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__ <br />- __. = -- <br />er quality i re topic Conversation <br />On February 28, 2006, WRC Co-director, Deb Swackhamer will be joined by <br />Dr. David Schindler, Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta, for the <br />first installment of the 2006 Great Conversations series. The pair of water quality <br />experts will discuss the obstacles and benefits of preserving the world's water <br />resources in "Protecting Water Quality of Future Generations." The entire Great <br />Conversation series will be held at the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the West Bank <br />campus of the University of Minnesota. For more information, visit the Great <br />Conversations Web site at www.cce.umn.edu/conversations/. <br />Jim Anderson (WRC and Soil, Water, <br />and Climate) was awarded a grant from <br />the Board of Water and Soil Resources <br />for a study on public drainage ditch buffer <br />strips. The study includes a literature <br />review on the use, maintenance, and <br />benefits of buffer strips- <br />E. Calvin Alexander, Jr. (Geology <br />and Geophysics) presented at the <br />Tenth Multidisciplinary Conference <br />on Sinkholes and the Engineering and <br />Environmental Impacts of Karst in San <br />Antonio on September 26. He also chaired <br />two sessions and was co-editor of an <br />ASCE publication. He was co-convener of <br />two sessions at the Geological Society of <br />America Annual Meeting and Exposition <br />in Salt Lake City on October 18. <br />Larry Baker (WRC) and Johanna <br />Schussler (WRS alumna) presented at <br />the North American Lake Management <br />Society. The conference was held in <br />Madison, Wisconsin, November 9-11. <br />Jim Cotner, Claudia Neuhauser <br />(Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior), and <br />Tim LaPara (Civil Engineering) received <br />a National Science Foundation grant to <br />examine microbial diversity and nutrient <br />cycling in lakes. Cotner also received two <br />Initiative for Renewable Energy and the <br />Environment grants. <br />Melinda Erickson (WRS alumna) and <br />Randal Barnes (Civil Engineering) <br />had an article accepted by Applied <br />Geochemistry. Erickson also presented at <br />the Minnesota Ground Water Association's <br />2005 Fall Conference, held in St. Paul on <br />November 17. <br />Barbara Liukkonen presented a poster <br />at the National NPS and Stormwater <br />Education Conference in Chicago, <br />October 17-20 titled "Building the <br />Capacity of Volunteer Monitoring for E. <br />toll in the Upper Midwest." <br />Kris McNeill (Chemistry) and Jim <br />Cotner (Ecology, Evolution, and <br />Behavior) were awarded a grant from the <br />National Science Foundation for their <br />singlet-oxygen project. <br />Hans-Olaf Pfannkuch (Geology and <br />Geophysics) was the guest of honor <br />at the Geological Society of America <br />Annual Meeting and Exposition. During <br />the Hydrogeology Section luncheon, <br />Pfannkuch gave the citation address for <br />the O.E. Meinzer award to his Ph.D. <br />advisee, Don Siegel. <br />Brennon Schaefer (WRS) delivered <br />a presentation at the 13th National <br />Nonpoint Source Monitoring workshop <br />held September 18-22 in Raleigh, North <br />Carolina. He also presented a poster at the <br />Minnesota Water 200 and Annual Water <br />Resources Joint Conference. <br />Matt Simcik (Environmental Health <br />Sciences) had a paper published in <br />Environmental Science and Technology <br />The research that led to the paper was <br />partially funded by the WRC. <br />Congratulations to the Minnesota Sea <br />Grant Program on their 30th anniversary. <br />Deb Swackhamer (WRC and <br />Environmental Health Sciences) was <br />named the Regional Director of the Great <br />Lakes-Upper Mississippi River Region <br />of the National Water Research Institutes. <br />Uni~~ersiry of Min~iesot~i <br />1,~ti~~rter Resources Science Program <br />Degree Re~_ipients <br />,~1~Inm 8)7r[' Iti~CL)~°~I lii~ PIiJ>.in <br />O~'loh. r _'ll(1>_ t listh~<i~ ~t~a~ li11~~1 <br />~~P~~fr~cl ~1,~tci_:1~~~I ~~u~lics fnr' <br />!\utri~~n[ t~c~l~~cti~~ti,~ in ~li~:':A9ium. ~uta <br />Ri~~~r I ~;i,in.~~ I ;irr ~~a a~i~ i~~l <br />1,~ Da~icl i9ulla l~~~il_ ~\.ii~r_:uui <br />~~Jinial~i- <br />~"ina~ iA'an~~ia r~c~i~~~l lii~l'h.l) iii - <br />O~~cil)~:I~~?llo~. ~~1~: ~1~~~ t~~ ~ll~ ~~l~til <br />I )i~i~ to l'Isin~~c~ iii L;nul~~a~~..u~~l ~ <br />\t:it~a~•~mcnt Pra~ticcs \,m~~iri ~~:i< '~ <br />i~l~i>t~l h~ i)a~ ~~I ~~luli~i (~~~il. ~'~4i(; r. .~~. <br />:ui~iClim;il~j. <br />i <br />K.ui 1Zulf r~~~:i~.J licr ~9_~_ in <br />OC~UT ~~7 ~1)11~. ~ ~Cf I~1Ctii~ AF;I~ ~II~C~~ - <br />1~~:ili<<iti~>n ~~1~ ~~l(~rn:ui~~ Vrr~uz ~~' <br />L ~~IIA~IIUUIIa~ ~,Ifllll ll'! ~~~~~~=171 <br />lni~~:i~ ~ „n Suh<nr(<i~c I ~run,i}rc I ~I~~~~ <br />.ui~llV~a(cr(hi:~lii~_~~Rul(~~i;isu>- <br />ai~l~i>~~i h~.irl~fo-c~ ~1r~~cl: anal ~);i~i~i <br />!ilulla f~~,il_ A\at~r_am~l ('linc~lcl- ~ <br />She was an invited speaker and participant <br />in a workshop sponsored by the European <br />Union on persistent organic pollutants <br />held in Stresa, Italy, October 17-20. She <br />also has a paper in press in Environmental <br />Science and Technology with co-authors <br />Matt Hudson (WRS alumnus) and <br />Jim Cotner (Ecology, Evolution, and <br />Behavior). <br />The Volunteer Stream Monitoring <br />Project 2005 River Sununit was a great <br />success. On November 17, at the Science <br />Museum of Minnesota, over 200 high <br />school students, educators, and natural <br />resource professionals Iistened to a <br />keynote from Daniel Huff (Friends of the <br />Mississippi River) and attended breakout <br />sessions in which all students presented <br />results of their stream monitoring work <br />and participated in a group activity <br />to determine how to invest funds in <br />protecting or restoring local streams. <br />Minnegram 6 <br />