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Canoeing Prairie Creek!
This Sunday the 28th, we will meet at 10 a.m. at Earl Powers Park. If you would like to carpool just send me an email and be prepared to meet on campus around 9:45 (Joseph, sci525@ufl.edu).
Directions: Take University Avenue east. Take the fork in the road to the right onto Hawthorne Road (SR 20). Earl P. Powers Park will be on your left (north).
We will provide all the canoeing equip (Thank OAR). Feel free to bring food and drinks as we will likely be on the water till 1.
Thanks all. Hope to see you Sunday.
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Joseph M. Delesantro
AWRA Meeting Minutes 3-18-2010
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State Conference tomorrow at the TREEO center. Free for students.
Many good presentations, many specific to Gainesville area.
Social Networking at 5:30pm
Canoe trip on Prairie creek March 28th
We’ll be carpooling out to Earl Powers Park. Watch your email for more info.
Two scholarships area available: $2000 sandy young, and $1000 storch scholarship
AWWA will soon be Hosting a Brainbowl with FE-type environmental questions.
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Presentation by Chad Drummond (Geosyntec Consultants)
“Sustainable Groundwater Restoration at Kennedy Space Center”
We discussed sustainable remediation of groundwater at launch complex 39B and the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center, FL. The technologies employed include biostimulation, bioaugmentation, and solar powered groundwater recirculation.
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See attendees after the break
Seven AWRA-UF members traveled to Seattle, WA for the annual national conference. 
Good times were had by all. It was a great opportunity to meet other AWRA student groups and learn about the water resources concerns in the West coast. Read on for a photo gallery
If you would like to attend future conferences, please consider joining the group or our listserve.
The Wetlands Club will be visiting the Holly Factory in NE Alachua this
weekend. The plan is to pot up and set out 1000 cypress seedlings. These
will be used as both a fundraiser for the club as well as providing
planting material for future native tree plantings events. We have the
materials the seedlings and the irrigated space (courtesy of the Holly
factory), we just need to bring them all together. So come lend us a
hand, for what should be a fun time.
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Hey AWRAers!
We will be holding our first social of the semester this Saturday at 4pm. It will be an excellent chance to come out and get to know fellow members while having a great time. We will be grilling food, so bring your food of choice and any activities that you’d like to share! Pets and guests are welcome to share in the fun.
It's time for the 11th ANNUAL AIR POTATO ROUND-UP!
Join FWEA, AWRA, AWWA, and SEE in the fun and come help protect
our conservation lands on Saturday, January 30st, from 9:00 am to
11:00 am. We will join over a thousand volunteers in taking back
Gainesville???s natural areas. continue reading...
Hello AWRAers,
Our first meeting of the spring semester is coming up next Thursday, January 28 at 6:30pm. Come on out to hear Dr. Martinez speak about Climate Variability and Change. Also at the meeting we will discuss having a social early this semester, so bring ideas of what you’d like to do!
See you next week,
Christina
Hey AWRAers,
The next AWRA state meeting is coming up on January 22 in Jacksonville. This meeting should be a lot of fun and it is easy for us to get to, so we hope to have a good turnout. The Mayor of Jacksonville will be presenting over lunch, and the new Colonel of the Army Corps will be concluding the presentations. This will only be a day trip, but it will be a great opportunity for people to get more involved with the club and see what a conference is like.
Hey AWRAers!
This Sunday, December 13, the BEC will be serving lunch at the St.
Francis House for their fall service project. They would like a few volunteers. If you would like to help please email Joseph
(sci525 at ufl.edu) with the shift, or shifts, you would like to take. The shift times are from 8-9:30 AM, 9:30-11 AM and 11 AM-1 PM.
Thank you,
Joseph
