Table of Contents

• Summary

• President's Notes

• State Conference Speaker Preview

• June Virtual Poster Series Recap

• Student Fellowship Awards & Research Articles
• Unveiling Alluvial Aquifer Potential - Brook Bauer
• Environmental Equity in the Columbia River Basin - Kinsey Freeman
• Managed Aquifer Recharge on Manastash Creek - Elif Myers
• Tracking Hydropower Dam Operations Using Satellites - Sarath Suresh

• AWRA-WA Basin Sponsors

June to August 2024 Edition

AWRA-WA Student Fellowship Awards & Research Articles

Congratulations to our four AWRA-WA Student Fellowship Award recipients for 2024! Brook Bauer of CWU, Kinsey Freeman of WSU, Elif Myers of CWU, and Sarath Suresh of UW are conducting innovative research in water resources and demonstrated outstanding academic excellence in a competitive pool of fellowship applications this year. Explore articles about their research below.

• Unveiling Alluvial Aquifer Potential: Research on Managed Aquifer Recharge in the Ahtanum Drainage, Yakima County, Washington

By Brook Bauer – Graduate student at Central Washington University

• Environmental Equity in the Columbia River Basin: An Exploration of Policy, Power and Intergovernmental Collaboration

By Kinsey Freeman – PhD candidate at Washington State University

• Evaluating Potential for Managed Aquifer Recharge on the Manastash Creek Alluvial Fan
  

By Elif Myers – Graduate student at Central Washington University

• Tracking Hydropower Dam Operations Using Satellites – A Case of the 2018 Kerala Floods
  

By Sarath Suresh – PhD scholar at the University of Washington