Graduate student Laura Sugano will also be presenting her green infrastructure research at the CUAHSI Biennial Symposium in July. Evaluating Bioretention Cell and Green Roof Hydrologic Performance in northeastern Ohio Laura L. Sugano*, Anne J. Jefferson, Lauren E. Kinsman-Costello, Pedro Avellaneda Kent State University Abstract In urban areas, increased runoff …
The Watershed Hydrology Lab will be represented at the CUAHSI Biennial Symposium in July in West Virginia. Pedro Avellaneda and Laura Sugano have been awarded travel grants to present their research. Here’s Pedro’s abstract: Long-term simulation of green infrastructure effects at a catchment-scale Pedro M. Avellaneda1, Anne J. Jefferson2, Jennifer …
Lab alumna and 2015 REU student Jillian Sarazen is presenting her work this week at the 59th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, affectionately known as IAGLR. Jillian graduated from Oberlin College in May. Congratulations on both fronts, Jillian! The effect of antecedent soil moisture conditions on green roof runoff …
As a first product of post-doc Pedro Avellaneda’s work at Kent State, we were pleased to submit the following abstract to the 2016 Low Impact Development Conference. A short version of the work will be published as a conference paper in August, and we are preparing a more detailed version for …
Spring semester 2016 is over! Grades were submitted Saturday night, and my research group was eager to get started with our summer research. Since I’m semi-participating in the #365scienceselfies project, I have some fun documentation of our adventures this week.
Students in GEOL 21062, Spring 2016, at Kent State University have been sharing interesting news stories with me all semester long. Here’s our complilation. Hopefully these are interesting things for other people too!
Green infrastructure, groundwater and the sustainable city Larry Band, Institute for the Environment at University of North Carolina Watershed context and the evolution of urban streams Derek Booth, Bren School of Environmental Management at UC Santa Barbara The Little Stringybark Creek project Tim Fletcher, University of Melbourne Contaminants of emerging …
Come one, come all to the internet phenom, the most nerdy fun alternative march madness event ever: Mammals March Madness 2016! http://mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2016/02/mammal-march-madness-2016.html?m=1 Will the snow leopard be upset by the Siberian chipmunk in the first round?* Unlikely. But what happens when the #8 seed Schoolcraft College Ocelots face the #9 …
You are invited to attend Eric Traub’s public MS thesis defense in Geology. “The Effects of Biogeochemical Sinks on the Mobility of Contaminants in an Area Affected By Acid Mine Drainage, Huff Run, Ohio.” (Co-Advisors: David Singer and Anne Jefferson) Monday, Feb. 22, 12:30 pm in McGilvrey Hall, room 339, …
For the second year in a row, I’ll be keeping track of the academic literature I read. This storify will serve as a roughly reverse chronological listing of that literature, with occasional color commentary.
Scroll to the bottom to find out how it went and what I read in 2015.