2025 NWRA Annual Conference Week Wrap-Up
January 2025
Thank you to everyone that attended an event during the
2025 NWRA Annual Conference Week!
Highlights of all the activities and events during
the 2025 Annual Conference Week!
2025 Annual Conference
Thank you to our Keynote Presenters:
Justice Ron Parraguirre
Nevada Supreme Court
Professor Burke Griggs
Director of Environmental & Energy Program and Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law
Norman Semanko
Attorney at Law, Parsons Behle & Latimer
2025 Mine Water Management & 20 Years of Pit Lake Science Symposium
Thank you to our Co-Chairs:
Shannon McDaniel, P.E., WRS
Worldsensing
Devin Castendyk, PhD, PG
WSP
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient - Ed James
Congratulations to Ed James on joining the elite group of NWRA Lifetime Achievement Award Winners!
View the Award here
All of us at NWRA would like to welcome
Aaron Bunker, Kimberly Wolf & Alexandra Lutz
new to the Board of Trustees for 2025-2026.
We look forward to your energy and ideas!
Please complete individual event surveys here!
Speakeasy
Water Rights Classes
Special thanks to all of our Sponsors and Exhibitors!
Student Poster Competition and Scholarships
Congratulations to the Student Poster Competition Winners
Graduate winners:
Gare Ambrose-Igho, Dylen Swan, Eugene Long, and Thomas Kaps
Undergraduate winners:
Jordan Chong, Rachel Eves, and Cade Beadell
People’s Choice Award: Andrew Pavlu
Congratulations to the Scholarship Winners
2025 NWRA Scholarship Winner:
Taposh Mohanto (Graduate)
2025 Mine Water Management Symposium Scholarship Winner:
Andrew Pavlu
2025 Clare Mahannah Scholarship Winner - Eugene Long
2025 Northern Nevada Scholarship - Andrea Garcia Jiminez & Thomas Kaps
2025 Southern Nevada Scholarship - Morteza Nazaripour & Ahmadreza Khatamgooya
Thank you to our Student Poster Judges!
Dawn Aragon
David Berger
Matt Bromley
Mark Gookin
Deena Hannoun
Lindsay Marsh
Lisa Poulsen
Tyler Sproule
Charlotte van der Nagel
Thank you to Ruby Mountain Spring Water
Water Sponsor
Thank you to our Scholarship Review Committee!
Mark Gookin
Jena Huntington
Karin Peternel
Laurel Saito
Christi Cooper
Annual Conference Sponsors
Mine Water Management & 20 Years of Pit Lake Science Symposium Sponsors
