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Disclaimer: submissions must be received by 5 pm (MST) on Wednesday for inclusion in that Friday’s newsletter. Please note that in the summer months, the newsletter transitions to a bi-weekly schedule. Additionally, due to space limitations, submission of a water news item / calendar announcement / water job or opportunity does not guarantee it will be included in the Weekly Wave. We will do our best to include all suitable submissions.
- Feb 6: AWRA 2026 Geospatial Water Technology Conference: Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies – Abstract Submission Deadline
- Feb 10: WRRC Water Webinar: Water Infrastructure Security Since 9/11 – What’s New, and Why?
- Feb 10: Running on Empty: Facing Water Scarcity Across the Southwest – Session 2: Arizona's Climate Story: Variability, Change, and What Comes Next; Featuring Michael Crimmins, Climate Scientist, University of Arizona
- Feb 10: Public Hearing and Arizona Water Protection Fund Grant Application Guidelines Request for Comments
- Feb 10: AHS Tucson Chapter Meeting: Continuous Monitoring of an Earth Fissure in Chino, California—A Management Tool
- Feb 11: The Cyborg Watershed of the American West: A Jones Studio Grand Challenges Lecture feat. Lauren Bon
- Feb 12: WRRC 22nd Annual Chocolate Fest
- Feb 14: CWAG General Meeting: Regional Water Issues – A Broader Perspective Featuring Kathryn Sorensen, Director of Research, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, ASU
- Feb 15: Native Voices in Film Screening: The Return of Navajo Boy, an Official Selection of Sundance Film Festival and PBS
- Feb 18: HAS Weekly Talk by Laura Meredith: The Breathing Biosphere–Microbial and Ecosystem VOCs and Trace Gases in a Changing Atmosphere
- Feb 19: Issues and Opportunities at Bartlett Dam: Exploring Impacts – WRRC Co-sponsored Event
- Feb 19: Women Advancing River Research Webinar – “Troubled waters: Hidden challenges for water quality”
- Feb 20: Water Whys Talk with Devin Bayly -- Relating Tabular Data and 3d Models: Visualization Sap Flow in B2 Cacao Tree
- Feb 23: Overcoming the Stalemate on the Drying Tista River: Transboundary Water-sharing Challenges in South Asia – Udall Center/WRRC Co-sponsored Event
- Feb 24: One Water Leadership Webinar: Skills for Navigating Barriers and Driving Progress
- Feb 25: HAS Weekly Talk by Armin Sorooshian: Reflecting on Two Decades of Flying In and Out of Clouds (2026 AMS Walter Orr Roberts Lecture)
- Feb 25: NVIS Spring 2026 Seminar: Partnering with Native American Students and Communities in Science and Training – WRRC Co-sponsored Event
- Feb 26: EPA Office of Water Emergency Response and Cybersecurity Webinar: Water and Wastewater Sector Threat Briefing
- Feb 26: Santa Cruz River Research Days: A Watershed of Protection – Call for Abstracts!
- Feb 28: INITIATE for PhD: A Global Network for Water Research – Cohort 2026 Application Deadline
- Feb 28: AW4A 2026 Photo Contest – Submission Deadline
- Mar 3–5: RiversEdge West 2026 Biennial Riparian Restoration Conference
- Mar 5–6: Sustainable Water Investment Summit 2026
- Mar 6: Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture feat. Michael Sukop (in person)
- Mar 6: Water Whys Talk with Jessica Sickler -- Slowing Down to See More: Using the Arts to Improve Scientific Data Literacy
- Mar 8–14: National Groundwater Awareness Week
- Mar 10: Running on Empty: Facing Water Scarcity Across the Southwest – Session 3: Featuring Chairman Austin Nuñez, San Xavier District, Tohono O’odham Nation
- Mar 13: 7th Annual 2026 Arizona Agribusiness Roundtable
- Mar 15: Summer School H2O’Lyon – ZABR, Gravel Bed Rivers: Ecology, Management and Relationships with Society – Application Deadline
- Mar 16: U of A ENVS Colloquium/Seminar on PFAS Featuring Sharon Udasin (3:00 pm MST) – Save the Date!
- Mar 19: AZ Water Association Spring 2026 Water Distribution Hands on Workshop
- Mar 20: Water Whys Talk – InSightFull: The Ripple Effect of Math Accessibility Updates in Microsoft365
- Mar 22: UN World Water Day: Where Water Flows, Equality Grows
- Mar 23: Special Webinar to Commemorate World Water Day and the World Water Development Report (9:00 am MST) – Save the Date!
- Mar 24: WRRC Water Webinar: Delivering Reliable Water for Arizona Communities — EPCOR’s Water Resources Plan – Save the Date!
- Mar 24: El Día del Agua y la Atmósfera – Free Registration Through Mar 16
- Mar 25: NVIS Spring 2026 Seminar: Creating a Mindful Science: Through Indigenous Eyes – WRRC Co-sponsored Event
- Mar 26: Water Education Foundation’s Water 101 Workshop: The Basics & Beyond
- Mar 26: ENViSion 2026: Shaping Science Through Leadership: Policy Pathways for Environmental Innovation (Keynote Speaker: WRRC Director Sharon B Megdal)
- Mar 31–Apr 2: BSMAR 19 Symposium – Building Resiliency with MAR: Convey, Store and Deliver – Save the Date!
- Apr 3: Water Whys Talk with U of A Assistant Professors Sandra Bae and Takanori Fujiwara -- Communicating Complex Data through 3D Representation: Examples of Planetarium Visualizations and Data Physicalizations
- Apr 3: David R. Maidment Award for Exemplary Contributions to Water Resources Data and Information Systems — Nomination Deadline
- Apr 14–15: WRRC 2026 Annual Conference: Water for Tech, Mining & Energy: Pathways to Arizona's Future – Save the Date!
- Apr 24: 2026 Blitzer Lecture by Ty Ferré, Hydrogeology: The Art of Saying as Much as You Can with the Little Data that You Can Afford
- Apr 24: Call for Contributions: The Water We Want 2026 – Youth Prize Contest for Water Artwork – Submission Deadline
- Apr 28–30: Santa Cruz River Research Days: A Watershed of Protection – Save the Date!
- Apr 29: NVIS Spring 2026 Seminar: TBD – WRRC Co-sponsored Event
- May 18–20: AWRA 2026 Geospatial Water Technology Conference: Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies
- Jun 1: Central Arizona Project Award for Water Research Call for Student Papers – Submission Deadline
- Jun 8–10: UCOWR/NIWR 2026 Annual Water Resources Conference
- Jun 22–25: A Meeting of Sacred Waters 2026: Remembering the Past into the Present – Save the Date!
- Sep 9–11: 2026 AHS Symposium – Save the Date!
- Oct 15: Imagine a Day Without Water
- Oct 29: Water Education Foundation’s 42ⁿᵈ Annual Water Summit – Save the Date!
- Nov 9–11: AWRA 2026 Annual Water Resources Conference – Save the Date!
- Dec 2–4: 2026 United Nations Water Conference – Save the Date!