This new grant from the USGS/Water Resources Research Center 104B program is to identify mechanism(s) for occurrence of the emerging contaminant perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) in Tucson Basin groundwater.

The project is titled, "Vegetation and Fire History of City of Rocks (CIRO) National Reserve: Relevance for Understanding the Role of Climate and Disturbance in Plant Migration in the American West"

The International Arid Lands Consortium (IALC) FY2010 Research Project Request for Proposals (RFPs) and the associated files are now available on the IALC Website

At the Annual Meeting in Prescott on 20 January 2010, the University of Arizona recipients of the Arizona Section Society for Range Management Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholarship and Marcell E. Schmutz Memorial Scholarship were recognized.