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 …
This year’s symposium occurred on October 5-6, 2016, and featured the theme of “Sustainability and Resilience on the Land-Water Continuum.”
Kent Wired, the electronic version of Kent State University’s student media, ran a story on Saturday about the work Kimm Jarden and I have been doing on the effectiveness of green infrastructure retrofits in a neighborhood in Parma, Ohio. Hopefully I’ll have more to say about this in the next few …
Oct. 14-15, 2015 Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center This symposium showcases leading-edge research on critical issues of water and climate change. FREE TO THE PUBLIC REGISTER ONLINE AT KENT.EDU/WATER
This position has been filled. Thanks for your interest. Post-doctoral Associate in Watershed Modeling A post-doctoral position focusing on hydrologic modeling of urban watersheds is available in the Department of Geology, Kent State University, in the lab of Anne Jefferson (https://all-geo.org/jefferson/research/). The successful candidate will have experience using RHESSys or …
Oct. 31, 2014 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center 215 Depeyster Street, Kent, OH 44240 Tomorrow will be a day full of inter-disciplinary talks and discussion about water and cities. David Sedlak, author of Water 4.0, will be the keynote speaker, but all of …
Kent State University Department of Geology’s Watershed Hydrology class visited the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory on April 5-6, 2014. Penn State post-doc Pamela Sullivan gave them a tour of the watershed and its instrumentation, with a focus on how the measurements could contribute to understanding how hydrology drives …
Department of Geology – MS Thesis Defense Darren Reilly “IDENTIFICATION OF LOCAL GROUND WATER POLLUTION IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: MARCELLUS FLOW-BACK OR NOT?” Tuesday, April 1, 9:15 am, McGilvrey 236 Co-advised by Drs. Anne Jefferson and David Singer
This work is being conducted by undergraduate lab member, Allison Reynolds. Allison presented her work as part of the CUAHSI/USGS Virtual Workshop on applications of laser specs to hydrology and biogeochemistry. From that workshop, she will have an extended abstract published in a USGS open file report, and her poster …
Kent State and Holden Arboretum are hosting a summer REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) focused on aquatic-terrestrial linkages in urban impacted ecosystems. Lots of great faculty in geology, biological sciences and other departments are participating, and I would be thrilled to mentor a student through the program. The program will …