TWRI funds 11 water resources research grants at Texas universities for 2002-03
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) has announced that it will award 11 research grants to graduate students at universities throughout Texas during 2002-3. The grant competition is conducted annually by TWRI and is funded by the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Institutes for Water Research.
Projects awarded for 2002-03 will be carried out by graduate students and faculty advisors at West Texas A&M University, Rice University, Baylor University, Texas Tech University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A&M University. Several of this year’s projects deal with water quality issues, including the impacts of nutrients on streams and rivers and ways to better treat dairy wastes. Other topics being addressed include the use of geographic information systems, flood protection, the fate of antibiotics on aquatic organisms, and agricultural irrigation.
In the future, TWRI will publicize work done in these projects in Institute-produced newsletters and Web sites.
TWRI uses this annual competition to foster graduate student research and the development of future scientists at universities throughout Texas.
All of the grants began April 1, 2002, and run through March 28, 2003. In each instance, graduate students were awarded $5,000 to begin, expand, or extend research projects. To be eligible for a $5,000 award from TWRI, each student had to provide evidence of $10,000 in matching funds. TWRI received more than 75 proposals for this year’s competition. These proposals were ranked by a TWRI advisory team that selected the projects that were funded.