Alaska Section, American Water Resources Association

Richard Kemnitz, Alaska Section AWRA Northern-Region Director

I would like to welcome you to the Alaska Section, AWRA, Northern Region and our information resources on the World Wide Web (WWW). Our meetings are held the second Wednesday of each month from noon to 1:00pm at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) large-conference room. Jim Vohden, DNR, has again helped in setting up our meeting space. You can find the DNR building at the north-west corner of the Airport Way and University Avenue intersection. The address for the DNR building is 3700 Airport Way and a public information number is 451-2705. 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.

Please visit the University of Alaska Fairbanks Weekly Science Calendar

Fall 1999/Spring 2000 Brown Bag Lunch Meeting Agenda

• September 28, 1999, Rex Nutter, Planning Department, Fairbanks North Star Borough
  "An Update on Chena Lakes Flood Management Plans and Rezoning: Ground-Water Damage Protection Overlay Zone"

• October 13, 1999, Open Forum
  We will discuss our society efforts to address hydrological problems in the Chena Lakes Flood Management area.

• November 10, 1999, Vanessa Blevins and William Smyth, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
  "Water-Quality Planning Issues In The Bagger Road Area, Fairbanks, Alaska"

• December 8, 1999, Steve Burns, Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  "Simulating Ground-Water and Surface-Water Interactions near the Chena River, Fort Wainwright, Alaska"

• January 12, 2000, David L. Barnes, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  "Design of Waste Management Systems Under Conditions of Uncertainty"

• February 9, 2000, Craig McCauley, Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  "Fuel Penetration Rates in Frozen and Unfrozen Soils: Bethel, Alaska"

• March 8, 2000, Jerry Williams, ENSR
  "Phytoremediation Design Aspects in Arctic Climates"

• April 12, 2000, Scott Maclean, USGS, Alaska Biological Science Center
  "Quantification of Upwelling as a Determinant of Spawning Site Selection and Quality for Yukon River Chum Salmon"

• April 30 to May 4, 2000, Our annual Alaska-Section meeting will help at the National AWRA Specialty Conference on "Water Resources in Extreme Environments". Please visit the announcement on the National AWRA web site. The Conference Chair is Jim Thrall. The Technical Chair is Doug Kane. If you would like to help with this conference, please send email to Doug or Jim.

• Our Brown-Bag meeting schedule will resume in September 2000, Happy Field Season!.

The schedule for the rest of the brown-bag meeting season is being put together now. If you are interested in presenting a talk, please contact Richard Kemnitz.