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® s The Water Resources Science program celebrates the beginning of the 2004-2005 academic year by welcoming eighteen new students to the program, thirteen M.S. and five Ph.D. students. The new students join the WRS program this fail from as close as the Twin Cities campus and as far away as National Taiwan University. Among the incoming class are Y-Wen Chiu and Jared Trost. Chiu received a B.S. in Forestry from National Taiwan Univer- sity inTaipei, Taiwan. Chiu came to the WRS program for its wide selection of courses and research opportunities. She will be focusing on watershed management with John Nieber (Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering). Trost received a B.A. in Biology fromAugsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is currently involved in several long-term ecological experiments at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, including one that examines ecosystem function within oak savanna/ woodland plots with varying burn frequen- cies. Trost is advised by Ray Newman (Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology). Three new faces around the WRC office are incoming WRS graduate students Paul Hartzheim, Eric Otto, and Erica Schram. Hartzheim received a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Minnesota. He is working with Larry Baker (Water Resources Center) on WRS continued on page 5 University staff collect sediment cores in Spain The Limnological Research Center Kullenberg coring .~_,~~ system on Lago de ~ ~„~ ~ °~" =;~ Montcortes in the 4~„ ~, r ~, ,,~,~ foothills of the Spanish = ~' ` ~t : ~ Pyrenees. The ~ ~ e~ . . . t expedition included ' Anders Noren, Doug Schnurrenberger, ~~ , a Penelope Gonzalez, Blas Valero Garces, --.«.- Valenti Rull, Mark Shapley, and Ana ~' Moreno. Photo by Sant i Giralt. See article on I I Page 4. alenar to speak at oer of Water lecture ~- --- ~- - ; I ~~ ~"his Issue Professor Malin Falkenmark of the Stockholm International - 4 ` ~~ . ~ - ~ [ i ` Water Institute will deliver the second "Power of Water" lecture, ~ Monday, October 11, 2004, at 5:15 p.m. in the Bell Museum Audito- _ ~ ~ ~~~ 11 tl C t h C St~~ ie y ~=' sw ~ rium. Professor Falkenmark will address "the necessary shift in I is ~ ~x ~; = , " thinking regarding freshwater that will be needed in order to cope J~ ~ E V E' I O ~ Ill e fl t d Il C~ ~" ~ a ;~ - ~ , i . with the upcoming problems of feeding the world while saving ~ h lth " I~~ke clarit y ~ R ea y ecosystems. ~' `'' & ~ ' ~ . ~y * °; Professor Falkenmark is an outstanding environmental scientist and synthesizer, with particular interest in the linkages between ~ S ~~-~SE I11 C CeSE'~31`C Il .3 , ~ humans, land, and water. She takes a geographical approach p ~~ I ` , involving both natural and social science in her broad-scale ~ 6 ~O fll 111 U tl Ity N ~ WS !=`_' ~~~ ~:1 analysis. She has won several international awards and has written ~ Prof Falkenmark received the 1998 I t ti l numerous books and articles. The lecture is free and open to the public as part of the President's 21st Centu Interdisci Ima ~ ry 7 U ~~COlll I Cl ~ EVefI~S n erna ona Hydrology Prize. p ry Conference Series. A reception and signing of her new book will ~ precede the lecture at 4:30 p.m. in the Bell Museum. ~~ - - -~~~~-~.~~~ - Ewa ~ ,.~ Minnegram September 2004