UW Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering Wyoming Water Research Program

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FY2006 Annual Reports

The USGS/State of Wyoming Water Research Program (WRP), placed at the University of Wyoming, is the program given the task of overseeing the coordination of Wyoming's portion of the nationwide USGS program on water research. This program in Wyoming, as it is nationwide, uses USGS and State funds to carry out Institute sponsored research and education related to water issues in each state. A program Director is selected by the University to oversee and coordinate the WRP. The Director is supported by a Priorities and Selection Committee formed from representatives of the State agencies involved in water related issues. This committee solicits project ideas and determines research priorities, identifies projects and issues Requests for Proposals, selects projects, and reviews and negotiates project structures and teams. As a minimum, annual reports and a final report are required for each project. The Wyoming Water Resources Data System (WRDS) serves to dissemination these reports by posting products on the Internet and by housing records and documents in the WRDS Water Library. The following are the annual reports for projects supported under the WRP during FY2005 (March 2006 through February 2007).

The Project Reports are in Adobe Acrobat format:

Student Support

Project 14 Land Use Impacts on Nitrogen Fixation in Jackson Hole Streams

Project 15 Real-Time Monitoring of E-Coli Contamination in Wyoming Surface Waters

Project 16 Innovative Technology Development to Maximize Beneficial Use of Produced Water from coal Bed Natural Gas Operations in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Project 17 Predicting Drought in the Green River Basin

Project 18 Precipitation Measurement and Growth Mechanisms in Orographic Wyoming Snowstorms