Stephanie Johnson, an environmental engineering doctoral student received the J. Walter Porter Fellowship from the Texas Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She also received the Texas Water Resources Institute 2007-2008 Graduate Research Grant from the U.S. Geological Survey. Johnson will use the stipends to research the factors affecting bacterial transport within a watershed and to create a model accounting for environmental variations of these factors. Johnson’s graduate advisor is Dr. David Maidment, professor of environmental engineering.