Student Water Research Awards 2008-2009

Shalamu Abudu, Civil Engineering (advisor: J. Phillip King), New Mexico State University, Investigation of Improved Operational Streamflow Forecasting in the Rio Grande Basin

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Nicholas B Engdahl, Earth and Planetary Sciences (advisor: Gary S. Weissmann), University of New Mexico, The Dependency of Anomalous Transport Behavior on Flow Path Orientation

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Akash Mummaneni, Civil Engineering (advisor: N. Nirmala Khandan), New Mexico State University, Evaluation of Multi-stage solar-powered desalination system

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Amy J. Williams, Earth & Planetary Sciences (advisor: Laura Crossey), University of New Mexico, Aqueous Geochemistry of the Springs and Wells of the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge: Evaluating Hydrochemical Pathways and Microbiology

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Jesus D. Gomez, Earth and Environmental Sciences, (advisor: John L. Wilson), New Mexico Tech, Residence Time Distribution in Dynamically Changing Hydrologic Systems

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Sai Reddy Pinappu, Chemical Engineering (advisor: Shuguang Deng), New Mexico State University, Composite Membrane for Membrane Distillation Desalination Process

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B. V. N. P. Kambhammettu, Civil Engineering (advisor: J. Phillip King), New Mexico State University, Surface water – groundwater interactions in the Rincon Valley using MODFLOW-Farm process

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Jesus Sigala, Plant and Environmental Science (advisor: Adrian Unc), New Mexico State University, Assessment of a novel source-tracking protocol for evaluating the significance of municipal wastewater sources on the microbial contaminant levels of discharged wastewaters

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Daryl Williams, Natural Sciences (advisor: Edward A. Martinez), New Mexico Highlands University, Effects of Copper Sulfate Treatment on Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Peterson Reservoir Sediments

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Nicholas G. Beltran, Biology (advisor: Antonio S. Lara), New Mexico State University, Uranium Abatement in Water

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Ranganath Potluri, Chemical Engineering (advisor: David Roskstraw), New Mexico State University, Removal of Arsenic from Aqueous solution using activated carbon prepared from Pecan shells

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KT LaBadie, Water Resources Program and Community and Regional Planning Program (advisor: Bill Fleming), University of New Mexico, From Stormwater Management to Stormwater Integration: The Use of Low Impact Development Techniques in the Albuquerque Region

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