http://blog.rushingrivers.org Rushing Rivers Blog Thu, 06 May 2010 14:45:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en March 8, 2010 March Newsflash: Registration Continues For The MesoHABSIM Games In Vancouver! British Columbia, May 25th-28th Registrants may choose an introductory MesoHABSIM course, or an advanced Certification Course. MesoHABSIM courses are designed for decision makers and conservationists, and teach the basics of data collection techniques, data processing, and the ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=52 January 27, 2010 January Newsflash: Setting Sim Stream 7 Free! Rushing Rivers Institute will soon be releasing our Windows XP compatible, cutting edge, meso-scale river management tool to the public. Sim Stream 7 will be downloadable from our Website for free, early this spring. We will include an article describing the features of ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=44 December 23, 2009 December Newsflash: Happy Holidays! May the season find you and your loved ones both happy and healthy! May fish and rivers will be thankful to you for your continuous interest and support! Climate Change: We hope that the current attention to the climate issues will help us promote the River Climate Action ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=46 November 23, 2009 November Newsflash The Fort River Festival: Science and Advocacy We need your help! Your donations are essential to allow Rushing Rivers to continue providing community outreach events like the Fort River Festival. The link between community enjoyment and investment in local resources like the Fort River and a clear scientific ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=47 Dear Rushing Rivers Friends! Here is the update of the latest excitement: 1.      Madrid Course Announcement! This fall, October 19-20 and October 19-22, 2009 is the annual MesoHABSIM Instream Data Collection and Modeling Course.  Students will learn to develop multivariable habitat suitability criteria for native fish species, habitat-flow rating curves, habitat ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=38 On Saturday, the first of August, a terribly sad incident occurred. Shanara Henry, 18, disappeared on the Deerfield River while tubing with eleven companions without a life vest. Unable to swim, law enforcement officials are worried that she may have drowned. The group claims that they had all hit strong ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=36 For the past eight years villagers in Nyamongo, Tanzania suffered from 300 Cow deaths and 30 human deaths from contamination in the Tigite River due to leakage from the North Mara Gold Mine’s tailing ponds. Patty Magubira writes an article about the calling for resignation of the Social Welfare minister ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=35 On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, at 11 am our very own Dr. Piotr Parasiewicz entered the Massachusetts State House to give his professional scientific testimony on the new House Bill 834, An Act Relative to Sustainable Water Resources filed by Representative Frank Smizik. This Bill had the ears of ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=34 On April 18,2009, a rally was held in Western Massachusetts, protesting the institution of six biomass plants. Jana Chicoine, a spokeswoman for the citizens against biomass said, “eighty percent of green energy is actually coming to us out of a smokestack.” A recent report testified that burning wood ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=32 Recently, The Chipewyan and Cree Indians in Alberta, near the Athabasca River, were forced to relocate when without notice Syncrude, the largest oil-producer of Canada, demolished their homes and built six oil mines at a twenty mile radius that release contaminated discharges into tailing ponds. April 2008, hundreds of migrating ... http://blog.rushingrivers.org/?p=30