Student Water Research Awards 2007-2008

Veera Gnaneswar Gude, Civil Engineering Department (advisor: Nirmala Khandan), New Mexico State University, Feasibility Study of Wastewater Purification by Low Temperature Distillation Method

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Celestine Ngam, Department of Natural Sciences (advisor: Michael Meyer), New Mexico Highlands University, Arsenic Adsorption and Desorption in Storrie Lake Sediments

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Shawn Landfair, Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department (advisor: Frank Ward), New Mexico State University, New Mexico Water Rights Prices Database Development

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Jimmy Moreno, Civil Engineering Department (advisor: A. Salim Bawazir), New Mexico State University Estimating Evaporation from Elephant Butte Reservoir with the Monin Obukhov Simularity Theory Using Simple Instrumentation

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Andrea Higdon, Department of Chemistry (advisor: Michael Pullin), New Mexico Tech, Iron(II) Oxidation in New Mexico Waters: Experimental Development of a Molecular-Level Predictive Model

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Arely A. Torres, Chemical Engineering Department (advisor: Shuguang Deng), New Mexico State University, Drinking Water Purification for U.S.A.-Mexico Border Region

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Sylvia Nemmers, Plant and Environmental Sciences (advisor: April Ulery), New Mexico State University, Land Application of Wastewater Containing Arsenic: Impacts on the Sorption and Mobility of Arsenic in Soil

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Dipendu Saha, Chemical Engineering Department (advisor: Shuguang Deng), New Mexico State University, Carbon Nanotube-Based Biosensor for Pathogens Concentration and Detection

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Bildad Eta Eyong, Department of Natural Sciences (advisor: Edward Martinez), New Mexico Highlands University, Bioassessment of Arsenic Contamination of the Gallinas River Using Benthic Macroinvertebrates

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Ciara Cusack, Animal and Range Sciences (advisor: Sam Fernald), New Mexico State University, The Effects of Acequias and Riparian Evapotranspiration on the Rio Grande Flow Levels

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Elena Sevostianova, Plant and Environmental Sciences (advisor: Bernd Leinauer), New Mexico State University, Investigating Potential Salt Contamination of Aquifers from Irrigated Landscapes

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