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KWRRI Recognizes 2007-08 Student Enhancement Grant Recipients

Attendees at the 2007 KWRRI Annual Symposium

On Monday, March 26th, KWRRI Associate Director Jim Kipp announced the recipients of the 2007-08 Student Enhancement Grant Recipients through the USGS 104b Annual Institute Program. The recipients, their projects, and advisors are:

  • Christopher Reeves (Masters Student): "Effectiveness of improved skid trail ephemeral channel crossings" (Advisor: Jeffrey Stringer, Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky)

  • Theresa Aguiar (Masters Student): "Determination of nutrient sources in a eutrophic lake impacted by human activity, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky:  A first step toward development of remediation strategies" (Advisor: Walter S. Borowski, Department of Earth Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University)

  • Courtney C. Snapp (Masters Student): "Diatom colonization patterns in freshwater springs in relation to underlying geology at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area"(Advisor: Susan P. Hendricks: Department of Biological Sciences, Murray State University)

  • Estifanos Haile (PhD Student): "Chemical evolution of groundwater in the Wilcox Aquifer of the Mississippi Embayment" (Alan E. Fryar, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky)

  • Alicia Sullivan (Undergraduate): "The link between metal tolerance and antibiotic resistance in fecal coliforms in the Ohio River Basin" (Advisor: Rebecca L. Evans: Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University)

  • Tien Mun Yee (PhD Student): "A 3D computational fluid dynamic code for simulation of pump stations with vertical plunging jet with air entrainment and bubble transport" (Advisor: Scott A. Yost,   Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky)

  • Grant York (Undergraduate): "Impacts of disturbance on streamflow and sediment yield in the Licking River Basin" (Advisor:Christine E. McMichael: Assistant Professor of Geography, Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy, Morehead State University)

  • Charles M. Davis (Masters Student): " Development and application of a new sediment fingerprinting methodology for the Commonwealth of Kentucky" (Advisor: James. F. Fox:  Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky)

The announcement was made during the Awards Luncheon of the Annual KWRRI Symposium in Lexington, KY.