Register now for SEC Academic Conference next week at ӽ紫ý
Contact: Allison Matthews
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Registration is continuing for next week’s SEC Academic Conference on “The Future of Water.”
More than 60 researchers will participate as speakers and panelists when Mississippi ӽ紫ý University hosts the March 27-28 event that will include all 14 SEC universities.
“The Future of Water: Regional Collaboration on Shared Climate, Coastlines and Watersheds” is the theme of this year’s conference that will focus on research collaboration. For the complete agenda and registration, visit .
Headlined by best-selling author John M. Barry, former National Geographic executive environment editor Dennis Dimick, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory senior water scientist Jay Famiglietti, the event is engaging experts on a variety of water resource topics.
The conference is designed to stimulate communication and collaboration toward sustainable and resilient water resource management in the Southeast, with overarching themes to include shared inland waters and aquifers, coastlines, climate and regional policy.
The SEC Academic Conference represents an expanded slate of academic programming currently supported by the Southeastern Conference. The on-campus event is expected to showcase SEC university research in areas of critical importance within the region and around the nation. SECU is the academic initiative of the SEC, and it serves as the primary mechanism through which the collaborative academic endeavors and achievements of SEC universities are supported and advanced.
For more on SECU, visit .