Congratulations to Rose M. Cournoyer from the University of Connecticut.  She is this year's recipient of the Michael Lefor Grant.  Her research is titled Genomic Bacterial Source Tracking to Determine the Fate of Escherichia coli in a Constructed Wetland.  Thank you to all who applied this year.

NEW - We have added a new feature to our website.  We now have a page dedicated to Wetland Law.  The page was designed as a resource for our members who wish to stay up to date on wetland related court decisions.  The Wetland Law page offers links to general information and a link to a legal blog which covers current topics.  Specific court cases can be viewed from the Important Court Cases link.  This page was recently updated to provide several more cases.  Please check it out.

We also added some invasive species links to our Related Sites page.  Please let us know of any other links that would be useful.

Also if you have collected any water quality data from within the state, please consider sending it to CAWS so that we can incorporate the data in our on-line statewide Water Quality Database.  The more data we get, the more powerful a resource it is for you.