the US Geological Survey (USGS) to support water resources research and education activities in Oregon. In this role, it replaces the Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability (CWESt) which operated from 2000-2005 and the the Oregon Water Resources Research Institute (OWRRI) which operated from 1960-2000. The OSU-IWW involves the work of more than 80 faculty members in six colleges. “Oregon and the rest of the Pacific Northwest are facing a variety of water and environmental problems,” Campana said. “OSU’s water expertise must be brought to bear in solving these problems, and the IWW needs to reach a point where it is the first organization Oregonians and others think of when water issues arise.” Campana said he hopes to focus the institute’s efforts on large, multidisciplinary, long-term projects and significantly increase external funding for water research activities at the university, which is now about $11 million a year. He also hopes to boost educational and outreach programs, aid the creation of science-based water policy, bring more leading national experts to Oregon for lectures and other work, and develop more student scholarships for OSU water programs. Much of his recent work has been in foreign countries in Central America, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, Campana said, and he plans to increase OSU’s international visibility in projects such as this. Campana has served on a number of federal research committees, is the past chair of the 10,000 member Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, and has participated in many other national and international water research and management initiatives.

Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Coordination Project Partners Land Grant Universities Alaska Cooperative Extension Service Contact Fred Sorensen: 907-786-6311 http://www.uaf.edu/ces/water/index.html University Publications: http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/ces/publications/ Idaho University of Idaho Cooperative Extension System Contact Bob Mahler: 208-885-7025 http://www.uidaho.edu/wq/wqhome.html University Publications: http://info.ag.uidaho.edu/Catalog/catalog.html Oregon Oregon State University Extension Service Contact Mike Gamroth: 541-737-3316 http://extension.oregonstate.edu/ University Publications: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/ Washington Washington State University WSU Extension Contact Bob Simmons: 360-427-9670 ext. 690 http://wawater.wsu.edu/ University Publications: http://pubs.wsu.edu/ Northwest Indian College Contact Michael Cochrane: 360-392-4299 mcochrane@nwic.edu or http://www.nwic.edu/ Water Resource Research Institutes Water and Environmental Research Center (Alaska) http://www.uaf.edu/water/ Idaho Water Resources Research Institute http://www.boise.uidaho.edu/ Institute for Water and Watersheds (Oregon) http://water.oregonstate.edu/ State of Washington Water Research Center http://www.swwrc.wsu.edu/ Environmental Protection Agency EPA, Region 10 The Pacific Northwest http://www.epa.gov/r10earth/ Office of Research and Development, Corvallis Laboratory http://www.epa.gov/wed/ For more information contact Jan Seago at 206-553-0038 or seago.jan@epa.gov
	In anticipation of Dr. Campana’s arrival at OSU, he was appointed to the national Academy of Sciences-national Research Council (NAS-NRC) Committee on Hydrology, Ecology, and Fishes of the Klamath River Basin this spring. “The Klamath River situation has been categorized by some as the archetypical ‘fish vs. farmers’ conflict,” said Campana. “To some, irrigated agriculture is the culprit, threatening the fish, while others question the excessive concern for fish and the seeming disregard for the welfare of people and the local irrigation-based economy.” The NAS-NRC “Klamath 2” committee will build upon the work of the first Klamath River committee, which issued its report in 2004. Its specific charges will be to: review the Bureau of Reclamation’s effort to reconstruct the “natural” (pre-development) flows of the Klamath River; review a study of habitat needs for coho salmon and other anadramous fishes; review and evaluate the implications of those studies vis-à-vis threatened and endangered species; and identify additional data and information gaps. To that end, the Committee plans meetings in Yreka July 25-27 and Klamath Falls October 3-4, 2006. Other IWW projects include: Umatilla County Critical Groundwater Solutions Taskforce Planning IWW is assisting Umatilla County Critical Groundwater Solutions Taskforce (http://www.co.umatilla.or.us/Groundwater.htm) with their efforts at developing one of the first community management groundwater programs in the State of Oregon. Two graduate students were funded to develop a historical chronology of water-related events in the county, synthesize the wealth of water resources studies that date back nearly 100 years, and to compile maps depicting the breadth of the nearly 400 feet of water level changes that have occurred over the past 50 years in the Umatilla Basin. The Critical Groundwater Solutions Taskforce will use these materials in a broad education and information campaign as part of their 2050 water planning program. Deschutes Water Alliance IWW assisted the Deschutes Water Alliance with coordinating peer reviews of five white papers describing the water situation in the Deschutes River Basin. IWW also participated in the Deschutes Water Summit held at Warm Springs, Oregon, where over 200 people participated in a water planning dialogue in preparation for finalizing reports to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Water 2025 program. USGS Minigrants Twenty one proposals were received from academic institutions located across the State of Oregon. IWW awarded research grants totaling approximately $140,000 using a combination of funds from the US Geological Survey and IWW. Funded proposals for 2006 are described at http://water.oregonstate.edu/funding/usgs_projects_06.htm. For more information on the Institute of Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University visit http://water.oregonstate.edu. Campana can be contacted at 541-737-2413 (office); 541-602-4085 (cell); or aquadoc@oregonstate.edu.
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