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Student Award Winners Announced

We are pleased to announce the student presentation awards from the 2019 UCOWR/NIWR conference in Snowbird, UT. All recipients received a monetary award. Congratulations!

Student Poster Presentation Award Recipients (awarded at the Awards Luncheon)
1st place: Gina Riggio, University of Arkansas

2nd place: Cole Green-Smith, University of Wyoming

3rd place: Ashani Thilakarathne, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Student Oral Presentation Award Recipients (awarded after the conference)
1st place: Richard Roth, Purdue University
2nd place: Alexander Kendrick, Stanford University
3rd place: Connie Maxwell, New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute

2019 UCOWR Award Recipients Announced!

Congrats to the 2019 UCOWR Award Recipients! Click here to view their bios.

Warren A. Hall Medal Recipient – Dr. Jackson Webster

Early Career Award for Applied Research – Dr. Ashlynn S. Stillwell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Early Career Award for Extension/Outreach/Engagement – Dr. Saleh Taghvaeian, Oklahoma State University

Friends of UCOWR Recipient – Dr. Karletta Chief (Diné), University of Arizona

Education and Public Service Award Recipients – North Central Region Water Network; & University of Minnesota Onsite Sewage Treatment Program (OSTP)

Ph.D. Dissertation Award Recipients – Dr. Nathan Reaver, University of Florida; & Dr. Christopher Chini, Air Force Institute of Technology

JCWRE Papers of the Year: JCWRE 163: 6-30. Native Water Protection Flows Through Self-Determination: Understanding Tribal Water Quality Standards and “Treatment as a State”. Author Sibyl Diver; & JCWRE 164: 80-111. Scientist–Nonscientist Teams Explore Methane Sources in Streams Near Oil/Gas Development. Authors Anna K. Wendt, Todd Sowers, Scott Hynek, Jacob Lemon, Erika Beddings, Guanjie Zheng, Zhenhui Li, Jennifer Z. Williams, and Susan L. Brantley.