14TH Water Information Summit - (WIS-14)

Water Information for Sustainable Water Resources Management Miami, Florida

October 22-23, 2013

Florida Earth International Programs

• UNESCO-IHE Florida Program

• USNC Professional Programs

• USNC Academic Program

• Comparative Water Law Course

At-a-Glance

• Begun in 2007

• Based at UNESCO-IHE

• One week delegations to the Netherlands

• Professionals in water-related disciplines

• Delegates come from universities, industry, government and nonprofits

• 78 alumni from 17 states

• Second week of May

USNC Professional Program Partners

Program Format

• One week intensive knowledge exchange

• Exploration of Dutch expertise in water management and infrastructure

• Recent focus on sea-level rise adaptation and resilience

• Engineering and policy perspectives

• Insights into Dutch thought process in problem solving

• Online tools – http://usnc.water.tallyfox.com

Program Expansion

• UK

• Italy

• Israel

• Russia

USNC Academic Program

• Will launch in 2014

• Knowledge Exchange Platform using university institutes in both countries

• 50+ university partners

• Graduate Student Teams

• One week intensive courses for credit in opposite country

• Goal of developing PhD candidate teams given real world problems that relate connect to dissertations

Dutch University Partners

• SENSE – National research university partnership on environment

• Delta Alliance – Global consortium working on delta issues

Inaugural Teams

• Dutch team from Ecoshape partners in South Florida late winter 2014

• US teams in Netherlands • University of Florida – third week of June 2014

• Rice, Texas A&M, LSU – fourth week of June

• Northeastern, MIT, Rhode Island, Tufts – first week of July