| Grabasnjak
Awarded Maxey Fellowship
The Desert Research
Institute has awarded the $12,000 George B. Maxey Fellowship to
DRI Graduate Research Assistant Marija Grabasnjak. Her fellowship
research will involve statistical simulations of the movement of
pollutants through complex groundwater systems to improve advanced
modeling techniques. Grabasnjak is working toward her M.S. in hydrology/hydrogeology
at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Maxey, a pioneering
groundwater scientist, was a prominent early director of DRI’s
groundwater research program and established the first Ph.D. program
in Nevada’s university system. He and his wife, Jane, also
provided considerable extracurricular support and guidance for hydrology
and hydrogeology graduate students.
The fellowship was established
by Elizabeth “Betty” West Stout, a paleontologist who
is a longtime supporter of DRI and a friend of the late Maxey. Mrs.
Stout has underwritten numerous research and fundraising activities,
and the Institute’s conference center in the Northern Nevada
Science Center in Reno is named in her honor.
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