Alaska Section, American Water Resources Association

Johnny Mendez, 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 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 2003/Spring 2004 Brown Bag Lunch Meeting Agenda

• September 10, 2003 - General Membership Forum

• October 15, 2003 - Edward Plumb, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration & Julie Ahern, University of Alaska Fairbanks. "July 2003 Record Rainfall and Flooding in the Fairbanks Area, Alaska"

• November 12, 2003 - Sharon Richmond, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
  "Assessing Groundwater Redox Conditions for Natural Attenuation and Bioremediation"

• December 10, 2003 - Bernardo Hernandez, Director of Community Planning for the Fairbanks North Star Borough
  "Proposed Regional Comprehensive Plan for the Fairbanks North Star Borough"
  
  
• January 14, 2004 - Thomas Douglas, Army Corps of Engineers "Mercury in the Arctic Snow Pack"
  
  
• February 11, 2004 - Dan Miller, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  "Physical and Chemical Implications of Mid-Winter Pumping of Tundra Lakes"
  
  
• March 10, 2004 - Sarah Rygh, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
  "Safe Drinking Water Act Source Water Assessments for the Fairbanks Area"
  
  
• Brown-Bag meeting schedule will resume in September 2002, 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 Johnny Mendez.