June 28 2004 - June 30 2004
AWRA Conference: Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers
Location: Resort at Squaw Creek, Olympic Valley, CA
The American Water Resources Association invites you to submit an abstract for its upcoming meeting "Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers: Multi-scale Structure, Function & Management," June 28-30, 2004, Resort at Squaw Creek, Olympic Valley, CA. Abstracts are due January 30, 2004.

We invite presentations (both oral and poster) on a wide range of subjects that tie riparian areas and buffers to water resources issues. The breadth and interdisciplinary nature of riparian areas and buffer technology will encompass presentations in these areas:

• Hydrological, geophysical/chemical, biological processes that control and influence riparian ecosystem and buffers development and dynamics
  
• Riparian and buffer functions related to both water and habitat
  
• Methods to assess, evaluate and predict status of riparian and buffer processes and functions
  
• Design approaches to improve or enhance desired functions of riparian systems and buffers
  
• Economic and social aspects of riparian management
  
• Case studies of riparian restoration and management

    Website: http://www.awra.org/meetings/Olympic2004/index.html