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Bo Guo Named Outstanding Reviewer for Water Resources Research
Tuesday, July 16, 2019Our warmest congratulations go to HAS Assistant Professor Bo Guo who was recently recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for Water Resources Research. Guo's work as a reviewer was cited by Dr. Martyn Clark, WRR Editor-in-Chief and Professor of Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan. Not only has he devoted the time to review colleagues' research efforts, he has also been busy publishing his own research this year. The article, Dynamic pore-network modeling of air-water flow through thin porous layers, was published in Chemical Engineering Science, and the article, Vertically-integrated dua... Read More -
UA Retains No. 1 Ranking in Water Resources
Tuesday, July 16, 2019The 2019 Shanghai Rankings of World Universities has been announced, and once again the University of Arizona has been recognized as the world's No. 1 program in water resources! The latest ranking was announced on the UANews.org website. The university earned the same ranking for 2018 which was announced earlier this year. Subject rankings of more than 1,200 global universities are based on 1) the number of papers authored by an institution in an academic subject, 2) the ratio of citation of papers published to the average citations of papers in the same category, 3) the number of papers publ... Read More -
HAS Students Win Top Prizes in 2019 CAP Awards for Water Research
Tuesday, July 16, 2019Congratulations to HAS Alumni Thomas Whipple and Tiffani Cañez who have won the top prizes in this year's Central Arizona Project Awards for Water Research competition! Thomas Whipple's Master's thesis, Planning for depletion: optimal irrigation in the Pinal AMA under changing water sources, won the First Place award of $1,000. Thomas received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in hydrology from the University of Arizona and currently works as a hydrologist with the Arizona Department of Water Resources, Recharge Section. Tiffani Cañez's Senior Capstone project paper, Mappin... Read More -
Eric Betterton and Ursula Nelson Featured in KOLD13 Spotlight on Pima County's Efforts to Improve Air Quality
Monday, July 15, 2019Photo: Eric Betterton, HAS Department Head, and Ursula Nelson, Director, Pima County Department of Environmental Quality, being interviewed by Bud Foster, KOLD13 news correspondent (Image: KOLD13 News) Dr. Eric Betterton, UA Distinguished Professor and HAS Department Head, and Ursula Nelson, Director of the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality and HAS Advisory Board Member, were interviewed by Bud Foster in a KOLD13 News video on July 10, "Pima County cutting idle time for fleet vehicles, helping reduce air pollution." (Betterton speaks at 0:35 and Nelson speaks at 1:32) Because Pim... Read More -
Xiquan Dong's Arctic Sea Ice Study Published in Arctic Sea Ice News & Geophysical Research Letters
Wednesday, July 3, 2019The linear trends of satellite retrieved (a-d) cloud fractions from March to June and (e) September sea ice concentration (SIC) over the Arctic (70o-90oN) regions in early twenty-first century (2000-2015). Cloud observations are derived from CERES-MODIS SYN1 Ed3.0 product. The black dots mark the regions where p < 0.05 (statistical significance at 95% confidence level). Image: Xiquan Dong Important findings by HAS Professor Xiquan Dong's research group, which includes HAS doctoral student and NASA Graduate Fellow Yiyi Huang, HAS Research Professor Baike Xi, and several other co-authors, we... Read More
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