NEBRA Welcomes Intern Elizabeth Dziezyk

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      Date: Oct 17, 2005
     Title: NEBRA Welcomes Intern Elizabeth Dziezyk

University of Maine Student to Help With Nationwide Biosolids Use and Disposal Survey

University of Maine Student to Help With Nationwide Biosolids Use and Disposal Survey

"Hello. My name is Elizabeth Dziezyk and I will be working with NEBRA in the upcoming year as an intern, under the direction of Ned Beecher. I am currently an undergraduate at the University of Maine, Orono studying Natural Resources with a concentration in Environmental Science and a minor in Sustainable Agriculture. This past summer I worked as a field assistant for the USGS gathering hydrology and soil data for a wetland monitoring protocol for Acadia National Park. Previous internships have been with the Senator George Mitchell Center at the UMaine campus working with various graduate student research projects, water quality monitoring, and other environmental projects. I am also a member of the Maine Army National Guard and recently returned from an eleven-month tour in northern Iraq.

"In working with NEBRA, I hope to gain a better understanding of how biosolids are used and handled in the region, and how it impacts the surrounding environment. Along with improving my communication and data analysis skills, I hope to gain invaluable experience in the environmental field of biosolids and the many areas that it has ties with. I look forward to working with NEBRA and am excited to begin this new chapter in my career."

--Elizabeth Dziezyk, University of Maine, Orono

Note: Ms. Dziezyk will work from now through the spring of 2006, from the George Mitchell Center in Orono, focusing on the National Biosolids Use & Disposal Survey (see related story).