{"id":991,"date":"2014-08-03T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.auburn.edu\/aww\/?p=991"},"modified":"2023-05-09T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:05:03","slug":"aww-names-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/aww-names-new-director\/","title":{"rendered":"AWW Names New Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Dr. Bill Deutsch provided a few other AWW Program Updates,   the centerpiece of his talk being his announcement that he is stepping down as Director of the AWW Program after about 22 years. Bill officially retired from Auburn University last June,   and received Research Fellow,   Emeritus status with AU. He has continued to work part-time and serve as the leader of AWW which has been ever so helpful during this year of great<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">changes. Bill will continue to work with AWW and GWW, but felt it was time to pass the baton of Director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><!--more-->The logical choice of successors was Eric Reutebuch, a long-term member of AWW\u2019s staff and one who understands and believes in the importance of community-based water monitoring. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_992\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/08\/NewDirector.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-992\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-992\" alt=\"Dr. Bill Deutsch, former Director of Alabama Water Watch, congratulates Eric Reutebuch, newly appointed AWW Director\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/08\/NewDirector-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bill Deutsch, former Director of Alabama Water Watch, congratulates Eric Reutebuch, newly appointed AWW Director<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">As Bill put it, \u201cEric is a detail man and people-person, with vast experience in water science, intimate knowledge of Alabama\u2019s lakes and rivers, and a deep appreciation of what citizen volunteers can do to protect and restore our waterways.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Eric has an M.S. in Fisheries from Auburn University. He has played many roles for AWW including grant writing, producing publications and articles about AWW groups, their monitoring, and how they are using data to better manage their watersheds. In addition to his work with AWW, Eric worked many years with Dr. David Bayne\u2019s Rivers and Reservoirs Lab at AU. He is very knowledgeable about all things aquatic, has a volunteer spirit and loves the water. When he\u2019s not working at AWW, you are likely to find him volunteering with Save Our Saugahatchee or Lake Watch of Lake Martin to protect water quality, or enjoying a day of fishing and boating. Eric will be a wonderful director for AWW \u2013 the Program is lucky to have him as a leader!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">As Eric took his position as AWW Director, he reminded us of how far AWW has come in the past few years. Although AWW has gone through significant changes, the Program\u2019s reach is strong and getting stronger thanks to dedicated citizen volunteers and the increased support of Auburn University and Alabama Cooperative Extension System. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Bill Deutsch provided a few other AWW Program Updates, the centerpiece of his talk being his announcement that he is stepping down as Director of the AWW Program after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-alabama-water-watch","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7686,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/7686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}