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Darren Meadows Wins 2002 Guinn Environmental
Fellowship
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| DRI Graduate Student Darren Meadows,
third from left, is joined by Nevada First Lady Dema Guinn,
Secretary of State Dean Heller as DRI President Steven G. Wells
announces Meadows selection as the Guinn Environmental Fellow.
Photo by Scott Gerz |
Darren Meadows, a DRI
graduate research assistant and Ph.D. candidate in hydrology at
the University of Nevada, Reno, has been awarded the 2002 Kenny
C. Guinn Environmental Research Fellowship. Meadows will use his
fellowship to study the role of desert pavements—the natural
crust that forms on the surface—in desert ecology.
Meadows is interested
in investigating the relationship between the condition of the pavement
and the infiltration and distribution of water within the soil directly
beneath the pavement. His winning research proposal noted that pavements,
generally composed of a layer of closely packed gravel over a layer
of silt, are suspected to be one of the most significant factors
influencing arid land ecosystems.
The fellowship, in its
second year, provides a one-year award of $15,000, an office at
DRI, and use of the Institute’s computer and laboratory facilities.
DRI established the fellowship in honor of Governor Guinn’s
efforts in behalf of higher education in Nevada.
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