Alaska Section, American Water Resources Association

Michael R. Lilly, Alaska Section AWRA Northern-Region Director

I would like to welcome you to the Northern Region of the Alaska Section and our information resources on the World Wide Web (WWW). Our meetings are now held the second Wednesday of each month from noon to 1:00pm at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) large-conference room. You can find the DNR building at the north-west corner of the Airport Way and University Avenue intersection. Our meetings are held September through March and our annual state meeting is held in April of each year. The northern region membership includes faculty, staff, and students of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, federal and state government, and private industry water-resource professionals. We hope you can come to our monthly meetings and bring a colleague. For more information on water resources in the Fairbanks area, see the UAF Water and Environmental Research Center web site or the USGS pages for USGS projects relating to the Fairbanks area.

Fall 1997/Spring 1998 Brown Bag Lunch Meeting Agenda

• September 10, 1997, Mike Centers, National Weather Service
  "Current Status of Cooperative Weather Stations an Forecasting in Northern Alaska."

• October 8, 1997, Roger Post, Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
  "Current Status of the Lower Chena River Watershed Management Plan."

• November 12, 1997, Matt Wegner, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
  "Ground-Water and Surface-Water Interactions on the Chena River, Fort Wainwright, Alaska."

• December 10, 1997, David Claar, U.S. Geological Survey.
  "Automated transfer of information between regional and local scales of the modular finite-difference ground-water flow model."

• January 14, 1998, Dr. Carl Benson, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
  "Reviews of Alaskan Snow."

• February 11, 1998, Marlene Braun, Bureau of Land Management.
  "An Overview of Water Resources-Related Projects of BLM's  Northern District Office."

• March, 27 and 28, 1998, Alaska Section Annual Meeting!. Anchorage, Alaska

Our Brown-Bag meeting schedule will resume in September 1998, Happy Field Season!