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lJ o f M Water Community News
<br />Jim Anderson (WRC and Soil, Water
<br />and Climate) recently received a grant
<br />from the Minnesota Pollution Control
<br />Agency, "Professional Workshop Manual
<br />for Onsite Sewage Treatment Program-
<br />Phase 2." `He also received a grant from
<br />the US Department of Agriculture for
<br />the Regional Water Quality Leadership
<br />for North Central United States in US
<br />EPA Region S project, and a third from
<br />the Blandin Foundation for a project
<br />titled, "Carbon Sequestration as a Rural
<br />EconomicStrategy."
<br />Larry Balser, Kristen Nelson, Sarah
<br />Hobbie, Jemiifer Icing and Joe
<br />McFadden have received an NSF
<br />Biocomplexity Program grant to study
<br />elemental fluxes through households.
<br />The main goal of the project is to
<br />link social and biophysical aspects of
<br />households into a transdisciplinary
<br />model to predict fluxes of C, N and
<br />P tlu~ough individual households.
<br />Larry Baker also received a workshop
<br />grant from NSF to support a writing
<br />synthesis lrkshop, "The Urban Water
<br />Environment'; to be held in January
<br />Zoos.
<br />Species by Recreational Boaters in
<br />Three States;' at the 15th International
<br />Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species
<br />held in Nijmegan, The Netherlands,
<br />during September. Jensen also chaired a
<br />risk assessment and monitoring session
<br />at the conference.
<br />Barb Liul<1<onen, Minnesota Sea Grant
<br />water resources education coordinator,
<br />and Nate Meyer and Wayne Seidel
<br />of Minnesota Extension received
<br />the 2007 Award for Outstanding
<br />Extension Research from the Minnesota
<br />Community and Natural Resources
<br />Association (MCNRA) for their
<br />investigation, "Impacts of Single-Day
<br />Youth Field Days:' The award was
<br />presented at the MCNRA annual
<br />meeting in Brooklyn Center on October
<br />10, 2007.
<br />Eric Merten, Water Resources Science,
<br />gave a presentation on "Forest Harvest
<br />Effects on a Northern Minnesota Stream
<br />System: Nine Years Later" at the Annual
<br />Meeting of the American Fisheries
<br />Society in San Francisco, CA, September
<br />2-6, 2007.
<br />Steve Bortone, Minnesota Sea Grant
<br />director, was elected to the board of
<br />directors for the North Shore Sugarloaf
<br />Ste~~-ardship Association. Bortone
<br />presented "the Role of Artificial Reefs
<br />in the Management of Fisheries in Large
<br />Lake Ecosystems" at the European
<br />Congress of Ichthyology held in
<br />Dubrovnik, Croatia, during September.
<br />George Host and Lucinda Johnson,
<br />Natural Resources Research Institute,
<br />University of Minnesota-Duluth, have
<br />received funding from the EPA/Great
<br />Lakes National Program Office for a
<br />new project, "Prioritized Monitoring for
<br />the Lake Superior Basin," by EPA/Great
<br />Lakes National Program Office.
<br />Douglas Jensen, Minnesota Sea Grant
<br />aquatic invasive species program
<br />coordinator, gave the presentation,
<br />"Evaluating the Stop Aquatic
<br />HitchhikersCampaign, Aimed to
<br />Prevent the Spread of Aquatic Invasive
<br />Jesse Schomberg, Minnesota Sea
<br />Grant coastal community's extension
<br />educator, earned an early career service
<br />award from the Great Lakes Sea Grant
<br />Network. The award was presented for
<br />his outstanding accomplishments on the
<br />job during the Great Lal<es Sea Grant
<br />Network Conference held in September
<br />at Chicago, IL.
<br />Claire Serieyssol Sleser, Water
<br />Resources Science, gave a presentation
<br />titled, "Impacts of Settlement, Damming,
<br />and Hydromanagement in a Large,
<br />Boreal Lake: a Paleolimnological Before-
<br />After, Control-Impact Study," at the
<br />North American Diatom Symposium
<br />in Douglas Lake, MI, September 12-15,
<br />2007.
<br />Faye Sleeper, Water Resources Center
<br />co-director, recently received a grant
<br />from the Minnesota Pollution Control
<br />Agency for a project titled: "Developing
<br />an Effective Tracking and Reporting
<br />Strategy for Implementing the Clean
<br />Water Legacy Act."
<br />Deborah Swacl<hamer, Interim
<br />Director, Institute on the Environment
<br />and Professor, Environmental Health
<br />Sciences, gave a plenary talk and
<br />presented, "Contaminants Past,
<br />Contaminants Future: The Unique Story
<br />of Lake Superior;' at the "Making A Great
<br />Lake Superior" meeting sponsored by the
<br />US EPA, Environment Canada, and MN
<br />Sea Grant in Duluth on October 29-31,
<br />2007. Swacl<hamer also appeared on
<br />NBC Nightly News in a segment on the
<br />rise in environmentalism, and chaired
<br />the committee that conducted amid-
<br />cycle review of the US EPA Endocrine
<br />Disruptors Research Program for the
<br />EPA Board of Scientific Counselors from
<br />June through December, 2007.
<br />Martin Tsui, Water Resources Science,
<br />gave two presentations: "Temporal
<br />Variability of Dissolved Organic Carbon
<br />and Suspeded Solids as Predictors
<br />for Aqueous Mercury in Streams
<br />and Rivers;' and "Linking the River
<br />Continuum Concept to Mercury
<br />Concentrations in a Stream Biota" at the
<br />Society of Environmental Toxicology
<br />and Chemistry 28th Annual Meeting in
<br />Milwaukee, WI, November 11-15, 2007.
<br />Melissa Wilson, Water Resources
<br />Science, gave a presentation titled,
<br />"Evaluation of a Polymer Coated Urea
<br />on Irrigated Kidney Bean andPotato
<br />Production on a Coarse Textured Soil"
<br />at the ASA-CSSA-SSSA International
<br />Annual Meetings in New Orleans, LA
<br />November 4-8, 2007.
<br />Martijn Woltering, Water Resources
<br />Science, gave a presentation on
<br />"Crenarchaotal Ecology and Lipid
<br />Fluxes in Lake Superior: Implications
<br />for TEX86 Temperature Proxy" at the
<br />23rd International Meeting in Organic
<br />Geochemistry in Torquay, United
<br />Kingdom, September 9-14, 2007.
<br />Mnnegra_m- 6 December 2007
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