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DRAGON News Archive
DRAGON II (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and III (Bangkok, Thailand) in April and May, 2008
DRAGON II was held in conjunction with International Symposium, yy V, Great Lakes of the
World and Rift Valley Lakes: Sustainability, Integrity and Management conference, April 26-30,
2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A DRAGON III workshop was held in conjunction with the Southeast
Asia University Network and an international wetland training course in Bangkok, Thailand,
in May 2008. More...
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DRAGON IV held in Brazil in July 2008
A symposium entitled “USGS Delta Research and Global Observation Network: Large
River Floodplains and Deltas in South America” has been organized by Dr. Beth
Middleton, USGS National Wetlands Research
Center. The DRAGON IV symposium was held in conjunction with the
8th
Intecol Wetlands Conference in Cuiaba, Brazil, July 20-25, 2008. The purpose
of the symposium was to continue to develop a world community of practice focused
on delta and large river science.
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Oil spill threatens Mississippi River delta
On July 23, 2008, a massive oil spill occurred in the Mississippi River
when a 600-foot tanker collided with a barge carrying No. 6 fuel oil near
New Orleans, Louisiana. The spill affected a 100-mile area from New Orleans
to the mouth of the river in the Gulf of Mexico. More...
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DRAGON community contributions
Dr. Michiel van der Meulen has a recent publication in the Journal of Soils and
Sediments that focuses on stakeholder relationships and aggregate extraction plans in
the Dutch Rhine and Meuse Rivers.
van der Meulen, Michiel J., Rijnveld, Marc, Gerrits, Lasse M., Joziasse, Jan, van Heijst,
Max W.I.M., and Gruijters, Stephan H.L.L., 2006,
Handling Sediments in Dutch River Management: The Planning Stage of the Maaswerken River
Widening Project : Journal of Soils
and Sediments, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 163-172.
If you have a paper or dataset to add to the DRAGON network, please click the
Data Upload tab on the DRAGON Web site for instructions.
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