Water on the Web Project Earns National Awards

Water on the Web website

August 10, 2005

George Host with UMD’s Natural Resources Research Institute, accepted a MERLOT Award of Exemplary Online Learning Resources on behalf of the Water on the Web site team (waterontheweb.org) during the MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) International Conference held in Nashville, Tennessee in July. It was one of 12 awards given nationally to recognize outstanding online resources and the creators of these resources for their contributions to the academic community. Sharing the award are Cindy Hagley, Bruce Munson, and Carl Richards with UMD Minnesota Sea Grant Program; Rich Axler, Elaine Ruzycki, and Norm Will with the Natural Resources Research Institute; and Glenn Merrick with Lake Superior College.

The team also received honorable mention for the Water on the Web site from the National Sea Grant College Program. The award was presented at Sea Grant Week, held in June at Rockport, Maine.