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2011
Friday, April 1st
8:00 AM

Event program

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

8:45 AM

Keynote 1: Energy and water in the Western and Texas interconnects

Vincent Tidwell, Sandia National Laboratories

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

8:45 AM - 9:15 AM

9:15 AM

Panel discussion presentation: Canada-U.S. transboundary perspectives

David Rudolph, University of Waterloo

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Panel discussion presentation: Columbia River Treaty

Kelvin Ketchum, BC Hydro

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Panel discussion presentation: Regional politics, international dreams

Kathryn Furlong, University de Montreal

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Panel discussion presentation: Thoughts on energy/water nexus – Energy technologies, California case

Terry Surles, Desert Research Institute

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

10:45 AM

Panel discussion presentation: Consequences of global climate change for water quality and community sustainability along the U.S.-Mexico trans-border region

Jorge Duran Encalada, University of the Americas Puebla

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Panel discussion presentation: Everything is connected — Why Mexico’s problems are everyone’s problems on the Colorado River, and the other way around

Bret C. Birdsong, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Panel discussion presentation: Mexico-U.S. transboundary perspectives

Sally Spener, International Boundary and Water Commission

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Panel discussion presentation: The Colorado River — Operation and current conditions

Lorri Gray-Lee, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Panel discussion presentation: U.S. – Mexico transboundary perspectives

Martin J. Pasqualetti, Arizona State University

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

12:30 PM

Keynote 2: The Alberta oil sands — Wrestling bitumen out of the wild North

David Rudolph, University of Waterloo

UNLV Foundation Building, Blasco Event Wing

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM