2010 Meeting Highlights

34th Annual Meeting - "Emerging Challenges for the Waters of Wisconsin"

Meeting Information
March 4 - 5, 2010 at the Madison Marriott West, 1313 John Q Hammons Dr, Middleton, WI 53562

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Meeting Highlights
Our evening speaker was Senator Mark Miller (D-Monona) who spoke on the latest groundwater legislation in Wisconsin (pictured below).

Distinguished Service Award
This year’s Distinguished Service Award went to George Kraft (UW Stevens Point). George was recognized for his continuing efforts in water resources education and research in the central sand plains of Wisconsin (pictured below).

Student Awards
AWRA encourages student participation in its annual meeting by recognizing the best student oral presentation, best student poster, and undergraduate excellence in either the oral or poster categories. This year’s competition featured oral presentations by graduate students and posters by graduate and undergraduate students.

Best Student Oral Presentation Award went to Eric G. Booth, University of Wisconsin Madison for Controls on the Soil Moisture Regime of a Restored Floodplain, East Branch Pecatonica River: A Field and Modeling Investigation (pictured below).

Best Student Poster Award went to Samantha N. Miller, Carthage College for Initiating a Long-term Monitoring Program of Aquatic and Terrestrial Invasive Species in Kenosha County, Wisconsin (pictured below).

Best Student Poster Award went to Caren J. Ackley, University of Wisconsin Parkside, Geosciences Depatment for Interactions between Tetracycline and Kaolinite in Aqueous Solution (pictured below).