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14TH Water Information Summit - (WIS-14)
Water Information for Sustainable Water Resources Management Miami, Florida
October 22-23, 2013
Florida Earth International Programs
• UNESCO-IHE Florida Program
• USNC Professional Programs
• USNC Academic Program
• Comparative Water Law Course
At-a-Glance
• Begun in 2007
• Based at UNESCO-IHE
• One week delegations to the Netherlands
• Professionals in water-related disciplines
• Delegates come from universities, industry, government and nonprofits
• 78 alumni from 17 states
• Second week of May
USNC Professional Program Partners
Program Format
• One week intensive knowledge exchange
• Exploration of Dutch expertise in water management and infrastructure
• Recent focus on sea-level rise adaptation and resilience
• Engineering and policy perspectives
• Insights into Dutch thought process in problem solving
• Online tools – http://usnc.water.tallyfox.com
Program Expansion
• UK
• Italy
• Israel
• Russia
USNC Academic Program
• Will launch in 2014
• Knowledge Exchange Platform using university institutes in both countries
• 50+ university partners
• Graduate Student Teams
• One week intensive courses for credit in opposite country
• Goal of developing PhD candidate teams given real world problems that relate connect to dissertations
Dutch University Partners
• SENSE – National research university partnership on environment
• Delta Alliance – Global consortium working on delta issues
Inaugural Teams
• Dutch team from Ecoshape partners in South Florida late winter 2014
• US teams in Netherlands • University of Florida – third week of June 2014
• Rice, Texas A&M, LSU – fourth week of June
• Northeastern, MIT, Rhode Island, Tufts – first week of July