Category Archives: environment

Environmental Earth Science News Roundup #1

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Anne Jefferson

Anne is teaching Environmental Earth Science this fall. Because environmental earth science is pervasive in our lives, it’s also a frequent topic of news coverage. In order to encourage students to pay attention to where environmental earth science pops up … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, teaching

Mountaintop removal mining: what it looks like and what it does to Appalachian streams

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Anne Jefferson

This semester I’m teaching Environmental Earth Science to a fantastic group of students at Kent State. In tomorrow’s class about fossil fuels, we’ll be talking about coal formation, use, and environmental consequences. A big one I think they should be … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, hydrology, society, teaching

What I do to make money and make the wet places good for animals and people (using only the ten hundred most used words)

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Anne Jefferson

This is a guest post from Alea Tuttle, a former graduate student of Anne’s at UNC Charlotte, who now works in environmental consulting. Alea recently discovered the 10 hundred words of science challenge and was inspired to write her own … Continue reading →

Categories: environment, hydrology, public science

After the dam came out: The Cuyahoga River in Kent

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Anne Jefferson

We’ve been having one of those perfect spring weeks, where the weather is warm and sunny, the flowers are blooming, and there is nothing more enticing at the end of a workday than to take a nice long wander down … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, outcrops, photos