Symposium to be held Feb. 23-24
NMSU conference on efficient water use in urban landscapes
By Jennifer Gipson
The Rio Grande Basin Initiative, in partnership with New Mexico State University, will be co-sponsoring the first annual “Symposium on Efficient Water Use in the Urban Landscape” in Las Cruces. The symposium will be held February 23 and 24, 2006, on the New Mexico State University campus. Rolston St. Hilaire is the conference chairman and is working along side Jeanine Castillo on coordinating the event.
The goal of the symposium is to provide opportunities for water and landscape professionals to share their knowledge and scientific methods. A focus of the conference will be to update and identify methods by which to increase the efficiency of water use in the urban landscape. Another goal of the symposium is to compile and publish a proceedings publication. More information on the “Call for Papers” can be found on the conference Web site at http://spectre.nmsu.edu/water.
The keynote speaker for the conference will be David Zoldoske, who works for the Center for Irrigation Technology at California State University in Fresno. The topic of his presentation will be ‘smart irrigation.’ Other invited speakers will address landscape irrigation and technologies, ornamental plants for moisture limited landscapes, sociohorticulture issues in the urban landscape, and policy and ordinances affecting the urban landscape.
Registration will be $75 before February 3, 2006, and $100 after February 3. Please visit the conference Web site for additional information or contact Jeanine Castillo at (505) 649-0501 or rjeanine@nmsu.edu.
