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Join the Florida Section of the American Water Resources Association as we return to the Casa Marina Hotel July 16-17 in beautiful Key West.

The Florida Section returns to Key West in a big way. Many of our traditions will continue: the dynamic speakers and topics, the EcoTour, the Wine Tasting (proceeds donated to the Sanford N. Young Scholarship Fund), the Silent Auction (proceeds donated to the Rosanne Clementi Education Program), the President's reception and Friday night Luau.

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Next Saturday, April 25th, AWRA and EWB have teamed up with the St. John’s River Water Management District and Watershed Action Volunteers to clean up the Lochloosa Lake Beach! We will be meeting in the NEB parking lot at 8:45 am and leaving for the lake promptly at 9:15 am (there will be coffee and donuts!). We will proceed to clean the beaches and waterways, as SJRWMD will be providing Pontoon and John boats! Please bring gloves, shoes/boots, and any clean up equipment you may have. Prepare to get muddy!

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Tuesday, April 21st, we will be meeting at 6:30 pm at Orange & Brew for updates and elections! If you want to see change, need a resume booster, or are looking for ways to be more active, holding an officer position is for you! Details about the positions and their duties will be given at the meeting. Email me or any of the other officers if you have questions. Hope to see you all there!

AWRA Meeting Minutes
September 4, 2008

 AWRA 2008 Annual Water Resources Conference
o When: November 17 – 20, 2008
o Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
o Cost of Registration: $120
o Registration Deadline: October 27, 2008

 Fundraising Ideas
o Sponsored T-Shirts
o Casino Night

 Club Photos
o Some complaints were made regarding AWRA-tagged photos on Facebook
o In the future, no posted photos should be directly associated with AWRA

 LSU Tailgate
o When: Saturday, October 11, 2008
o More to be decided at next meeting

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Registration to go to the national conference with us is due October 1st!!

Please get your completed form and registration money to me, Christina, or any of our other fine officers as soon as possible so we can start working the details for hotel rooms, transportation, and budget so hopefully we can get some of that money back to you!

The form is available at http://www.awra.org/meetings/NewOrleans2008/index.html and the registration is $125 for national student members or $175 for nonmembers (although membership is only $30, so you save money by registering as a national member!).

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Hey AWRAers!

We will be having our much anticipated first meeting of the semester this Thursday, September 4 at 6 PM at Orange & Brew.

Get ready to discuss this year???s national meeting in New Orleans, our LSU game tailgate, new projects and other general club business.

We plan to finish with plenty of time to head over to the Unified meeting, which will be at 7 PM in NEB 386.

Cheers!

Christina Herr
christub at ufl.edu

A UF Student Chapter member Ruben Kertesz has won the annual Sandy Young Scholarship from AWRA Florida Chapter.
It was said that there were many excellent candidates and the selection process was rigorous.

The Sandy Young Scholarship is available to graduate and undergraduate students to help them "realize their potential as tomorrow’s water resource innovators. The Sanford N. Young Scholarship Program was created by the AWRA Florida Section in memory of one of its longest serving members."

The University of Florida Student Chapter has been selected to receive the national Outstanding Student Chapter Award!!! Congratulations!!!

Each year, AWRA National takes entries for the selection of the student chapter of the year from all of the chapters in the nation.

For a list of all the student chapters, please visit http://awra.org/student/index.html

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We are finally ready to do the first installment of our creek planting.
Join us

UPDATE: Alas, I was wrong. We have no plants! :(
Physical Plant still has to buy the plants and we don't have enough people to complete a planting this Saurday, sadly.

I am tentatively rescheduling for Saturday the 24th (and Sunday the 25th if we don't finish) to do our creek restoration activity.

The BEC Awards Committee has selected our organization for the student chapter of the year award to be presented at the end-of-the-year banquet on April 23.

This is a great honor as there are 30 organizations in the Benton Engineering Council.
We have received much support from the council, both financially and otherwise.
Whether it was for a trip to a conference or support for our New Orleans research, or one of many other activities, we have much to thank them for.

Congratulations AWRA Members!!