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Rainwatch

Pete Lamb (CIMMS), Aondover Tarhule (Geog), and former graduate student Zakari Saley Bana (SoM) has developed a computer application that integrates several pieces of software to manage, process and visualize rainfall data.
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January 2012 Faculty Recognition

Younane Abousleiman (Integrated PoroMechanics Institute) and Roger Slatt (Geology & Geophysics) presented a poster titled "Multi-scale, Brittle-Ductile Couplets in Unconventional Gas Shales: Merging Sequence Stratigraphy and Geomechanics" at the 2011 American Association of Petroleum Geologist annual convention.
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January 2012 Publications

Trends in Microbiology has published The Human Microbiome Pro-ject: Lessons from Human Genomics (January 2012, Vol. 20, Issue 1) by Cecil Lewis, Alexandra Obregón-Tito, Raul Tito, Morris Foster and Paul Spicer (Anthropology).
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Twenty New Species of Plant-Bugs Named

Katrina Menard (Sam Noble Museum) recently described 20 new species of plant-bugs (Heteroptera: Miridae) from Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Solomon Islands. Menard’s co-authored work was published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History in November 2011.

Recognition December 2011

Dr. Eddie Baron (Physics & Astronomy) is now a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

OU WaTER Conference

The OU Water Technologies for Emerging Regions (WaTER) Center hosted the 2nd Biennial University of Oklahoma WaTER Conference, October 24-26, 2011, with over 200 attendees from 38 countries representing academia, industry, NGOs, governments and foundations.
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New Center for Microbial Identification and Taxonomy

Dr. Paul A. Lawson (Botany & Microbiology) has established the Center for Microbial Identification and Taxonomy (CMIT). The new center will draw on Lawson’s experience and knowledge of organisms recovered from a wide range of sources, and his extensive national and international collaborations. The center will also augment his recent NIH R01 award with Dr.
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