2026 Arkansas Agriculture, Forests, and Water Conference
Date: July 28-30, 2026 More Information: Annual Conference The Arkansas Water Resources Center hosts an annual water and watersheds conference. The Center partners with state agencies, watershed groups, and the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. The conference brings water stakeholders together to share ideas and experiences that will help researchers, state agencies, and resource […]
Webinar – Assessing Source Springs and Fish SGCN in the Northwest Karst Region of Arkansas
Date & Time: Oct 15, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET Registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom Springs create unique aquatic habitats which support high levels of biotic diversity. Despite this, they are globally understudied and subsequently under protected. Northwest Arkansas geology is characterized by a mantled karst consisting of a highly fractured soluble limestone bedrock with […]
Webinar – Floodplain Restoration & CommuniTree Program
Date & Time: Sep 17, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET Registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom The Arkansas CommuniTree Project is the first community supported tree bank in Arkansas. Partners are working together to grow high quality potted trees from bare root seedlings. These ‘communitrees’ are then donated to reforestation projects around the state focused on […]
Webinar – Working Lands, Shared Waters: A Collaborative Conservation Case Study in War Eagle Creek
Date & Time: Aug 20, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET Registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom The Beaver Watershed Alliance, in partnership with USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Beaver Water District, Watershed Conservation Resource Center, Northwest Arkansas Land Trust, Farm Bureau – eighteen project partners total, have been working together to implement a Regional Conservation Partnership […]
Webinar – Long-term monitoring reveals the seasonal and annual pulse of a Central Arkansas drinking water reservoir
Date & Time: June 18, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET Registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom Brewer Lake is a mesotrophic drinking water reservoir serving >80,000 people in Central Arkansas. In recent years, this reservoir has exhibited occasional harmful algal blooms and seasonal nuisance taste-odor issues. Toward an ecological diagnosis of the cause, we have monitored […]
Webinar – Land Use Impacts on Water Quality in Central Arkansas: A Three-Year Comparative Study of Urban, Agricultural, and Protected Drinking Water Watersheds
Date & Time: May 21, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET Speaker: Heather Black, PhD, Department of Geology, UALR Registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom Agricultural and urban expansion increasingly impacts water quality in the southeastern United States, yet comprehensive studies comparing agricultural watersheds to other land uses are relatively rare. Understanding these different impacts is critical […]
Webinar – Retrofitting the Urban Landscape for Water Quality
WHEN: April 16, 2026, at 1 PM ET SPEAKER: Annie Sales, Illinois River Watershed Partnership Director of Restoration Services, and Chris Herrera, Stormwater Coordinator for the City of Springdale REGISTRATION: Webinar Registration – Zoom Most urban stormwater infrastructure was designed to move water away quickly, not to protect downstream water quality. In highly impervious cities, this has resulted […]
