I’m so excited to share this new Lake Champlain Sea Grant video about a resilient rain garden along the Winooski River that survived catastrophic flooding in 2023, and kept on functioning, with a little help from committed community partners. I first saw this rain garden in Montpelier about 3 weeks …
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 …
I’m pleased to announce that I’m leading a new multi-institution NSF-funded project investigating how stormwater decision making translates to environmental outcomes at the watershed scale. I’m collaborating with Aditi Bhaskar (Colorado State University), Kelly Turner (UCLA), and Dave Costello (Kent State University) on the project we’ve christened STORMS, for STream …
Laura Sugano successfully defended her MS thesis on April 2, 2018 and is all set for graduation next week. Laura’s thesis “Comparing Bioretention Cell and Green Roof Performance in Parma, OH” was the culmination of three years of work at the Cleveland Metroparks’ Watershed Stewardship Center, an innovative research and …
Later this month, Caytie, Garrett, and I will be representing the Watershed Hydrology Lab at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. I will be presenting the following talk on Wednesday at 10:15 in WSCC Room 612. Storage Dynamics Revealed by Water Isotopes Provide Insight into Water …
On March 15th, I’ll be at the Cleveland Metroparks Watershed Stewardship Center in Parma to talk with a very special group of people: the people in the Watershed Volunteer Program. The volunteers in this program take part in the active management and monitoring of the park system, becoming certified watershed …
On Thursday of @highlyanne’s week @realscientists, she was putting finishing touches on a research proposal to do new, cool science on stormwater managment. She also wanted to get people to realize that stormwater managment is already happening in their neighborhoods, so #SpotTheSCM was born.
I was asked to submit an abstract for the Water Management Association of Ohio conference in November. I’m going to try to sum up 4 years worth of work on the green infrastructure retrofit we’ve been studying in Parma, and I’m looking forward to learning about from the other presenters …
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 …
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 …