July/August 1996
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July/August 1996 |
For information on the following meetings of the International Joint Commission and its various boards, contact a Commission office.
| July | 9 | International Red River Pollution Board Devils Lake, ND |
| 11 | Souris-Red Rivers Engineering Board Public
Meeting Morden, MB | |
| August | 8 | Pesticides Priority Workshop Madison, WI |
| 22-23 | International Air Quality Advisory Board Indianapolis, IN | |
| September | 10-13 | Great Lakes Science Advisory Board Meeting
and Workshop on Environmental Results Windsor, ON |
| 10-12 | IJC Executive Meeting Washington, DC | |
| 24 | International Osoyoos Lake Board of Control
Public Meeting (tentative) Oroville, WA | |
| October | 18-19 | Great Lakes Water Quality Board
Public Meeting Rochester, NY |
| 22-25 | IJC Semi-Annual Meeting Ottawa, ON | |
| November | 5 | Council of Great Lakes Research Managers Windsor, ON |
| 20-21 | Great Lakes Science Advisory Board Windsor, ON |
GREEN '96, a benchmark occasion for the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network, will focus on "Educating for Sustainable Watersheds." The conference will be held July 10-13, 1996 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Education and community leaders involved in watershed programs and community action will share ideas and knowledge. A registration packet can be obtained from the GREEN International Office, 721 East Huron Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Email green@green.org; fax (313)761-4951 or call (313)761-8142.
Working with Wetlands and Wildlife is a series of workshops to be held from August 1996 through February 1997 in Colorado, California, Texas and Georgia. For more information, contact the Wildlife Habitat Council, 1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 920, Silver Spring, MD 20910. (301)588-8994; (301)588-4629.
Human Interactions with the Environment: Perspectives from Space, is a Pecora 13 Symposium to be held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota from August 20-22, 1996. Remote sensing information will be discussed to understand and evaluate human impacts on the Earth and human adjustments to environmental change. Look for program information on the Internet at www.metla.fi/archive/forest/1996/01/msg00113.html. To register, send check or money order for $175 (US) to Pecora 13 Symposium, P.O. Box 1607, Sioux Falls, SD 57198-1607.
A hands-on Stormwater Management Modeling Workshop with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be held August 29-30, 1996 at the Technical University of Nova Scotia in Halifax. Registration fees are $495 (Cdn). For more information contact Evelyn James, Computational Hydraulics International, 36 Stuart Street, Guelph, ON N1E 4S5. (519)767-0197; fax (519)767-2770; email info@chi.on.ca.
The International Joint Commission's Great Lakes Water Quality Board will hold its 1996 public meeting in Rochester, New York on October 18-19, 1996.
The Great Lakes Water Quality Board and the Water Resources Board of New York State will hold concurrent business meetings on Friday, October 18. That afternoon the two Boards will meet together with the public to discuss local issues related to water quality and watershed management in upstate New York.
On Saturday, October 19 the Great Lakes Water Quality Board will cosponsor a Finger Lakes-Lake Ontario Conference with the Finger Lakes-Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance. The conference will focus on place-based and community-based approaches to water quality and watershed management. Emphasis will be on practical experiences linking environment and economy in management, achieving "win-win" solutions and applying successful consensus-based approaches in local decisionmaking processes. State, federal and international governmental officials, agricultural producers, recreational users, environmentalists, lakeshore and watershed residents, scientists and researchers, developers, resource managers and business owners across the region are encouraged to register. The program will provide ample opportunity for registrant participation. Facilitated break-out group discussions will be included to improve communication and understanding among stakeholders, and to elicit ideas on action plans for place-based watershed management.
For more information, contact Betsy Landre, Water Resources Board/Finger Lakes Association, (315)536-7488 or John Hartig, Great Lakes Regional Office, International Joint Commission, (313)226-2170 or (519)257-6711.
The 1996 State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC) will be held on November 6-8, 1996 at the Cleary International Centre in Windsor, Ontario. This year's conference will emphasize Great Lakes nearshore areas. Participation in the conference is by invitation only. For more information, contact Don DeBlasio, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (312)886-4360; fax (312)353-1155 or Simone Rose, Environment Canada (905)336-6270; fax (905)336-6272.
The North American Lake Management Society (NALMS), the Minnesota Lakes Association and Wisconsin Association of Lakes are holding their Sixteenth Annual International Symposium on People, Lakes and Land: Puzzling Relationships, November 13-16, 1996 at the Radisson Hotel South in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For further information, contact NALMS, P.O. Box 101294, Denver, CO 80250. (303)781-8287; fax (303)781-6538.
Revised: 17 February 1997
Maintained by Kevin McGunagle,
mcgunaglek@ijc.wincom.net