{"id":234406,"date":"2016-08-17T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=234406"},"modified":"2016-08-17T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:00:33","slug":"uog-names-jenson-director-weri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-names-jenson-director-weri\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG names Jenson as director of WERI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_234409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234409\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jenson-pix-225x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. John Jenson has been appointed the new director of its Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of Guam has appointed Dr. John Jenson as the new director of its Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific. <\/p>\n<p>Jenson, who replaces Dr. Sharam Khosrowpanah, will begin his appointment on Oct. 1.  Khosrowpanah was recently named the interim dean of the School of Engineering. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWERI is blessed with extraordinary scientific talent and a great tradition of teamwork among its faculty, staff, and student research assistants\u2014and I mean not only internal teamwork but teamwork with the rest of UOG and partner agencies on Guam, CNMI, and FSM, as well,\u201d Jenson said. \u201cAll I really have to do, like those that have gone before me, is to empower all of that talent and continue to foster the teamwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the last 23 years, Jenson has served as a professor of environmental geology at UOG and a hydrogeologist at WERI.His research, which focuses on the applied and fundamental aspects of island groundwater hydrology and related environmental science, has led to work like assessing newly-drilled and rehabilitated wells, rehabilitating long out-of-service-wells, and identifying new sites for production wells in Guam.  <\/p>\n<p>Jenson earned a Master\u2019s in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Geology from Oregon State University in 1993. <\/p>\n<p>For more information about WERI, visit www.weriguam.org. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Guam has appointed Dr. John Jenson as the new director of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":234409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,12978,445,2674],"class_list":["post-234406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-john-jenson","tag-uog","tag-weri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}