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~~\ ~~` Water Resources Center UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Driven to Discovers' ~~ ~~~ September 2009 Minnesota Water Conference 2 Director's Desk Interview with Betty McCollum ..319 grant awarded to WRC ¢ Value of manure workshop survey Floating classroom on Lake Superior 5 Household pollution study ~ Community News 7 Student News ~ Publications The Water Resources Center is affiliated with the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and University of Minnesota Extension. ter Resources Center 1,,,~versity of Minnesota 1985 Buford Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 612-624-9282 WRC to host annual Minnesota Water Conference The Water Resources Center will host the Fourth annual Minnesota Water Resources Conference at the St. Paul RiverCentre, October 26-27, 2009. The conference will feature research highlights and innovative and practical water resource management approaches, to include: • Best practices in the design and application of water resources management techniques • Implications of water policy decisions • Research into current and emerging issues The conference facilitates interaction among water resources professionals such as resource managers; researchers; local, state, and federal agency staff; consultants; practicing engineers; and students. Six ninety-minute concurrent sessions with four hour-long breakout topics will be offered during the two-day conference. Thez-e will be a poster session and reception at the end of the first day, and posters will be available for viewing throughout both days. The conference is sponsored by the WRC and the College of Continuing Education, and co-sponsored by the Department of Civil Engineering, the Min- nesota Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Minesota Sea Grant, and the Natural Re- sources Research Institute. Register at: wre.umn.edu. Conference keynotes represent research and political arenas Jerry Schnoor Living With a Changing 14~ater Environment. Professor Schnoor is the Allen S. Henry Chair in Engineering and co-director of the Center for Global and Regional Em ironmental Research at the Uni- versity of Iowa. Since 1999, Schnoor has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering, elected for his research using mathematical models in science policy decisions. He chaired the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development, Board of Scientific Counselors, 2000-2004, and is a member of EPA's Science Advisory Board and the National Institutes of Health (IV`IH) National Advisory Em%ironmental Health Sciences (NAEHS) Council. Schnoor is considered one of the founding fathers of phytoremediation, using plants to help clean the environment. He serves as editor-in-chief of the leading international environmental journal, Environmental Science and Technology; and his other research interests include water quality modeling, em~iron- mental observatories, sustainability, and global change. Bette McCollum Building PartnershiPsfor Clean Vl~ater. Ms. Mc- Collum is serving her fifth term in the United States Congress representing Minnesota's Fourth District. She sits on the House Appropriations and Budget Committees and holds the position of Senior Democratic Whip within the House Democratic Caucus. Congresswoman McCollum served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993 to 2000 and was elected Assistant Leader three times by her Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party col- leagues. Throughout her career in public service, Congresswoman McCollum has been a champion for excellence in education and protecting the em-ironment, recently proposing an amendment to the National Water Research and Development Initiative Act that would expand the bill to include evaluation of the nation's water supply for chemical contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds. Conference speakers, continued on page 5 WY'Cet1121I1.eC1i.t Jerry Schnoor, University of Iowa Betty McCollum, U.S. House of Representatives (MN-04)