Katherine Kapo, who will graduate in Spring 2009 as the fifth graduate of the ES Ph.D. program, is being honored as our program's recipient of the Graduate Excellence award for 2009 from the School of Graduate Studies. She tackled a unique and exciting topic in the risk assessment of watersheds and aquatic ecosystems which provided statistically based rankings of stressors that impaired aquatic life. She has published two papers in excellent international journals and a technical report for the United Kingdom’s Environment Agency based on her work here at Wright State, with more in preparation. Katherine had 20 presentations at national and international meetings during her Ph.D., including 6 countries in Europe and southeast Asia. She has been recruited by the U.S. Geological Survey to train their personnel on her unique watershed analyses method and was awarded a grant to conduct joint research with the Dutch Ministry of Health and Environment for 2 months. Katherine is advised by Dr. Allen Burton in Wright State’s Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Congratulations to Katherine on this well-deserved award!
