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Cienega Creek Headcut - the story of a catastrophic erosional feature in our own back yard |
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6:00 PM |
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Lower Cienega Creek is one of the few low-elevation perennial streams in southern Arizona. A rare gem in the desert, it provides habitat for native species, connection between sky island retreats and water to the Tucson metropolitan area. Pima County has long recognized the value of this resource and after creating a County Natural Preserve around the creek, along with Pima Association of Governments (PAG), successfully nominated the creek as an Arizona Outstanding Water. After more than 15 years of monitoring groundwater levels and surface water flows along the creek, PAG noted an erosional headcut developing in 2001. Since that time, the headcut has deepened and widened, lowering the creek more than 12 feet near the bottom of the headcut and spreading more than 4000 feet up the creek since its inception. In 2007, PAG received an AZ Water Protection Fund grant to study the geomorphic, hydrologic and habitat changes as the erosion progressed over a two year period. Claire Zucker, Watershed Planning Manager and Mead Mier, Senior Watershed Planner, both from Pima Association of Governments, will provide an overview of the research findings and take you on a virtual field trip down the creek. |
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The Tucson Chapter of the Arizona Hydrological Society (AHS) is pleased to announce an 8-hour workshop to be presented by Glenn M. Duffield of HydroSOLVE, Inc. at the AHS Annual Symposium in Tucson, Arizona. All profits generated by the workshop will go to support the Leonard Halpenny Intern-Scholarship of the Tucson Chapter of AHS.
Date: September 1, 2010
Time: 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m.
Location: Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa, Tucson, Arizona
Course Fee: $350 for 8-hour workshop
This course addresses advanced techniques for aquifer test analysis and interpretation.
Attendees will benefit by learning derivative analysis, a powerful diagnostic tool which has received little attention from groundwater scientists in the interpretation of pumping test data, as well as the Argawal method of recovery analysis which applies the same diagnostic principles and type curves used for drawdown analysis in the interpretation of recovery data. Several hours of the workshop are devoted to hands-on exercises demonstrating these advanced methods, case histories from Arizona test data, and strategies for handling insensitive parameters and parameter correlation during estimation of aquifer properties (See attached course outline).
Registration
AHS is pleased to be able to offer the workshop at a significantly reduced rate of $350. Please visit the AHS 2010 symposium website to register.
You will receive a bound course notebook containing class notes. Course attendees must register by August 23 to reserve a spot in the workshop and to ensure a printed copy of course materials. Registration also includes a morning coffee and snack break and an afternoon break. Lunch will not be provided, but may be purchased from one of four restaurants/snack shops on site. Menus are available in advance upon request. Click here for flyer. Click here for course outline.
2010 Symposium Planning Committee
The next AHS Symposium Planning Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday August 4, 2010 at 6:00 pm at SAHRA in Tucson, 845 N. Park near the University. We are now accepting volunteers for on-site help with the sympoiusm. Please contact Shane Clark, University of Arizona, at hopper@email.arizona.edu or hydrosymposium@a6consultants.com for details.
How to see you there! Thanks!
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October 12, 2010 For general information about chapter meetings, click here. |
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