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Faye Sleeper

WRC Co-Director


Phone: 612-624-3738
E-mail: fsleeper@umn.edu

173 McNeal Hall,
1985 Buford Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

Fax: 612-625-1263

WRC Projects: Impaired Waters and TMDL program, Mississippi River Life Program and Policy and Social Science aspects of water resource issues.

Faye Sleeper manages the WRC outreach activities related to Impaired Waters and TMDLS, linking with U of M researchers, state and federal agencies, and other Universities in the upper Midwest. She is Principal Investigator for the Clean Water Legacy Results and Tracking project and actively works on identifying research and training needs in Impaired Waters. Faye is co-chair of the 2008 Minnesota Waters Conference and helps coordinate the Water Resources Research Institute grants program for the U.S. Geological Survey. She is also transitioning into managing urban runoff projects of the WRC.

Faye has an M.A. in Geography from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Sociology and History from Grinnell College. She brings to the WRC seventeen years of experience working with water quality issues while at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Her most recent work was with Watershed programs where she managed several nonpoint source grant programs and worked with many partners in developing the TMDL program.