[Plsugs] FW: WSP April Newsletter

[Tanya Quist]

From: WSP Newsletter [mailto:WSPNEWS at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Jackie Moxley
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 3:59 PM
To: WSPNEWS at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: WSP April Newsletter



UA Water Sustainability Program News

‐ April, 2012



FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES



・         WRRC SUMMER WRITING INTERNSHIP - The Water Resources Research
Center is accepting applications for the 2012 Montgomery & Associates Summer
Writing Internship.  This year's topic will be water contaminants of
emerging concern. Students from UA, ASU and NAU are eligible to apply.
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012. wrrc.arizona.edu

・         WEES WORKSHOP AND SPEAKER GRANTS - The Water, Environmental and
Energy Solutions Initiative is offering funding for UA faculty, staff and
student groups to host speakers and workshops in FY2013. DEADLINE: MONDAY,
APRIL 30, 2012. wees.arizona.edu


EVENTS


WSP Student Fellowship Presentations, April 12, 2012, 3:30 to 5:30 pm.
Catalina Room, UA Student Union Memorial Center. Refreshments will be
served.


・         Graduate Research Presentations

Monica Ramirez, PhD Candidate - Gardenroots: A Citizen Science Program to
Empower Communities Neighboring Contamination, Soil, Water and Environmental
Science - Advisors: Raina Maier, Janick  Artiola, Mark Brusseau

Kevin Ray, MS Candidate - Sensitivity to Residential Water Demand to Recent
Price Increases in Urban Phoenix Communities, Agricultural and Resource
Economics - Advisors: Satheesh Aradhyula, Gary Thompson

Berenise Rivera, PhD Candidate - Analyzing Water Samples for Sources of
Contamination Using PCR and qPCR, Soil, Water and Environmental Science -
Advisor: Channah Rock

Lucia Rodriguez-Freire, PhD Candidate - Bioremediation of
Arsenic-Contaminated Groundwater through the Formation of Arsenic Sulfide
Minerals, Chemical and Environmental Engineering - Advisor: Reyes Sierra

Becky Witte, MS Candidate - Probabalistic Risk Assessment to Determine
Possible Failures in the Tucson, Arizona Water Supply, Hydrology and Water
Resources - Advisor: Larry Winter



・         Undergraduate Research Presentations

Rachel Maxwell - Measuring the Accumulation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in
Mixed Conifer Forest Soils, Santa Catalina Mountains, AZ , Soil, Water and
Environmental Science - Advisor: Jon Chorover

Brian Scott Sheppard - The Effect of Wildfire on Rangeland Sustainability in
the San Rafael Valley, Hydrology and Water Resources - Advisor: Martha
Whitaker



TRIBUTES



・         Sharon Megdal , WSP director, was recognized for her innovative
work linking water conservation to environmental enhancement, at UA
Innovation Day, March 6. She was one of five UA faculty to receive a UA at
the Leading Edge award for performing cutting-edge research and translating
that research into real-world application. See the video: ht
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGPLwT6IABk>
tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGPLwT6IABk



・         Raina Maier, professor, Soil, Water and Environmental Science,
has been named Director of the UA Superfund Research Program. She previously
served as Associate Director.  Superfund is a WSP affiliated center focused
on hazardous waste risk and remediation in the Southwest. Former Director
Jay Gandolfi has stepped down after directing the program for the past 13
years.  Superfund was refunded by NIEHS for another five-year period,
2010-2015.



・         WSP-SWES Day Awards - WSP provided awards for the 1st Place Oral
Presentation  that went to Corin M Hammond for his talk on Biogeochemical
transformation of metal(loid)s during phytostabilization, Iron King Mine
tailings, Dewey-Humboldt, AZ and for the 1st Place Poster Presentation that
went to Juliana Gil-Loaiza for her poster on Scaling Phystostabilization
from Greenhouse to Field-Scale at the Iron King Mine-Humboldt Smelter
Superfund Site. SWES Day was held March 29 during Earth Week, sponsored by
the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences:
www.sees.arizona.edu/sees/ew2012/



・         WSP-SARSEF Awards -  WSP is pleased to announce awards for the
top three water-related projects by high school students in this year's
Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair, March 13-19: 1st
Place: Sumedha Ravishankar & Sirtaj Singh, “The Affects of Growing
Chlamydomonas reinharditii in Municipal Secondary Effluent Wastewater on
Biomass Yield For Biofuel Production”, Empire High School, Tucson; 2nd
Place: Emerson Patricio & Dayanara Sixkiller, “Babosphere”, Baboquivari
High School, Sells; and 3rd Place: Stephen Yao, “Effect on Infiltration by
Air Pressure and Air Flow”, University High School, Tucson.  Hear more from
these outstanding students and their innovative projects April 12 at the WSP
Fellowship presentations.



NEW MEDIA



・         Guzin Bayraksan, assistant professor, Systems and Industrial
Engineering, and Bob Arnold, professor, Chemical and Environmental
Engineering teamed up on a WSP grant last year on water reuse.  One of the
products is a 14 minute video on water reclamation in the Tucson region.
See the video on YouTube:  http://youtu.be/wMIae-xZKY0



wsp.arizona.edu



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