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<br />On October 7, twelve members of the Water Resources Stu-
<br />dents in Action (WRSIA) and Environmental Studies Club (ESC)
<br />joined forces to clean up the Santa wetland on the St. Paul campus
<br />of the University. Armed with garbage bags and outfitted with
<br />boots, gloves, and even waders, the students combed the wetland
<br />for garbage, finding a car tire, a wooden pallet, and numerous balls
<br />among the commonplace bottles and cans, cigarette butts, and
<br />candy wrappers. The students even rescued a kitten from a tree.
<br />The kitten was taken to the veterinarian for acheck-up and adopted
<br />by a member of the ESC.
<br />The clean-up effort came one month after the end of the Min-
<br />nesota State Fair, which takes place next-door and contributes
<br />stormwater runoff to the wetland. This stormwater runoff can carry
<br />with it many seen and unseen pollutants. The students found more
<br />than one beverage cup bearing the State Fair logo. In addition to a
<br />portion of the State Fair grounds, the entire St. Paul campus drains
<br />to the wetland.
<br />For more information on ESC and WRSIA activities, visit the
<br />groups' Web sites at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ESCers/ and
<br />http://wrs.coafes.umn.edu/WRSIA/, respectively.
<br />WRSIA co-leaders, Erica Schram (1) and Paul Hartzheim (r), joined other
<br />members of their group and the ESC to remove trash from the Santa
<br />wetland. Each student removed at least one full bag of garbage.
<br />C staff receives
<br />xtesio Faculty award
<br />We at the Water Resources Center are
<br />extremely proud to announce that Barbara
<br />Liukkonen has received the 2005 Dean
<br />and Director's Distinguished Extension
<br />Faculty Award. Barb's appointment
<br />is divided equally between the Water
<br />Resources Center and the Minnesota Sea
<br />Grant Program. This award is the highest
<br />honor available to Extension faculty,
<br />awarded annually to one Extension
<br />campus-based faculty member and
<br />one field-based Extension educator.
<br />Selections are made by a committee from
<br />nominations by Extension colleagues.
<br />Barb's nomination was crowded with
<br />accolades describing her excellent work
<br />and her extraordinary devotion to quality
<br />Extension programming. In his letter of
<br />support, Jim Anderson wrote, "Barb is
<br />one of the most deserving people I know
<br />for this award. She thinks, eats, sleeps,
<br />and breathes extension work. If I were to
<br />select the attributes of an ideal Extension
<br />Educator, Barb would be the model." Our
<br />warmest congratulations to Barb.
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<br />C forums on resources, Minnesota and beyond
<br />During the fall season, the WRC
<br />sponsored two important forums:
<br />The Mekong-Mississippi Partnership
<br />Forum, A Meeting of Two Rivers; and
<br />Minnesota's Landscape and the Emerg-
<br />ing Carbon Market, Terrestrial Carbon
<br />Sequestration Forum. Both forums took
<br />place at the Cargill Building on the St.
<br />Paul Campus, and were well attended.
<br />On October 17, Dr Jeffrey Jacobs
<br />(Senior Program Officer, Water Science
<br />and Technology Board, National Re-
<br />search Council) and Timothy Sullivan
<br />(President and CEO, Mississippi River
<br />Institute for Global Cooperation) spoke
<br />at the Mekong-Mississippi Partnership
<br />Forum. Jacobs talk compared and con-
<br />trasted the management approaches of
<br />many of the large rivers systems of the
<br />U.S., including the Colorado, Colum-
<br />bia, Missouri, and Upper Mississippi
<br />Rivers. Later, Sullivan detailed similari-
<br />ties between the Mekong and Missis-
<br />sippi Rivers. He went onto explain the
<br />collaborative partnership between the
<br />WRC, Mississippi River Basin Alliance,
<br />Mississippi River Institute for Global
<br />Cooperation, and Mekong River Com-
<br />mission, and how lessons learned from
<br />Mississippi River management can aid
<br />in development of the Lower Mekong
<br />River Basin.
<br />On November 14, the first of three
<br />forums on Terrestrial Carbon Sequestra-
<br />tionopened the door for carbon seques-
<br />tration in Minnesota by discussing its
<br />economic, biophysical, and institutional
<br />aspects. This forum featured many
<br />speakers, including Aldyen Donnelly,
<br />President of Greenhouse Emissions
<br />Management Consortium, anot-for-
<br />profit Canadian corporation committed
<br />to the development of a viable market
<br />in greenhouse gas emission reduction
<br />credits. She discussed the Canadian
<br />carbon market and the many ways that
<br />Minnesota can learn from and improve
<br />upon it. Donnelly believes that Minne-
<br />sota is in the position to be a leader in a
<br />U.S. carbon market.. The next rivo car-
<br />bon sequestration forums will be held
<br />on March 9 and Apri120, 2006, and will
<br />focus on biophysical, and economic and
<br />institutional aspects, respectively.
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<br />December 2005
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