2007-08 USGS Research Grant Recipients
The Texas Water Resources Institute awarded USGS Research Grants in 2007-08 to the graduate students listed below.
- Narendra Das, Texas A&M University
- Graduate Advisor: Binayak Mohanty
- Development of an algorithm to create repository of soil moisture and evapotranspiration maps for the State of Texas
- Proposal Final Report

- Stephanie Johnson, University of Texas
- Graduate Advisor: David Maidment
- Intra-Watershed Modeling of Bacterial Contamination
- Proposal Final Report (AWRA) Final Report (EWRI)

- Tae Jin Kim, Texas A&M University
- Graduate Advisor: Ralph Wurbs
- Reallocation of Reservoir Storage Capacity between Flood Control and Conservation Purposes
- Proposal Final Report

- Steve Oswalt, Texas Tech University
- Graduate Advisor: Dick Auld & Thomas Thompson
- Optimizing Irrigation of oilseed crops on the Texas High plains
- Proposal Final Report

- Nithya Rajan, Texas Tech University
- Graduate Advisor: Stephen Maas
- Comparative evaluation of actual crop water use of forage sorghum and corn for silage
- Proposal Final Report

- Kendra Johnson Riebschleager, Texas A&M University
- Graduate Advisor: R. Karthikeyan
- Bacterial Impairment Assessment for Lake Granbury Watershed
- Proposal Final Report

- Ronnie Schnell, Texas A&M University
- Graduate Advisor: Don Vietor
- Chemicially Treated Composted Biosolids Enhance Water Conservation and Quality on Urban Landscapes
- Proposal Final Report

- Theodore Valenti, Baylor University
- Graduate Advisor: Bryan Brooks
- Water Quality Influences on Ionizable Contaminants in the Brazos River Basin: Implications for Water Resource Managemetn of Urbanizing Watersheds
- Proposal Final Report

- Corinne Wong, University of Texas
- Graduate Advisor: Jay Banner
- Evaluating the impacts of brush clearing on reacharge of a karst aquifer
- Proposal Final Report

- Fanwei Zeng, Rice University
- Graduate Advisor: Caroline A Masiello
- Carbon isotopic measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon: A new tool to assess groundwater-river exchanged in the Brazos River Basin
- Proposal Final Report
