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<br />Larry Baker (WRC) and co-authors
<br />published "Environmental Consequences
<br />of Rapid Urbanization in Warm, Arid
<br />Lands: Case Study of Phoenix, Arizona
<br />(USA)" in The Sustainable City III, part of
<br />the Advances in Architecture Series
<br />published by WIT Press, Boston.
<br />Ken Brooks (Forest Resources) presented
<br />an invited paper titled "Upland Watershed
<br />Management: Sustaining Land and Water
<br />Resources" at the Henry A. Wallace/
<br />CATIEIriter-American Conference Series,
<br />May 2-5, 2(}04, held at CATIE, Turrialba,
<br />Costa Rica_ The conference was spon-
<br />sored by USDA, the Global Water Partner-
<br />ship and the Inter-American Institute for
<br />Cooperation on Agriculture.
<br />Emi Ito (Geology and Geophysics and
<br />Limnological Research Center) participated
<br />in the annual Drilling, Observation and
<br />Sampling of Earth's Continental Crust
<br />workshop and also attended the Board of
<br />Directors meeting, held inmid-May.
<br />Barb Liukkonen (WRC, Sea Grant, and
<br />University of Minnesota Extension)
<br />presented the paper "Use care when water
<br />gardening and restoring shorelines:
<br />Prevent the spread of aquatic exotics" at
<br />the biennial meeting of the Association of
<br />Natural Resource Extension Professionals
<br />in Wheeling, West Virginia, May 16-18.
<br />She also presented "Enhancing Citizen E.
<br />Coli Monitoring in Streams in the Upper
<br />Midwest" at the National Water Quality
<br />Monitoring conference in Chattanooga,
<br />Tennessee, May 17-20.
<br />Doug Schnurrenberger (LacCore curator),
<br />Anders Noren (Limnological Research
<br />Center), and Ph.D. student Mark Shapley
<br />(Geology and Geophysics) went to Spain
<br />for a month this spring to collect sediment
<br />cores from more than a dozen lakes using
<br />the LRC Kullenberg coring system (see
<br />article on page 4).
<br />Doug Schnurrenberger went to Ghana in
<br />July to work with scientists from several
<br />countries on an International Continental
<br />Drilling Programme and NSF drilling
<br />project to obtain sediments and shocked
<br />rocks from Lake Bosumtwi, an impact
<br />crater..
<br />Harvey Thorleifson, the director of the
<br />Minnesota State Geological Survey, Emi
<br />Ito, and Paul Morin (Geology & Geophys-
<br />ics) submitted a collaborative proposal to
<br />NSF's Computer and Information Science
<br />Directorate to jointly develop a 3-D
<br />hydrostratigraphic map of Minnesota and
<br />surrounding regions with scientists from
<br />the Electronic Visualization Laboratory,
<br />University of Illinois at Chicago.
<br />llniversity of Minnesota
<br />Water Resources Science Program
<br />Degree Recipienfs
<br />~i'illiain Hcrb received ~ui;\~I,S. in ~1~ril
<br />2004. I Iis thesis Lvas titled "'Che Lffec( of°
<br />Lm~ironmctitai and Physiological
<br />Variable oi3 the Growth ofSUbmcrscd
<br />Ivhicrt~Phytes in Lakes." I4erh's ad~~isor~.
<br />wqs Heim Stefan (Civil Lngineerizig).
<br />Shannon Scihilia-Skall~~ received yin
<br />M.S. iii l~pri12004: The tine. ~f her i'lan B
<br />1riPer was "Idydtoaet~ustic Surveys:
<br />Repeatability in Lakes of ~/arying
<br />Vegetative Structure."Scibitia-Ska11y
<br />vas aclviscd by lien Brogl.s; (I~oiest
<br />Resciurc~cs).
<br />(:arrie Reinhardt received a Ph.D. in
<br />f~pul 2(lU4_ l icrrlisscrtatiunwas tiElc:d
<br />Increasing Wetland Rcstorxtion
<br />Su~~e~s Fileeti~°eControl Terhniqu~s
<br />for the Invasive Phalanx Aninrima~ea."~°
<br />~ Ri:inhardt's <ictvi5or was Susdn
<br />'~, Galatowitsch(Iic~rticulturcScicnccand `~
<br />Landscape Architecture).
<br />LaurieNairchild rcceivedanl~LS. in
<br />Nliy 200=1. The title of her Plan B pii~er ~,`
<br />was "Private~Landowner Perspectives
<br />Affecting Retention c_>f Restored.
<br />`Veilauls." Fairchtld w is advised by~-, ,
<br />1)OTOthy AndfrSOn (L i ~ICaI l~~ ~~ ,~ Ii ~~~> I
<br />.lerem~ 1°73 ~h~hr~~~u~ ~(;Ul'tiLS. ui~
<br />June 2~1i 14. (lip I I icsi ~ ~~. ~iti i itlr~l "f ;f~f~x ls'. ~`
<br />of Sub \V~iit~•r l.i(~Ic f~luiin„ isn the
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<br />2003-2004 WRS Travel Grants
<br />The following WRS students were awarded travel grants to attend national
<br />conferences during the 2003-2004 academic year:
<br />Meghan Brown
<br />William Christner
<br />Michael Donahue
<br />Melinda Erickson
<br />Rebecca Forman
<br />Nathaniel Hemstad
<br />Brian Huser
<br />Lindsay Powers
<br />Came Reinhardt
<br />Kari Rolf
<br />Claire Serieyssol
<br />Holly Swanson Dolliver
<br />Valerie Were
<br />Joseph Werne
<br />Funding was provided to the WRS program via a Graduate School Block grant.
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