OHIO WATER RESOURCES CENTER

News and Updates

[2012.02.13-15] The National Institutes for Water Resources Annual Conference

Water Resource Institute directors and associate directors are invited to join us for the 2012 annual meeting of WRRI directors, which will be taking place in Washington DC.

The meeting is great opportunity for the directors of Water Resources Centers from different states to meet and discuss their agenda and share experiences. In addition we will have the opportunity to meet with some of the Ohio Legislators and discuss with them the water related state issues and the role of Water Resources Center in helping to solve these issues.

[2012.10.18] 40th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act

My Clean Water Act was formed to educate, motivate, and inspire action amongst individuals and communities to continuously improve the availability of clean and abundant water supplies. To help spread the word all over the country, MCWA is producing numerous events such as festivals, concerts, film screenings, and more.

Further information is available on My Clean Water Act webpage. To show your support of this national movement in a simple yet meaningful way, help MCWA reach our goal of 20,012 �Likes� for 2012. Go to our fan page on Facebook and click �Like� near the top of the page.

Highlights

RESEARCH PROJECTS SELECTED FOR FUNDING IN 2012

The Ohio Water Resources Center has finished its review of proposals under the USGS 104(b) and OWDA grant competition. Investigators from five different Ohio Universities applied for this years call for proposal and five projects were selected for funding after external reviews.

The funded projects and their PI's are as follows:

Microbial Modulation of Acidic Coal Mine Drainage Chemistry: Implications for Passive Treatment of Minewater, PI John Senko, University of Akron
Identification of Microcystin Deagrading Bacteria in teh Grand Lake St. Marys and Lake Erie Western Basin, PI Xiaozhen Mou, Kent State University
Green-House-Gas Budget of Constructed Wetlands: Understanding the Sources to Maximize Benefits, PI Gil Bohrer, Ohio State University
Discriminating Biotic and Abiotic Arsenic Release Process Under Highly Reduced Ground Water Conditions, PI John Lenhart, Co-PI Paula Mouser, Ohio State University
An Intergrated Framework for Response Actions for a Drinking Water Distribution Security Network, PI Dominic Boccelli, University of Cincinnati

Projects are expected to be completed in the spring 2013 and their final reports will be posted on this webpage under the RESEARCH tab.