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From the EPA Office of Risk Management Research -- A new report: Gauging the Effectiveness of Riparian Buffers has now been released. From the web site: Though riparian buffer efficiency varied widely among individual studies, EPA meta-analysis found important trends. While some narrow buffers (up to...

Know Your USDA Watersheds By Don Comis December 4, 2008 For the first time, information collected over the past 40 years from instruments on large watersheds across the country is available online, thanks to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) web site. The web site, called STEWARDS ( Sustaining the...

Since retirement from the HNL Advertiser, former science and environment report, Jan W. TenBruggencate, has devoted some of his time to writing a very interesting blog "Raising Islands - Hawaii Science and Environment." TenBruggencate's blog makes a special effort to couple current science...

Dr. Ali Fares and Dr. Aly I. El-Kadi of the Departments of Natural Resource and Environmental Management and Geology and Geophysics have published a book entitled "Coastal Watershed Management" published by WITpress.com as part of the International Series on Progress in Water Resoruces. Not...

The World Resources Institute has released a new paper entitled " Coastal Caribbean: Economic Valuation of the Coral Reefs of the Caribbean ." Using the islands of Tobago and St. Lucia, WRI has developed models for determining the economic valuation of the coral reefs. The three main factors...

US EPA has just released its June 2008 edition of Watershed News . Among the items of important to the Ecosystem Services Group include: U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grants Program - Proposals due June 27, 2008 Community Action for a Renewed Environment RFP Expected in...

Steve Yochim, from Fort Collins, CO has established a new Hydrology website, SYWater.org . The site has links to lots of water / hydrology sites and includes a " Hydrology Forum ", an on-line discussion group for hydrologic news, issues, jobs and technology.

Three Mountain Alliance You may have seen the Thursday May 29, 2008 Honolulu Advertiser article about the Three Mountain Alliance, a partnership to protect watersheds and natural resources across Mauna Loa, Kilauea and Hualalai on the Island of Hawaii. You can read more about the Three Mountain Alliance...

The U.S. federal government Climate Change Science Program has released its synthesis and assessment report on May 27, 2008. The report is entitled "Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 (SAP 4.3): The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in...

Thanks, Travis. If others have ideas about other locations for experimental field sites, please respond. As a next step in the conversation, could we pick a few of these and begin to develop compelling cases for proposing some research in these areas. What do these places have in common (besides Hawaii...