ABSTRACT DEADLINE:
October 14, 2005

Abstracts for consideration for presentation at the Sixteenth Tennessee Water Resources Symposium will be accepted through October 14, 2005. Abstracts must not exceed 250 words or a single page and must address water-resource issues (click here for topic list) relevant to the Southeast Region. Abstracts must conform to the formatting requirements outlined below:

FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS FOR PAPER/POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

TITLE: ALL CAPS, ARIAL, 12point, BOLD, CENTERED, SINGLE SPACED

 Author Name(s): centered, 12pt, Times New Roman, no bold, 
with contact information in footnote[1]*

* indicates the speaker presenting the paper

[note: use the Insert, footnote, autonumber option in Word to insert footnote] 

SECTION HEADING: ALL CAPS, ARIAL, 12 PT, BOLD, CENTERED, SINGLE SPACED

Text: Times New Roman, 11 or 12pt, single spaced, no indents, 1 inch margins, left justified

Download an Abstract example in Microsoft Word

INFORMATION REQUIRED WITH ORAL/POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS:

Abstract Title:
Oral* or Poster Presentation:
Student Presentation (Y/N):

Abstract Contact Person
Name:
Organization/Company:
Address:
City, State, Zip Code:
Email:
Presentation Speaker same as "Abstract Contact" (Y/N*):

*For Oral Presentations Only - If Speaker Different than Abstract Contact
Speaker Name:
Organization/Company:
Address:
City, State, Zip Code:
Email:

Submit this information along with oral or poster abstracts for consideration to:

Brian Waldron
The University of Memphis
Ground Water Institute
301 Engineering Admin Blvd
Memphis, TN 38152-3170
bwaldron@memphis.edu
Tel: (901) 678-3913

TOPICS FOR PRESENTATIONS
We accept papers from a wide variety of water-resource topics. Below are examples of topics from past Symposia:

• Application of geographic information systems

• Biotechnology

• Effects of land uses (agriculture, urbanization, forestry)

• Ground-water bioremediation

• Ground-water protection

• Geomorphology

• Hydrology

• Hydrologic Investigations

• Modeling surface and ground water quality and quantity

• New technologies

• Non-point source management

• Outreach and education

• Reservoir management

• Surface and ground water interactions

• Water quality monitoring and assessments

• Water resource partnerships

• Water use--drought management, regional supply management and policy

• Watershed planning

• Wetlands

ABSTRACT NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE:
November 1, 2005

GUIDELINES FOR ACCEPTED ORAL PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS:

• Limited to a 20-minute talk with 10-minute question-and-answer session. 

• Acceptance requires preparation and submittal of paper limited to 4 pages with 2 additional pages of illustrations. Your paper will be published in the proceedings of the symposium and must comply with submission guidelines. 

• Detailed instructions for submitting papers, including an example, will be provided online at a future date.

GUIDELINES FOR ACCEPTED POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS:

• Poster session limited to 20 student and 10 professional posters due to space limitations. 

• Selection will be based on quality and content of abstracts. 

• Posters should be mounted on poster-board no larger than 3’x5’. 

• All posters must be displayed by 8:00 a.m. Thursday, April 20. 

• Presenters of student posters are required to give a brief synopsis (5 minutes or less) of their poster to poster judges during Poster Session at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20 . 

• Easels will be provided.

• An award for the best student poster will be presented at the annual TN Chapter Meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20.

ALL PRESENTERS MUST REGISTER FOR SYMPOSIUM BY:
February 24, 2006.  Registration fee for presenters is $100 (students $30).