Student Fellowships

TRIF funding is used to support Water Fellowship Awards. Each year, outstanding graduate and undergraduate students studying any aspect of water resources at UA are nominated by department heads to receive awards to encourage and support their research. Recipients are determined by the WSP Executive Committee on a competitive basis. These are exceptional students with the ability to make significant contributions to the study of water resources at UA and beyond.

Student fellowship awards for FY 2009/10

Student fellowship awards for FY 2008/09

Student fellowship awards for FY 2007/08

Student fellowship awards for FY 2006/07

Student fellowship awards for FY 2004/05

Student fellowship awards for FY 2003/04

 

Student Fellowship Awards 2009/10

UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS AWARD: $2,750

  • Zachary Dean - Rapid Detection of Cryptosporidium in Water Using Optical-Detection Biosensors, Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering - Advisor: Jeong-Yeol Yoon

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS AWARD: $16,450

  • Fernando Alday - Iron Biomineralization: Implications on the Fate of Arsenic in Landfills, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering - Advisor: Wendell Ela
  • Darin Comeau - 3-D Modeling of Subsurface Hydrological Flow, Department of Mathematics - Advisor: John Restrepo
  • Pedro Romero-Gomez - Development of an Integrated Water Quality Prediction Tool for Water Distribution Systems, Department of Agriculture & Biosystems Engineering - Advisor: Chris Choi
  • Richard Rushforth - Phytostabilization of Acid Mine Tailings in Semi-Arid Environments: The Use of Instrumented Soil Columns to Analyze the Effects on Water Quality, Department of Soil, Water & Environmental Science - Advisor: Jon Chorover
  • Adam Springer - Strategies for Developing Water-Conscious Communities: An Analysis of Water Conservation in Tucson, Arizona, School of Natural Resources, Department of Sociology - Advisor: Ed de Steiguer

Student Fellowship Awards 2008/09

 

Left to Right - Front Row: Lucy Cheng, Ritika Mohan, Sarah Daw, Daniel Manjooran (WSP Award - Science & Eng Fair); Back Row: Lyda Harris (WSP Award - Science & Eng Fair), Hoori Ajami, Jenna Bloxom, Jelena Vukomanovic, Brent Jacobsen (Missing: Shawn Deverse)

 

UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS AWARD: $2,750

  • Lucy Cheng - Implementation and Testing of Water Quality Monitors (pdf) Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering - Advisor: Mark Riley
  • Jarrod Shawn DeVerse- An Evaluation of the Effects of Land Application of Biosolids on Pathogens in Irrigation Return Flows (pdf) Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering - Advisor: Chris Choi
  • Ritika Mohan - Electrocoagulation for Silica and Arsenic Removal (pdf) Department of Chemical & Environemental Engineering - Advisors: Jim Baygents and Jim Farrell
  • Sarah Daw - Adaptive Governance and the Politics of Water (pdf) Department of Political Science - Advisor: Ramiro Berardo

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS AWARD: $18,500

  • Hoori Ajami- Quantifying Recharge in Semi-Arid Basins: Translating Impact of Climate Variability and Change on Groundwater Resources (pdf) Department of Hydrology & Water Resources - Advisor: Tom Maddock
  • Jenna Bloxom - Aridity and Algae: Biodiesel Production in Arizona (pdf) Center for Latin American Studies - Advisor: Scott Whiteford
  • Brent Jacobsen - Sustainable Roofscapes: Developing a Green Roof Implementation Model for Tucson, AZ (pdf) School of Landscape Architecture - Advisor: Margaret Livingston
  • Jelena Vukomanovic - Conservation Easement Monitoring: Development of a Monitoring Protocol for Riparian Area Management (pdf) Arid Lands Resource Sciences - Advisor: Ed de Steiguer

Student Fellowship Awards 2007/08

Left to Right - Front Row: Amy Lynn, Ivann Hsu, Melissa Bui, Nikita Patel;
Back Row: David Delgado, Juan Villegas, Jennifer Pullen, Erika Gallo

 

UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS AWARD: $2,750

  • Melissa Bui - The Use of Biosensors in Detecting Pathogens in Arizona's Water Distribution System (pdf) Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering - Advisor: Jeong-Yeol Yoon
  • Ivann Hsu - Anoxic Oxidation of Arsenite Linked to Denitrification (pdf) Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering - Advisor: Reyes Sierra
  • Amy Lynn - Development of a Water Management Model for the Metropolitan Water District (NW Tucson) (pdf) Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics - Advisor: Kevin Lansey
  • Nikita Patel - Use of Household Bleach Products for Emergency Disinfection (pdf) Department of Soil, Water & Environmental Sciences - Advisor: Chuck Gerba

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS AWARD: $18,500

  • David Delgado - Infrastructure Leakage Index (ILI) as a Regulatory and Provider Tool (pdf) Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics - Advisor: Kevin Lansey
  • Erika Gallo - Urbanization Impacts on the Spatial Variability of Rainfall Distribution: Implications for Recharge and Biogeochemical Cycles (pdf) Department of Hydrology & Water Resources - Advisor: Paul Brooks
  • Jennifer Pullen - Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Takings Reform on the SDCP and Arizona Water Management (pdf) Office of Arid Lands - Advisor: Dennis Cory
  • Juan Villegas - Ecosystem Water Exchange and Partitioning of Evapotranspiration Along Vegetation Gradients: Implications of Projected Dust-Bowl Climate in Arizona (pdf) School of Natural Resources - Advisor: Dave Breshears

Student Fellowship Awards 2006/07

UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS:

  • Deena Clark - Alternative Methods of Drinking Water Disinfection, Department of Veterinary Science & Microbiology - Advisor: Kelly Bright
  • Jerry Shen - Implementation of a New Water Quality Model into EPANET in Hopes of Reducing Arizona Public Drinking Water Sytem's Vulnerability to Contamination (pdf) Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering - Advisor: Chris Choi
  • Sean Small - Importance of Legal Barriers to Trade for Water (pdf) Department of Economics - Advisors: Gary Libecap and Stan Reynolds
  • Devin Whipple - Electrocoagulation: A Technology for Water Recycle and Wastewater Treatment in Semiconductor Manufacturing (pdf) Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering - Advisors: Jim Baygents and Jim Farrell

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS:

  • Dustin Garrick - Simulating Sustainability: Conjunctive Land and Water Management in the Upper Santa Cruz River Valley (pdf) Department of Geography & Regional Development - Advisors: Carl Bauer and Kathy Jacobs
  • Victor Grijalva - Selective Removal of Heavy Metals from Acid Mine Drainage Using Anaerobic Bioreactors, Department of Environmental Engineering - Advisor: Reyes Sierra
  • Peter Littlehat - The Detection of Thyroid Receptor-Mediated Transcriptional Activity in Treated Wastewater (pdf) Department of Environmental Engineering - Advisor: Bob Arnold
  • Amy McCoy - The Upper Santa Cruz River: A Case Study for Shifting Riparian Conditions (pdf) Office of Arid Lands Studies - Advisor: Barron Orr
  • Aleix Serrat-Capdevila - Climate Change: Coupling Hydrologic Modeling with Policy Making (pdf) Department of Hydrology & Water Resources - Advisor: Juan Valdés

Student Fellowship Awards 2004/05

Left to Right: Yvonne Resendez Young, Nick Nelson, Erin Gleeson, Liese Beenken
 

UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS:

  • Liese Beenken - Water Recycle and Reuse, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering - Advisor: Kim Ogden
  • Erin Gleeson - Dynamic Simulation Modeling of Water Resources in Semi-arid Environments: Quantifying Riparian Ecosystem Structure and Water Use (pdf), Department of Geosciences - Advisor: Paul Brooks
  • Nicholas Nelson - The Effect of Biosolids Application on Water Quality in Arizona (pdf), Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering - Advisor: Chris Choi
  • Yvonne Resendez Young - Enhancing the Understanding and Importance of Granting Instream Flow Water Rights in Arizona (pdf), School of Natural Resources - Advisor: Peter Ffolliott

Left to Right: Carla de las Casas, Gina Chorover, Joe Abraham, Derya Sumer, Matt Baillie
 

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS:

  • Joe Abraham - Community Water Supply Vulnerability in Northern Gila County (pdf), Department of Geography & Regional Development - Advisor: Andrew Comrie
  • Matthew Baillie - Quantifying San Pedro River Inflows to Improve Riparian Sustainability Efforts: A Geochemical Tracer Approach, Department of Hydrology & Water Resources - Advisors: Brenda Ekwurzel and James Hogan
  • Gina Chorover - Living on the Edge: Mitigating the Impact of Development near Riparian Areas through Community Design and Land Stewardship (pdf), School of Landscape Architecture - Advisor: Margaret Livingston
  • Carla De Las Casas - Destruction of Gas-Phase VOCs by a Coupled Adsorption/Fenton's Reaction Process (pdf), Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering - Advisors: Wendell Ela and Bob Arnold
  • Derya Sumer - A Groundwater-Dynamic Simulation Model: Application to the Upper San Pedro (pdf), Department of Civil Engineering - Advisor: Kevin Lansey

Student Fellowship Awards for 2003/04

Left to Right: Erin Gleeson, Stephanie Freeman, Arin Haverland, Micheal Liga, David Roncayolo
 

UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS AWARD: $4,000

  • Stephanie Freeman- Permeable Reactive Bio Barriers for the Containment of Heavy Metal Contamination in Acid Mine Drainage (pdf) Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering - Advisors: Jasmine Tam, James Field and Reyes Sierra
  • Erin Gleeson - Development of a Decision Support Model to Quantify Water Use by Riparian Vegetation (pdf) Department of Hydrology & Water Resources - Advisor: Paul Brooks
  • Arin Haverland - Water Harvesting on the UA Campus (pdf) Department of Soil, Water, & Environmental Science - Advisor: Jim Riley
  • Michael Liga - A Design Model for Subsurface Drip Irrigation in Arizona (pdf) Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering - Advisor: Don Slack
  • David Roncayolo - Linkages Between Large-Scale Climatic Variations and Seasonal Variations of Precipitation in the Colorado River Basin (pdf) Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics - Advisor: Juan Valdés

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS AWARD: $20,000

  • David Brown - A Winter Precipitation 'Dipole' in the Western United States Associated with Multidecadal ENSO Variability (pdf) Department of Geography & Regional Development - Advisor: Andrew Comrie
  • Otakuye Conroy - Estrogenic and Anti-Estrogenic Activity in Wastewater Effluent: Fate During Soil Aquifer Treatment (pdf) Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering - Advisor: Bob Arnold
  • Andrew Hinnell - Improving Electrical Resistivity Tomography for Characterization of Non-point Source Contaminants (pdf) Department of Hydrology & Water Resources - Advisor: Ty P.A. Ferré
  • Paula Renda da Costa - Greenhouse Tomato Production with High Saline Nutrient Solution Simulating a Re-circulating Irrigation System without Environmental Discharge (pdf) Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering - Advisor: Gene Giacomelli