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barbara liukkonen
 

Water Resources Center
146 Classroom Office Building
St. Paul Minnesota 55108

612 625 9256
luikk001@tc.umn.edu

education
 
BA - geology and education, Carleton College 1976
MS - hydrogeology, University of Minnesota 1987
 
duties
 
water resources education, shoreland issues, volunteer monitoring, youth/water education, safe drinking water
  
 vision of wow
 
a way to connect people (adults and students) with Minnesota's lakes; a way for them to explore lakes from the comfort of their computer; a way to ask and answer questions about lakes, how they work, and how humans affect them
 
 what Barbara
 does when
 not working
 on wow
 
work on my new garden stream and pond where I'm practicing shoreland restoration techniques, walk my dogs, canoe, hike, camp, quilt, read, eat chocolate (that's all the time, not just during liesure)
 
personal
heros
 

my dad, who always encouraged me to do my best (and expected it) and had more integrity than anyone else I know

Harmon Killebrew - not only was he baseball's MVP, but he was gracious and kind to me as a child and had lots of integrity ... he talked/s to children as if they're people and still is involved with baseball

  
 best and worst parts of your job
 

best - getting out to meet real Minnesotans who are working on all the issues we talk about in meetings and in the office

worst - paperwork, phone messages, email

 
I can die
happy once I
  have a well-trained dog (or two)