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Kristine Uhlman, RG, Area Assistant Agent, Cooperative Extension and Arizona NEMO Program Coordinator at the WRRC, was elected to the 2011 Scientists and Engineers Division Board of Directors for the National Ground Water Association for a two year term.

WRRC Director Sharon Megdal was awarded the Distinguished Outreach Faculty Award during the Winter Commencement Ceremony on December 18, 2010. This award recognizes outstanding faculty members whose scholarship-based outreach to the state, nation, and the world has demonstrated sustained excellence in the University of Arizona’s outreach mission.

A three-year, $800,938 grant from NASA will fund a Tucson-area Earth Camp where participants will be immersed in the study of water.

The University of Arizona has a new graduate degree program that integrates science, policy and decision-making in the arena of water.

University of Arizona student Tim Glass has been awarded the 3rd Annual Montgomery & Associates Summer Writing Internship at the WRRC.  A junior majoring in journalism, Mr. Glass is a non-traditional student who returned to school after serving in the military and working in private industry. His special interest is photojournalism, and he has gained experience in the field by working for the UA Daily Wildcat, the student newspaper.

Dr. Sharon Megdal, WRRC Director, is the recipient of the University Distinguished Outreach Faculty award.

A student interested in gaining experience writing about environmental and water issues will get an opportunity to do just that this summer in an internship sponsored by Montgomery & Associates, an Arizona-based consulting firm specializing in hydrology and water resource issues.

The winners of the Water Resources Research Center’s newly inaugurated annual writing contest for undergraduate students at The University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University have been selected.

It’s time to make a splash during the Arizona Project WET Water Festival season.  In Tucson the fun kicks off on October 3 at Jacobs Park.  Exciting, hands-on investigations will leave 4th graders (and teachers) asking for more!  Each Arizona Water Festival incorporates two hours of hands-on, interactive lessons focused on: groundwater and aquifers; watersheds and water sources; the value of water and conservation; and the water cycle.

The WRRC welcomes Candice Rupprecht, the Statewide Program Coordinator for the UA Master Watershed Steward Program.  Candice recently moved across campus to office space at the Water Resources Research Center. She joins other water programs housed at the center including Arizona Project WET, Arizona NEMO and the Water Sustainability Program.