Archive for the ‘At the Water Cooler’ Category

Big Water

February 3, 2012

Dr. David Zetland is one of Aquacue’s esteemed advisors and our go-to guy with big thoughts on big water issues. He examines how economic instruments can help shape policy, distribution and pricing of our favorite resource: water. David is currently collaborating with the Economic Policy Instruments for Water Sustainability in Europe. He’s also a senior water economist at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Recently, David was in our neck of the woods on Wednesday speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. If you missed it you can get the gist of his talk by reading his thought provoking and important book: The End of Abundance: Economic Solutions to Water Scarcity, available in paper, pdf, and Kindle. It’s on our bookshelf at Aquacue. We’re also big fans of his blog, Aquanomics. Read it!

Welcome Reza!

January 27, 2012

It takes a quite a bit of ingenuity to bring simple, easy and innovative solutions to big, real-world problems. Towards that end Dr. Reza Kassayan has recently joined Aquacue’s advisory board as an engineering consultant and technical advisor.

Reza’s specialty is designing ultra-miniaturized embedded computing devices and applications for medical, aerospace, and telemetric industries. Reza brings his broad expertise and brilliant inventiveness to assist Aquacue’s engineering efforts. We look forward to implementing his design contributions and making our products more simple, easy and innovative. Welcome, Reza!

Water Guru on Board!

January 24, 2012

Marty Laporte—one of our earliest adopters and top among our loyal customers—has recently agreed to join the Aquacue Advisory Board. Marty is a seasoned water professional versed in all manner of water management. She has initiated many water efficiency and water conservation studies and programs at Stanford University in her role as Associate Director, Environmental Quality & Water Conservation in the department of Sustainability and Energy Management.

She’s a leader among state, regional and urban water/sustainability managers, and has published and presented on conservation measures and many best management practices. We look forward to a long and enriching collaboration with Marty. You can read her brief bio on Aquacue’s website but we wanted to be a little bit more effusive about her here. Welcome, Marty!

Farvel Morten!

January 6, 2012

Today is Morten’s last day as an Aquanaut. He’s going back to the land of the Vikings to finish his Master’s Degree. His sunny personality kept the clouds away from Northern California, making it the driest December on record! He also made many valuable contributions to our worthy endeavor. Here he is raising a glass to the future of Aquacue! We raise a glass in return.

Farewell, Morten!

Welcome, Morten!

October 21, 2011

Next in our series of intrepid interns: Morten Skovgaard who hails all the way from Denmark. Morten is in graduate school at Aarhus University studying for a Masters in Business with a focus on Strategy, Organization and Leadership. Morten has already distinguished himself here at Aquacue by his off-hours adventures. A few weekends back he rents a muscle car, loads up on cheap gasoline, tears out on the wide open spaces (to Oregon and back in a weekend) and gets a whopper of a speeding ticket. We like this story at Aquacue.

Morten is helping to analyze market opportunities for Aquacue, and we all enjoy his enthusiasm, his willingness to work hard or to have a beer!  Here’s a picture with his latest Hertz upgrade. Welcome, Morten!

Here’s Tommy!

July 11, 2011

Tommy Alexander joined the ranks of esteemed Aquacue interns a couple of weeks ago – right after completing his freshman year at UC Santa Barbara studying environmental stuff. Tommy is charged with undertaking a number of research projects and organizing data spreadsheets. He’s even willing to solder – we’ll see about that.  Welcome aboard Tommy! We look forward to working with you this summer.

Introducing Andrey Trufkin

July 5, 2011

Andrey Trufkin, a brilliant and accomplished Stanford MBA candidate is Aquacue’s new intern. We’re delighted to welcome Andrey to the team and look forward to working together to create the world’s best water management products and services.  Andrey will be sharing his ideas and observations that will help shape the destiny of water management for decades to come.  But first, Andrey, what’s up with the latte order? They’re getting cold.


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