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Takela Dinka receives Water Resources Grant
June 30, 2009
Contact: Cecilia Wagner, 979.458.1138, cecilia@tamu.edu
COLLEGE STATION – Takele Dinka, a graduate student in the Texas A&M University College of Agricutlure and Life Sciecnes’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, has received a grant of up to $5,000 from the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) to support his research. His proposal is titled “Influence of Land Use and Terrain on Surface Hydrology in Shrink-Swell Soils,” and his advisor is Dr. Cristine Morgan, assistant professor of soil science.
This year, TWRI presented 10 grants for beginning, expanding or extending water-related research projects to graduate students from Texas A&M University, Rice University, Texas Tech University, and The University of Texas at El Paso.
The institute’s funding for the graduate student projects is provided by the U.S. Geological Survey as part of the National Institutes for Water Research annual research program. TWRI will publish articles and reports about the progress of each project.
For more information about the grant program and students’ projects, go to http://twri.tamu.edu/usgs.php.
The Texas Water Resources Institute, part of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas AgriLife Research, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, provides leadership to stimulate priority water resources research and educational programs for AgriLife Research and AgriLife Extension as well as throughout Texas.
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