AWRA President
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Narvaez inaugurated as 50th president of American Water Resources Association
9:24 a.m., Dec. 3, 2015--The University of Delawares Martha
Narvaez was inaugurated as the 50th president of the American Water
Resources Association (AWRA) at the organizations annual conference
held Nov. 16-19 in Denver, Colorado.
Narvaez accepted the gavel from outgoing president John C. Tracy, who
is the director of the University of Idaho Water Resources Research
Institute in Boise.
She will serve her term in 2016, and follows presidents who have come
from institutions that include Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania
State University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of
Illinois.
Narvaez is a policy scientist with the Universitys Water Resources Agency
in the Institute for Public Administration and School of Public Policy
and Administration, and has also served as founding president of the
Delaware state chapter of the AWRA and co-founder of the UD student
section of the AWRA.
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Established in 1964, the AWRA has over 2,100 members and has
sponsored 120 symposia over the last 50 years in the U.S. and abroad
with over 30,000 attendees.
AWRA publishes the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) with an impact factor ranking in the upper third of peer publications.
The UD Water Resources Agency is one of the 54 National Institutes
for Water Resources (NIWR) supported by the U.S. Department of Interior
at land grant universities in the 50 states, District of Columbia, and
the island territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Originally published by UDaily.
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