Eos,Vol. 81, No. 34, August 22, 2000

SECTION NEWS H Y D R O L O G Y

Editor: Roger C. Bales, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0011 USA; Tel: +1-520-621-7113; Fax: +1-520-621-1422; Section President, Kenneth W Potter; Section Secretary, Wendy D Graham

Outstanding Student Paper Awards PAGE 384

The Hydrology Section presented six outstand­ing student paper awards at the 2000 AGU Spring Meeting in Washington, DC., last June.

Wade T. Crow presented a poster titled Impacts of Upscaling Soil Moisture During

SGP 97. He received a B.A. in physics from Carleton College in 1995,andaM.S.E. in civil and environmen­tal engineering from Princeton University in 1998. Wade is cur­rently completing his Ph.D. at Princeton. His dissertation work,

supervised by Eric F Wood, focuses on spatial scale issues surrounding both the retrieval of soil moisture imagery by microwave remote sensors and the eventual assimilation of this imagery into hydrologic models.

Ellen M. Douglas presented a paper titled Trends in Flood and Low Flows in the United

States. Ellen earned a B.S. in hydrology in 1991,and a M.S.in civil engineering in 1994, from the University of New Hampshire (UNH). She is currently studying under Richard Vogel of Tufts University as a doc­

toral candidate in water resources engineer­ing. Her doctoral research focuses on data dependence in hydrologic time series and modeling the impacts of climate change on regional hydrology. Ellen also specializes in hydrogeological characterization and model­ing and is a part-time instructor at UNH.

Erich D. Guy presented a paper titled Application of Electromagnetic Techniques for

Organic Contaminant Detection. Erich is now in his third year as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geological Sciences at the Ohio State Uni­versity, working with Jeffrey J. Daniels. In 1996, he received a

B.S. in geological sciences from Mount Union College,and a M.S.in geological sciences from Bowling Green State University in 1998. His current research interests focus on various aspects of surface and borehole radar and seismic methods for environmental, geologic, and geotechnical applications. Additional research efforts have included applications of GIS modeling.

Emad H. Habib presented a poster titled Uncertainty Analysis of Radar-Rainfall

Estimates Using Small-Scale Experi­mental Observations. Emad is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environ­mental Engineering at the University of Iowa with Professor Witold Krajewski. He

received a B.S. in civil engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1987, and a M.Sc.in civil engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, in 1992. Emads research interests include rainfall measurement and estimation with an emphasis on uncertainty assessment and small-scale variability

Julia E. Morrison presented a poster titled Stochastic Modeling of Flood Peaks Using the

Generalized Extreme Value Distribution. In 1997, Julia received her B.S. in applied physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technolo­gy Russia. She is cur­rently pursuing a

Ph.D. in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton Univer­sity under the direction of James Smith and Rene Carmona. Julias research focuses on many aspects of the stochastic modeling of extreme rainfall and floods, including statistical studies of flood peak observations.

Rene M. Price presented a paper titled Using Tritium, Helium and CFCs to Define Groundwater

Flow Conditions in the Surficial Aquifer System Beneath Ever­glades National Park. Rene is now in her final year as a Ph.D. student at the Rosen-stiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sci­ences. She received a

B.S. in geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti­tute in 1985, and a M.S.in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia in 1988. Renes research interests include chemical trac­ers in hydrogeology stable isotope geochemistry and salt water intrusion.

B I O G E O S C I E N C E S

Editor: (search underway); Acting Section President, Diane McKnight

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

The Biogeosciences Section presented three outstanding student paper awards at the 2000 AGU Spring Meeting in Washington, DC, last June.

Udaysankar S. Nair presented a paper titled Climatic Impact of Lowland Deforesta­tion on Cloud Forests in Costa Rica.

Udaysankar graduat­ed with a B.Tech. in mechanical engineering from the University of Kerala, India in 1988. He obtained his M.S.in meteorology from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1991.

Udaysankar is completing his Ph.D. through Colorado State University under the direction of Ronald M.Welch and Roger A.Pielke,Sr, and is currently at the National Space Science and Technology Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville. His research interests include mesoscale modeling, the influence of land use on regional climate, the detection of clouds in satellite imagery, and image process­ing.

Lillian Rebecca Pitts presented a poster titled Differing Coastal Development Schemes of Southeastern Virginia and Their Impacts on Seasonal Beach Profiles and Grain Size Distribution. Lillian graduated magna cum laude from Mary Washington College in