Events Calendar

Date:
April 1, 2014
Start:
12:00pm
End:
1:00pm
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Location:
TNH 3.126 (Ratliff Classroom)
Event type:
Lunch

Join us for the fifth and final installment of the Energy Center’s Spring 2014 Distinguished Lecture Series. Listen to water experts Christy Muse, Executive Director, Hill Country Alliance (HCA), and Lyn Clancy, Senior Water Policy Advisor at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), discuss the severe drought gripping Central Texas/Hill Country that shows little sign of relenting in 2014 and its environmental implications.

Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to mpajon@law.utexas.edu.

About Christy Muse Since 2005, Christy Muse has served as the Executive Director of HCA. She travels extensively throughout the Hill Country hosting gatherings of interested stakeholders, speaking at community meetings, participating in educational programs, and meeting with landowners and residents alike. Her personal HCA objectives are to weave a network of smart action-oriented people who care about this special region, to connect the many valuable conservation initiatives, to avoid redundancy, and to create unique informative resources that are shared freely and generously.

About Lyn Clancy A frequent presenter on water rights, Lyn Clancy is Senior Water Policy at LCRA and is editor-in-chief of the Texas Environmental Law Journal. Her specialties include: Texas water rights, water supply acquisition and development, river management and flood liability, and water policy and planning. Clancy served as chair of the Water Laws committee on the Texas Water Conservation Association and received the President’s Award in 2007. She holds a master’s degree in water resources management and water chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. >

Specific audiences:
  • Texas Law students
  • Prospective students
  • Texas Law alumni
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • General public

If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the sponsor listed above or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.