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“Our First Spring Seminar”

Do not forget to mark your calendar for our special speaker Dr. Eleonore Paquier.

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“Mason Water Research Symposium 2016”

“Save the date for Friday, March 18th and join the Mason Water Forum in Research Hall for a day highlighting Inter-Disciplinary Water Research and Conservation”

Where can you find a world-class group of students and faculty presenting an exciting display of innovative and cutting edge research from all areas of water science, engineering, and policy, and a gathering of the best and brightest water professionals, alumni, and faculty—all on one day and all in one location? The Mason Water Research Symposium.

The Mason Water Research Symposium highlights intro-institutional and cross-institutional collaborations on water science, research, policy and education across the Mason campus and with regional government, academic and private sector partners. The symposium will showcase and give awards to the brightest and best undergraduate and graduate students’ project in water science and engineering as well as lectures from key mason researchers and professors. The symposium will also hosts several invited speakers from government and private sector partners.

If you have any other questions, Contact to Morvarid at mganjali@gmu.edu.

For more information about our speakers, check  Mason Water Symposium tab.

Please, Do not forget to register just few spots left.

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Welcome to “Mason Water Forum”

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The Mason Water Forum is a project funded by the Mason 4-VA grant. The Forum was created to encourage collaboration and communication on the topics of water science, policy and education between the Mason community, 4-VA members, K-12, other institutions and the public. The Water Forum sponsors a speaker series on campus and streaming through Facebook. Our speaker series continued during the Spring 2015 semester, organized and run by our (fabulous!) undergraduate interns. Five presentations by GMU faculty highlighted research in soil moisture detection, tropical dolphin feeding patterns, grassroots outreach to indigenous peoples in Peru, research and restoration in Gunston Cove. These seminars contributed to our goals of fostering communication and collaboration on water science, research, policy, and education. From its inception, the Mason Water Forum has been student-centric and student-run. Our interns gained valuable experience from organizing, promoting and hosting the seminar series which included research into water-related topics, contacting and confirming speakers, designing materials for publicity, outreach via social media, in-person visits to classrooms, networking and contact with professors in various departments. Experience gained by running the seminar series proved invaluable for our interns towards organizing the first Mason Water Research Symposium held on April 30th, 2015. The undergraduate interns where instrumental in planning the symposium, recruiting judges for the posters, developing a judging rubric, designing the program, coordinating print materials, securing catering, renting a video recorder, taping the presentations, video editing, promoting the event via social media, and personal outreach to faculty and students.

Presentations highlighted research and activities being conducted by GMU faculty and students from Geography & Geoinformation Science; Environmental Science & Policy; Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering; Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences; the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, New Century College; The Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center; and GMU Facilities. Professors from two other 4-VA Universities — Virginia Tech and Old Dominion University (ODU) – participated by giving presentations on the Virginia Water Research Science Center and water studies at ODU. A representative from Environment Virginia shared strategies to protect Virginia’s rivers and streams and the Director of the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program provided an overview of their activities. Stormwater management in Fairfax County, water research at the USGS, NASA, USACE, NOAA, and the Hydrosphere Class Project rounded out the presentations. Hosting the first ever Mason Water Research Symposium and having such a distinguished group of presenters and over 100 participants is an accomplishment that we are very proud of. It was a team effort by all students funded by the 4-VA grant and Professor Houser that made this event such a great success. We are appreciative of the support from the 4-VA Innovation Grants that made this idea a reality! We envision a yearly water research symposium that will support the goal of increasing research competitiveness by building networks and relationships with water researchers at GMU, the other 4-VA Universities, and federal agencies.