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January 15, 2009
Conferences and Workshops top
Willem van Leeuwen and Grant Casady attended MODIS Land Collection 5/LTDR Workshop in Adelphi, MD, January 16-18, 2007.
Barron Orr attended Texas A&M 2007 Geospatial Technology Sysmposium in College Station, January 29-31, 2007.
Congratulations! top
Congratulations to Jennifer Davison and Barron Orr on their work reported in the Arizona Daily Star - http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/dailystar/127074.php.
Stuart Marsh, Barron Orr, Wim van Leeuwen, and Lay Gibson had two feature stories in the Summer Edition of the UA Report on Research. http://www.vpr.arizona.edu/ror/
Charles Hutchinson was elected the new President of the ESIP (Earth Science Information Partners) Federation. Dr. Hutchinson will serve a one-year term on the Federation's Executive Committee.
Carla Casler became Chair of the Western Rangelands Partnership at the March 2008 workshop.
Jennifer Davison received the Spring 2007 Institute for the Study of Planet Earth travel award.
Congratulations to Barron Orr for receiving tenure, becoming an Associate Professor for Arid Lands Studies!
In the News top
Stuart Marsh and Charles Hutchinson were interviewed about their paper, Desertification Research:Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Research and Practical Applications, which was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in St. Louis. Information about their paper was distributed in Crossing the Valley of Death: Moving Science into Practice and Policy.
NPR features a story on Project Budburst.
International Visitors top
Moctar Niang, Director General, and Amadou Dieye, GIS specialist, of the Centre de Suivi Ecologique visited with Chuck Hutchinson, and ALIC and ARSC members to discuss possible future collaborations.
OALS welcomed the following guests from Niger:
Mr. Bonzougou Abdoullahi, Advisor to the Minister of Commerce
Mr. Wankoye Amadou Boubacar, Président of the Niger Export Industry
Mr. Amadou Hassane Sambo, Livestock Expert
Mr. Saley Boureima, Technical Advisor
Mr. Chaibou Laouali, General Secretary for the Niger Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Artisanat
Mr. Baaré Delé Amadou, General Secretary for the Ministry of Animal Resources
The government of Niger with funding from the World Bank is partnering with the UA on projects related to livestock management, ranching and integrating agriculture and energy production (methane). A meeting was made with Charles Hutchinson and other investigators in hopes of utilizing knowledge gained from past OALS projects in such fields.
Drs. Atsushi Tsunekawa and Masato Shinoda are visiting the University of Arizona from the Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University in Japan. They will be presenting information about the Arid Land Research Center as well as their current research activities in landscape ecology, desertification, and remote sensing.
New Projects top
David Quanrud received funding for "Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in biosolids: assessment of relative risk after land application." with other PIs: Jon Chorover, Eduardo Saez, Ornella Selmin, Cynthia Adamson. ($94,286 for 1st yr). (Technology Research Initiative Funding: NSF Water Quality Center)
David Quanrud received funding for "Fate of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds in Sludges and Biosolids Derived from Wastewater Treatment." with other PIs: Wendell Ela, Robert Arnold, Jon Chorover, Edward Furlong, Gail Cordy. ($152,926 for 3yrs). (National Institute for Water Resources).
The National Phenology Network is coming to the Office of Arid Lands Studies Julio Betancourt's article
Lay Gibson and Bruce Wright received a $200,000 grant from the the Economic Development Administration in the Department of Commerce to study "Closing the industry-community gap through community engagement: high tech development's new frontier."
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