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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> WSP Newsletter [mailto:WSPNEWS@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jackie Moxley<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 06, 2012 3:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> WSPNEWS@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<br><b>Subject:</b> WSP April Newsletter<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'>UA Water Sustainability Program News<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#244061'>$B!>(B</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'> April, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#365F91'>FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES</span> <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='color:#002060'>WRRC SUMMER WRITING INTERNSHIP</span></b><span style='color:#002060'> - The Water Resources Research </span><span style='color:#1F497D'>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. </span><b><span style='color:#0070C0'>wrrc.arizona.edu</span></b><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='color:#002060'>WEES WORKSHOP AND SPEAKER GRANTS</span></b><span style='color:#002060'> - 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. </span><b><span style='color:#548DD4'>wees.arizona.edu</span></b><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91'>EVENTS</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>WSP Student Fellowship Presentations, April 12, 2012, 3:30 to 5:30 pm. Catalina Room, UA Student Union Memorial Center. Refreshments will be served.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='color:#002060'>Graduate Research Presentations</span></i><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#002060'>Monica Ramirez,</span></b><span style='color:#002060'> PhD Candidate - Gardenroots: A Citizen Science Program to Empower Communities Neighboring Contamination, Soil, Water and Environmental Science - Advisors: Raina Maier, Janick Artiola, Mark Brusseau<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#002060'>Kevin Ray</span></b><span style='color:#002060'>, MS Candidate - Sensitivity to Residential Water Demand to Recent Price Increases in Urban Phoenix Communities, Agricultural and Resource Economics - Advisors: Satheesh Aradhyula, Gary Thompson <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#002060'>Berenise Rivera</span></b><span style='color:#002060'>, PhD Candidate - Analyzing Water Samples for Sources of Contamination Using PCR and qPCR, Soil, Water and Environmental Science - Advisor: Channah Rock<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#002060'>Lucia Rodriguez-Freire</span></b><span style='color:#002060'>, PhD Candidate - Bioremediation of Arsenic-Contaminated Groundwater through the Formation of Arsenic Sulfide Minerals, Chemical and Environmental Engineering - Advisor: Reyes Sierra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#002060'>Becky Witte</span></b><span style='color:#002060'>, MS Candidate - Probabalistic Risk Assessment to Determine Possible Failures in the Tucson, Arizona Water Supply, Hydrology and Water Resources - Advisor: Larry Winter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><span style='color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='color:#002060'>Undergraduate Research Presentations</span></i><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#002060'>Rachel Maxwell</span></b><span style='color:#002060'> - Measuring the Accumulation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Mixed Conifer Forest Soils, Santa Catalina Mountains, AZ , Soil, Water and Environmental Science - Advisor: Jon Chorover<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#002060'>Brian Scott Sheppard</span></b><span style='color:#002060'> - The Effect of Wildfire on Rangeland Sustainability in the San Rafael Valley, Hydrology and Water Resources - Advisor: Martha Whitaker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#365F91'>TRIBUTES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><span style='color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>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: </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGPLwT6IABk">ht<b>tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGPLwT6IABk</b></a></span><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>WSP-SWES Day Awards - WSP provided awards for the 1st Place Oral Presentation that went to Corin M Hammond for his talk on <i>Biogeochemical transformation of metal(loid)s during phytostabilization, Iron King Mine tailings, Dewey-Humboldt, AZ </i>and for the 1st Place Poster Presentation that went to Juliana Gil-Loaiza for her poster on <i>Scaling Phystostabilization from Greenhouse to Field-Scale at the Iron King Mine-Humboldt Smelter Superfund Site</i>. SWES Day was held March 29 during Earth Week, sponsored by the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences: </span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'><a href="http://www.sees.arizona.edu/sees/ew2012/">www.sees.arizona.edu/sees/ew2012/</a></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>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:<b> 1st Place</b>: Sumedha Ravishankar & Sirtaj Singh, $B!H(BThe Affects of Growing <i>Chlamydomonas reinharditii</i> in Municipal Secondary Effluent Wastewater on Biomass Yield For Biofuel Production$B!I(B, Empire High School, Tucson; <b>2nd Place</b>: Emerson Patricio & Dayanara Sixkiller, $B!H(BBabosphere$B!I(B, Baboquivari High School, Sells; and <b>3rd Place</b>: Stephen Yao, $B!H(BEffect on Infiltration by Air Pressure and Air Flow$B!I(B, University High School, Tucson. Hear more from these outstanding students and their innovative projects April 12 at the WSP Fellowship presentations.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='color:#365F91'>NEW MEDIA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left'><span style='color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=left style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:#002060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#002060'>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: </span><a href="http://youtu.be/wMIae-xZKY0">http://youtu.be/wMIae-xZKY0</a><span style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#244061'>wsp.arizona.edu<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>