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0020:;.5 March-April 1997 Water Quality Research Project," the project will have significant implica- tions for water quality regulations and treatment in the arid and semi-arid West. Funds from the $5-million grant will sponsor research to develop a.ppro- priate water quality criteria for arId regions. The research is to produce. water quality criteria to protect species and habitat from ephemeral and efflu- ent-dependent ecosystems. The project has a regioual focus involving wastewater agencies, local governments, tribal interests, state and federal regulators, universities and environmental groups. It is an oppor- tunity for western water .and w.aste- . water agencies, working 10 conjunction with EPA Region IX and others throughout the arid West, to build a scientific basis for appropriate water quality standards for the western eco- systems. (See Announcements, p. 10 for information about a related water quality conference.) . . For additional project lnformanon contact Pima County Wastewater Management, 201 N. Stone Ave., Tuc- . son, AZ 85701; phone 520-740-6500; fax 520-620-0135. USGS-Weather Service Joint Use Building Dedicated Dignitaries and scientists gathered at the University of Arizona on March 21 to dedicate the new Environmental and Natural Resources Building. Envi- sioned as the first of a three-phase complex, the facility houses the Na- tional Weather Service and the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources Division, which includes hydrology, GIS, NA WQA, and Glen Canyon Environmental activities. Locating federal agencies on cam- puses of research universities is a grow- ing trend. This is the first time, how- ever, that a facility houses both the Survey and the Weather Service. Bene- fits of the shared facility are expected to include cost savings, greater coopera- tion between the USGS, NWS and faculty, and enhanced opportunities for students. Arizona Water Resource .. Transitions Placido dos Santos is the new Border Environmental Manager for the Ari- zona Department of Environmental Quality. He comes to the position from the Arizona Department of Wa- ter Resources, where he served as the first area director of the Santa Cruz AMA. Alejandro Barcenas was ap- pointed the new AMA director. He formerly was Nogales city engineer. Also in the Santa Cruz AMA, Steve Abernathy was named to a Water Resource Specialist (Il) position. He takes over a position previously held by Keith Nelson, who now is with the Department of Water Resources' Hy- drology unit in Phoenix. Bill Campbell has taken a newly created groundwater technician job with the Arizona Small Utility Ass0- ciation in Tucson. Previously, Camp- bell was a Watet Resource Specialist with the Pinal AMA of the Depart- ment of Water Resources, where he worked with the grants program and water rights compliance and enforce- ment. Tim Henley was named manager of the Arizona Water Bank in July 1996. Jimmy Jayne was appointed technical administrator of the Water Bank. Henley formerly headed the Colorado River Management Section of the Arizona Department of Water Resourc- es. That position was taken over by Tom Carr, who was in Program Man- agement for the Department. Trish McCraw has transferred within the Arizona Department of Water Resources from head of the Arizona Water Protection Fund to a position in the Colorado River Management Section of the Surface Water Manage- ment Division. No replacement has yet been named to head up the Water Protection Fund. Peter Wierenga is the Acting Director of the Water Resources Research 5 Center at the University of Arizona. Wierenga, a soil physicist, also heads the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science in the UA's College of Agriculture. He recently was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Former Water Center Director Hanna Cortner began a one-year sabbatical in January. For- mer Senior Research Specialist Mary Wallace is completing her PhD and teaching in the School of Renewable Natural Resources. Vic Baker became the new head of the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona in August of 1996. He suc- ceeds Soroosh Sorooshian, who re- mains as a professor in the department. Vic Baker was formerly a professor of Geosciences with a joint appointment at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the UofA. He has retained both of these appointments. Two key figures from the early years of the UA's Hydrology department recently passed away. Eugene Simp- son, longtime professor and former department head, died in Dece~ber at the age of 78. Simpson was a pIoneer in the field of hydrogeology, and was among the first to recognize the need to protect groundwater from ra~oac- tive materials and other contammants. His career at the University of Arizona stretched from 1965 through 1985, and included considerable research for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and abroad on the subject of pollutant movement through fractured rock of low permeability. Daniel Evans, professor emeritus, died in late Novem- ber at the age of 76. Evans began his 26-year career at the University of Arizona as a professor of agricultural chemistry and soils in 1963. The following year, he joined the hydrolo- gy program, eventually serving twice as department head. His research pro- gram included extensive work f~r ~he U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommiSSIon. Karen Heidel is the acting head of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality's Water Quality Division. She stepped in after Kim MacEachern left ADEQ earlier this year.