Peter C. Hartsough, a graduate research assistant in the Desert Research Institute's Division of Hydrologic Sciences and Ph.D. student in the hydrologic sciences program at the University of Nevada, Reno, has been awarded DRI's Aileen and Sulo Maki Hydrology/Hydrogeology Fellowship. The competitively selected fellowship includes a three- year award of $15,000 per year to an incoming Ph.D. student at UNR or UNLV pursuing research in a field related to hydrologic sciences.
Hartsough's fellowship will allow him to continue his graduate research in reconstructing past climate conditions that produced widespread groundwater recharge in the Great Basin. Hartsough's research will also have application in analyzing how ground water moves across the basin, and how pollutants and dissolved material are transported in the water. He says the knowledge will be applicable in the development of water supplies and for quantifying the stability of waste disposal sites in arid regions.
The fellowship was established by Aileen and Sulo Maki, long-time DRI supporters who were prominent real estate investors in the Las Vegas area in the 1960s and 70s. Hartsough received his M.S. in Hydrogeology at UNR and B.S. in Earth Sciences at Evergreen State College in Washington