Soil Science Society of America Annual Meetings, Oct. 31-Nov.4, 1999. Salt Lake City, UT, poster presented by Aaron Steinwand: Transpiration coefficients for three Great Basin shrubs.

Devil's Hole 2000 Workshop. May 2-4, 2000. Bob Harrington and Randy Jackson.

DWR Bulletin 118 Workshop. Randy Jackson.

Estimating Natural Recharge Workshop, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, March 22. Bob Harrington

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 13-17, 1999. Bob Harrington presented a poster titled "Regression Modeling of Water Table Fluctuations for Management of Groundwater Pumping in Phreatophytic Vegetation."

Ecological Society of America. Aug 1999. Spokane, WA. Patterns of vegetation response to groundwater pumping detected with field monitoring and Landsat TM data. Poster presentation by Sara J. Manning, John F. Mustard and Andrew J. Elmore.

Ecological Society of America. Aug 1999. Spokane, WA. Precision and accuracy of remotely sensed data for quantitative analysis of vegetation change in a semi-arid region. Oral presentation by Andrew J. Elmore, John F. Mustard, Sara Manning, and David Lobell.

Nevada State GIS Conference. April 1999, Reno, NV. Poster co-presented by Chris Howard. Case studies in collaboration: Establishment of the GIS facility and Eastern Sierra node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse at UC White Mountain Research Station.

E d u c a t i o n

University of California Environmental Biology "Supercourse." Invited instructor, field trip leader, and student research project advisor. Sally Manning.

Eastern Sierra Institute (through Inyo County Office of Education), field and classroom presentations to elementary and high school students from Los Angeles. Sally Manning.

Brown University Undergraduate Thesis Advisor: Telling a Story from the Ground Up: Land-use History and Vegetation Change in Owens Valley, California. By Virali Gokaldas. Sally Manning. July 1999.

Home Street School Inventor's Fair judge. Sally Manning.

Round Valley School Science Fair judge. Irene Yamashita and Sally Manning.

Inyo County science fair judge. Aaron Steinwand.

Presentation for Friends of White Mountain Research Station lecture series. Owens Valley Soils: The Earth Beneath Your Feet. Aaron Steinwand. April 13, 2000.

Assisted with field trips conducted by North Dakota State University Geosciences Department, March 15-16, 2000, and University of California, Riverside Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences. Aaron Steinwand. May 4-5, 2000.

Eastern Sierra Weed Management Area information booth at Inyo County Fairgrounds. Brian Cashore and Rick Puskar.

Contributor, Eastern Sierra Weed Management Area Noxious Weed Identification Handbook. Brian Cashore, Chris Howard.

A c c o m p l i s h m e n t s

Eastern Sierra Weed Management Area was awarded a $45,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for cooperative interagency weed control work in the Owens Valley. The Inyo County Saltcedar Control Program is a member of ESWMA.

Vice-Chairman, Eastern Sierra Land Information System Network. Chris Howard.