Award Winning Project
RGBI closes out 2006 like a champ
By Danielle Supercinski
Several award nominations were submitted for the Efficient Irrigation for Water Conservation in the Rio Grande Basin project, also known as RGBI, toward the end of 2006, and we are pleased to announce that RGBI has won two award categories.
Drs. Juan Enciso, Ari Michelsen, Giovanni Piccinni, Edward Rister, Zhuping Sheng and Bob Wiedenfeld were selected by the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) Awards Committee to represent the research side of RGBI. This research team was nominated for and won the 2006 TAMUS Vice Chancellor’s Awards in Excellence: Award in Research for their numerous project efforts and accomplishments. These representatives received the award at the 2007 Texas A&M Agriculture Conference award ceremony on Jan. 9, 2007.
RGBI was also nominated for and won the U.S. Department of Agriculture–Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (USDA–CSREES) National Water Program 2007 Awards in the Outstanding Integrated Activities for Water Resources. The award was presented to Drs. Allan Jones and Bill Harris of TWRI and Craig Runyan of NMSU at the USDA–CSREES National Water Conference in Savannah, GA, Jan. 30, 2007.
The selected recipients accepted these awards on behalf of all RGBI participants and collaborators. RGBI is a winner because of the hard work, dedication and collaboration of all participants involved in the project working with each other and other universities, agencies and individuals to make this project a success. Congratulations to all RGBI participants!
