A&WMA wishes to congratulate the following winners of the Student Paper/Poster Contest held during the 97th Annual Conference & Exhibition in Indianapolis, IN.

2004 student paper/poster winners: (from left) Mark Caraher, Student Program Co-Coordinator; Ganesh Srinivasan; Shauna Durocher; Kori D. Moore; Emily Drennen; Teresa Hofheins; Raga S. Kalapati; Yunhua Zhu; Joseph Martone, A&WMA President; Rafael McDonald; Abhilash Vijayan; Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi; Kristen Belcredi, Student Program Co-Coordinator. Not pictured: Mariam Rahmani.

Doctoral Level

1^st Place ($500):

Rafael McDonald, Washington University, St. Louis, Morphological Studies of Ambient and Traffic Aerosols

2^nd Place ($300):

Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi, Griffith University, Australia and UAE University, Concepts and Applications of Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology Towards Sustainable Development of the Industries in the United Arab Emirates

3^rd Place ($200):

Yunhua Zhu, NC State, Uncertainty Analysis of Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Systems

Masters Level

1^st Place ($500):

Teresa Hofheins, University of New Mexico, Evaluation of an Infiltration Barrier in a Landfill Cover at Los Alamos National Laboratory

2^nd Place ($300):

Ganesh Srinivasan, University of Cincinnati, The Use of the In-situ Particle Formation Reaction Between Ammonia and Sulfur Dioxide to Remove Kerosene Vapor

3^rd Place ($200):

Raga S. Kalapati, University of Toledo, Development of Forecasting Model for Predicting Hourly Ozone Concentration for Dayton, OH, and Evaluation Using MM5 Real-Time Forecast

Undergraduate Level

1^st Place ($500):

Kori D. Moore, Utah State University, Monitoring Vertical Temperature Inversions in Utah's Cache Valley Using HOBO Temperature Sensors/Data Loggers

2^nd Place ($300):

Shauna Durocher, University of Alberta, The Chemical Evaluation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Smoke Plumes From a Coniferous Forest Fire

3^rd Place ($200):

Mariam Rahmani, University of Central Florida, Dispersion of a Dense Gas in Closed Space

New to the 2004 Annual Conference Student Paper/Poster Contest, additional prizes were awarded to three paper/poster contestants whose research specifically pertained to sustainable development or pollution prevention topics.

Sustainable Development and Pollution Prevention

1^st Place ($500):

Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi, Griffith University, Australia and UAE University, Concepts and Applications of Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology Towards Sustainable Development of the Industries in the United Arab Emirates

2^nd Place ($300):

Emily Drennen, San Francisco State University, Economic Impact of Traffic Calming on Urban Small Business

3^rd Place ($200):

Abhilash Vijayan, University of Toledo, Cleaner Production - A Move Towards Sustainability