We are good people, doing good science, supporting each other. Most importantly, the Watershed Lab includes amazing human beings. We include faculty, staff, postdocs, PhD students, MS students, undergraduate researchers, and friends of the lab. All members of the Watershed Lab had big milestones in 2025. We study what matters. …
If you’ve spent time in or along urban streams, you’ve probably seen trash hanging out in or near the channel. This trash (or anthropogenic debris) can range from plastic bags and bottles to shopping carts and car tires. But some sections of urban streams have more trash than others. We …
We are one amazing research group. We are a faculty lead (Anne), a technician (Andrea), a post doc (Lakelyn), a PhD student (Suffiyan), 2 MS students (Nurjahan and Sabrina), 6 undergraduates (Casey, Kayleigh, Arden, Morgan, Hope, and Henry), and 1 closely-affiliated faculty member (Liz). We published great science in four …
New paper alert! Cuyahoga Valley National Park is pock-marked by reclaimed surface mines, but the park can’t get trees to grow on these sites to achieve true restoration. In this paper, we investigate what’s up with the soil physical and hydrologic properties and how a deep-ripping process might help the …
The Watershed Lab in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont seeks a graduate student to work on a fully-funded project on microplastics in Lake Champlain, beginning in June 2024. Lake Champlain is an 1100 km2 lake between Vermont and New York, and this …
We are respectful and supportive of each person’s identities, experiences, and needs. We work hard, but we also take adequate time to take care of our physical and mental health and to enjoy our lives outside of work. We practice safe habits in the field, in the lab, and in …
The following is an email that I sent today to graduate students in my department. I am sharing it here in the spirit of broadening the conversation beyond just our department. I follow in the footsteps of Dr. Julie Libarkin and Dr. Jacquelyn Gill who have shared personal letters and …
It’s been about a year since I’ve updated this blog, but it’s not that I didn’t have anything to say. Instead, members of the Watershed Hydrology lab were doing so many great things that I just didn’t do a good job of stopping to write them down here. But below, …
Congratulations to Catherine Ruhm, who defended her MS thesis in Geology in mid-November. Catherine took on a complicated and intensive project on the soils and hydrology of abandoned mine lands in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, collecting absolutely critical baseline data on the properties of five sites which had been mined …
Two Graduate Assistantships to study urban streams We are seeking two graduate assistants for an NSF-funded collaborative project aimed at understanding how stormwater management decisions translate to hydrologic and environmental outcomes in urban streams in Cleveland (Ohio) and Denver (Colorado). These funded graduate student researchers will join an interdisciplinary team …