2002-03 Mills Scholarship Recipients

The Texas Water Resources Institute awarded Mills Scholarships in 2002-03 to the Texas A&M University graduate students listed below.

Jason Afinowicz
Graduate Advisor: Clyde Munster
Utilization of the SWAT Model and Remote Sensing to Demonstrate the Effects of Brush Control on a Small Watershed
Proposal  Web site  
Jason Afinowicz
Kimberly Crumpler
Graduate Advisor: Raghavan Srinivasan
Developing Geographic Information System Data Sets About Wetlands, Water Quality, and Habitat Issues in the Galveston Bay Region
Proposal  
Kimberly Crumpler
Jeremiah Dye
Graduate Advisor: Kevin Heinz
Biological Control of Salvinia Species
Proposal  Poster  
Jeremiah Dye
Lance Fontaine
Graduate Advisor: William Neill
Examining How Estuarine Habitat Quality Affects Red Drum and Brown Shrimp Populations, and How It May Influence Predator and Prey Interaction between these Species
Proposal  Presentation  
Lance Fontaine
Nels Hansen
Graduate Advisor: Don Vietor
Quantifying Organic and Inorganic Phosphorus and Nitrogen Levels In Composted Dairy Manure Before and After Application to Turfgrasses and Roadsides
Proposal  
Nels Hansen
Roger Havlak
Graduate Advisor: Richard White
Predicting Water Use In Urban Residential Landscapes
Proposal  Report  
Roger Havlak
April Hennebeck Schonrock
Graduate Advisor: Mike Masser
A Survey of Private Impoundment Owners and Managers
Proposal  
April Hennebeck Schonrock
Libbie Johnson
Graduate Advisor: Daniel Leskovar & Frank Dainello
Evaluating the Use of Subsurface Drip Irrigation (with Mulch) and Pivot Irrigation (without Mulch) to Reduce Water Use by Bell Peppers
Proposal  
Libbie Johnson
Jason Krutz
Graduate Advisor: Scott Senseman
Effectiveness of Buffalograss Filter Strips in Removing Dissolved Metolachlor and Metolachlor Metabolites from Surface Runoff
Proposal  
Jason Krutz
Brian Langerhans
Graduate Advisor: Thomas DeWitt
Conservation Biology of Gambusia and Other Endemic and Endangered Livebearing Fish of Texas
Proposal  
Brian Langerhans
Joshua Peschel
Graduate Advisor: Ronald Lacey
Development of a Computerized Classification Method to Create Land Cover and Land Use Input Grids for the Soil and Water Assessment Tool Model
Proposal  Web site  Presentation  GIS Poster  ANFIS Poster  
Joshua Peschel
John Pitt
Graduate Advisor: Frank Hons
Predicting the fate of Applied Phosphorus in the Environment, and Evaluating the Potential Immobilization of Phosphorus Fertilizer in Texas Soils
Proposal  
John Pitt
Chad Richards
Graduate Advisor: Clyde Munster
Identifying the Best Sites to Grow Turfgrass with Composted Dairy Manure in the Upper North Bosque Watershed
Proposal  Report  
Chad Richards
Josh Sorenson
Use of a Rainfall Simulator to Study the Hydrologic Impacts of Removing Juniper Stands and other Brush Species
Proposal  
Josh Sorenson
Michael Sterling
Graduate Advisor: James Bonner
Developing a Model to Determine the Suitability of Chemical Dispersants as Oil Spill Response Tools for Coastal and Estuarine Ecosystems
Proposal  
Michael Sterling
April Torres-Conkey
Graduate Advisor: R. Doug Slack
Evaluating a sample of Section 404 Permit Mitigation Plans to Restore Wetlands along the Upper Texas Coast
Proposal  
April Torres-Conkey
Amy Wentz
Graduate Advisor: Steve Whisenant
Investigating Alternative Water Harvesting and Seedbed Preparation Technologies to Increase Plant-Available Soil Moisture and to Restore West Texas Rangelands
Proposal  Report  
Amy Wentz