UNR Grad Student Receives 1998 Warden Memorial Award

The Desert Research Institute has awarded the 1998 Colin Warden Memorial Award to David Mazzera, a graduate research assistant in the Institute's Atmospheric Sciences Center. The annual award was established by the family and friends of Colin Warden after his death in 1991 to commemorate Warden's long-standing commitment to protecting the environment.

The award is given to a UNR or UNLV graduate student who is working under the direction of a DRI faculty member. Applicants submit papers based on research related to an environmental problem. Mazzera's winning paper, "Quantification of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Soil at McMurdo Station, Antarctica," addressed the dramatic increase in the quantity of PAHs--known or probable human carcinogens--in the environment. He is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the Environmental Science and Health program at UNR.