The Pacific Northwest Water Quality Team is proud to announce that its fourth conference on regional water resources issues will be held this fall at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington on November 7-9, 2007. This regional conference merges water science and policy to promote collaboration between scientists and policy makers on water-policy decisions. It was developed in response to comments from previous water quality and groundwater conference participants who stressed the need to better integrate science and policy. The conference will include presentations, featured speakers, panel discussions, and a poster session. More information will be available soon on our Web site at http://www.swwrc.wsu.edu or call 509-335-3530.

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/ 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 Dan Burns: 360-392-4328 dburns@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
	The Project Land Grant Universities, Water Research Institutes and EPA Region 10 have formed a partnership to provide research and education to communities about protecting or restoring the quality of water resources. This partnership is being supported in part by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Our Goal and Approach The goal of this Project is to provide leadership for water resources research, education and outreach to help people, industry and governments to prevent and solve current and emerging water quality and quantity problems. The approach to achieving this goal is for the Partners to develop a coordinated regional water quality effort based on, and strengthening, individual state programs. Our Strengths The Project promotes regional collaboration by acknowledging existing programs and successful efforts; assessing program gaps; identifying potential issues for cross-agency and private sector collaboration; and developing a clearinghouse of expertise and programs. In addition, the Project establishes or enhances partnerships with federal, state and local environmental and water resource management agencies, such as by placing a University Liaison within the offices of EPA Region 10.
	A Call for Papers and Posters will be sent out soon. This years’ conference will focus on the essential topic of incorporating science into action and include the broadly defined themes: Challenges and Strategies for Integrating Science and Policy; Social Aspects of Water Policy; Policy Response to Environmental Changes; Scientific Uncertainties and Disagreements; Roles and Responsibilities in Policy Making; The Human Dimension: What Makes People Act; Feed-back Loops in Decision Making Processes; Laws and Legislative Actions; and Transboundary Considerations. Expanded theme topics are listed on the Web. The deadline for submitting poster and presentation abstracts will be May 4, 2007. The conference will include featured speakers, panel discussions, oral presentations, and a poster session aimed at highlighting successes, failures, and lessons learned from the Pacific Northwest. Our experience has demonstrated that the networking and small-group discussions that occur during session breaks are also extremely productive. Here is your chance to shape the direction of interactions between university researchers, extension specialists, NGO’s, and policy makers. So save the date and plan on attending this year’s event! You won’t want to miss it.
	National Water Quality Program Areas The four land grant universities in the Pacific Northwest have aligned our water resource extension and research efforts with eight themes of the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Animal Waste Management Drinking Water and Human Health Environmental Restoration Nutrient and Pesticide Management Pollution Assessment and Prevention Watershed Management Water Conservation and Agricultural Water Management Water Policy and Economics
	NIFA is the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a sub-agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, and is the federal partner in this water quality program.

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