Watershed Research Symposium February 21, 2013 Final Report

The University of Minnesota Water Resources Center (WRC) led and hosted a Watershed Research Symposium on February 21, 2013 to suggest a water resources research agenda in Minnesota for the next five years, 2013 through 2018. The WRC and Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering hosted a similar event, the Impaired Waters Research Symposium, in February 2008, which resulted in a five-year research agenda. The purpose of both symposia was to bring together researchers, state decision makers, practitioners and citizen representatives to understand the current state of research in managing Minnesota’s water resources and to identify gaps in information and knowledge that could be bridged through additional research. The final report from the first symposium can be found at: http://z.umn.edu/researchsymp1.Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR), the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB), the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (DOA), the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (PCA)