Alaska Section, American Water Resources Association

Emily Youcha, 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 2005/Spring 2006 Brown Bag Lunch Meeting Agenda

• September 14, 2005: "Bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes in subarctic sediments" (River Terrace, Soldotna, AK), Sharon Richmond, Alaska Dept of Environmental Conservation

• October 12, 2005: "Transport of fecal bacteria in a rural Alaskan community." Molly Chambers, UAF-WERC

• November 9, 2005: "Two year study on a rapidly evolving Thermokarst in a discontinuous permafrost watershed: Results and implications" Prathap Kodial, University of Alaska Fairbanks Civil Engineering Dept.

• December 14, 2005: Bob Bolton, UAF-WERC, "Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Hydraulic Properties to Represent Discontinuous Permafrost in a Spatially-distributed, Process-based Hydrologic Model."

• January: ANNUAL MEETING in Anchorage

• February 8, 2006: Debasmita Misra, University of Alaska Geological Engineering, "Optimization Based Upscaling of Hydrogeological Properties for Saturated Flow and Transport Simulation"

• March 8, 2006: Torre Jorgenson, ABR, Inc. "Varying modes of permafrost degradation and their hydrology effects"

• April 12, 2006: Larry Rundquist, National Weather Service River Forecast Center, "Forecasting Snowmelt Runoff and Ice Breakup in Alaska"

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 Emily Youcha.