General Information

Recipients

CASFM has $2000 available to award to students for the 2007-08 academic year.  Application packages must be received by February 22, 2008.

Scholarship Purpose:  The purpose of this scholarship is to promote interest among students and the engineering community in the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers (CASFM) and to promote the goals of CASFM.  Applicants must be U.S. citizens enrolled in a graduate program closely related to CASFM’s goals at a College or University in the State of Colorado and be registered to take at least 3 credit-hours of coursework per semester.  Eligible programs of study include, but are not limited to, hydrology, hydraulics, watershed management, floodplain management, stormwater management, stormwater quality, emergency response, meteorology and climatology.  The scholarship recipient will also have the option to make a 20-minute presentation on their research project at the 2008 annual CASFM conference held in September.  Registration and lodging at the conference is included if the recipient commits to make a presentation by the call for papers deadline (typically late March).

Selection Process:  Three applicants will be short-listed based on this application and a short essay (up to 500 words) describing their personal and career goals and how they relate to the goals of CASFM.  Short-listed applicants will be notified on or about March 7th.  A panel will hold a short (20-30 minute) interview with short-listed applicants on the week of March 14th at a location to be determined (either Fort Collins or Denver).  The successful candidate will be notified on or about March 18th.  The funds will be awarded as either a full-year $2000 scholarship to a single student or separately as a $1000 fall scholarship and $1000 spring scholarship to two students at the sole discretion of the CASFM Scholarship committee.  Funds will be disbursed by deposit directly into the student’s school account.

Scholarship Application Form (Word Document)

Scholarship Application Form (PDF Document)

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The 2007-2008 CASFM Scholarship recipient is Jeffrey Y. Cheng. Jeff is currently a PhD candidate in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Colorado. His PhD dissertation topic is “Modification of Kinematic Wave Cascading Model for Low Impact Watershed Development,” which provides a methodology to quantify onsite stormwater treatment and management. The goals of this research are to help engineers understand Low Impact Development concepts and to provide a hydrology modeling procedure to quantify the benefit of LID site layout strategy to land development. He is working with Professors James Guo and Ken Strzepek at CU, and has had several research papers accepted and published in the ASCE Journal.
 
In addition to his studies at CU, Jeff works for AMEC Earth and Environmental in Lakewood as a Senior Water Resources Engineer. His responsibilities there include DFIRM floodplain and floodway delineation, stormwater master planning, and hydrology and hydraulic modeling. The projects he works on are located in states throughout the western and central United States. Before coming to AMEC, Jeff worked as a land development review engineer for the City of Aurora Public Works department.

Rob Rahrs, our 2006/2007 scholarship recipient,  graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology/Climatology in May 2000. Since then, he has been read more...

The 2005-06 CASFM Scholarship recipient is Nancy Steinberger of Loveland, Colorado. In addition to her full-time studies as a PhD candidate at Colorado State University Nancy works part time for Michael Baker Jr.  read more...

The 2004-2005 CASFM Scholarship has been awarded to Leif Embertson. Leif received his undergraduate civil engineering degree from Oregon State University in 2001. He moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2002 where he read more...

Kelly Hargadin is the recipient of the 2003/04 CASFM scholarship. Currently employed full-time as a project manager with the City of Thornton, she is working toward an M.S. degree in Engineering Project Management-Hydrology at CU-Denver. Kelly has worked with the read more...

The first CASFM scholarship was awarded to Jeremy Shaw, a graduate student in Watershed Hydrology at Colorado State University. The award was for $1,000 for the spring semester of 2003. read more...