NMSU Clusters

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NMSU Clusters
1. Southwest Border Health, Education,
Culture, and Development 2. Information
Sciences and Security Systems 3. Systems
Biosciences 4. Twenty-First Century Aerospace
5. Natural Resources Sustainability and
Renewal
Land SubCluster
Water SubCluster
Energy SubCluster
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Water SubCluster
Formulation And Strategic Plan
Anyone who solves the problem of water deserves
not one Nobel Prize but two one for science and
the other for peace. President John F. Kennedy
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Accomplishments

• Dec 2004 Endorsement from VP- Research
• to proceed
• Jan 12, 2005 Half-day workshop
• Formation of a strategic planning
  committee
• Feb 11 Meeting
• Feb 25
• Mar 1
• April 1
• April 11 Presentation to President Martin
• May 3 Presentation to Don Birx

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Committee

• College of Agriculture Frank Ward
• and Home Economics Craig Runyan
• Terrell Baker
• 
  Thomas Schmugge
• College of Engineering Phil King
  Martha Mitchell
• Adrian Hanson
• Rich Hills
• College of Arts and Sciences Kevin Oshima
• Chris Brown
• Jose Garcia
• College of Business Administration James Peach
• And Economics Tony Popp

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Committee

• College of Education Susan Brown
• College of Health and Hugo Vilchis
• Social Services
• New Mexico Department of Tim Darden
• Agriculture
• Border Outreach Erin Ward
• WERC Abbas Ghassemi
• WRRI Karl Wood
• John Hernandez

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Highlights of the Strategic Plan

• Vision
• To be a regional, national, and international
  leader in water research, technology, education,
  service, and policy.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
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Steering Committee

• Director Karl Wood WRRI

• Members
• - Agriculture Home Economics Frank Ward
• - Engineering Rich Hills
• - Arts Sciences Kevin Oshima
• - Business Administration James Peach
• Economics
• - Health and Social Services Steve Arnold
• - Education Susan Brown

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Name of the Water SubCluster

• The Water Science and Education Center
• Includes about 80 researchers
• and educators at NMSU

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College of Agriculture and Home Economics

• Rossana Sallenave
• William Lindeman
• Thomas Schmugge
• Robert Sanderson
• Max Bleiweiss
• Wiebke Boeing
• Ryan Goss
• Curtis Smith
• Erin Silva
• Rolston St. Hilaire
• Connie Falk
• Erin Silva
• Rene Hadjigeorgalis
• Jill Schroeder
• Dan Smeal
• Mick ONeill
• Ted Sammis
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• April Ulery
• Brian Hurd
• Bill Boyle
• Colleen Caldwell
• David Cowley
• Curtis Monger
• Craig Runyan
• Sam Fernald
• Frank Ward
• Gino Picchioni
• John Mexal
• Leann Demouche
• Bernd Leinauer
• Red Baker
• Rich Phillips
• Rhonda Skaggs
• Rick Arnold
• Steve Guldan
• George Dickerson

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Water SubCluster Members College of
Engineering Abbas Ghassemi Adrian
Hansen Fernando Cadena Phil King John
Zellmer Ken White Martha Mitchell Nagamany
Nirmalakhandan Rich Hills David Rockstraw Rudi
Schoenmackers Kenny Stevens Zohrab
Samani Bawazir Salim Shuguang Deng n15
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• College of Education
• Susan Brown
• College of Arts and Sciences
• Skip Botsford
• Chris Brown
• Greg Mack
• Vince Gutschick
• Jose Garcia
• Kevin Oshima
• Mike Demers
• Thomas Giordano
• Tim Lawton
• Wolfgang Mueller n10

• College of Business Administration and Economics
• Jim Peach
• Marta Remmenga
• Bill Gould
• Tony Popp
• Tom McGuckin n5
• College of Health and Social Services
• Steve Arnold
• Hugo Vilchis n2

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• PSL
• Andrew Barber
• Bill Gutman
• Bob Silver
• David Cunniff

• U. S. Government on campus
• Howard Ness USFWS
• Jeff Herrick USDA ARS
• Al Rango USDA ARS
• Keirith Snyder USDA ARS
• Sandy Tartowski USDA ARS
• Enrique Gomez-Landesa USDA ARS
• Rick Huff USGS

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Highlights of the Strategic Plan

• Mission

The Center supports the mission of New Mexico
State University by providing leadership in the
application of basic and applied science for the
effective management of water resources by
1) Enhancing excellence in water resources
research
2) Promoting educational opportunities for all
ages in water resources
3) Supporting information and technology
transfer programs
4) Providing expertise and assistance in public
service activities
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Goals

• Goal 1 To integrate multidisciplinary
  education, research and service
• related to water

• Goal 2 To advance science, technology
• and policy in water resources

• Goal 3 To develop human and financial resources
  to advance the mission of the Center

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Highlights

• Develop and formalize a multidisciplinary degree
  program
• Facilitate opportunities for greater
  multidisciplinary research
• Promote opportunities for multidisciplinary
  outreach
• Formalize a structure to identify stakeholders
• Identify critical water issues, research, and
  technology needs
• Partner with government, private, academic, and
  other entities to set priorities and develop
  resources
• Promote technology transfer and the dissemination
  and application of research

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Highlights

• Interact with media and community
• Mobilize available talent to identify fundable
  priority areas
• Develop a resource stream for seed efforts in
  areas of critical need
• Use existing WRRI infrastructure to facilitate
• management of the Water SubCluster
• Develop needed administrative resources and
  infrastructure
• Inter-college steering committee
• Outside advisory group
• Develop a network of advocates
• Be selfsupporting within 5 years with 20
  million budget

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Budget Request for July 1, 2005

• Proposal Coordinator 100 K
• Student Labor 10 K
• Outreach Training 20 K
• Research Needs Survey 5 K
• Conferences and Reports 5 K
• External Advisory Committee 10 K
• Research Assistantships 100 K
• and Mini-Grants
• Total 250 K

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This is a sunrise, not a sunset!
A new day!
Smooth seas do not make skillful
sailors African proverb
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The future aint what it used to be
Yogi Berra